Fellowship Award Winners

The CMG Graduate Fellowship program is open to full time graduate students in Computer Science and related fields. It is intended to encourage and support research in the areas of measurement, modeling, management and analysis of system and network performance. Details of the program vary from year to year and are available by contacting .

2007   Vinod Dubey, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va
Quality of Service (QoS) Brokering and Performance Management of Composite Services in SOA

2006   Evangelia Kalyvianaki, University of Cambridge (UK)
Tuning Server Applications with OS Virtualization Support using Feedback Control

2005   Leslie Cheung, University of Southern California
Reliability Models for Web Services

2004   Srikant Sharma, State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY
Resource Management in Metro Ethernets and Cluster Ethernets through Configurable Ethernet Switches

2003   Jay Aikat, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill
Effect of Re-transmission Timeout Parameter on TCP Performance

2002   Diwakar Krishnamurthy, Carleton University
Synthetic Workloads for Stress Testing Complex Web-based Apps

2001   Felix Hernandez Campos, University of North Carolina
Characterization and Modeling of Internet Traffic

2001   Zachary A. Kurmas, Georgia Tech
I/O Performance Modeling and Workload Characterization

1996 - 2000
No fellowship was awarded

1995/1996   Erich Nahum, University of Massachusetts
Performance Issues in Parallelized Network Protocols

1995/1996   Dean Tullsen, University of Washington
Simultaneous Multithreading Maximizing On-Chip Parallelism

1994/1995   Brian Nobel, Carnegie Mellon University
The Structure and Evolution of a Distributed Measurement Network

1994/1995   Gregory Ganger, University of Michigan
Generating Representative Synthetic Workloads

1993/1994   Kirk L. Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Communication Optimizations for Large-Scale Multiprocessors

1992/1993   Partho Pratim Mishra, University of Maryland
Design of Resource Allocation and Traffic Control Mechanisms for High Speed Wide Area Networks

1992   David Chaiken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Smart memory Systems

1991   Richard P. LaRowe, Jr, Duke University
Virtual Memory Management for NUMA Multiprocessors

1990   Carey Williamson, Stanford University
High Performance Transport Communications for Distributed Systems

1989   Garth Gibson, U.C. Berkeley
High Performance Disk I/O Through Hundreds of Intelligent Disks

1988   Ricki Blau, U.C. Berkeley
Performance Measurement and Analysis of Realistic Image Synthesis Systems

1987   Jack Briner, Jr Duke University
The Screen as a Resource in the Human-Computer Problem Solving Environment

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