Xiaohui (Helen) Gu

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Department of Computer Science Phone: 919-***-**** (O), 914-***-**** (C)

North Carolina State University Fax: 919-***-****

Raleigh, NC 27695

Homepage: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/gu/

Research Interests

My general research interests are in the areas of systems, with a current focus on cloud

com-

puting, system reliability, and system integrity.

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL Computer Science Ph.D. 2004

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL Computer Science M.S. 2001

Peking University, Beijing, China Computer Science B.S. 1999

Professional Experience

Assistant ProfessorCS Dept, North Carolina State University2008present

Research Staff MemberIBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY 2004- 2007

Research InternIBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY 2003Summer

Research InternIBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY 2002Summer

Research InternHewlett-Packard Research Labs, Palo Alto, CA 2001Summer

Awards/Honors

NSF CAREER Award, 2012.

IBM Faculty Award, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.

Google Research Award, 2009, 2011.

IEEE CNSM 2010 Best Paper Award, 1 out of 176 submissions.

IEEE MASCOTS 2010 best paper nominee, 6 out of 40 accepted papers.

NCSU Faculty Research and Professional Development Award, 2008.

Second Invention Plateau Award, IBM T.J. Watson Research, 2007.

CRA-W Distinguished Lecture, 2007.

First Invention Plateau Award, IBM T.J. Watson Research, 2006.

Invention Achievement Award, IBM T.J. Watson Research, 2004

Saburo Muroga Fellowship to outstanding graduate students, 2003, UIUC

ILLIAC Fellowship to best PhD candidates, 1999 - 2002, UIUC

David J. Kuck Best Master Thesis Award, 2001, UIUC

Motorola Scholarship to best undergraduate students, 1998, Peking University

Outstanding undergraduate scholarships, 1995 - 1998, Peking University

Grants and Gifts ($2.77 million in total)

NSF CAREER Award CAREER: Enabling Robust Virtualized Hosting Infrastructures via

Coordinated Learning, Recovery, and Diagnosis, $450,000, 2012-2017, Sole PI.

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NSA Science of Security Lablet Grant Deepening the Understanding of Least Privilege

Through Automatic Partitioning of Hybrid Programs, $522K, 2012-2015, Co-PI, PI: William

Enck.

NSF CSR Grant Online System Anomaly Prediction and Diagnosis for Large-Scale Hosting

Infrastructures, $405,000, 2009-2012, Sole PI.

NSF CSR Grant Hybrid Opportunistic Computing for Green Clouds, $470,000, 2009-2012,

Co-PI.

NSF II:NEW:ARC: A Root Cluster for Systems Research in Scalable Computing, $549,999,

2010-2013, Co-PI.

Army Research Office Grant Predictive Anomaly Management for Resilient Virtualized Com-

puting Infrastructures, $300,000, 2010-2013, Sole PI.

IBM Faculty Award 2011, $15,000, Sole PI.

Google Research Award 2011, $61,000, Sole PI.

IBM Faculty Award 2010, $14,000, Sole PI.

Google Research Award 2009, $51,000, Sole PI.

IBM Faculty Award, 2009, $29,000, Sole PI.

IBM Exploratory Stream Analytics Award, 2009-2010, $20,000, Sole PI.

IBM Faculty Award. 2008, $30,000, Sole PI

North Carolina CACC Grant, Virtual Machine Management for Large-Scale Virtualized

Hosting Infrastructure, 2008-2009, $40,000, Sole PI.

NCSU FRPD award. Automatic 24x7 System Health Management for Large-Scale Hosting

Infrastructure . 2006, $6,000, Sole PI.

Conference and Workshop Publications (total number: 43)

1. Yongmin Tan, Hiep Nguyen, Zhiming Shen, Xiaohui Gu, Chitra Venkatramani, Deepak Ra-

jan, PREPARE: Predictive Performance Anomaly Prevention for Virtualized Cloud Systems,

Proc. of International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Macau,

China, June, 2012 (acceptance rate: 71/515=13.8%).

2. Zhiming Shen, Sethuraman Subbiah, Xiaohui Gu, John Wilkes, CloudScale: Elastic

Resource

Scaling for Multi-Tenant Cloud Systems, Proc. of ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing

(SOCC) in conjunction with SOSP, Cascais, Portugal, October, 2011 (acceptance rate:

30/178 = 16.8%).

2. Xiaohui Gu, Spyridon Papadimitriou, Shu-Ping Chang, Philip Yu, System and Methods for

Predictive Failure Management, Filed with the US patent office, 2007.

3. Haixun Wang, Xiaohui Gu, Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, System and Method for Indexable XML

Data Serialization, Filed with the US patent office, 2007.

4. Xiaohui Gu, Philip S. Yu, Shu-Ping Chang, Model-based Self-Optimizing Distributed

Infor-

mation Management, Filed with the US patent office, 2006.

5. Xiaohui Gu, Philip S. Yu, Haixun Wang, System and Method for Scalable Processing of

Multi-way Data Stream Correlations, Filed with the US patent office, 2006.

6. Xiaohui Gu, Zhen Wen, Philip S. Yu, Zon-Yin Shae, System and Method for Peer-to-Peer

Multi-Party Voice-Over-IP Services, Filed with the US patent office, 2006.

7. Xiaohui Gu, Philip S. Yu, Method and Apparatus for Providing Load Diffusion in Data

Stream Correlations, Filed with the US patent office, 2005.

8. Xiaohui Gu, Philip S. Yu, System and Methods for Optimal Component Composition in a

Stream Processing System, Filed with the US patent office, 2005.

Selected Professional Services

Recent Invited Talks: CRA-W Distinguished Lecture at Kentucky Women in Computer

Science Conference (February, 2012), Columbia University (July 2011), IBM Research (July,

2011), HP Labs (June, 2011), NEC Labs (January 2009), IBM Research (September, 2008)

Program Co-Chair: IWQoS 2013

TPC Member: ICDCS 2012-2011, 2009, Middleware 2012 (main research track), Middle-

ware 2011 (industry track), IWQoS 2012, 2011, 2009, MDM 2011, 2009, ICME 2010-2009,

BroadNets 2010, SDM 2009, IPDPS 2009, PerCom 2006-2009, SIGMM 2008, ICC 2008, Mid-

dleware (Doctoral Symposium) 2007, ICPDS 2007, MMM

Kong, 2007.

Senior Member of IEEE and member of ACM.

Current Students

Yongmin Tan (PhD, pass prelim exam in Nov. 2011, expected to graduate in Summer 2012)

Kamal Kc (PhD, pass qualify exam in fall

)

Graduated Students

Juan Du (PhD, 2011, Amazon)

Sethuraman Subbiah (MS, 2011, NetApp Advanced Technology Group (ATG))

Vinay Venkatesh (MS 2010, IBM RTP)

Prakash Ramaswamy (MS 2009, EDL consulting, Chicago)

Miscellaneous

Female, US Permanent Resident

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