Thu D. Nguyen

Professor

Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Associate Director for Cyber Infrastructure - Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute

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Office:

Hill Center 409

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Personal Website

Research Area:

Data Centers

Sustainability

Computer Systems

Approximate Computing

CS Education

Biography:

My research focuses on building efficient, scalable, and dependable computer systems. More recently, I have also become actively engaged in research on improving and scaling CS education. See my research lab's Web site for more information on my group's research.

I completed my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington under the guidance of John Zahorjan. I completed my M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and University of California, Berkeley, respectively. See my Web site for more information.

Awards & Distinctions:

Best paper award: Environmental Conditions and Disk Reliability in Free-cooled Datacenters. USENIX FAST 2016.
IEEE Micro Top Pick: Designing and Managing Datacenters Powered by Renewable Energy. IEEE Micro May/June 2014.
One of 22 best papers from 20 years of HPDC: PlanetP: Using Gossiping to Build Content Addressable Peer-to-Peer Information Sharing Communities. HPDC 2003. Republished in Best Papers from the Last 20 years of HPDC, June 2012.
Best paper award: Capping the Brown Energy Consumption of Internet Services at Low Cost. IGCC 2010. Also chosen as IEEE Sustainable Computing Register Pick of the Month April 2012.
NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award: Recipe for the Taming of a Chimaera: Toward No-Futz Computing. 2005–2010.
Faculty of the Year Award for Excellence in Teaching award: Awarded by the Computer Science Graduate Student Society of Rutgers University in two separate years, 2000 and 2002.