Xiaohui (Helen) Gu

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, CV

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 30 research papers in international journals and major peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Dr. Gu is a recipient of IBM Faculty Award 2008, 2009 and NCSU Faculty Research and Professional Development Award 2008.

Students: I am looking for intellectually strong, hard-working, and self-motivated students who are interested in pursuing PhD degrees in systems research. Please feel free to contact me at gu AT csc.ncsu.edu. Please attach your CV with your email.

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, IBM, Google, CACC, SOSI/ARO, NCSU

Teaching

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.

Service

TPC Member, IEEE International Workshop on Quality-of-Service (IWQoS), Charleston, Sourth Carolina, 2009.
TPC Member, 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, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Melbourne, Australia, 2008.
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Beijing, 2008.
TPC Member, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2007.
TPC Member, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference (Middleware), Doctoral Symposium, Newport Beach, CA, 2007.
TPC Member, Work-in-Progress Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications(PerCom), New York, 2007.
TPC Member, International Workshop on Ambient Intelligence, Media, and Sensing, in conjunction with ICDE, 2007
TPC Member, ACM Multimedia Modeling Conference , 2006.
TPC Member, The 27th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) 2006, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2006.
TPC Member, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Pisa, Italy, 2006.
TPC Member, ACM Multimedia Service Composition Workshop (in conjunction with ACM Multimedia), Singapore, 2005.
TPC Member, Pulication Chair, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services (ICPS), Santorini, Greece, 2005.

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