Graduate Student Workshop 2010
The focus of GSWC is to highlight graduate student research, promote the exchange of ideas among students, faculty, researchers, and industry, and familiarize new graduate students with the research conducted within our department and the larger computer science community. Each year, GSWC adopts a theme which invites discussion from a panel formed by industry speakers. This year, we also invite speakers from the academic field to present their research work within the context of this theme.
Workshop Information
GSWC 2010 will be held October 8, 2010 in the Engineering Sciences Building room 1001. The Engineering Science building is located on the campus map at location D5 with the label "Engineering Science". The actual room is approximately located where the 'S' in Science is on the label. The nearest Parking structure for the event is Parking Structure 10 located just to the right of Engineering Science on the map.
Proceedings
You can grab a pdf copy of the proceedings here.
Workshop Schedule
| Opening | ||
|---|---|---|
| 08:00-08:15 | Breakfast | |
| 08:15-08:30 | Opening remarks | Amr El Abbadi Chair of UCSB Computer Science Department |
| Multifarious Session A led by Nichole Stockman | ||
| 08:30-08:45 | Eliminating Timing and Termination Leaks | Vineeth Kashyap |
| 08:45-09:00 | Efficient and Scene-Adaptive Capture of Focal Stacks | Daniel Vaquero |
| Industry Panel | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Future Challenges in Computer Science |
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| Architecture Session led by Bita Mazloom | ||
| 10:00-10:15 | A Case for Smartphone Reuse to Augment Elementary School Education | Xun Li |
| 10:15-10:30 | Fighting Fire with Fire: Superlattice Cooling of Silicon Hotspots to Reduce Global Cooling Requirements | Susmit Biswas |
| 10:30-10:45 | Information Flow Secure Architectures | Mohit Tiwari |
| Academic Keynote | ||
| 10:45-11:30 | Engery Efficient Computing In this talk I give an overview of the algorithms we have developed at UCSD to significantly lower the energy consumption in computing systems. We derived optimal power management strategies for stationary workloads that have been implemented both in HW and SW. Run-time adaptation can be done via an online learning algorithm that selects among a set of policies. We generalize the algorithm to include thermal management since we found that minimizing the power consumption does not necessarily reduce the overall energy costs. To reduce the performance costs typically associated with state of the art thermal management techniques, we developed a new set of proactive management policies. The experimental results using real datacenter workloads on an actual multicore system show that our proactive technique is able to dramatically reduce the adverse effects of temperature by over 60%. Most recently we have shown that symbiotic scheduling of workloads in virtualized environments can lead to average 15% energy savings with 20% performance benefit in high utilization scenarios. I will also present some of the recent work we had done to address the energy savings in battery powered and energy harvesting systems. We are designing a new kind of “citizen infrastructure”, CitiSense, as an end-to-end health and environmental information system with near real-time data streams and feedback loops from the system to the sensing, processing, and actuation infrastructure. We have developed adaptive algorithms to tradeoff accuracy of computation versus the available energy for such systems, while taking into account the energy harvesting capabilities. Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Computer Engineering and the Institute of Energy Efficiency |
Tajana Šimunić Rosing Director of System Energy Efficiency Lab UCSD |
| Multifarious Session B led by Lara Deek | ||
| 11:30-11:45 | Internet usage and performance analysis of a rural wireless network in Macha, Zambia | David Johnson |
| 11:45-12:00 | Fast Nearest Neighbors in Large and Composite Networks | Petko Bogdanov |
| 12:00-12:15 | The Tipping Point of the Blogosphere: Connector, Maven, Salesman and Translator Blogs | Ceren Budak |
| Lunch / Poster Session | ||
| 12:15-01:15 | Posters and Lunch | |
| Security Session led by Gianluca Stringhini | ||
| 01:15-01:30 | Are BGP Routers Open To Attack? An Experiment | Ludovico Cavedon |
| 01:30-01:45 | Hacking for Fun and Education: Organizing the UCSB iCTF | Bryce Boe |
| 01:45-02:00 | DYMO: Linking Network Traffic to Application Code | Bob Gilbert |
| Industry Keynote | ||
| 02:00-02:45 | Cloud Computing and Software Security Software-as-a-service can provide great benefits, such as ubiquitous, reliable access to data, but cloud computing also raises new challenges and opportunities for computer security. Large-scale Web services must address both traditional security concerns, such as user authentication and key management, as well as newer issues like those raised by the need to maintain users' privacy. At the same time, cloud computing has innate security advantages, such as its use of easily updated and malleable software, which enables instrumentation ranging from individual specialization to large-scale execution summarization. This talk will briefly outline some of these issues and potential research topics in cloud security, with examples from Google's past and current technology efforts used to give context. |
Úlfar Erlingsson |
| Closing | ||
| 02:45-03:00 | Closing remarks followed by the walk to Goleta Beach! | Bryce Boe |
External Participants
Tajana Šimunić Rosing
Academic Keynote
Tajana Šimunić Rosing is currently an Assistant Professor in Computer
Science Department at UCSD. Her research interests are energy efficient
computing, embedded and wireless systems. Tajana’s work on event driven
dynamic power management laid the mathematical foundations for the
engineering problem, devised a globally optimal solution and more
importantly defined the framework for future researchers to approach these
kinds of problems in embedded system design. Her recent results
demonstrate the importance of joint power and thermal management in
multicore server systems in order to minimize the overall energy cost.
