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SEAS Welcomes Four New Faculty

Professor Gabriel Parmer has joined SEAS as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science. He will teach courses in operating systems and related software and systems areas. Professor Parmer recently completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Boston University, where he also received his B.S. degree. At Boston University, he received a best-paper award in 2006, his department's annual Research Excellence Award in 2007-08, and best poster award at BU's annual Industry-Affiliates Day in 2008. His main research interests include operating systems with a focus on real-time and embedded systems, component-based design, and system dependability.

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Professor Joost Reyes Santos has joined SEAS as an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in systems and information engineering at the University of Virginia in 2003, with distinction (Louis T. Rader Outstanding Ph.D. Student). Following his Ph.D., Professor Santos held a research assistant professor position at the University of Virginia's Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems. He has been involved in research projects that directly applied systems engineering and risk analysis methods in modeling and managing infrastructure system interoperability such as transportation and oil/gas process control systems. Results of his research activities and accomplishments are documented in at least 20 archived journal articles, including a highly-cited article on modeling system interdependencies that appeared in an issue of Risk Analysis in 2004. He recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to pursue research on developing inventory policy models to minimize disaster impacts on interdependent sectors.

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Professor Guru Prasadh Venkataramani has joined SEAS as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor Venkataramani's research area is computer architecture with an emphasis on providing efficient and low-cost hardware support for software debugging, security, and programmability. He is also interested in hardware solutions for performance tuning, especially for multi-core and emerging many-core architectures. Here at SEAS, he will teach courses in computer engineering and conduct research in support of our signature program in high-performance computing . Before joining SEAS, Professor Venkataramani completed his Ph.D. in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

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Professor Manlap (Alex) Li has joined SEAS as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He recently completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he received the 2008 W. J. Poppelbaum Memorial Award from the Department of Computer Science. Professor Li's research interests are computer architecture and hardware-software interaction, with a focus on reliable and parallel architectures. He is particularly interested in exploiting the hardware-software interface to derive novel solutions for improving future systems. He will teach courses in computer engineering and conduct research in support of our signature program in high-performance computing (HPC).

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