جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Andrea Arpaci-Dusseauمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• File and Storage systems
• Operating systems
• Distributed systems
• +۱ مورد دیگر

Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau is the Susan Beth Horwitz WARF Professor of Computer Sciences and Catherine A. Erickson Professor in the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been a professor at UW-Madison since January 2000 and currently serves as Graduate Advising Chair for the Computer Sciences Department. Her research focuses on computer systems with primary emphasis on file and storage systems, but also making significant contributions in distributed systems, virtualization, and scheduling. According to csrankings.org, she has published the fourth-most papers in premier systems conferences (SOSP and OSDI) and the most at the top file and storage conference (FAST). Professor Arpaci-Dusseau's recent publications demonstrate continued leadership in storage systems research, with increasing focus on cloud architectures, persistent memory technologies, and system reliability. Her work bridges theoretical foundations with practical implementations, consistently addressing real-world challenges in modern computing environments. ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award 2018 (highest honor in systems field) UW-Madison Van Hise Outreach Teaching Award 2017 Multiple Best Paper awards at FAST, SOSP, OSDI, and EuroSys conferences Carolyn Rosner Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010, 2017) Co-chaired major conferences including USENIX ATC '04, FAST '07, OSDI'18, and SOSP'24 Professor Arpaci-Dusseau has co-advised 28 Ph.D. students and is deeply committed to educational outreach through the CaTaPuLT project, which connects UW-Madison students with K-12 schools to teach computational thinking using Scratch. This initiative has reached hundreds of students across Madison and earned her significant recognition for teaching excellence. She leads the Arpaci-Dusseau Systems Lab (ADSL) and is involved with the Wisconsin Institute on Software-defined Datacenters in Madison (WISDoM), where her research group continues to advance state-of-the-art solutions in computer systems.

Rachit Agarwalمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Systems
• Networking
• Theory of Computing
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Rachit Agarwal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, with research focusing on systems, networking, and theoretical problems arising in practical systems. He leads a research group working on resource disaggregation, host architecture, secure cloud storage, and datacenter design. PhD in Computer Science, Cornell University Undergraduate, IIT Kanpur His research spans three major directions: Resource Disaggregation (with $3M NSF and Google awards), Host Architecture (exploring terabit interconnects), and PANCAKE (secure oblivious cloud storage with $1M NSF award). He also contributed to foundational work in Near-optimal Datacenter Design and Data Plane Monitoring . Awards include the Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER, IRTF Applied Networking Prize, and multiple best paper awards. His recent publications focus on host network architecture, congestion control, oblivious data access mechanisms, and secure cloud storage systems. He has advised multiple Ph.D. and postdoctoral researchers who now hold faculty positions at leading institutions. Sloan Research Fellowship NSF CAREER award Kavli Fellowship IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize SIGCOMM Best Student Paper Award Usenix Security Distinguished Paper Award Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year 2025 Rachit has advised numerous students including current Cornell advisees like Midhul Vuppalapati, Shreyas Kharbanda, and Omar Eqbal. Former advisees include Saksham Agarwal (UIUC), Qizhe Cai (UVA), and Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo (University of Waterloo). His research is supported by large NSF grants and industry awards, with deployments in real-world systems and open-source contributions.

Clifford Steinمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Algorithms
• Combinatorial Optimization
• Operations Research
• +۴ مورد دیگر

Clifford Stein is a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) and Computer Science at Columbia University, and Associate Director for Research at the Data Science Institute. He holds a Ph.D. (1992), M.S. (1989), and B.S.E. (1987) from MIT and Princeton University, respectively. His research focuses on algorithms, combinatorial optimization, operations research, scheduling, and computational biology. A co-author of the best-selling textbook Introduction to Algorithms , Stein has published widely in top venues and holds prestigious awards like ACM Fellow and NSF Career Award. His work includes foundational contributions to minimum cut algorithms, scheduling theory, and network optimization, supported by NSF and Sloan Foundation grants. Stein has advised over 40 graduate and undergraduate students, many now in academia and industry.

