Xiaohui (Helen) Gu (顾晓晖）

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004

3274 EB-II, 890 Oval Drive
Box 8206
Raleigh, NC 27695
Phone: 919-515-7045, FAX: 919-515-7896
Email: gu AT csc.ncsu.edu
Web: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/gu/

Brief Biography,

Dr. Xiaohui (Helen) Gu is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the North Carolina State University. She received her PhD degree in 2004 and MS degree in 2001 from the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She received her BS degree in computer science from Peking University, Beijing, China in 1999. She was a research staff member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, between 2004 and 2007. Dr. Gu received ILLIAC fellowship, David J. Kuck Best Master Thesis Award, and Saburo Muroga Fellowship from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also received the IBM Invention Achievement Awards in 2004, 2006, and 2007. She has filed eight patents, and has published more than 50 research papers in international journals and major peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Dr. Gu is a recipient of NSF Career Award, four IBM Faculty Awards 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and two Google Research Awards 2009, 2011, best paper awards from ICDCS 2012, CNSM 2010, and NCSU Faculty Research and Professional Development Award. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM.

PhD students: I am looking for self-motivated PhD students with strong system building skills to join my group. Several RA positions are available. If you are interested, please send me an email with your CV.

Research

General research interests: Systems and Networking
Current research focus: Autonomic Computing, Cloud Computing, Accoutable Distributed Systems
Publications (Full List, DBLP, Google Scholar)
Research Group: DANCE (Distributed system research on Autonomy, resilieNce, Collaboration, and Energy)
Research Sponsors: NSF, ARO, NSA, IBM, Google, CACC, SOSI/ARO, NCSU
All Funded Projects

Teaching

Spring 2013, CSC 724: Advanced Distributed Systems.
Spring 2013, CSC 501: Operating Systems Principles.
Spring 2013, CSC 801: Systems Group Seminar.
Spring 2012, CSC 724: Advanced Distributed Systems.
Fall 2011, CSC 246: Concepts of Operating Systems.
Spring 2011, CSC 724: Advanced Distributed Systems.
Fall 2010, CSC 501: Operating Systems Principles.
Spring 2010, CSC 724: Advanced Distributed Systems.
Spring 2010, CSC 801: Seminar in Computer Science.
Fall 2009, CSC 246: Concepts of Operating Systems.
Spring 2009, CSC 724: Advanced Distributed Systems.
Fall 2008, CSC 246: Concepts of Operating Systems.
Fall 2008, CSC 801: Seminar in Computer Science.
Spring 2008, CSC591D-006: Special Topics on Distributed Systems.

Selected Profesional Service

Faculty advsior for Women in Computer Science (WiCS) at NCSU, 2010-present.

Conference organizer:
Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2013.
Proceedings Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), Crete, Greece, 2010.
Program Co-Chair (work in progress track), IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications(PerCom), New York, 2007.

Recent Conference program committee:
TPC Member, ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware), Beijing, China, 2013.
TPC Member, USENIX International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), San Jose, CA, 2013.
TPC Member, USENIX Workshops on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud), San Jose, CA, 2013.
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), San Francisco, CA, 2013.
TPC Member, ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2012.
TPC Member, ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW), Raleigh, NC, 2012.
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Macau, China, 2012.
TPC Member,ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS), Coimbra, Portugal, 2012.

TPC Member (industry paper track), ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware), Lisboa, Portugal, 2011.
TPC Member, ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS), San Jose, CA, 2011.
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2011.
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Lulea, Sweden, 2011.
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Cancun, 2010.
TPC Member, IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS), Charleston, Sourth Carolina, 2009.
TPC Member, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Montreal, Canada, 2009.
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Taipei, Taiwan, May 18-21, 2009.
TPC Member, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Nevada, 2009.
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Cancun, 2009.
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom), Dallas, 2009.
TPC Member, IEEE Interntional Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Rome, Italy, 2009.
TPC Member, ACM Multimedia (SIGMM), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2008.
TPC Member, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference (Middleware), Doctoral Symposium, CA, 2007.
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications(PerCom), New York, 2007.
TPC Member, The 27th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2006.

Grant proposal panelists/reviewers
Panelist, NSF proposal review panels, 2010, 2012.
External Reviewer, Qatar National Research Fund, 2012.
External Reviewer, ERC European Research Council, 2010.
External Reviewer, Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, 2007.

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