Mary K. Vernon Professor of Computer Science                   and Industrial Engineering

Research Interests: Techniques and applications of computer systems performance analysis, high performance network protocols, networked system security, parallel/distributed applications and architectures, Grid and cluster job scheduling.

Current Research Projects

• CIPART: Critical Infrastructure Protection through Analysis of Reliability and Trustworthiness
  (DoD University Research Initiatives (URI) Program/ARO)

• HPJS: High Performance Job Scheduling
  (NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI) Program/NCSA)

• POEMS/MASC: Performance-Oriented End-to-end Modeling System/Models for Adaptive Software Control
  (NSF Next Generation Software Program)

• SWORD: Scalable Wide-area On-demand Reliable Digital Streaming
  (NSF NeTS Program)

• iSWORD: Instrumented Streaming Research and Testbed
  (NSF Networking Special Projects Program)