News
[2022-2023] I have two open positions in my research team for graduate students and one for an undergraduate student. More information on our PhD program here.
[03-04/2024] I visited the University of Würzburg to continue working on the activities of the ROOT project.
[03/2024] I gave at talk at Charles University (D3S Seminar) titled "Designing Serverless Platforms to Support Emerging Applications".
[03/2024] I was interviewed by Claudio Cicconetti, for the EDGELESS Project, on the subject of Serverless Computing. [video]
[2023-2024] I am PC Co-Chair for the 15th International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2024), which will take place in South Kengsington London, May 7-11, 2024.
[2023] I have been invited to Chair the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation Award 2023.
[2022-2024] I have been elected as a member of the SPEC Research Group Steering Committee, to perform the role of Secretary of the SPEC RG.
[04/2022] I gave at talk at UIUC (CS Colloquium Series) titled "Designing Serverless Platforms to Support Emerging Applications". [slides] [video]
[03/2022] I had the honor to be the Keynote speaker of the STARLESS Workshop, held together with PerCom'22.
[12/2021] The Sizeless paper received the Best Student Paper Award @ Middleware'21. Congratulations Simon and the team!
[07/2021] I have been invited to Chair the WiP and Vision Papers track at ACM/SPEC ICPE 2022.
[05/2021] The Dastuhl seminar on Serverless Computing was a success! Read our report here.
[12/2020] The website and CFP for HotCloudPerf is up; we welcome short/long papers and talks.
[10/2020] My talk at our local Women in Data Science (WIDS) conference went great. You can find the video (in Spanish) here.
[09/2020] Edwin Boza passed his Prelim exam on Sept 21st. Congratulations Edwin!
[09/2020] Johnny Torres defended his PhD thesis on Sept 15th. Congratulations Johnny!
[09/2020] The SPEC RG working group on cloud computing has compiled a list of Serverless Computing use cases, to be published at IEEE Software.
[09/2020] I have been invited to be panelist on the Workshop de Mujeres Latinoamericanas en HPC at CARLA 2020.
[06/2020] I have been invited to talk at the Webinar “Uso de las Tecnologías Emergentes para frenar la pandemia - Servicios en la nube: procesos disruptivos y su relevancia en la coyuntura COVID-19”, organized by Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y de la Sociedad de la Información, Ecuador, June 11, 2020.
[02/2019] Our paper "Beyond Load Balancing: Package-Aware Scheduling for Serverless Platforms" has been accepted for publication at IEEE/ACM CCGRID 2019.
[12/2018] I am co-chairing the Second Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf 2019), to be held in conjunction with IEEE ICAC 2019.
[11/2018] I gave at TEDx talk on the value of research for forming human capital, at TEDx Peñas.
[05/2018] I presented the results of our study on Cloud adoption in Ecuador, in events in Quito (05/30) and Guayaquil (05/31). Final report available here (ISBN: 978-9942-30-687-6). Presentation with result highlights available here. Press: El Comercio (Jun 3, 2018).
[04/2018] Congrats to Javier Ron for being selected to work on a project for UCSC's Center for Research in Open Source Software (Google Summer of Code 2018).
[03/2018] I have been selected for another Google Faculty Research Award (see List of award recipients).
[02/2018] I have been invited to attend NetApp's University Day in Sunnyvale (02/12).
[11/2017] ESPOL has established a collaboration agreement with AT&T Labs Research; the Distributed Systems Lab will be leading this activity.
[10/2017] I have been invited to join the Program Committee of the First Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf-2018), to be held with ACM/SPEC ICPE 2018.
[06/2017] I have been invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2018).
[06/2017] ESPOL joined the SPEC RG and I started collaborating with the Cloud Computing research group.
[03/2017] I have been awarded a grant by Microsoft to do a study on Cloud adoption in Ecuador.
[09/2016] I received an Amazon Web Services Grant (Cloud Credits for Research program) to work on benchmarking key-value stores.
[04/2016] I am being featured as "Girl of the Month" by Girls In Tech.
[03/2016] A news article about my work appeared at Diario Expreso.
[02/2016] I have been selected for the prestigious Google Faculty Research Award (see List of award recipients).
[12/2015] An article about my research appeared in ESPOL's Focus magazine.
[05/2015] I obtained an Amazon Web Services in Education grant for my Advanced Operating Systems class.
[06/2014] My work was featured on a recent PC World (and IT World) article.