Formerly I was a graduate student at UC Santa Barbara and my Ph.D. thesis advisor was Chandra Krintz. My thesis focus was Memory Management (Garbage Collection) support for Managed Runtime Environments/Virtual Machines. I have worked on runtime performance analysis, memory management, and compiler support for managed runtimes. A copy of my CV can be found here.

Recent Publications

Conference

• Daniel Nurmi, Rich Wolski, Chris Grzegorczyk, Graziano Obertelli, Sunil Soman, Lamia Youseff, and Dmitrii Zagorodnov, The Eucalyptus Open-Source Cloud-Computing System, CCGrid 2009, Shanghai, China, May 2009 (acceptance rate: 21%).
• Sunil Soman, Chandra Krintz, Laurent Daynès, MTM²: Scalable Memory Management for Multi-Tasking Managed Runtime Environments, The 22^nd European Conference On Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), Paphos, Cyprus, July 7-11, 2008 (acceptance rate: 19%).

• Chris Grzegorczyk, Sunil Soman, Chandra Krintz, and Rich Wolski, Isla Vista Heap Sizing: Using Feedback to Avoid Paging, The International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), March, 2007 (acceptance rate: 32%), (details)

• Lingli Zhang, Chandra Krintz, and Sunil Soman, Efficient Support of Fine-grained Futures in Java, The 18th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing AND Systems, Dallas, TX, Nov 13-15, 2006, (details)
• Sunil Soman and Chandra Krintz, Efficient and General On-Stack Replacement for Aggressive Program Specialization, PLC 2006, Las Vegas, NV, June 26-29, 2006 (acceptance rate: 34% for SERP/PLC), (details)

• Sunil Soman, Laurent Daynès, and Chandra Krintz, Task-Aware Garbage Collection in a Multi-Tasking Virtual Machine, ISMM 2006, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 10-11, 2006 (acceptance rate: 38%), (details)
• Sunil Soman, Chandra Krintz, and David F. Bacon, Dynamic Selection of Application-Specific Garbage Collectors, ISMM 2004, Vancouver, BC, October 24-25, 2004 (acceptance rate: 35%) (details)

• Sunil Soman, Chandra Krintz, and Giovanni Vigna, Detecting Malicious Java Code Using Virtual Machine Auditing, 12^th USENIX Security Symposium, Washington DC, Aug. 4-8, 2003 (acceptance rate: 16.4%), (details)

Journal

• Sunil Soman and Chandra Krintz, Application-Specific Garbage Collection, The Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Volume 80, Issue 7, pp. 1037-1056 (2007)

Technical Reports

• Sunil Soman, Memory Management for Multi-Application Managed Runtime Environments, Ph.D. thesis, June 2008 (UCSB Technical Report #2008-07).
• Sunil Soman, Chandra Krintz, and David Bacon, Adaptive, Application-specific Garbage Collection, March 2003, UCSB Technical Report #2003-07