About me
Senior Manager
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
I received Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My thesis developed pattern-recognition methodology to predict resource usage in UNIX using measurement-based approach.
I joined IBM Research in 1987 as a Research Staff Member. Early in my career, I worked on design, prototype, and measurement-based studies of file systems and resource management technologies for distributed systems. I designed and built a highly recoverable distributed file system for video servers and parallel programming. I led the team that built a load balancing technology for the Olympics Web server, which was also deployed for the Deep Blue vs. Kasparov chess competition. This technology is a part of the IBM WebSphere product offering.
Having led a team chartered to optimize the Java runtime for server applications and having developed the ten year technology outlook for IBM, I returned to research in storage and file systems to focus on policy-based management. My team delivered policy-based management technologies for IBM distributed file systems.
I was the Program Chair for the Usenix Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems in 1999 and was on the Program Committee for several years. I was also an area editor of the IEEE Concurrency magazine. I got involved with the IEEE Policy workshop in 2002 and I was the General Co-Chair for the 2004 Policy Workshop. I still serve on the Program Committee for the IEEE Policy workshop.
I am currently a Senior Manager in the newly formed Services Research area. Presently, my research is focused on developing methodologies and tools to improve quality of service delivery.
I am a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM
Last updated 16 Aug 2006