Wednesday 27 May 2015

First batch of PhDs

The year of 2014 was the year I graduated my first doctoral students in York. Previously I had co-supervised the PhDs of Luciano Ost (at PUCRS, with Fernando Moraes as the main supervisor) and Leandro Moeller (at TU Darmstadt, with Manfred Glesner as the main supervisor). Now, with all their degrees issued and their theses approved and published at the White Rose e-Theses repository, I'm glad to present my first batch of Yorkies:

Ipek Caliskanelli: A Bio-inspired Load Balancing Technique for Wireless Sensor Networks

Andrew Burkimsher: Fair, responsive scheduling of engineering workflows on computing grids (co-supervised with Iain Bate)

M. Norazizi Sham Mohd Sayuti: Early Design Space Exploration of Hard Real-Time Embedded Networks-on-Chip

The three research topics reflect very well my portfolio, as they apply different resource allocation techniques to different computational platforms (sensor networks, high performance grids and on-chip multiprocessors, respectively) to achieve critical non-fuctional properties related to time and energy dissipation.

And it is great to know they all went on to promising academic careers. Ipek is now a post-doc researcher at the University of Liverpool, Azizi returned to his permanent position at the University Sains Islam in Malaysia, and Andrew has continued as a post-doc here with us working in the DreamCloud project.