Project Catapult: Derek Chiou and Bill Barth

Speaker Details

Arjmand Samuel works with the academic community to foster research and collaborations in the devices and services research areas. He leads the mobile and cloud computing research and outreach for Microsoft Research (Project Hawaii and TouchDevelop). His recent research interests are in software architectures and programming paradigms for devices of all shapes and forms (TouchDevelop and HomeOS). He has published in a variety of publications on topics of security, privacy, location aware access control, and innovative use of mobile technology. Samuel has a Ph.D. in Information Security from Purdue University.

Derek Chiou is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His research areas are high performance computer simulation, computer architecture, parallel computing, Internet router architecture and network processors. Before UT, Dr. Chiou was a system architect for five years at Avici Systems, a manufacturer of high-end core routers. Dr. Chiou received his Ph.D., S.M. and S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He is currently a research affiliate of the MIT Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and a PI in the RAMP collaborative.

Date:
Speakers:
Arjmand Samuel, Derek Chiou, and Bill Barth
Affiliation:
microsoft, UT Austin