Research Interests

• I'm mostly interested in anything to do with the design and implementation of systems, including but not limited to:
• Real-time and embedded systems
  
• Operating systems
  
• Multicore systems
  
• Resource management
  
• Kernels
• System organization and structure
  
• Hardware-software interaction
• Machine virtualization
  

Are you interested in building systems?

• If you like to work with kernels and systems software, investigate how software interacts with hardware at the architectural-level, and enjoy applying scientific principles to make things work, consider applying to my group. Either send me an email or submit your application to Boston University. Given that I am usually very busy, I may not always respond to your email right away.
  

Research Groups

• BOSS - Boston University Operating Systems and Services
• RTCC - Real-Time Computation and Communication Group
• iBench - The Internet Programming Workbench
  

Professional Services

• Program Chair for the 20th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, 2014.
  
• Program Committee member for the 9th Annual Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT), Paris, France, July 9, 2013.
  
• Program Committee member for the 39th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, Embedded Software Engineering track, Santander, Spain, September 4-6, 2013.
  
• Editor, Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture.
• Guest Editor, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, Special Issue on Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications, 2012-2013.
  
• Program Committee member for the 33rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 4-7, 2012.
  
• Program Committee member for the Embedded Software Engineering (ESE) track at the 38th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced applications (SEAA), Cesme-Izmir, Turkey, September 5-8, 2012.
  
• Track Chair, ``Applications, Systems, RTOSs and Tools'', for the 18th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Beijing, China, April 2012.
• Program Committee member for the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Object and Component-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing (ISORC), Shenzhen, China, April 11-13, 2012.
  
• Program Committee member for the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 15-17, 2011.
  
• Program Committee member for the 17th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Chicago, USA, April 11-14, 2011.
  
• Program Committee member for the 16th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), Stockholm, Sweden, April 12-15, 2010.
  
• Program Committee member for the 12th IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing (ISORC), March 17-20, 2008, Tokyo, Japan.
  
• Program Committee member for the 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, November 30-December 3, 2008, Barcelona, Spain.
  Program Committee member for the Workshop on Managed Many-Core Systems (co-located with HPDC 2008), June 2008, Boston, USA.
• Program Committee member for the 20th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), July 2008, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Program Committee member for the 14th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (Real-Time and Embedded Applications/Benchmarks Area), 2008, St. Louis, MO, USA.
• Program Committee member for the 13th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, August 21-24, 2007, Daegu, Korea.
  
• Program Committee member for the 19th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), Pisa, Italy, July 4-6, 2007.
• Program Area Chair for the 13th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (Real-Time and Embedded Applications/Benchmarks Area), 2007, Bellevue, Washington.
  
• Program Committee member for the 27th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2006 (Special Track on Real-Time Middleware and Software Engineering), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Program Committee Co-Chair for the 12th IEEE Intl. Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing and Applications (RTCSA) 2006, Sydney, Australia.
• Program Committee member for the 12th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2006, San Jose, California.
• Program Committee member for the 26th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2005, Miami, Florida.
• Publicity Co-Chair for the 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA), August, 2005.
  
• Program Committee member for the 17th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, July 6-8, 2005.
  
• Reviewer for the Distributed Object and Component-based Software Systems track of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 3-6, 2005.
  
• Program Committee member for the 13th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems 2005.
  
• Program Committee member for the Sixth Real-Time Linux Workshop, Nanyang Executive Centre, Singapore, November 3-5, 2004.
  
• Program Committee member for the Workshop on Quality of Service for Application Servers, October 17, 2004.
• In conjunction with the 23rd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Florianopolis, Brazil, 2004.
  
• Program Committee member for the 25th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Program Committee member for the 1st International Workshop on Data Distribution in Real-Time Systems (DDRTS), 2003.
• In conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems , 2003.
  
• Organizer and Program Committee member for The Fourth Real-Time Linux Workshop, Boston University, December 6-7, 2002.
• Program Committee member for the 8th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, 2002, San Jose, California.
• Program Committee member for IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2002.
• Publicity Co-Chair for the 22nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2001, London, England.
  
• Program Committee member for IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, 2001.
• Reviewer for various journals including: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, the British Computer Society Computer Journal, the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier), Computer Networks (Elsevier), Real-Time Systems Journal, IEEE Multimedia and ACM Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems.
  
• Reviewer for various conferences including IEEE RTSS, RTAS, ICDCS and IPDPS.
• Reviewer and panelist for various NSF proposals including: Cyber-Physical Systems (2009), Embedded and Hybrid Systems (2004), ACR Software Systems (2003), ITR Small Software Systems (2002) and Embedded and Hybrid Systems (2002).

Education

• I'm a full-time student in the School of Hard Knocks, at the University of Life.
  
• I've been privileged enough to have a formal education, the details of which can be found in my online bio sketch.
• A reasonably up-to-date pdf version of my CV is also available.

Students

• Zhuoqun (Tom) Cheng
• Ye Li
• Eric Missimer
• Mehrnoosh Sameki
• Ying (Chris) Ye


• Meha Mehta
  
• Gerald Fry (Charles River Analytics)
• Gabriel Parmer (George Washington University)
• Yuting Zhang (Metropolitan College, Boston University)
• Junfeng Zou
  
• Xin Qi (Qualcomm)
  
• Jason Gloudon (Revahertz)
  
• Luis Hernandez (Microsoft)
• Albert Sidelnik (UIUC)
  
• SuYan Zeng (Startup in China)
• Daniel Levin
  
• Jason Gilanfarr (VMware)
  
• Will Drewry (Google)
• Raj Ashar

General Interests

• "Real" football (not the kind played with helmets).
• Cars and motorsports. I have numerous scale models. Some of my favorites include a Jaguar XJ13 (1966), Ayrton Senna's Lotus Renault 97T (1985) and McLaren MP4/7 (1992), Stirling Moss's 1955 Mercedes Benz W196, and Ronnie Peterson's 1970 Ferrari 512S Coda Lunga Le Mans car.
• Too many others to mention!

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