gparmer
I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at George Washington University. I received my PhD. from Boston University under the direction of Professor Richard West. I lead the real-time systems, and Operating Systems groups at GWU.
Much of our research centers around the Composite component-based operating system. Fine grained system policies, mechanisms, and abstractions are defined as independent components, which are composed together to create a specialized and functional system. In doing so, a focus is on taking advantage of the increased system flexibility to bring predictability to cloud-scale systems, and rich functionality to embedded systems. Topics of interest include:
- the design and implementation of operating systems
- real-time and embedded systems
- operating system dependability
- embedded system security
- specialized and component-based systems
- operating systems for massive parallelism
- parallel data-structures
Please see our publications for more detail.
Composite If you’re looking to do a PhD and are interested in Composite, I encourage you to contact me. However, please keep the following in mind:
- If you’re already at GWU and interested in doing research, you must take a course with me before I will consider doing research with you.
- If you don’t have a background in embedded or OS work, then you need to convince me that you know what you’re getting yourself into, and are capable at working productively with low-level systems. The best way to do this is to have already completed a project of substance in Composite.