Rakesh Kumarمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Computer Architecture
• System-Level Design Automation
• Low Power Computing
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Rakesh Kumar is a Professor and John Bardeen Faculty Scholar in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work focuses on computer architecture, system-level design automation, and low-power computing. PhD in Computer Engineering from University of California, San Diego BS in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur His research spans all layers of the computing stack, with key contributions to flexible computer systems , waferscale computing , error-resilient architectures , and approximate computing . He has pioneered work on voltage-reliability tradeoffs and peak power management techniques. Recent publications highlight trends in space microdatacenters , printed microprocessors , and neural graph accelerators . His work on plastic chips was recognized as one of the three biggest semiconductor headlines of 2022 by IEEE Spectrum. IEEE Fellow (2024) ISCA Influential Paper Award MICRO Test-of-Time Award ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award Best Paper Awards at CASES, SELSE, HPCA He has received teaching accolades including the Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award and Ronald W. Pratt Outstanding Teaching Award . His research group explores hardware-software co-design for emerging applications in AI, IoT, and sustainable computing.

• Computer Architecture
• Datacenter Systems
• Cloud-Native Server Architecture
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Babak Falsafi is a Full Professor at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) at EPFL, leading the Parallel Systems Architecture Laboratory (PARSA). He is a renowned expert in computer architecture, datacenter systems, and cloud-native server design. His research focuses on post-Moore era computing, emphasizing heterogeneous architectures, energy efficiency, and scalable IT infrastructure. Falsafi is the founder of EcoCloud, an EC-sponsored industrial-academic consortium investigating sustainable information technology. He holds ACM and IEEE fellowships, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and has contributed to major projects like Optimus Prime (data transformation acceleration), AstriFlash (flash-based online service systems), and Midgard (virtual memory re-design). His work spans hardware-software co-design, memory systems, and security. Falsafi advises numerous PhD students and collaborates with industry partners such as Google and Cavium. Key achievements include pioneering scalable multiprocessor architectures, snoop filters in IBM BlueGene, and spatial memory streaming in ARM cores. His lab develops open-source tools like QFlex for server simulation. He frequently presents at top conferences (HPCA, ISCA, MICRO) and chairs workshops on post-Moore infrastructure. Teaching roles include leading courses in computer architecture and parallel systems across multiple EPFL departments (SIN, EDIC, SSC, SMA). His work addresses datacenter challenges like the 'data tax' and mitigating latency through specialized accelerators.

• Computer Networks
• Network Security
• Machine Learning in Networking
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Mariano Scazzariello is a Lecturer at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, affiliated with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Network and Systems Engineering. He teaches the course 'Network Systems with Edge or Cloud Datacenters (IK2227)'. His research focuses on advanced networking topics including machine learning in networks, high-speed packet processing, network emulation, and software-defined networking innovations. His work spans contributions to network emulation tools like Kathará and Megalos, stateful packet processing at terabit scales, and leveraging large language models (LLMs) for network configuration and vulnerability detection. Recent research emphasizes low-latency protocols (e.g., SRv6/DetNet integration) and GPU-centric networking on commodity hardware. Mariano’s publications (2020–2025) highlight expertise in network function virtualization, ASIC-based switching, and optimizing network configurations through AI-driven approaches. He has pioneered frameworks for evaluating routing protocols and virtualizing large network scenarios at scale.

James C. Hoeمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Computer Architecture
• Reconfigurable Computing
• High-Level Hardware Design and Synthesis
• +۴ مورد دیگر

James C. Hoe is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (College of Engineering). He is on sabbatical at MangoBoost and directs research in computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, and high-level hardware design. Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (2000) M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (1994) B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley (1992) Research Interests Professor Hoe’s work spans computer architecture , reconfigurable computing , FPGA architectures , and high-level hardware synthesis . His group created the CoRAM abstraction for virtualized FPGA computing and leads efforts in power-efficient accelerators, in-network computing, and security-oriented FPGA systems. Scientific Awards IEEE Fellow (2013) Intel Outstanding Researcher Award (2021) Research Funding & Projects Intel / VMware Crossroads 3D-FPGA Academic Research Center – co-leading exploration of FPGA roles in future datacenters. DARPA BRASS program ($2.7 M, 4 years) – ensuring long-lived software systems remain robust to resource changes. Pigasus open-source IDS – world’s fastest FPGA-accelerated intrusion-detection system (100 Gb/s on one server). Labs & Teams He heads activities within the Computer Architecture Lab at Carnegie Mellon (CALCM) , supervising graduate researchers on CoRAM++, SPIRAL autotuning, and FPGA overlays for stream processing.

