I am a Professor of Computer Science at UMass Amherst. My research interests lie in operating and distributed systems, sensor networks, Internet systems, and multimedia. I head the Laboratory for Advanced Systems Software here at UMass where we build systems and understand them through analysis and experimentation.
Recent News: • 2/11: 3LM, company co-founded by Lass alum Gaurav Mathur acquired by Motorola. • 2/11: Upendra Sharma awarded a prestigious IBM Fellowship. • 2/11: Papers accepted at Eurosys, ASPLOS, Sigmod and VLDB • 1/11: Industry grants from IBM and NEC. • 12/10: Papers accepted at ACM MMSys, VEE, Infocom. (More news..)
Ph.D. (1998), M.S. (1994), Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
B.Tech (1993), Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
My current research projects focus on server and desktop virtualization, RFID networks, sensor data management, and pervasive multimedia systems.
Laboratory for Advanced Systems Software
I maintain the UMass Trace Repository and the UMass CS Weather Station and am part of the UMass Center for Advanced RFID Research.
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I am teaching Distributed Systems this Spring.
I also maintain a page for the OS kernel Lab.
Over the next few months, I will serve on the Program Committees of the following conferences and workshops