Professional Activities

 Professional Society Offices

• Executive Committee, ACM Special Interest Group for Embedded Systems (SIGBED), 2005-present.

• Steering committee, ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), 2009-present.

• SIGPLAN CACM Nominating Committee, 2008 - 2009.

• Member at Large, ACM Special Interest Group for Programming Languages (SIGPLAN), 2005-2007.

• Steering committee chair, International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), 2003-2005; steering committee member 2006-present.

 Standards Bodies

• IBM Representative, Java Specification Request 282: Real-time Specification for Java (1.1)

 Keynote Presentations

• Research to Product: Building a Billion Dollar Garbage Collector, Keynote Presentation, 2008 International Symposium on Memory Management.

 Conference Chairs

• Program co-chair, ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE), Washington, DC, March 2009.

• Program chair, Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Montreal, Canada October 2007.

• General chair, International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), Vancouver, British Columbia, October 2004.

• Program chair, IBM Academy of Technology Conference on Real-time and Safety-Critical Systems, IBM Laboratory, Fishkill, New York, October 2005.

• Program chair, Second Annual Programming Languages Day, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, April 2001.

 Program Committees

• ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2010.

• ACM Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Grenoble, France, October 2009.

• Seventh International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA), Chicago, Illinois, July 2009.

• Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Nashville, Tennessee, October 2008.

• Eighth ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Atlanta, Georgia, October 2008.

• International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), Annapolis, Maryland, June 2008.

• ACM/Usenix Workshop on Virtualization in Mobile Computing (MobiVirt), Breckenridge, Colorado, June 2008.

• Fifth International Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems (JTRES), Vienna, Austria, September 2007.

• Conference on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO), San Jose, California, March 2007.

• Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Portland, Oregon, October 2006.

• European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), Nantes, France, July 2006.

• Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), Ottawa, Canada, June 2006.

• Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), San Diego, California, October 2005.

• Workshop on Synchronization and Concurrency in Object-Oriented Languages (SCOOL), San Diego, California, October 2005.

• Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-time and Embedded Systems (JTRES), San Diego, California, October 2005.

• Fifth ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Jersey City, New Jersey, September 2005.

• The Second Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers (PAC2), Yorktown Heights, New York, September 2005.

• Third ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Memory Systems Performance (MSP), Chicago, Illinois, June 2005.

• Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Vancouver, British Columbia, October 2004.

• The First Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Circuits, and Compilers (PAC2), Yorktown Heights, New York, October 2004.

• Workshop on Concurrency and Synchronization in Java Programs (CSJP), St. John's, Newfoundland, July 2004.

• Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Venice, Italy, January 2004.

• International Workshop on Types in Language Design and Implementation (TLDI), New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2003.

• Java Grande/ISCOPE Conference, Seattle, Washington, October 2002.

• Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA), Seattle, Washington, October 2002.

• International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), Berlin, Germany, June 2002.

 Review Committees

• Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE), Dresden, Germany, March 2010.

• ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Dublin, Ireland, June 2009.

• International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), Dublin, Ireland, June 2009.

 Workshop Organization

• The Java Platform: Tiger and Beyond, (workshop held at OOPSLA'04), Vancouver, British Columbia, October 2004.

 Teaching

• Visiting Professor, Harvard University Department of Computer Science, teaching the undergraduate Programming Languages (CS 152) course.

 Educational Programs

• Lecturer, Oregon Programming Languages Summer School, Eugene, Oregon, July 2009.
• Lecturer, ARTIST2 Summer School on Real-time and Embedded Systems, Autrans, Switzerland, September 2008.
• Lecturer, Second International School on Trends in Concurrency, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2008.

 Thesis Committees

• Ben L. Titzer. Objects to Bits: Efficient Implementation of Object-Oriented Languages on Very Small Devices. PhD Dissertation. University of California, Los Angeles, August 2007.

• Wei-Jen Wang. Distributed Garbage Collection for Large-Scale Mobile Actor Systems. PhD Dissertation. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006.

  Grant Reviewing

• Panel member, DARPA Information Science and Technology (ISAT), study on Machine Learning & AI in the Context of Multicore & Cluster Computing, March 2009.

• Founder and chair, IBM Real-time Innovation Awards, August 2007, 2008.

• National Science Foundation Computing Systems Research program (Embedded and Hybrid Systems), Arlington, Virginia, March 2007.

• IBM Innovation Grants, 2005.

• IBM Eclipse Innovation Grants, 2004.

• National Science Foundation Information Technology Research program, Arlington, Virginia, May 2002.