Emre KıcımanI am a researcher in the Internet Services Research Center at Microsoft Research. My interests are in social network and media analysis, particularly as they relate to social search. My previous research interests include JavaScript application monitoring and optimization, as well as improving the reliability of Internet services architectures and operations. I earned a Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley. |
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Projects:
My current projects focus on mining new kinds of information about the world from social media, and using social network data for search ranking.
Some of the past projects I've worked on include:
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U Rank, a search engine front end to support light-weight search editing and sharing. U Rank was prototyped externally in October 2008. [readwriteweb|pcworld|seattlepi]
- AjaxScope, aka AjaxView, is a tool that allows web app developers to efficiently monitor the real-world, in-browser behavior of their JavaScript code without special browser plugins or extensions. We have an SOSP paper about the project and released our research prototype. AjaxScope also became Visual Studio 2008 AJAX Profiling Extensions Power Tool (say that 3 times fast!).
- Doloto is a system that analyzes application workloads and automatically performs code splitting of existing large Web 2.0 applications. Doloto improves page-load times for large complex web applications by 20-40%. See our FSE paper and download the prototype at DevLabs.
- The Social Web Experience browser toolbar analyzes Web pages and finds related content from your social networks. Your friends' recent status updates and messages, favorite movies, interests, and other profile information are shown when its related to what you're seeing on the Web.
- KISS: On the systems-side, I'm also collaborating with Bimal Viswanath (MPI-SWS), Stefan Saroiu (MSR), and Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS) on the "Keeping Information Safe from Social networking apps" project. We call it KISS for short. To protect the privacy of user data from untrusted 3rd-parties, we're building a practical system for cloud hosting of social networking apps that enforces strong limits on how data is used.
Internally, I've also worked on surveys of the architecture, operations and reliability of Microsoft's large-scale Internet services; and more recently our usage of social network data in search.
During my PhD, I worked on monitoring for high-level application faults in Internet services. I continued this work at MSR, with more of an end-to-end perspective, looking at wide-area network failures as well as web application challenges (e.g., AjaxScope).
- Emre Kıcıman and Ben Livshits, AjaxScope: A Platform for Remotely Monitoring the Client-side Behavior of Web 2.0 Applications, in the 21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'07), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2007
- Benjamin Livshits and Emre Kıcıman, Doloto: Code Splitting for Network-Bound Web 2.0 Applications, in Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., November 2008
- Chad Verbowski, Emre Kıcıman, Brad Daniels, Arunvijay Kumar, Yi-Min Wang, Roussi Roussev, Shan Lu, and Juhan Lee, Flight Data Recorder: Always-on Tracing and Scalable Analysis of Persistent State Interactions to Improve Systems and Security Management, in The 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '06), USENIX, November 2006
- Emre Kıcıman, Benjamin Livshits, Madanlal Musuvathi, and Kevin C. Webb, Fluxo: A System for Internet Service Programming by Non-expert Developers, in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2010
Activities
Recent Organizing and Program Committees:
- Intl. Conf. on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2011) Program committee
- Workshop on Language in Social Media (LSM 2011) Program committee
- Symp. on Cloud Computing (SOCC 2011) Program committee
- Intl. Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2011) Progam committee.
- Usenix Webapps (WebApps 2011) Program committee.
- Intl. Conf. on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2011) Program Committee
- Intl. Conf. on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2010) Program Chair
In the past, I also helped co-found the SysML series of workshops (now SLAML) and taught a reading course at UW on applying machine learning techniques to systems problems. CSE 599N home page.
Contact Info:
| E-mail: | emrek@microsoft.com |
| Post: |
Emre Kıcıman Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 |
| Office Phone: |
+1 (425) 705-3659 (call my cell if you have the number) |
