Teaching

Fall 2008: CS 545 - Distributed Systems

Previous courses

Research

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

Laboratory & collaborators: I co-lead the PANIC Laboratory with Rich Martin. I also collaborate with Ricardo Bianchini, Naftaly Minsky, and Barbara Ryder.

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

Current projects:

• PlanetP: Infrastructural support for federated computing
• Vivo: Building highly available Internet services

Publications

Current:

• Kien Le
• Christopher Peery
• Tuan Phan

Graduated:

• Kiran Nagaraja (PhD, 2005): NEC Laboratories America
• Pictures of Kiran's defense
• Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna (PhD, 2004):
  • Assistant Professor at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC).
  • Also working with 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

• 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.