Vivek Sarkar: Research Supervision of Graduate Students

  1. • Currently supervising the following PhD students at Rice University:

  2. • Kumud Bhandari

  3. • Sanjay Chatterjee

  4. • Shams Imam

  5. • Deepak Majeti

  6. • Raghavan Raman

  7. • Alina Sbîrlea

  8. • Dragoș Sbîrlea

  9. • Kamal Sharma

  10. • Rishi Surendran

  11. • Sağnak Taşırlar

  12. • Nick Vrvilo

and co-supervising additional undergraduate and graduate students involved in research related to the Habanero Multicore Software project.

  1. • Currently co-supervising PhD student Vibha Patel at IIT Kanpur.

  2. • Supervised Sağnak Taşırlar (Rice MS, 2011) on his MS research on scheduling macro-dataflow programs on task-parallel runtime systems

  3. • Co-supervised Vishal Annapurve (IIT Kanpur M.Tech, 2011) on his Masters research on inter-procedural load elimination for parallel Habanero Java programs.

  4. • Supervised Yi Guo (Rice PhD, 2010) on his PhD research on locality-aware adaptive work-stealing schedulers for multi-core task parallelism.

  5. • Supervised Rajkishore Barik (Rice PhD, 2009) on his PhD research on optimization of memory accesses in parallel programs.

  6. • Supervised Raghavan Raman (Rice MS, 2009) on his MS research on compiler support for work-stealing parallel runtime systems.

  7. • Co-supervised Mackale Joyner (Rice PhD, 2008) on his PhD research on array optimizations for high-productivity parallel programming languages.

  8. • Co-supervised Igor Peshansky (NYU PhD, 2003) on his PhD research on optimistic program  optimization.

  9. • Co-supervised Massimiliano Poletto (MIT PhD, 1999) on his PhD research related to Linear  Scan register allocation.

  10. • Co-supervised the following PhD graduate students during their internships at IBM, and co-authored papers with each of them: Kartik Agaram, Shivali Agarwal, Matthew Arnold, Ras Bodik, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Matthew Harren, Chandra Krintz, Keunwoo  Lee, Alexey Loginov, Jan-Willem Maessen, Radhika Thekkath, John Whaley, Yuan Zhang.

  11. • Co-supervised the following graduate students while I was on sabbatical at MIT: Rajeev Barua, Jacob Harris, Kathleen Knobe, Walter Lee, Devabhaktuni Srikrishna, Michael Taylor, Eliot Waingold.


Ph.D. Committees

  1. • Yi Guo, Rice University, 2010 (advisor).

  2. • Nathan Tallent, Rice University, 2010.

  3. • Rajkishore Barik, Rice University, 2009 (advisor).

  4. • Ryan Zhang, Rice University, 2009.

  5. • Mackale Joyner, Rice University, 2008 (co-advisor).

  6. • Raj Bandyopadhyay, Rice University, 2008.

  7. • Guilherme Ottoni, Princeton University, 2008.

  8. • Fernando Pereira, UCLA, 2008.

  9. • Kit Barton, University of Alberta, 2008.

  10. • Igor Peshansky, NYU, 2003 (co-advisor).

  11. • Massimiliano Poletto, MIT, 1999 (co-advisor).

  12. • Alex Caro, MIT, 1998.

  13. • Dattatraya Kulkarni, University of Toronto, 1997.

  14. • Douglas Pase, Oregon Graduate Institute, 1989.

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