Chandra Krintz, Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept., UC Santa Barbara

Chandra Krintz
Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ckrintz
Lab: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~racelab
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Office: Engineering I, Rm. 2153 RACE LAB
UCSB Lab for Research on
Adaptive Compilation Environments

Email: ckrintz@cs.ucsb.edu Teaching/Service/Awards

Mail: Computer Science Department Students

University of California, Publications / BIO / CV

Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110 Research Interests

Voice: (805)-893-3960 Conferences

Fax: (805)-893-8553 Meeting/Class Schedule

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Events and News!

(May 2008) Sunil Soman defends his PhD thesis with flying colors! (what's next: Post Doc work on virtualization in the MAYHEM Lab)

(Mar. 2008) ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Language Curriclum

(Mar. 2008) Sunil Soman's paper on the MTM²: Scalable Memory Management for Multi-Tasking Managed Runtime Environments, accepted for publication/presentation at the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), July, 2008

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Research Interests

Improving the performance of programs for a wide range of systems (from resource-constrained devices to clusters of workstations) via adaptive compiler and runtime techniques that are guided by dynamically changing program behavior and resource availability.
Specific topics and representative papers:

Concurrent Java Programming [PPPJ07] [PACT07-1] [PDCS06]
VIVA - Vertically Integrated VirtualizAtion (Full system customization/specialization) [PLDI08] [ASPLOS08] [VTDC06.pdf] [ISPA06.pdf] [NGS06] [NGS05]
Sensor network programming, optimization, and simulation [SAMOS06] [JVLSI07]
Techniques for resource-constrained devices [CODES-ISSS06] [EMSOFT05] [ISLPED04] [LCTES04] [MobiSys04]
Efficient profiling and program phase behavior [PACT07-2] [CGO06] [PACT05] [CGO05] [PPPJ04]
Adaptive JVM and garbage collection [ECOOP08] [ASPLOS08] [CGO07] [JSS07] [ISMM06] [PLC06] [ISMM04] [CGO03] [CCGRID01] [PLDI01]
Techniques for Java and mobile computing [PDCS06] [ITCC03] [HPDC01] [OOPSLA99] [ASPLOS98]

overview of all projects and papers

Students:

Advisees:

Ami Amar (PhD/MAT) - TBD
Chris Bunch (PhD) - TBD
Navraj Chohan (PhD/ECE) - SensorNets
Nagy Mostafa (PhD) - Performance Profiling
Michal Wegiel (PhD) - VIVA

Other students I collaborate with:

Chris Grzegorczyk (PhD) - VIVA Garbage Collection
Sydney Pang (PhD/ECE) - SensorNets
Lamia Youseff (PhD) - VIVA
Wei Zhang (PhD) - SensorNets

Previous Students:

Shane Cantrell (MS07) Now: Green Hills SW
Maria del Mar Alvarez Rohena (MS07) Now: Microsoft
Jeff Ditullio (BS06) Now: ServiceObjects, Inc
Kyle Kagligian (MS06) Now: Google
Selim Gurun (PhD07) Now: Citrix Online; Dissertation (pdf.gz)
Greg Moore (BS05) Now: SportVision
Hussam Mousa (MS07)
Priya Nagpurkar (PhD07) Now: IBM Research Dissertation (pdf.gz)
Vijay Nair (MS03) Now: Microsoft
Comron Sattari - (BS05) Now: Citrix Online
Sunil Soman (PhD08) Now: PostDoc Dissertation (pdf.gz)
Sezgin Sucu (MS03) Now: Ask Jeeves
Ricky Taing (MS06) Now: Consultant
John Yoder (MS06) Now: Citrix Online
Yuemin Yu (MS07) Now: Apple
Lingli Zhang (PhD07) Now: Microsoft; Dissertation (pdf.gz)

Student Resources:

UCSB Thesis Template (Latex) (thanks to Mathias Kolsch)

Teaching/Service/Awards:

Classes (past 2 years only)

CS95 Microsoft Boku and Girls Inc: Computer Science Outreach [S08]
Undergraduate directed study: Microsoft Boku and Girls Incorporated
Outreach to teach computer science to girls in our community [W08]
CS 193: Information Technology and the Community [W07]
CS 263: Implementations of Modern Programming Languages [W08] [W07]
CS 153A: Hardware/Software Interfaces [F07] [F06]
CS 162: Programming Languages [S08] [S07] [S06]

Service

ACM SIGPLAN Vice-Chair (July 2007 - June 2009)
Elected by SIGPLAN members June 2007
Steering Committee Member: PLDI, POPL, ICFP, OOPSLA
Workshop/Tutorial Chair for the 2008 International ACM Conference on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO'08)
CRA-W Student Cohort Invited Speaker
CRA-W Mentoring Workshop 2007 Invited Speaker
General Chair for the 2007 International ACM Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'07) (at FCRC).
Program Chair for the 2006 ACM 2006 Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming in Java (PPPJ)
Organizing Committee Member ICOOOLPS'06 Workshop on Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems
Technical program committee member: PLDI03, SuperComputing03, CGO03, LCTES04, CGO04, CC05, VEE05, MSP05, PACT05, ISMM06, LCTES06, GraceHopper06, ICOOOLPS06, HiPEAC07, CGO07, PPPJ07, CISIS07, ISMM07, CGO08, ASPLOS08, PLDI09, PPOPP09, ASPLOS09

Awards

2008 CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career (BECA) Award →
2008 Outstanding Faculty Member in Computer Science (co-award with Prof. R. Wolski)
2006 Microsoft Phoenix Award -- Feedback-directed optimization
2006 NSF CAREER Award (FY06-FY11) VIVA -- Vertically Integrated VirtualizAtion: Automatic, Full System, Specialization for High-End Computing
2005 Microsoft Phoenix Award -- Phase-aware remote profiling

w/Kathleen Fisher at PLDI08

Other Things

Zoe - our English Staffordshire Bull Terrier

Zoe pics

Office:	Engineering I, Rm. 2153	RACE LAB UCSB Lab for Research on Adaptive Compilation Environments
Email:	ckrintz@cs.ucsb.edu	Teaching/Service/Awards
Mail:	Computer Science Department	Students
	University of California,	Publications / BIO / CV
	Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110	Research Interests
Voice:	(805)-893-3960	Conferences
Fax:	(805)-893-8553	Meeting/Class Schedule
	Campus Map / Directions	Other things