Simon Peterمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Operating Systems
• Computer Networking
• Data Center System Design
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Simon Peter is an Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington since January 2022, specializing in Software & Hardware Systems. His research focuses on low-latency, scalable, and energy-efficient data center infrastructure. His research expertise spans: Operating Systems & Runtime Design (tiered memory management, zero-copy IO, network stack virtualization) Hardware/Software Co-design (RDMA/TCP offload, reconfigurable topologies) Power Management (datacenter power resiliency, disaggregated storage) His work bridges theoretical computer science with practical datacenter implementation challenges, emphasizing sustainability and performance optimization. Notable honors include: Sloan Research Fellowship NSF CAREER Award SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award Multiple best paper awards Peter actively mentors graduate students and leads projects through the UW Center for the Future of Cloud Infrastructure (FOCI) and Computer Systems Lab. His teaching includes advanced courses on Data Center Systems and Operating Systems Capstone, with a curriculum spanning both UW and previous appointments at UT Austin.

Scott Hauckمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Reconfigurable Computing
• FPGA Architecture
• Quantum Computing Control
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Affiliation & Education Scott Hauck is a Professor at the University of Washington's Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and an Adjunct Professor in Computer Science & Engineering. He leads the Adaptive Computing Machines and Emulators (ACME) Lab . He earned his BS in EECS from UC Berkeley (1990), and MS/PhD in CSE from the University of Washington (1992/1995). Research Focus Dr. Hauck specializes in FPGA-based reconfigurable computing with applications in: Quantum Computing: FPGA controllers for trapped-ion quantum systems enabling precise laser control and quantum state readout. Medical Imaging: Portable radiation sensors for personalized cancer therapy and PET scanner enhancements. High-Energy Physics: FPGA readout systems for ATLAS pixel detectors at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. AI Acceleration: Real-time machine learning inference for scientific applications via projects like hls4ml. His work bridges hardware innovation with computational physics, emphasizing real-time processing and low-latency systems. Publication Trends Recent research focuses on FPGA-accelerated machine learning for particle physics (e.g., transformer networks for LHC trigger systems) and quantum computing instrumentation. Earlier work established foundations in reconfigurable computing architectures and medical imaging electronics. Awards & Recognition Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington (2010) Advising & Funding Leads the ACME Lab with extensive funding from NSF, DARPA, NIH, DOE, and industry partners including Intel, Xilinx, and Microsoft. Mentored over 30 MS/PhD students in VLSI, reconfigurable systems, and scientific computing. Collaborations & Labs Directs the ACME Lab (EE1-307), collaborating with UW Radiology (Prof. Robert Miyaoka), UW Physics (Prof. Shih-Chieh Hsu), and Drexel University (Prof. Josh Agar). Projects include quantum control systems, LHC readout electronics, and medical sensor networks.

Zhenman Fangمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Customizable Computing
• Heterogeneous Computing
• FPGA Acceleration
• +۸ مورد دیگر

Dr. Zhenman Fang is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering Science , Simon Fraser University (SFU) , where he founded and directs the HiAccel Lab . He also holds an associate membership in the School of Computing Science at SFU. His research focuses on customizable computing with software-defined hardware acceleration , addressing performance, energy-efficiency, and reliability in post-Moore’s law computing across domains like machine learning , big data analytics , quantum chemistry , and precision medicine . Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science from Fudan University (2014), with a visit to University of Minnesota during his studies. Postdoctoral Work: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (2014-2017). Industry Experience: Staff Software Engineer at Xilinx (2017-2019). Dr. Fang’s research spans the entire computing stack , including application characterization , accelerator-rich architecture design , and programming/tool support . He has developed frameworks like HiSpMV , SyncNN , and SQL2FPGA , emphasizing FPGA acceleration for vision transformers , quantum chemistry , and spiking neural networks . His work has been recognized with 3 best paper awards (FPL 2024, TCAD 2019, MEMSYS 2017) and 3 best paper nominees (FCCM 2025, HPCA 2017, ISPASS 2018). Recent publications highlight trends in low-precision machine learning ( ShiftQuant , ESRU ), quantum chemistry acceleration ( SERI ), and vision transformer optimization ( Quasar-ViT ). His HiAccel Lab actively mentors PhD and MASc students , with notable graduates like Alec Lu (PhD 2024, now at Meta) and Philip Stachura (MASc, now with BC Graduate Scholarship). Scientific Awards: Inaugural SFU Research Excellence Award - Horizon Award (2025) FPL 2024 Stamatis Vassiliadis Best Paper NSERC Alliance Award (2020) CFI JELF Award (2019) Xilinx University Program Award (2019) IEEE Senior Member (2023) Grants: NSERC Discovery Grant (2019) CFI JELF Funding (2019) Huawei and Xilinx sponsorships Dr. Fang leads open-source initiatives like SyncNN , PASTA , and SQL2FPGA , and serves as General Chair for ASAP 2025 and Program Co-Chair for RAW 2025 . His lab collaborates globally with institutions such as UCLA , Northeastern University , and Xidian University .

