Ed Lazowska: Abbreviated CV

Edward D. Lazowska
April 1997

Personal

Born in Washington, D.C., August 3, 1950.
Married; 2 children.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Toronto, 1977.
M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Toronto, 1974.
A.B. in Computer Science (independent concentration), Brown University, 1972.

Recent Employment

University of Washington, Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Chair, 1993-
Professor, 1986-
Associate Professor, 1982-86
Assistant Professor, 1977-82

Digital Equipment Corporation, Systems Research Center

Visiting Scientist, 1984-85

Research Interests

Computer systems: modelling and analysis, design and implementation, distributed and parallel systems.

Representative Recent Awards

University of Washington Outstanding Public Service Award, 1998.

Alliance for Education "A+ Partnership Award" for Outstanding Contributions to the Seattle Public Schools, 1997.

University of Washington Annual Faculty Lecturer, 1996.

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1996.

Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, 1995.

Award paper, ACM SIGCOMM '93 Symposium.

Award paper, 1993 Machnix Workshop.

Award paper, 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (1991).

Award paper, 12th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (1989).

Award paper, 1989 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems.

Award paper, 1985 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems.

Representative Recent Grants

National Science Foundation, 1996-98. Co-Principal Investigator (with S. Corbato, T. Gray, and C. Stubbs), Grant No. NCR-9617039: vBNS Connectivity for the University of Washington, $904,000 (including 60% UW contribution).

Intel Corporation, 1996, 1997. Co-Principal Investigator (with B. Bershad, M. Soma, and G. Zick), Enhancing the Engineering Curriculum on the PC Platform, $925,000 for 1996, $1,500,000 for 1997 (100% allowance on equipment).

Intel Corporation, 1995. Co-Principal Investigator (with B. Bershad), Research and Educational Computing Infrastructure, $200,000 (100% allowance on equipment).

IBM Corporation, 1994-95. Co-Principal Investigator (with B. Bershad), System Structure for Advanced Processors, $650,000 (100% allowance on equipment).

Intel Corporation, 1993-94. Co-Principal Investigator (with G. Zick), Collaborative Research in High Performance Computing, $761,000 (100% allowance on equipment).

National Science Foundation, 1992-96. Co-Principal Investigator (with H. Levy and J. Zahorjan), Grant No. CCR-9200832: System Support for High Performance Computing, $1,984,000 (including 20% UW contribution).

National Science Foundation, 1992-96. Co-Principal Investigator (with R. Anderson, A. Borning, T. DeRose, H. Levy, D. Notkin, L. Snyder, S. Tanimoto, and J. Zahorjan), Grant No. CDA-9123308: High Performance Parallel/Distributed Computing (II Program), $1,765,000 (including 25% UW contribution).

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1992-95. Investigator (with L. Adams, R. Anderson, J. Bardeen, R. Carlberg, C. Hogan, G. Lake (PI), W. Petersen, and L. Snyder), Large Scale Structure and Galaxy Formation, $1,549,000.

Boeing Computer Services, 1992-93. Co-Principal Investigator (with H. Levy), Distributed and Parallel Operating System Support for Next-Generation Architectures, $100,000.

Washington Technology Center, 1991-93. Co-Principal Investigator (with H. Levy and J. Zahorjan), High Performance Computing and Communication, $152,000.

Digital Equipment Corporation, 1990-93. Co-Principal Investigator (with H. Levy), Research Agreement #1076: Operating System Support for Contemporary Multi-Computers, $960,000 (80% allowance on $1,200,000 in equipment).

National Science Foundation, 1989-92. Co-Principal Investigator (with H. Levy), Grant No. CCR-8907666: Amber: Programming Support for Networks of Multiprocessors, $343,000.

National Science Foundation, 1987-92. Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator (with J.-L. Baer, H. Levy, L. Snyder, W. Ruzzo, S Tanimoto, and J. Zahorjan), Grant No. CCR-8619663: Effective Use of Parallel Computing (CER Program), $4,808,000 (including 25% UW contribution).

National Science Foundation, 1987-91. Co-Principal Investigator (with J. Zahorjan), Grant No. CCR-8703049: Performance of Parallel Systems, $320,000.

Representative Recent Professional Activities

Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council, 1996-.

Chair, National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, 1997-; member, 1995-.

Technical Advisory Board, Microsoft Research, 1991-.

Chair, Board of Directors, Computing Research Association, 1997-; Chair, Government Affairs Committee, 1992-97.

National Research Council Panel to Review the Multi-Agency HPCC Program ("Brooks/Sutherland Committee"), 1994-95.

Board of Directors, Data I/O Corporation, 1996-.

State of Washington Information Services Board, 1995-.

Board of Directors, Washington Software Alliance, 1996-.

Advisory Board, Voyager Capital, 1996-.

Scientific Advisory Board, Cascadia Fund, Cable & Howse Ventures, 1995-96.

Standing advisory committees for UC Berkeley Dept. of EECS, Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Univ. of Virginia Dept. of Computer Science, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology Dept. of Computer Science, National College of Ireland Program in Informatics.

ACM A.M. Turing Award Committee, 1996-2000.

National Research Council Panel to Review NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System, 1993.

Program Chair, 13th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1991.

Chair, ACM Software System Award Committee, 1991; Member, 1988-92.

Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 1988-94.

Chair, Committee of Examiners, GRE Computer Science Test, 1986-90; Member, 1982-90.

Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation (SIGMETRICS), 1985-89.

IFIP Working Group 7.3 on Computer System Modelling, 1986-.

Representative Recent Departmental and University Activities

Chair, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, 1993-.

Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, 1988-93.

Chair, University Advisory Committee for Academic Technology, 1990-.

Chair, Committee to Review the Department of Statistics, 1998.

Presidential Task Force on Enrollment Planning, 1996-97.

Ad hoc Committee on Educational Technology & Distance Learning, 1995-97.

Committee on the Future of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1996.

Committee on the Deanship of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1994.

Chair, Committee to Review the Proposed Ph.D. Program in Molecular Biotechnology, 1994.

Committee to Review the Performance of the Dean of Engineering, 1992-93.

Student Supervision

18 Ph.D. completed, 21 M.S. completed. Recent Ph.D. students:

John K. Bennett, 1988 (Rice University)
Haim E. Mizrahi, 1988 (co-supervised with J.-L. Baer) (Raphael (Israel))
David B. Wagner, 1989 (University of Colorado -> Principia Consulting)
Brian N. Bershad, 1990 (co-supervised with H. Levy) (Carnegie Mellon University -> University of Washington) (NSF PYI Award, NSF PFF Award, and ONR YI Award recipient)
Yi-Bing Lin, 1990 (Bell Communications Research -> National Chiao-Tung University (Taiwan))
Mark S. Squillante, 1990 (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Sung K. Chung, 1990 (co-supervised with D. Notkin) (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (postdoc))
Thomas E. Anderson, 1991 (co-supervised with H. Levy) (University of California, Berkeley) (NSF PYI Award, NSF PFF Award, and Sloan Research Fellowship recipient)
B. Clifford Neuman, 1992 (USC Information Sciences Institute)
Edward W. Felten, 1993 (co-supervised with J. Zahorjan) (Princeton University) (NSF YI Award and Sloan Research Fellowship recipient)
Chandramohan A. Thekkath, 1994 (co-supervised with H. Levy) (DEC Systems Research Center)
Robert Bedichek, 1994 (co-supervised with H. Levy) (MIT (postdoc) -> Transmeta Corp.)
Michael Rabinovich, 1994 (AT&T Bell Laboratories)
Jeffrey S. Chase, 1995 (co-supervised with H. Levy) (Duke University)
Dylan J. McNamee, 1996 (co-supervised with H. Levy) (Oregon Graduate Institute)

Representative Publications

E. Lazowska, J. Zahorjan, G. Graham, and K. Sevcik. Quantitative System Performance: Computer System Analysis Using Queueing Network Models. Prentice-Hall, 1984.

D. Eager, E. Lazowska, and J. Zahorjan. Adaptive Load Sharing in Homogeneous Distributed Systems. IEEE Trans. on Software Engr. SE-12,4 (May 1986).

D. Eager, J. Zahorjan, and E. Lazowska. Speedup Versus Efficiency in Parallel Systems. IEEE Trans. on Computers 38,3 (March 1989).

T. Anderson, E. Lazowska, and H. Levy. The Performance Implications of Thread Management Alternatives for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors. IEEE Trans. on Computers 38,12 (Dec. 1989). (Award paper, 1989 ACM SIGMETRICS Conf.)

J. Chase, F. Amador, E. Lazowska, H. Levy, and R. Littlefield. The Amber System: Parallel Programming on a Network of Multiprocessors. Proc. 12th ACM Symp. on Operating Systems Principles (Dec. 1989).

B. Bershad, T. Anderson, E. Lazowska, and H. Levy. Lightweight Remote Procedure Call. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 8,1 (Feb. 1990). (Award paper, 12th ACM Symp. on Operating Systems Principles.)

T. Anderson and E. Lazowska. Quartz: A Tool for Tuning Parallel Program Performance. Proc. ACM SIGMETRICS Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (May 1990).

T. Anderson, H. Levy, B. Bershad, and E. Lazowska. The Interaction of Architecture and Operating System Design. Proc. 4th International Conf. on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (April 1991).

B. Bershad, T. Anderson, E. Lazowska, and H. Levy. User-Level Interprocess Communication for Shared Memory Multiprocessors. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 9,2 (May 1991).

T. Anderson, B. Bershad, E. Lazowska, and H. Levy. Scheduler Activations: Effective Kernel Support for the User-Level Management of Parallelism. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 10,1 (Feb. 1992). (Award paper, 13th ACM Symp. on Operating Systems Principles.)

C. Thekkath, T. Nguyen, E. Moy, and E. Lazowska. Implementing Network Protocols at User Level. IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking 1,5 (Oct. 1993). (Award paper, ACM SIGCOMM '93 Symp.)

M. Vernon, E. Lazowska, and S. Personick, eds. R&D for the NII: Technical Challenges. EDUCOM, May 1994.

C. Thekkath, H. Levy, and E. Lazowska. Separating Data and Control Transfer in Distributed Operating Systems. Proc. 6th International Conf. on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (Oct. 1994).

J. Chase, H. Levy, M. Feeley, and E. Lazowska. Sharing and Protection in a Single Address Space Operating System. ACM Trans. on Computer Systems 12,4 (Nov. 1994).

Recent Invited Presentations

50 in the past decade, including 20 Distinguished Lecturer Series, Keynote Speaker, or other special event.

lazowska at cs.washington.edu

Edward D. Lazowska April 1997