Vlad Slavici
Email: vslav at ccs dot neu dot edu
370 West Village H (the High-Performance Computing Lab)
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
I graduated from Northeastern University with a PhD in Computer Science in 2013. I currently work at Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, MA.
Research
My PhD research was in the area of Parallel Computing and Large Scale Computing, specifically Parallel Disk-based Computing, Parallel Hybrid CPU-GPU Computing, and Multi-threaded Computing. During my PhD, I researched efficient solutions that scale up well for space-limited problems.
I worked with parallel high-performance computing frameworks such as Roomy (an open-source C/C++ library for parallel disk-based computing) and MADNESS (an open-source general-purpose framework for scientific simulations based on multiresolution analysis).
Refereed Publications
- Adapting Irregular Computations to Large CPU-GPU Clusters in the MADNESS Framework
Vlad Slavici, Raghu Varier, Gene Cooperman, and Robert J. Harrison
in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER '12), Beijing, China, 1-9, 2012. [pdf]
- An Efficient Programming Model for Memory-Intensive Recursive Algorithms using Parallel Disks
Vlad Slavici, Daniel Kunkle, Gene Cooperman, and Stephen Linton
in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC '12), Grenoble, France, 327-334, 2012. [pdf]
- Fast Multiplication of Large Permutations for Disk, Flash Memory and RAM
Vlad Slavici, Xin Dong, Daniel Kunkle and Gene Cooperman
in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC '10), Munich, Germany, 355-362, 2010. [pdf]
- Parallel Disk-Based Computation for Large, Monolithic Binary Decision Diagrams
Daniel Kunkle, Vlad Slavici, and Gene Cooperman
in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Parallel Symbolic Computation (PASCO '10), Grenoble, France, 63-72, 2010. [pdf]
Internships
I was an intern at the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) at the University of Tennessee Knoxville/Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the Summer of 2011. Here is a brief description of my work at JICS:
- Investigated two parallel programming models for the MADNESS scientific framework.
- Migrated some MADNESS operators from the existing parallel programming model to the two alternative programming models.
- Compared the performance of the two alternative parallel programming models to the existing parallel programming model.
I was an intern at Akamai Technologies in Cambridge, MA during the Summers of 2009 and 2010.
Here is a brief description of my work at Akamai:
- Developed unit and regression tests for nameservers security features.
- Developed software for gathering statistics about source port randomization in nameservers
around the world (related to the Kaminsky bug).
- Developed simulation, diagnosis and testing tools for nameservers performance.
In the Summer of 2007, I was an intern at Boston Virtual Imaging in Boston, MA,
where I worked on a GUI (implemented as a Java applet) for designing postcard-like documents.