Research

Research Interests:

My research interests lie in the area of computing architectures and distributed systems, with special focus on:

• Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Computer Systems

  • Analytical, simulation and machine learning-based performance modeling

  • Workload modeling and characterization

  • Performance analysis and forecasting techniques

• Performance Optimization and Energy Efficiency of Computer Systems

  • QoS-driven performance optimization

  • Adaptive thread/transaction scheduling and concurrency optimization mechanisms

  • Run-time performance and energy optimization techniques for multi-core systems

  • Adaptive data distribution/replication mechanisms in distributed systems

• Cloud Computing:

  • Adaptive cloud resource provisioning and elastic computing platforms

  • Automatic deploying and tuning of data processing algoritms in the cloud

  • Cloud data management platforms

• Concurrent and Parallel Programming:

  • Transactional Memories

  • Synchronization mechanisms in concurrent applications

  • Energy efficiency in transactional systems