March 2022

 

Congratulations to Alexey Khrabrov for winning the IBM CAS 2022 Studen of the Year award!

 

 

March 2022

 

Congratulations to Salaar, Daniyal, Tatianta, Andrea, Moshe, Robert, and Eyal! Their paper "Hindsight is 20/20: Retrospective Lessons for Conducting Longitudinal Wearable Sensing Studies" won the Best Paper Award at PerFail 2022.

 

 

April 2021

 

Congratulations to Caleb, Daniyal, Mickey and Eyal! Their paper "Wrist02: Reliable Peripheral Oxygen Saturation Readings from Wrist-Worn Pulse Oximeter" won a Honorable Mention Award at PerHealth 2021.

 

 

March 2020

 

Professor Eyal de Lara has received a Connaught Innovation Award for developing wearable and mobile technology that can be used in many disciplines and applications. Through their startup, Tabiat Research, de Lara and his collaborators use smartwatches to monitor individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease that affects millions of Canadians.

 

 

February 2020

 

Congratulations to Stathis, Kaveh and Bianca! Their FAST 2020 paper on the reliability of enterprise SSDs just won the FAST Best Paper Award. It also received some press coverage on ZDnet .

 

 

April 2019

 

Profs. Eyal de Lara and Michael Brudno received the 2019 EuroSys Test of Time Award for their paper "SnowFlock: Rapid Virtuóal Machine Cloning for Cloud Computing," originally presented at EuroSys '09.

 

 

March 2019

 

Profs. Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson received the 2019 FAST Test of Time Award for their paper "Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?," originally presented at FAST '07.

 

 

Aug 2018

 

Alumna Monia Gobadi (PhD 2013) joins MIT CSAIL faculty.

 

 

July 2016

 

Prof. Angela Demke Brown appointed to Usenix Board of Directors.

 

 

May 2016

 

Gennady Pekhimenko to join CSNG Faculty in the summer of 2017. Gennady received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked with Professors Todd Mowry and Onur Mutlu.

 

 

March 2016

 

Profs. Angela Demke Brown, Bianca Schroeder and Eyal de Lara awarded NSERC Research Tools and Infrastructure grant titled "Infiniband-connected Servers for In-Memory Rack-Scale Computing Research."

 

 

February 2016

 

Prof. Angela Demke Brown co-chairs FAST-16.

 

 

July 2014

 

IBM PhD Student Colloquium Award

 

The paper "Towards High Performance Spatio-temporal Data Management Systems" by Suprio Ray (Advisor: Angela Demke Brown) won IBM PhD Student Colloquium Paper Award at the Ph.D. Colloquium, held in conjunction with the 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2014, Brisbane, Australia.

 

Best Student Paper Award

 

The paper "Supporting Location-Based Services in a Main-Memory Database" by Suprio Ray, Rolando Blanco, and Anil K. Goel won IBM Best Student Paper Award at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2014, Brisbane, Australia.

 

May 2014

 

Bianca Schroeder Awarded CACS/AIC Oustanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize

 

This prize is awarded to "young computer science faculty members at Canadian universities within 10 years of their Ph.D. who have made highly significant contributions in their careers, particularly to research."

 

This is the second consecutive year that a CSNG faculty member has been awarded the CACS Prize.

 

Suprio Ray is invited to participate in the second Heidelberg Laureate Forum

 

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum brings together winners of the Turing Award and Nevanlinna Prize (CS), as well as the Abel Prize and Fields Medal (math). The goal of the Forum is to bring together 200 young researchers in Computer Science and Mathematics to spend a week in September (in Heidelberg, Germany) learning from and working with the laureates.

This year an international panel of experts selected 100 CS candidates from more than 40 countries around the world. Ph.D. student Suprio Ray is one of the invited attendees.

Congratulations Suprio!

 

February 2014

 

Prof. Bianca Schroeder co-chairs FAST-14.

 

 

May 2013

 

Eyal de Lara Awarded CACS/AIC Oustanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize

 

This prize is awarded to "young computer science faculty members at Canadian universities within 10 years of their Ph.D. who have made highly significant contributions in their careers, particularly to research."

