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Curriculum Vitae
Peter J. Varman
Personal Data
Professor
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering 3803 Latma Drive
Rice University Houston, Texas 77025
Houston, Texas 77005 U.S.A Phone: 713-***-****
Phone: 713-***-****
email: ***@****.***
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Employment History
2011- 2012: Scholar-In-Residence, VMWare Inc., Palo Alto, CA.
2006Present: Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
.
(Professor,
Computer Science Department, 2006present
)
20032005: Program Director, Computing Processes and Artifacts Cluster, CCF Division,
National
Science Foundation
2002 2003: Program Director, Computer Systems Architecture Program, CCR Division,
National
Science Foundation.
1989 - 2006: Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
.
(
Associate
Professor, Computer Science Department, 20002006
)
Fall 2001: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Duke
University
19941995: Senior Fellow, School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological
University,
Singapore
.
1983 - 1989: Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
.
Summer 1989: Visiting Faculty, IBM Almaden Research Center
.
Summer 1988: Visiting Faculty, IBM Almaden Research Center
.
Summer 1987: Visiting Faculty, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
.
1980 - 1983: Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at
Austin
.
1978 - 1980: Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of
Texas at Austin.
Awards and Memberships
Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Member of Association for Computing Machinery
Member of IEEE Computer Society
Member of New York Academy of Science
Schlumberger Foundation Award, 1996.
US Patent 5,179,699, Partitioning Sorted Lists for Parallel Processing, 1993. (with B.
Iyer and G.
Ricard, IBM)
IBM Faculty Development Award, 1984.
Research Grants and Awards
Workload Shaping for Capacity and Power Provisioning in Storage Data Centers, National
Science
Foundation, 2009 2012 ($350,000)
Lookahead Logic Circuits for Performance, Power, and Reliability, National Science
Foundation,
2009 2012, co-PI (Collaborative with Kartik Mohanram), ($384,000)
Resource Scheduling with QoS for Parallel I/O Systems, National Science Foundation,
2006
2010, ($395,000).
PDOS: Energy Conservation in Storage Systems using Coding Techniques, National Science
Foundation, 2006 2009, PI (Collaborative with J. Wang, U. Nebraska), ($226,000)
High-Performance Parallel I/O Systems, National Science Foundation, 2001-2007.
($300,000 with
supplement).
Buffer Management for Parallel I/O Systems, National Science Foundation, 1997-2000.
($203,317).
Improving Parallel I/O Performance via Prefetching, Schlumberger Corporation, 1997-98.
($30,000).
Prediction and Randomization for Parallel I/O, Schlumberger Corporation, 1996-97.
($30
ISPASS 08),
Boston, MA, April 2009.
Workshop Co-Chair, First International Workshop on Virtualization Perf ormance:
Analysis,
Characterization and Tools (VPACT 08), (held in conjunction with IEEE ISPASS 08), Austin,
Texas, April 2008.
Workshop Co-Chair, First International Conference on Storage and I/O Virtualization,
Performance,
th
Energy, Evaluation and Dependability (SPEED 08), (held in conjunction with 14 HPCA), Salt
Lake City, Utah, February 2008.
Program Vice Chair for Computer Architecture, International Conference on High-
Performance
Computing (HiPC 2007), Goa, India, December 2007.
Program Co-Chair for Storage Systems, International Conference on Networking,
Architecture, and
Storage (NAS 2007), Guilin, China, July 2007.
Chair: Panel on Reliability and Fault Tolerance, Architectures for Nanoelectronics and
Beyond,
SRC Workshop to chart Research Direc tions, September, 2005. (Organizing Committee
member).
Recent Program Committees
Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems (co-located with
International Green Computing Conference, IGCC 2011), Orlando, Florida
Panels
Panel Member, Science Foundation of Ireland, 2007, 2008, 2009
Panel Member, National Research Foundation of UAE, 2009
Panel Member, National Science Foundation, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Task Force Member, Federal High End Computing Revitalization Task Force (HECRTF), 2003-
2004. The task force established by the Office of Science and Technology Policy was
charged with
producing a forward-looking plan for high-end computing. Final report titled Federal
Plan for
High-End Computing published May 2004.
Panel Member, Computational Infrastructure for Lattice Gauge Theory, Department of
Energy,
2003
Moderator: From Molecules to Computers, Tutorial held in conjunction with Micro 35,
Istanbul,
Turkey, Nov. 2003
Panel Member: Robotics for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology, IEEE/RJS Workshop,
International
Conference on High-End Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 2003
Panel Member: Future of Application Specific Processors: Issues and Challenges,
Workshop on
Application Specific Processors (WASP 2), San Diego, CA, December, 2003.
National Science Foundation
Cluster Coordinator, Computing Processes and Artifacts, National Science Foundation
(FY 2004):
The cluster is made up of the following program elements: Computer Systems Architecture,
Design
Automation for Micro and Nano Systems, Graphics and Visualization, High -End Software
Tools,
and Software Engineering.
Area Coordinator: Device and System Architecture thematic area of the Nanoscale
Interdisciplinary
Research Teams (NIRT) program, FY 2003, 2005.
Participated in the following NSF -wide cross-cutting programs:
University and Departmental Service
Member, Graduate Committee, Computer Engineering, 2010, 2006, 2005, 2 004, 1995.
Library Liaison, 2010
Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of ECE, 1998 -2001, 1989-1993.
Undergraduate Advisor in Computer Engineering, Department of ECE, 1998 -2001, 1989
1993.
Member, University Admissions Committee, 1997 -1999.
Member, University Admissions Committee, 1986 -1989.
Commencement Marshall, 1997.
Faculty Sponsor, Rice Cricket Club, 1996 -2000.
Faculty Associate, Jones College, 1984 -1985.
Computer Engineering Seminar Coordinator, 1992 -1993.
Committee Member for Ph. D. Dissertat ion and M.S. Thesis committees (regularly from
1984 -)
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