Rountev Receives IBM Award


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Prof. Atanas (Nasko) Rountev has been awarded IBM Software Quality Innovation Faculty Award. According to IBM, proposals for this program are invited from a few, carefully selected leaders in the field. These proposals are judged on technical merit and potential collaboration opportunities between faculty members and researchers at IBM and elsewhere.

Prof. Rountev's project, titled "BIGFOOT: Searching for the Elusive Small Memory Footprint for Java Applications," was chosen under the research focus on static and dynamic program analysis for identifying software quality problems. His work considers the excessive memory usage which is common in real-world Java applications. Such memory bloat can create serious scalability and performance problems for large-scale Java software systems. The goal of the project is to allow programmers to explore multiple semantically-equivalent implementation choices for a particular software design, leading to smaller and healthier memory footprint.

Nasko, who joined CSE in 2002, was recently promoted to Associate Professor. He leads the Program Analyses and Software Tools (PRESTO) Research Group and his interests generally encompass software engineering, programming languages, and compilers focusing on static and dynamic program analysis; component-based software; parallel and distributed software; high-performance computing; software understanding and evolution; software testing. He received his PhD from Rutgers University in 2002 under the mentorship of Prof. Barbara Ryder.

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