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Kowshik Prakasam passes his MS projects defense with flying colors! Congrats! The AppScale Cloud Computing Platform -- AppScale is an open-source cloud platform as-a-service (PaaS) offering that makes cloud application development, deployment, and research easy, scalable, and portable. AppScale facilitates hybrid cloud computing between on-premise and public cloud infrastructures (Eucalyptus and AWS) and platforms (Google App Engine). This work is supported in part by Google, IBM Research, and the National Science Foundation. Overview presentation (PDF) Version 1.5! User's Guide

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Chandra's Research Interests

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

Specific topics and recent representative papers:

• Platform-level Cloud Computing
  [HotCloud12] [WEBAPPS12] [AEROSPACE12] [IEEECLOUD11] [SCIENCECLOUD11] [CLOUDCOMP10] [HotCloud10] [CLOUD10]
• Adaptive JVM, Garbage Collection, and VIVA
  [OOPSLA10] [ASPLOS09] [PPPJ09] [PLDI08] [ECOOP08] [ASPLOS08]


• overview of all projects and papers

Selected Courses, Service Activities, and Recent Awards:

Classes (past 2 years)

• CS 32: Object-Oriented Design and Implementation (Objects and Systems) [S10][S11]
• CS 153A: Hardware/Software Interfaces [F08]
• CS 162: Programming Languages [W10] [S08]
• CS 189A: Capstone (Course 1 of 2): Software Engineering and Prototyping [W12]
• CS 263: Implementations of Modern Programming Languages [S12] [W11] [F09] [W09]
• CS 290C: Virtualization and Cloud Systems [F11]

Service

• Advisory board member for the Anita Borg Institute
• ACM SIGPLAN Vice-Chair (July 2007 - June 2009)
  Elected by SIGPLAN members June 2007
  Steering Committee Member: PLDI, POPL, ICFP, OOPSLA

• Program Co-Chair for the 2012 Grace Hopper Conference Panels, Workshops, and Presentations.
• 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)
• Technical program committee member: ..., GraceHopper09, PLDI09, PPOPP09, ASPLOS09, OOPSLA09, CC10, PSIETA10, PLDI11-ERC, VEE11, ISMM11ERC, OOPSLA11ERC, SOCC11, PLASTIC11, SOCC12, ScienceCloud12, VEE12, ISMM12XRC, ReSoLVE12, OOPSLA12, SC12, CWIC-SoCAL12, SOCC12
• Distinguished Review Board Member for 2012 ACM TACO HiPEAC.

Awards

2010 IBM X10 Innovation Award recipient 2009-2010 IBM OCR Award recipient 2008-9 UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award 2008 CRA-W Anita Borg Early Career (BECA) Award → 2008 Google Research Award for initial AppScale foundation: "GRAEScale: Google Research App Engine for Development and Deployment of More Diverse and Scalable Web Applications" 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

Receiving BECA Award from Kathleen Fisher at PLDI08

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