Events, News, Interesting Links!

• Cloud Computing Research at UCSB

• RACELab group releases AppScale! -- AppScale is an open-source implementation of Google AppEngine and a framework for investigation/research of Platform-as-a-Service Cloud Computing (and its interoperation with Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud fabrics such as Eucalyptus and AWS). This work is supported in part by Google and the National Science Foundation. Overview presentation (PDF). Thanks!
• ASPLOS 2010 CFP is Available!
• Wall Street's Collapse == CS's Gain???
• Consider UCSB Computer Science
  Why? You ask...
  UCSB CS Growth Statistics and Information

Research Interests

• Concurrent Java Programming [PPPJ07] [PACT07-1] [PDCS06]
• VIVA - Vertically Integrated VirtualizAtion (Full system customization/specialization) [ASPLOS09] [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 [ASPLOS09] [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:

Student Resources:

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

Teaching/Service/Awards:

• CS 595D: Seminar on Support for Data Streaming in the Next-generation of Distributed Systems [W09]


• CS 263: Implementations of Modern Programming Languages [W09] [W08]


• CS 153A: Hardware/Software Interfaces [F08] [F07]


• CS 162: Programming Languages [S08] [S07]


• 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]

• 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, ISMM07, CGO08, ASPLOS08, PLDI09, PPOPP09, ASPLOS09, OOPSLA09

2008-9 UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award 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