CS SEMINAR

Managing Software-defined Infrastructures

Speaker
Professor Boon Thau Loo
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania

Chaired by
Professor Boon Thau Loo
boonloo@seas.upenn.edu

27 Jun 2017 Tuesday, 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM

Video Conference Room, COM1-02-13

Talk 1: Basics
Date: 27 June 2017, Tuesday
Time: 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM

Talk 2: Programming Abstractions
Date: 29 June 2017, Thursday
Time: 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM

Talk 3: Debugging with Network Provenance
Date: 3 July 2017, Monday
Time: 02:00 PM to 04:00PM

Talk 4: Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Multi-Data Centers
Date: 5 July 2017, Wednesday
Time: 02:00 PM to 04:00PM


Course Description:

This seminar class explores techniques for managing software-defined infrastructures (SDIs) that are virtualized and delivered as a service. Topics covered include software-defined networking platforms, programming languages, vertification tools, fault diagnostics and monitoring, and debugging tools that enable SDIs to be deployed correctly with high availability. The chosed topics are structured around the instructor's current research interests. Students are encouraged to use this seminar class as a way to bootstrap new collaborative research projects with the instructor and their current supervisors.

This class is open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates who have taken a computer networks class.


Biodata:

Boon Thau Loo is a Professor in the Computer and Information Science (CIS) department at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a secondary appointment in the Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) department. He is also the CIS Masters Chair, overseeing all masters programs within the CIS department, and Director of the Master of Science in Engineering in CIS program. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. Prior to his Ph.D, he received his M.S. degree from Stanford University in 2000, and his B.S. degree with highest honors from UC Berkeley in 1999. His research focuses on distributed data management systems, Internet-scale query processing, and the application of data-centric techniques and formal methods to the design, analysis and implementation of networked systems. He was awarded the 2006 David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for the most outstanding dissertation research in the Department of EE CS at UC Berkeley, and the 2007 ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2009) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award (2012). He has published 100+ peer reviewed publications and has supervised twelve Ph.D dissertations. His graduated Ph.D. students include 3 tenure-track faculty members and winners of 3 dissertation awards. He is also co-founder and Chief Scientist at Termaxia, a big data storage startup.