Research Interests

• Experimental research in the areas of operating systems, real-time systems, resource management and distributed computing
  
• Real-time scheduling policies for various task models including those with "window-constraints"
  
• System organization / structure: the design and implementation of systems and services that are safe, predictable and efficient (using hardware and software protection/fault isolation techniques)
• Resource management topics relating to the design of systems
• Kernel-level design and implementation
• Component-based systems
  

Research Groups

• BOSS - Boston University Operating Systems and Services
• RTCC - Real-Time Computation and Communication Group
• iBench - The Internet Programming Workbench
  

Professional Services

• Program Committee member for the 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, November 30-December 3, 2008, Barcelona, Spain.
  Program Committee member for the Workshop on Managed Many-Core Systems (co-located with HPDC 2008), June 2008, Boston, USA.
• Program Committee member for the 20th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), July 2008, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Program Committee member for the 14th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (Real-Time and Embedded Applications/Benchmarks Area), 2008, St. Louis, MO, USA.
  
• Program Committee member for the 13th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, August 21-24, 2007, Daegu, Korea.
  
• Program Committee member for the 19th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), Pisa, Italy, July 4-6, 2007.
• Program Area Chair for the 13th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (Real-Time and Embedded Applications/Benchmarks Area), 2007, Bellevue, Washington.
  
• Program Committee member for the 27th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2006 (Special Track on Real-Time Middleware and Software Engineering), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Program Committee Co-Chair for the 12th IEEE Intl. Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing and Applications (RTCSA) 2006, Sydney, Australia.
• Program Committee member for the 12th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2006, San Jose, California.
• Program Committee member for the 26th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2005, Miami, Florida.
• Publicity Co-Chair for the 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), August, 2005.
  
• Program Committee member for the 17th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, July 6-8, 2005.
  
• Reviewer for the Distributed Object and Component-based Software Systems track of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 3-6, 2005.
  
• Program Committee member for the 13th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems 2005.
  
• Program Committee member for the Sixth Real-Time Linux Workshop, Nanyang Executive Centre, Singapore, November 3-5, 2004.
  
• Program Committee member for the Workshop on Quality of Service for Application Servers, October 17, 2004.
• In conjunction with the 23rd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Florianopolis, Brazil, 2004.
  
• Program Committee member for the 25th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Program Committee member for the 1st International Workshop on Data Distribution in Real-Time Systems (DDRTS), 2003.
• In conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems , 2003.
  
• Organizer and Program Committee member for The Fourth Real-Time Linux Workshop, Boston University, December 6-7, 2002.
• Program Committee member for the 8th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, 2002, San Jose, California.
• Program Committee member for IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2002.
• Publicity Co-Chair for the 22nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2001, London, England.
  
• Program Committee member for IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, 2001.
• Reviewer for various journals including: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the British Computer Society Computer Journal, the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier), Computer Networks (Elsevier), Real-Time Systems Journal, IEEE Multimedia and ACM Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems.
  
• Reviewer for various conferences including IEEE RTSS, RTAS, ICDCS and IPDPS.
• Reviewer and panelist for various NSF proposals including: Embedded and Hybrid Systems (2004), ACR Software Systems (2003), ITR Small Software Systems (2002) and Embedded and Hybrid Systems (2002).

Education

• I'm a full-time student in the School of Hard Knocks, at the University of Life.
  
• I've been privileged enough to have a formal education, the details of which can be found in my resume.
• A reasonably up-to-date pdf version of my CV is also available.

Students

• Gabriel Parmer (current PhD)
  
• Junfeng Zou (current PhD)
  
• Meha Mehta (current PhD)
• Gerald Fry (VMware)
  
• Xin Qi (Qualcomm)
  
• Yuting Zhang (Allegheny College)
• Jason Gloudon (Revahertz)
  
• Luis Hernandez (Microsoft)
• Albert Sidelnik (formerly IBM, now UIUC)
  
• SuYan Zeng (Startup in China)
• Daniel Levin
  
• Jason Gilanfarr (VMware)
  
• Will Drewry (Google)
• Raj Ashar