Teaching

Fall 2009:

• CS 519 - Operating Systems
• Light Seminar: Personal Information Management Systems

Previous courses

Research

Main interests: distributed and parallel systems, operating systems, information retrieval and security.

Laboratory & collaborators: I lead the PANIC Laboratory. Much of my work is in collaboration with Ricardo Bianchini, Amelie Marian, Rich Martin, and Naftaly Minsky.

Research statement: This statement summarizes a large part of my research from about 2001 to 2005.

Current projects:

• Wayfinder: Personal information management
• Vivo: Building highly available Internet services

Publications

Current:

• Kien Le (Co-advised by Ricardo Bianchini)
• Christopher Peery
• Tuan Phan
• Tam Vu
• Wei Wang (Co-advised by Amelie Marian)

Graduated:

• Kiran Nagaraja (PhD, 2005): Start-up company.
  • Pictures of Kiran's defense
• Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna (PhD, 2004): Intel Research Córdoba, Argentina.
  • Pictures of Matias's defense
• Zhijun He (MS, 2004): Ask.com
• Samian Kaur (MS, 2001)

Surprise birthday party with students, Rich Martin, and family

Program Committee

• Personal Information Management (PIM), 2009.
• International Conference on Dependability (DEPEND), 2009.
• RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies (RIVF), 2009.
• International Conference on Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future (RIVF), 2008.
• International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2008.
• International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2007.
• International World Wide Web Conference, 2006.
• International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2006.
• International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2005.
• Workshop on Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks (CIKM workshop), 2005.
• International Workshop on Adaptive and Self-Managing Enterprise Applications (ASMEA), 2005.
• Workshop on Cluster Security, the Paradigm Shift (ClusterSec), 2005.
• Workshop on Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks (SIGIR workshop), 2004.
• International Workshop on Databases, Information Systems and Peer-to-Peer-Computing (DBISP2P), 2004.
• The 2003 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2003.
• International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2002.
• Workshop on Self-Healing, Adaptive and self-MANaged Systems (SHAMAN), 2002.
• Workshop on Evaluating and Architecting System dependabilitY, 2002.
• International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2001.
• Workshop on Evaluating and Architecting System dependabilitY, 2001.