Some other older works:
Technical articles (based on some fun projects during student life):
Dinil Divakaran, “Starting a Linux firewall from scratch,” Linux Journal, vol. 2007, no. 156, pp. 7, 2007.
Dinil Divakaran, “Compiler Design with Python,” Linux Gazette, Jun 2002.
Dinil Divakaran, “RTLinux HOWTO,” The Linux Documentation Project, Aug 2002.
Going back the memory lane:
Link to B.Tech project (2001-2002) - An IDE for the PIC 16F84 family of micro-controllers in GNU/Linux (a compiler, assemble, simulator and editor for the IDE), written completely in Python.
PhD presentation prepared using a nice tool - Beamer (LaTeX) is available here.
Non-technical timeline:
[Jul. 2023] Two half-marathons in Switzerland:: Lausanne: 10th July; Lucerne: 20th July.
[Dec. 2022] Running stats:: total: 2,625km, avg/week: 50.5km, max no. of consecutive running days and distance: 13 days and 170km (in Feb. 2022), total number of (unorganized) half-marathons: 23, of which 16 were in the last 16 consecutive weeks of the year. And the best one was the Ladakh HM (29th July).
[Feb. 2022] Crossed 300km of running distance in a month, for the first time.
[Jun. 2019] Completed a half marathon. Event - OSIM Sundown Marathon, Jun. 1, 2019.
[Dec. 2015] Participated and completed a marathon for the first time. Event - Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, Dec. 6, 2015.
[Jul. 2015] Successfully completed a triathlon (standard :: 1.5 km swim, 36 km bike, 10 km run) for the first time. Event - Singapore International Triathlon, July 25, 2015.
Career milestones:
[Aug. 2022] Joined Acronis as Research Lead
[Jul. 2020] Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Computing in NUS (National University of Singapore)
[Jan. 2019] Absorbed into Trustwave, a Singtel company
[Jul. 2017] Joined Singtel R&D division on Cyber Security
[Jan. 2017] Deputy Head of Network Security Department, ASTAR I²R
[Feb. 2016] PI of the cyber security project with Sopra Steria, under the ASTAR I²R - Sopra Steria joint R&D lab
[Apr. 2015] Co-PI, NRF (National Research Foundation) project `Cyber Forensics and Intelligence'
[Aug. 2014] Elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member