Furthermore, she developed a novel class of proactive thermal management
policies that can lower the incidence of hot spots in multicore processors
by up to 60% with no performance impact. Her current work is focused on
developing energy efficient scheduling policies for virtualized server
environments and on energy efficiency in population area healthcare
networks. From 1998 until 2005 she was a full time research scientist at
HP Labs while also leading research efforts at Stanford University. She
finished her PhD in EE in 2001 at Stanford, concurrently with finishing her
Masters in Engineering Management. Her PhD topic was dynamic management of
power consumption. Prior to pursuing the PhD, she worked as a senior
design engineer at Altera Corporation. She obtained the MS in EE from
University of Arizona. Her MS thesis topic was high-speed interconnect and
driver-receiver circuit design. She has served at a number of Technical
Paper Committees, and is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions
on Mobile Computing. In the past she has been an Associate Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems.
Úlfar Erlingsson
Industry Keynote
Úlfar Erlingsson leads security research efforts within Google
Research. Previously, he has been a researcher at Microsoft Research, an
Associate Professor at Reykjavik University, Iceland, and led security
technology at two startups: GreenBorder and deCODE Genetics. He holds a
PhD in CS from Cornell.
Lingli Zhang
Panelist
Dr. Lingli Zhang is currently a Software Engineer at Microsoft,
Technical Computing Group. Her research interests include programming
language and compiler, virtual execution environment and programming
support for parallel computing. Her last significant endeavor was
contributing to the Microsoft STM.net release, a software transactional
memory implementation on .NET. She currently works on a new research
incubation project on parallel programming support in C++. Dr. Zhang
received her M.S. from Zhejiang University, China, and her Ph.D. in
computer science from University of California, Santa Barbara. Her
dissertation is about "exploiting adaptation in a Java Virtual Machine to
enable both programmer productivity and performance for heterogeneous
devices". She has published a series of papers on code memory management
and supporting Futures in Java Virtual Machine runtime.
Joe Alfaro
Panelist
Joe Alfaro is Sr. Director of Engineering at Citrix Online. He is
responsible for the engineering teams that produce all COL products
including GotoMyPC, GotoAssist, GotoMeeting, GotoWebinar, GotoTraining and
GotoManage. Prior to this Joe was the VP of Engineering for Velosel
Corporation, a SaaS supply chain management company. Prior to that Joe was
VP of Product development for Interbase Software Corporation which produced
relational database software. Before that, Joe held a variety of technical
and management positions at Symantec, Borland, Apple and a number of small
startups.
Jon Walker
Panelist
Jon is a serial entrepreneur and is working on his third successful
startup, AppFolio, with former UCSB professor and founder of Citrix Online,
Klaus Schauser. AppFolio is the new generation of Software as a Service
company. Prior to AppFolio, Jon has been the CTO of two successful
startups. The first was Miramar Systems. During his tenure, he led the
development and quality assurance organization team and was responsible for
the creation and delivery of products. The software developed under his
direction has been deployed to over 20 million computers worldwide. Miramar
was sold to Computer Associates in 2004. The second was Versora, which
provides open source Systems Management software. Versora was sold to
Kaseya in 2006. Jon has also been a senior technologist for Nortel Networks
and Xing Technology Inc. (sold to Real Networks), a Contributing Editor to
LinuxWorld Magazine and he is the inventor of multiple patents. Jon also
teaches Software Engineering as an adjunct professor at Westmont College in
the Computer Science department.
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Program Committee
| Member | Position | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Bryce Boe | Chair | Computer Security Group |
| Lara Deek | Vice-Chair | Networking and Multimedia Systems Laboratory |
| Wei Tang | ECE Co-Coordinator | High Level Design Group |
| Jennifer Chen | ECE Co-Coordinator | |
| Petko Bogdanov | PC Member | The Data Mining and Bioinformatics Lab |
| Ceren Budak | PC Member | |
| Sudipto Das | PC Member | Distributed Systems Lab |
| Aaron Elmore | PC Member | |
| Luca Foschini | PC Member | |
| Bita Mazloom | PC Member | ArchLab |
| Nichole Stockman | PC Member | 4Eyes Lab |
| Gianluca Stringhini | PC Member | Computer Security Group |
| Jonathan Ventura | PC Member | 4Eyes Lab |
| Christo Wilson | PC Member | Current Lab |
| Mike Wittie | PC Member | Networking and Multimedia Systems Laboratory |
