Dr. Christopher Stewart won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2010). The paper entitled EntomoModel: Understanding and Avoiding Performance Anomaly Manifestations presents a rigorous study of real performance bugs taken from MYSQL, JBoss, and other popular software, finding interesting patterns. Prof. Stewart collaborated with colleagues Kai Shen (University of Rochester), Arun Iyengar (IBM T.J. Watson), and Jian Yin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory). The acceptance rate for extended papers at MASCOTS 2010 was 16%.
Chris Stewart joined CSE in October 2009 as a member of the Systems area. His research interests cover systems support for sustainable datacenters, i.e., datacenters that can operate profitably and have a zero-carbon footprint, empirical studies about the performance, performance dependability, and energy consumption of emerging networked applications, and scalable, self-sustaining programs that encourage members of underrepresented groups (broadly construed) to consider research careers. Stewart received his PhD from the University of Rochester in 2008 where his adviser was Kai Shen. He earned his undergraduate degrees at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.
MASCTOS 2010 is the 18th Annual Meeting of this IEEE and ACM (approval pending) cosponsored event. The conference is a forum for state-of-the-art research on the measurement, modeling, and performance analysis of computer systems and networks.