Thu D. Nguyen

Professor

Department Chair

Associate Director for Cyber Infrastructure - Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute

Associate Director - Rutgers Center for Information Assurance

Email:

Phone:

(848) 445-7288

Office:

Hill 388

Website:

Personal Website

Research Area:

Sustainability

Computer systems

Distributed and parallel systems

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 for more information on our 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.

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.

Personal News:

IEEE International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2017), PC member
ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2017), PC member
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), PC member
Greenmetrics Workshop 2017, Co-organizer
Summit on Scalability and Diversity in Computer Science Education 2017, Co-organizer
Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPERF 2017), PC member
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2017), PC member

Grant Awards:

Increasing the Scalability and Diversity in the Face of Large Growth in Computer Science Enrollment

PI: Andrew Tjang | Co-PI: Thu D. Nguyen, Frances P. Trees, Lars Sorensen, Sesh Venugopal | Google

07/01/2015 to 06/30/2018

$693,000

Computer Science Living-Learning Community for Women at Rutgers

PI: Rebecca Wright | Co-PI: Thu D. Nguyen | Co-PI: Jane Stout (CRA), Elaine Zundl | National Science Foundation

07/01/2015 to 06/30/2017

$249,999

Publications:

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Exploring Gender Diversity in CS at a Large Public R1 Research University.

M. Babes-Vroman, I. Juniewicz, B. Lucarelli, N. Fox, G. Halderman, A. Mehta, R. Chokshi, T. D. Nguyen, A. Tjang.

March, 2017

Environmental Conditions and Disk Reliability in Free-cooled Datacenters

I. Manousakis, S. Sankar, G. McKnight, T. D. Nguyen, R. Bianchini.

February, 2016

Best paper award

Student, PostDocs, & Visitors:

Current Students:

Guangyan Hu
William Katsak
Ioannis Manousakis (Co-advised by Ricardo Bianchini)
Abu Awal Md Shoeb
Daniela Vianna (Co-advised by Amelie Marian)

Alumni:

Students Graduated:

Md Ehtesamul Haque (PhD, 2016, Co-advised by Ricardo Bianchini): Google.
Cheng Li (PhD, 2015, Co-advised by Ricardo Bianchini): VMWare.
Andrew Tjang (PhD, 2014): Rutgers University.
Kien Le (PhD, 2012, Co-advised by Ricardo Bianchini): A10 Networks.
Wei Wang (PhD, 2010, Co-advised by Amelie Marian): Electronic Arts.
Christopher Peery (PhD, 2009): Amazon.
Kiran Nagaraja (PhD, 2005): Apple.
Tuan Phan (MS, 2005): EBay.
Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna (PhD, 2004): Intel Argentina Software Design Center.
Zhijun He (MS, 2004)
Samian Kaur (MS, 2001)