Address:

1511 Asbury Pl., Apt. 2

Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Phone: (412) 708-6093

 

 

Email: tdumitra@ece.cmu.edu

Web site: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~tdumitra

Tudor A. Dumitraş

Education

Present                              Carnegie Mellon University                             Pittsburgh, PA

·     Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering

·     Thesis: Dependency-Agnostic Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems

·     Advisor: Prof. Priya Narasimhan

·     MS degree in May 2003 (Thesis: “On-Chip Stochastic Communication”)

·     GPA 4.0

July 2001                             Ecole Polytechnique                                               Paris, France

·     Diplôme d’Ingénieur (Computer Science Major)

July 2001                             Politehnica” University                     Bucharest, Romania

·     Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

·     First of class in 1999

Professional
Experience

May – Aug. 2006               VMware, Inc.                                                                Palo Alto, CA

Member of Technical Staff Intern

·     Studied and compared different approaches for applying critical patches to
offline virtual machines

·     Developed prototype for patch-management sandboxing

·     Running unmodified, third-party patch-management tools inside the sandbox

·     Transparently redirecting the scanning and remediation operations to an
offline virtual machine

·     Worked in VIM-Security group from Virtual-Infrastructure Management (VIM) division

 

May – Aug. 2005               IBM T.J. Watson Research Center                Hawthorne, NY

Technical Co-op

·     Conducted research in service objective-driven change management for live IT systems

·     Developed change planning framework for minimizing service disruption and optimizing business value

·     Worked in Autonomic Service-Oriented group

 

May – Sep. 2004                 Siemens Corporate Research                              Princeton, NJ

Software Engineering Intern

·     Conducted in-depth analysis of the company practices for designing dependable systems

·     Introduced “dependability questionnaire” to assess dependability trade-offs at an early stage

 

Apr. – Jul. 2001                 IBM Global Services                                                  Paris, France

IT Specialist Intern, E-Business Integration

·     Developed application for the Mobile Internet using IBM WebSphere and Visual Age for Java

·     Worked in a team of 10 computer scientists and consultants, gave demonstrations for clients

Research Experience

2006 - Present                   Carnegie Mellon University                             Pittsburgh, PA

Dependency-Agnostic Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems

·     Hidden dependencies (reliance on APIs, protocols, data or performance levels that cannot be detected automatically) are a major inhibiting factor for online upgrades

·     Dependency-agnostic upgrades isolate the new version of the distributed system from the old, by installing it in a parallel infrastructure, and eliminate the need for dependency tracking

·      Assessing the impact of change management on the online system and scheduling the upgrade operations to minimize disruptions and maximize overall business value

2003 - 2006                             Carnegie Mellon University                             Pittsburgh, PA

Versatile Dependability

·     Implemented the first version of MEAD middleware (proactively reconfigurable, adaptive, reliable middleware)

·     Investigated new ways to quantify and tune the trade-offs between fault-tolerance and performance QoS goals in enterprise systems

·     Conducted experimental research revealing the unpredictability of fault-tolerant middleware, even in the absence of faults, and proposed technique for achieving statistical predictability

·     http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~mead

 

 2001 - 2003                            Carnegie Mellon University                             Pittsburgh, PA

Stochastic Communication

·     Conducted research and proposed a new communication paradigm for the on-chip interconnection networks, based on a randomized broadcast algorithm

Skills

·     Distributed Systems: Web Services, CORBA, fault-tolerant middleware, process replication, reliable group communication

·     Networking: TCP/IP, Diff-Serv, GIOP, HTTP, QoS

·     Programming: C, C++, Java, Perl, Lex/Bison, Matlab, Assembly, SQL, HTML, PHP

·     Foreign Languages: French, Romanian, Italian, Japanese

Selected
Publications

·     T. Dumitraş, J. Tan, Z. Gho and P. Narasimhan, ‘No More HotDependencies: Toward Dependency-Agnostic Upgrades in Distributed Systems.’ In Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep), Edinburgh, Scotland, Jun 2007.

·     T. Dumitraş, D. Roşu, A. Dan and P. Narasimhan, ‘Ecotopia: An Ecological Framework for Change Management in Distributed Systems.’ In Architecting Dependable Systems Vol. IV, edited by C. Gacek, A. Romanovsky and R. de Lemos, Springer-Verlag, 2007

·     T. Dumitraş and P. Narasimhan. ‘Fault-Tolerant Middleware and the Magical 1%’. In ACM/IFIP/USENIX Conference on Middleware, Grenoble, France, Dec. 2005.

·     P. Narasimhan, T. Dumitraş, A. M. Paulos, S. M. Pertet, C. F. Reverte, J. G. Slember and D. Srivastava. ‘MEAD: Support for Real-Time, Fault-Tolerant CORBA’. In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 17, no. 12, 2005, pp. 1527-1545, Wiley and Sons

·     T. Dumitraş, D. Srivastava and P. Narasimhan. ‘Architecting and Implementing Versatile Dependability’. In Architecting Dependable Systems Vol. III, edited by C. Gacek, A. Romanovsky and R. de Lemos, Springer-Verlag, 2005

·     T. Dumitraş, S. Kerner and R. Mărculescu. ‘Towards on-chip fault-tolerant communication’. In Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conf., Kitakyushu, Japan, Jan. 2003.
(Best Paper Award)

Honors and
Awards

·     Graduate Student Service Award, Carnegie Mellon University, 2006

·     Best Paper Award, Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2003

·     French government's EIFFEL excellence scholarship, 1999–2001

·     European Union’s ERASMUS study abroad scholarship, 2000

Activities

·     President, ECE Graduate Student Organization, Carnegie Mellon University

·     President, Romanian Students Association, Carnegie Mellon University