• Optimization for Machine Learning
• Collaborative Learning
• Distributed Learning
• +۷ مورد دیگر

Sebastian U. Stich is a tenured faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security , where he has been since December 2021. He is also a member of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) since June 2020. His research focuses on optimization methods for machine learning, collaborative learning algorithms, privacy and security in distributed systems, and theoretical foundations of deep learning. Stich received his PhD in Theoretical Computer Science from ETH Zurich (2014), following a Master's in Mathematics at the same institution (2010-2014). Prior to CISPA, he worked as a research scientist at EPFL (2016-2021) and held positions at ETH Zurich and ICTEAM/CORE. He has been awarded the ERC Consolidator Grant 2024 , Google Research Scholar Award (2023), and Meta Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Research Award (2022). His team includes Dr. Anton Rodomanov (since 2023), Dr. Rotem Mulayoff (since 2024), Xiaowen Jiang (2023), Yuan Gao (2023), and notable alumni like Anastasia Koloskova (defended 2023). Stich actively organizes workshops (e.g., NeurIPS OPT 2024) and serves on editorial boards ( Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications , Transactions on Machine Learning Research ). He teaches advanced courses in optimization at Saarland University and has held visiting positions at MIT. Key scientific contributions include: Developing ProgFed for progressive federated learning (2021) Creating ProxSkip to accelerate communication in federated settings (2022) Formalizing SCAFFOLD with control variates for FL (2020) Introducing RelaySum mechanism for decentralized learning (2021) Proposing Lookahead-Minmax for GAN training (2021) His work addresses fundamental challenges in: Decentralized optimization theory Communication-efficient algorithms Privacy-preserving model training Handling heterogeneous data distributions Stochastic gradient dynamics Second-order optimization methods

Li Chenمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Deep Learning Systems
• Federated Learning
• Cloud Computing
• +۳ مورد دیگر

Dr. Li Chen is an Alfred and Helen Lamson/BORSF Endowed Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Informatics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She leads the CELESTIAL research lab, focusing on distributed systems and networking for machine learning and AI. Her research interests include federated learning, cloud computing, and resource optimization. Dr. Chen holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and has received awards such as the NSF EPSCoR RII Track-4 grant and the BoRSF Endowed Professorship. Education: Ph.D. (2018), M.A.Sc. (2015) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Toronto; B.Eng. (2012) in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She also visited Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2013-2014). Research spans federated learning frameworks (e.g., SEAFL, FedClust), cloud resource scheduling (e.g., Hadar, HarmonyBatch), and applications in weather forecasting (e.g., MMST-ViT). Her work is supported by NSF, Louisiana BoRSF, and industry partners like XRMedix. Awards include the Alfred and Helen Lamson/BORSF Endowed Professorship (2024-2027), NSF EPSCoR grant (2024-2026), and best paper recognitions at IEEE conferences. She advises a diverse group of graduate students and has supervised alumni now in academia and industry. Teaching includes courses on computer networks, operating systems, and distributed systems. She organizes workshops and tutorials (e.g., 2023 Summer Tutorial on ML & Meteorology) and serves on conference committees such as INFOCOM and IWQoS.