 

February 2013

 

Bianca Schroeder receives Sloan Fellowship

 

Bianca received this highly competitive award in recognition of the landmark research on large-scale system reliability, the impact of which has been significant both in academia and industry.

 

June 2012

 

Brudno and de Lara named U of T Inventors of the Year

 

Faculty members Eyal de Lara and Mike Brudno, and former DCS students Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Adin Scannell, and Joseph Andrew Whitney were named University of Toronto Inventors of the Year. Their software invention, VM Fork (Virtual Machine Fork) simplifies the development and reduces the management burden of cloud applications. VM Fork enables on-demand application scaling by instantly cloning a server into one or more replicas, in mere seconds. The software was released under an open source software licence, and is being commercialized by GridCentric, a Toronto-based start-up founded by UofT grads Lagar-Cavilla and Scannell.

Further details regarding their invention and award can be found here.

 

May 2012

 

Ryan Johnson wins 2012 SIGMOD Dissertation Award

 

Ryan Johnson has been awarded the 2012 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award. The annual SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation Award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the database field.

Ryan completed his dissertation titled "Scalable Storage Managers for the Multicore Era" at Carnegie Mellon University. The Award mention noted, "Johnson's dissertation is a tour de force in identifying bottlenecks when scaling OLTP systems to many cores, proposing innovative solutions to each of them. The ideas in the thesis such as speculative lock inheritance, new techniques for combining log requests, and data-oriented transaction execution are highly innovative, and the work is remarkable for its breadth, depth, thorough implementation, and evaluation."

 

February 2012

 

Recon wins Best Paper Award at FAST 2012

 

The paper "Recon: Verifying File System Consistency at Runtime Analysis" by Daniel Fryer, Kuei Sun, Rahat Mahmood, TingHao Cheng, Shaun Benjamin, Ashvin Goel, and Angela Demke Brown won Best Paper at the 10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) in San Jose, California. See more information here.

 

November 2011

 

Eyal de Lara awarded VMware Grant

 

Faculty member Eyal de Lara was awarded a grant by VMware to conduct research on Flexible Computing with VM Fork. The project researches rapid, scale-oud cloning and customizaton of virtual machines, including the issues related to subsequent contraction of resources to enable true elasticity within a cloud environment.

 

October 2011

 

Eyal de Lara in U of T News

 

Faculty member Eyal de Lara spoke to U of T News about October's Blackberry outage.

 

July 2011

 

Ryan Johnson Joins the Systems & Networks Group

 

This summer, Ryan Johnson joined the CSNG as its newest faculty member. Ryan's research focuses on high performance database systems in the context of modern hardware advances, especially multicore computing and solid state (flash) storage. Among other subjects, he is also interested in low-level systems topics that impact database engine design, including computer architecture, operating systems, concurrency, and storage management.

 

Find a profile on Ryan here, and his webpage here. Ryan, welcome to the department!

 

Yashar Ganjali Receives Early Researcher Award

 

The Province of Ontario's Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI) announced awards under its Research Excellence, Research Infrastructure and Early Researcher programs on July 25; the U of T earned more than $24.9 million in total.

Eighteen researchers were recognized with the Early Researcher Award (ERA), which helps promising newly-appointed researchers build their teams. DCS' Yashar Ganjali was awarded funding for his project titled, "Network management for next generation Internet." His citation reads: "With the amount of data continuing to grow, the Internet is reaching the point where its limitations are becoming clear. At the University of Toronto Dr. Yashar Ganjali is developing technologies necessary for the next generation Internet – work that will help Ontario’s information technology companies play a key role in the future of the industry."

See the U of T press release on the MRI awards here; see the ministry's list of U of T ERA recipients here.

 

December 2010

 

Eyal de Lara interviewed on CBC Radio

 

Interview with Eyal de Lara featured in CBC Radio segment on Cloud Computing. The Spark episode is available here . For the full interview click here.