About me

Manager, Systems and Network Services
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
My interests are in network and system management, Internet services, operating systems, and measurement.
Prior to joining IBM Research I completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1999. I received my B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1994.
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I am working on:
- Internet-scale data centers (aka Cloud Computing)
- Problem determination for systems and networks
- New service offerings for systems and network management
- Network performance measurement and diagnostics
I have also worked on:
- Infrastructure for online multiplayer games
- Web and CDN performance measurement
- Internet server selection and load balancing
- Efficient content-aware routing in Web server clusters
- Load-sensitive routing and traffic engineering in Internet backbone networks
- Network and operating system support for guaranteed QoS
- Multicast routing algorithm design and evaluation
- Fault-tolerant group communication in distributed systems
Last updated 14 Mar 2008