Vijay Kumarمشاهده پروفایل

استاد

• Robotics
• Multi-Robot Systems
• Micro Aerial Vehicles
• +۶ مورد دیگر

Vijay Kumar is the Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, with faculty appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Computer and Information Science, and Electrical and Systems Engineering. He is a leading figure in robotics and computer architecture research. Research Interests include robotics, particularly multi-robot systems and micro aerial vehicles (MAVs), as well as computer architecture innovations for machine learning, GPU acceleration, and datacenter efficiency. His work spans theoretical foundations and practical applications in autonomous systems and hardware optimization. Scientific Awards include: 1991 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award 1996 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching 2012 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award 2014 Engelberger Robotics Award 2017 IEEE George Saridis Leadership Award Multiple best paper awards at DARS, ICRA, and RSS conferences Editorial Leadership includes serving as Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics and Advisory Board Member of AAAS Science Robotics Journal . His GRASP Lab team developed foundational frameworks for micro UAV testbeds and swarm robotics.

Justine Sherryمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Computer Networking
• Networked Systems
• Middleboxes
• +۵ مورد دیگر

Justine Sherry is the A. Nico Habermann Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, affiliated with the College of Engineering. She holds a PhD (2016) and MS (2012) from UC Berkeley and a BS/BA (2010) from the University of Washington. Her research focuses on networked systems, including middleboxes, cloud computing, congestion control, and hardware acceleration (e.g., SmartNICs/FPGAs). Notable projects include Pigasus (open-source 100Gbps IDS), APLOMB (cloud-based middlebox scaling), and BlindBox (encrypted traffic scanning). Her academic roles include serving on the SIGCOMM CARES Committee, DARPA ISAT Study Group, and ACM CoNEXT Steering Committee. Awards include the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, VMware Systems Award, and IETF Applied Networking Prize. She advises over 15 students and collaborates with industry partners like Intel and VMware. Research highlights include radical shifts in datacenter architectures (SmartNIC compute control), fairness in congestion algorithms (BBR analysis), and database-proxy innovations (Tigger with eBPF). Her teaching emphasizes systems as science labs, integrating experimental design and hypothesis testing into projects. Education: PhD UC Berkeley (2016), MS UC Berkeley (2012), BS/BA University of Washington (2010) Labs/Teams: CyLab, SNAP Research Group, CMU Portugal Collaboration Grants: NSF, Intel, Google Faculty Awards

• intelligent systems
• high performance distributed computing
• resource management
• +۸ مورد دیگر

Professor Omer Rana serves as Professor of Performance Engineering and International Dean for the Middle East at Cardiff University's School of Computer Science and Informatics. He also holds the prestigious position of Cross-Council Research Director for the UK National Edge AI Hub, demonstrating his leadership in national research initiatives. Previously, he led the Complex Systems research group and served as Dean of International for the Physical Sciences and Engineering College at Cardiff University. Professor Rana is a Fellow of both the Learned Society of Wales and the Higher Education Academy, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Welsh Ethnic Minority Professors Initiative (WEMPI). His research expertise centers on the intersection of intelligent systems and high performance distributed computing, with particular focus on applying intelligent techniques to resource management in distributed systems. His scholarly contributions span edge computing, cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, federated learning, privacy-preserving systems, and sustainable computing. Professor Rana has published extensively in top-tier journals and conferences, with recent work emphasizing practical applications in industrial automation, smart buildings, and sustainable computing solutions. Professor Rana's publication record demonstrates consistent leadership in edge computing and distributed systems research, with a growing emphasis on practical implementations across diverse application domains. His work bridges theoretical computer science with real-world technological challenges, particularly in industrial automation, smart environments, and sustainable infrastructure. Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Professor Rana actively supervises postgraduate students and has secured significant research funding for projects related to edge computing, IoT, and distributed systems. His international collaborations span Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, reflecting his global influence in the field. He serves as a sought-after keynote speaker, workshop chair, and panel moderator at major international conferences including IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) and IEEE Edge Computing. He leads multiple research initiatives, most notably as Cross-Council Research Director for the UK National Edge AI Hub, where he shapes national research directions in edge computing and AI. His work has practical applications across industrial automation, smart building management, electric vehicle infrastructure, and sustainable computing solutions.