Philip Koopman Phil Koopman Associate Professor Carnegie Mellon University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

I'm also a faculty member of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) and the
Institute for Software Research, International (ISRI).
Also, affiliated with: the General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon.

FAQ for prospective graduate students (please read before you send me e-mail about applying to CMU)

[ Research | Topical Pages | Teaching | Personal Info | Students/Staff | Previous Projects | Publications ]

Spring 2010 18-649 info: see http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ece649/

Dependable Embedded Systems Research:

• RoSES: Robust Self-configuring Embedded Systems

• Dependability page
• Embedded network performance & robustness

Topic Pages:

• Embedded Computer Systems
• Embedded Communications
• System Architecture & Design Methodologies
• Career & Professional Issues
• Paper airplanes
• Some of my wallpaper photos

Teaching:

• 18-649 Distributed Embedded Systems (Spring 2007 and taught many previous years as 18-549)
• 18-348 Embedded System Engineering (Fall, starting 2006)
• 18-849 Dependable Embedded Systems (Fall 2005)
• 18-749 Dependable Embedded Systems (Spring 2003)
• Topics in Dependable Embedded Systems (43 original papers and presentations from 18-849b, Spring 1999)
• 18-548, Memory System Architecture (Fall 1998); 18-742, Advanced Computer Architecture (Spring 1998)
• Thoughts on Ph.D. Qualifiers
• Essay: How to Write an Abstract (tailored for Computer Engineers)

Personal Info:

• Contact information & directions
• Research Interests
• Experience
• Selected Publications
• Patents

Students:

Current PhD Students:

• Justin Ray
• Christopher Szilagyi
• Aaron Kane
• Malcolm Taylor

Graduated Students and on-line thesis archive

Previous Projects & Other Items:

• General Chair, DSN 2008
• Past Chair, IFIP WG 10.4 SIGDeB (SIG on Dependability Benchmarking)
• Ballista: Robustness testing of Off-The-Shelf Software
• Maximal length LFSR feedback polynomial data files
• Essay: How to Write an Abstract (tailored for Computer Engineers)
• Gordon Bell's Eleven Rules for supercomputer design
• Topics in Dependable Embedded Systems (44 original papers and presentations)
• Automated Highway Systems
• UCITA information -- just say NO to safety critical software sold "as is"
• Stack Computers and Forth

Also see: SueBeads.com | Embedded Systems Central

Philip Koopman · CMU/ Hamershlag Hall A-308 · Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Phone: +1 (412) 268-5225 Fax: +1 (412) 268-6353

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