Alina Gabriela Sbîrlea

Contact: Office:   Duncan Hall 3002 Email:    alina @ rice . edu Mailing Address:    6100 Main Street, MS-132,   Houston, TX77005

About me:
I am a fourth year PhD student working in the Habanero Multicore Software Research Project. My advisor is Prof. Vivek Sarkar

Research:
Currently working on adapting Intel's Concurrent Collections (CnC) to CPUs, GPUs and the Customizable Heterogeneous Platform in the NSF Expeditions Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC). This CnC implementation builds on Habanero C programming language currently being developed at Rice.

During the Summer of 2011, I worked at IBM T.J Watson Reseach Center, in the Liquid Metal team, exploring runtime issues in the Lime language, in the general area of heuristics and optimizations for task management on heterogenous platforms.

During the Summer of 2012, I worked at Sandia National Laboratories with Kyle Wheeler and the QThreads team creating QT-CnC, a data-flow model based on the QThreads library and exploring research opportunities for using this model for emerging architectures. Try it out here.

Publications:

• Alina Sbîrlea, Yi Zou, Zoran Budimlic, Jason Cong, Vivek Sarkar, “Mapping a data-flow programming model onto heterogeneous platforms”,     Proceedings of the 13^th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, Tools and Theory for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2012). DOI
• Sanjay Chatterjee, Max Grossman, Alina Sbîrlea, Vivek Sarkar, “Dynamic Task Parallelism with a GPU Work-Stealing Runtime System”,   24^th  International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC 2011).
• Max Grossman, Alina Simion Sbîrlea, Zoran Budimlic, Vivek Sarkar, “CnC-Cuda: Declarative Programming for GPUs”,  23^rd  International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing (LCPC 2010). DOI
• Coauthor of the “Monitoring and Performance Analysis of Workflow Applications in Large Scale Distributed Systems” chapter in “Intelligent Networking, Collaborative Systems and Applications”, Xhafa, Fatos et al.; (Eds.), 2011,  ISBN: 978-3-642-16792-8
• Alina Simion , Dragos Sbirlea, Florin Pop, and Valentin Cristea. 2009. “Dynamic Scheduling Algorithms for Workflow Applications in Grid Environment” In Proceedings of the 2009 11th Intl. Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms For Scientific Computing (September 26 - 29, 2009). SYNASC. IEEE Computer Society, 254-261, ( http://synasc09.info.uvt.ro/)  DOI
• Dragos Sbirlea, Alina Simion , Florin Pop, and Valentin Cristea. 2009. “Monitoring Workflow Applications in Large Scale Distributed Systems” In Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCOS '09). IEEE Computer Society, 162-169 DOI

Awards:

• Jack C. Polard Graduate Fellowship (2009)
  
• Texas Instruments Fellowship
  

Courses taken at Rice University:

COMP 311 (411 since Fall 2011)- Programming Languages - Prof. Robert "Corky" Cartwright
COMP 412 - Compiler Construction - Prof. Keith Cooper
COMP 421 - Op Sys/Concurrent Programming - Prof. David B. Johnson
COMP 422 - Parallel Computing - Prof. John Mellor-Crummey
COMP 460 - Adv Computer Graphics - Prof. Joe Warren
COMP 482 - Design/Analysis Of Algorithms - Prof. Christopher Jermaine
COMP 512 - Adv. Compiler Construction - Prof. Keith Cooper
COMP 515 - Adv. Compilation for Vector and Parallel Processors - Prof. Vivek Sarkar (in progress)
COMP 522 - Multi-Core Computing - Prof. John Mellor-Crummey
COMP 527 - Computer Systems Security - Prof. Dan Wallach
COMP 590 - Computer Science Projects - Prof. Vivek Sarkar
COMP 600 - Graduate Seminar - Led by Lecturer John Greiner
COMP 620 - Grad Sem-Distributed Computing - Led by Prof. Eugene Ng