About me
Research Staff Member
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
Dr. Cathy H. Xia is a research staff member at
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
specializing in performance modeling, analysis and stochastic control of distributed systems and communication networks.
She received her Ph.D. in
Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research
(now known as
MS&E)
and her M.S. in Statistics both
from Stanford University.
Dr. Xia is the current chair of the Professional Interest Community on Performance Modeling and Analysis (PMA PIC)
at IBM Research. She has served on the program committees of several major conferences including
SIGMETRICS and Performance 2004-2008.
Dr. Xia has received numerous IBM awards, including multiple IBM Research Division Awards and many Invention Achievement Awards. She is a member of
INFORMS, SIAM, and the IEEE Computer Society.
Research Interests
- Dynamic pricing and outsourcing strategies in IT services
- Distributed routing and resource allocation for stream processing systems
- Performance modeling, analysis and optimization of Internet services and applications
- Statistical analysis of web traffic and its performance implications
- Heavy-tails and long-range dependence in queueing systems
- Scheduling and performance evaluation of parallel and distributed systems
- Sensor Networks: heterogeneous sensor network management, distributed sense and control, query optimization, sensing capacity
My CV
Recent Professional Activities
- Chair of the Professional Interest Community on Performance Modeling and Analysis ( PMA PIC), IBM Research
- Associate Editor of International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector (IJISSS)
- Tutorial Chair, SIGMETRICS 2008
- Program Committee Member:
- SIGMETRICS 2007
- Performance 2007
- QEST 2007
- SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006
- Performance 2005
- SIGMETRICS/Performance 2004
- PMEO-PDS'05, 4th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Recent Publications
Recent Students
Recent Events
Last updated 11 Oct 2007