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 | Andres Lagar-Cavilla, received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in August 2009. Throughout his research, Andres has worked on the applications of virtualization to application migration (Snowbird), security (Patagonix), graphics acceleration (VMGL), and cloud and high-performance computing (SnowFlock). Andres has obtained the NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship, and the ACM Eurosys 2009 Best Paper Award for his SnowFlock work on instantaneously replicating virtual machines. Andres can be reached at andres at lagarcavilla.com |
 | Alexandra (Sasha) Fedorova is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada. She has earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2006, where she has completed a thesis on Operating System Scheduling for Chip Multithreaded Processors. Concurrently with her doctorate studies, Fedorova worked at Sun Microsystems Research Labs, where she investigated transactional memory and operating systems. She is the lead inventor on two US patents. At SFU, Fedorova has co-founded Systems, Networking and Architecture (SYNAR) research lab. Presently, her research interests span operating systems and virtualization platforms for multi-core. Recently she and her students have been working on tools and techniques for parallelization of video games. Dr. Fedorova’s research is recognized by researchers and practitioners alike. Her work is supported by Sun Microsystems, Intel and Electronic Arts. She also holds a prestigious Strategic Grant from the Canadian government. Dr. Fedorova enjoys participating in outreach activities for women and minorities. |
 | Joel Wein is an Associate Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU ("NYU-POLY"), and a Fellow at Akamai Technologies. His research interests include scheduling, combinatorial optimization, and large-scale distributed systems. Joel Wein recently presented the paper "Virtualized games for teaching about distributed systems" at the ACM SIGCSE 2009 conference. The paper, co-authored with six undergraduates at NYU-POLY, describes a "serious game" for teaching students about the complexity of distributed systems in new and innovative ways. The project used VMWare's virtualization tools to support large numbers of virtual nodes on modest amounts of hardware, and to enable flexible and dynamic construction and modification of the game environment during playtime. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation and VMWare through its academic program. |
 | Peter Chen is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He co-authored the paper "Decoupling Dynamic Program Analysis from Execution in Virtual Environments" which was presented at USENIX '08. Professor Chen is a Fellow of the IEEE and received the 2007 ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award "for creativity and innovation in operating systems research". His research interests include operating systems, computer security, and fault-tolerant computing. His current research applies and extends virtual machine technology to problems in computer forensics, fault tolerance, and security. He loves to teach and supplements university teaching by teaching children at church and homeschooling his children in math and science. Other papers co-authored by Professor Chen include: * When Virtual Is Better Than Real * Backtracking Intrusions * Detecting Past and Present Intrusions through Vulnerability-Specific Predicates * SubVirt: Implementing Malware with Virtual Machines * Pocket Hypervisors: Opportunities and Challenges |
 | Jason Nieh, Associate Professor at Columbia University, has first-hand experience with virtualization in the classroom and understands the challenges of conveying real-world application concepts to students. In a recent presentation given at VMworld 2008 entitled "Virtualization in the Classroom @ columbia.edu" he addresses these issues while offering guidance on how to get students excited about and involved in virtualization technologies. |
 | Angelos Stavrou, Assistant Professor and researcher at George Mason University, focuses his work on security and reliability for distributed systems, security principles for virtualization, and anonymity as it pertains to building and deploying large-scale systems. For further information about Angelos, visit his govirtual blog. |
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