Raymond Klefstad, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Teaching

University of California, Irvine
Electronic Mail: klefstad(a)ics.uci.edu
WEB: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~klefstad/

|| Research Interests || Education || Academic Experience || Publications || Grants and Contracts || Honors and Awards || Teaching Experience || School Service || Departmental Service || Professional Activities || Expertise || System Development Experience || Students ||

Research Interests

Distributed object computing middleware
High-performance, real-time object request brokers (ORBs)
Component software frameworks for embedded systems
Design patterns for object-oriented communication systems
Object-oriented communication software frameworks
Flexible and adaptive distributed, parallel, and concurrent systems
Generative programming and Aspect-Oriented programming
Model-based design, validation, and generation of distributed, real-time, embedded sytems
Automated software quality measurement for DRE systems
Automotive traffic-information networks

Education

Ph.D., Information and Computer Science, Spring 1988, UC Irvine
Dissertation: Maintaining a Uniform User Interface for an Ada Programming Environment.
Advisor: Prof. Richard N. Taylor.
M.S., Information and Computer Science, Spring 1982, UC Irvine, specializing in Software Engineering.
Advisor: Prof. Thomas A. Standish.
B.S., Information and Computer Science, Spring 1981, UC Irvine.
Honors:
- graduated Magna Cum Laude in 3 years
- Phi Beta Kappa honors fraternity member
High School, Spring 1978, San Gorgonio High School, San Bernardino, CA

Academic Experience

July 2017 - Present: Associate Professor of Teaching for Computer Science Department at UC Irvine
July 2014 - 2017: Full-time Lecturer for CS department at UC Irvine
September 2008 - June 2014: Full-time Lecturer for EECS department at UC Riverside
July 2008 - September 2008: Researcher for Cal(IT)2
Jan 2002 - June 2008: Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Irvine
July 1988 - Dec 2001: Full-time Lecturer in the Department of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine

Publications

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Reviewed Book Chapters

BC.8 Identification and Removal of Program Slice Criteria for Code Size Reduction in Embedded Systems, Mark Panahi, Trevor Harmon, Juan A. Colmenares, Shruti Gorappa, and Raymond Klefstad, Chapter 23 of the book Embedded System Design: Topics, Techniques and Trends, pages 269-278, Springer Boston, Volume 231/2007, ISBN 978-0-387-72257-3, URL.
BC.7 Minimizing Average Response Time for Scheduling Stochastic Workload in Heterogeneous Computational Grids, Jie Hu and Raymond Klefstad, Chapter 11 of the book High Performance Computing - HiPC 2006 , pages 47-59, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-68039-0, volume 4297/2006, URL.
BC.6 Virtual Component: a Design Pattern for Memory-Constrained Embedded Applications, Angelo Corsaro, Douglas C. Schmidt, Raymond Klefstad, and Carlos O'Ryan, Chapter 3 of the book Design Patterns for Distributed and Real-time Systems, edited by Christopher Gill and Lisa DiPippo, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005, ISBN 0387243577, Springer-Verlag, URL.
BC.5 RTZen: Highly Predictable, Real-Time Java Middleware for Distributed and Embedded Systems Krishna Raman, Yue Zhang, Mark Panahi, Juan A. Colmenares, Raymond Klefstad and Trevor Harmon, Chapter 12 of the book Middleware 2005 , Volume 3790/2005, pages 225-248, LNCS, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-540-30323-7, URL.
BC.4 Real-time CORBA Middleware, Arvind Krishna, Douglas C. Schmidt, Raymond Klefstad, Angelo Corsaro, Chapter 17 of the book Middleware for Communications, edited by Qusay Mahmoud, published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2004, ISBN: 978-0-470-86206-3, URL
BC.3 Late Demarshalling: A Technique for Efficient Multi-language Middleware for Embedded Systems , Gunar Schirner and Trevor Harmon and Raymond Klefstad, Chapter of the book On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE, Volume 3291, pages 1155-1172, LNCS Springer, 2004, ISBN 978-3-540-23662-7, URL.
BC.2 Enhancing Real-Time CORBA Predictability and Performance , Arvind S. Krishna and Douglas C. Schmidt and Krishna Raman and Raymond Klefstad, Chapter of the book On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE, Volume 2888/2003 pages 1092-1109, LNCS Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-20498-5, URL.
BC.1 Design and Performance of a Modular Portable Object Adapter for Distributed, Real-Time, and Embedded CORBA Applications, Raymond Klefstad, Arvind S. Krishna, Douglas C. Schmidt, Chapter of the book On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE : Confederated International Conferences CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE 2002. Proceedings, LNCS Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, 2002 Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA) 2002, pp. 549-567, URL

Refereed Journals

J.3 Fast, Interactive Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis with Back-Annotation, Trevor Harmon, Martin Schoeberl, Raimund Kirner, Raymond Klefstad, Kwang-Hae (Kane) Kim, Michael R. Lowry, IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics 8(2) 366-377, 2012.
J.2 Traffic-aware power optimization for network applications on multicore servers, Jilong Kuang, Laxmi N. Bhuyan, Raymond Klefstad, DAC, 2012: 1006-1011.
J.1 Design, Implementation, and Test of a Wireless Peer-to-Peer Network for Roadway Incident Exchange, Trevor Harmon, James Marcia, and Raymond Klefstad, International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems Special Issue on Inter-Vehicle Communication and Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2007, Vol. 3 No. 3, ISSN (Online): 1741-8208, ISSN (Print): 1471-0242.

Refereed Conferences

C.33 Toward Libraries for Real-time Java, Trevor Harmon, Martin Schoeberl, Raimund Kirner, Raymond Klefstad 11th IEEE International Symposium on Object and Component-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC'08), Acceptance rate: ?%.
C.32 A Modular Worst-case Execution Time Analysis Tool for Java Processors, Trevor Harmon, Martin Schoeberl, Raimund Kirner, Raymond Klefstad, RealTime Applications and Systems (RTAS) 2008.
C.31 Measurement Techniques in a Hybrid Approach for Deriving Tight Execution Time Bounds of Program Segments in Fully-Featured Processors, Juan A. Colmenares, K. H. (Kane) Kim, Raymond Klefstad, RealTime Applications and Systems (RTAS) 2008.
C.30 Toward a Unified Standard for Worst-Case Execution Time Annotations in Real-Time Java, Trevor Harmon and Raymond Klefstad, Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2007 (IPDPS 2007), March 2007, Acceptance rate: ?%, URL.
C.29 Interactive Back-annotation of Worst-case Execution Time Analysis for Java Microprocessors, Trevor Harmon and Raymond Klefstad, Proceedings of the Thirteenth IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2007), 2007, Acceptance rate: 42/142 = 30%, URL.
C.28 Scheduling Divisible Loads on Bus Networks with Start-Up Costs by Utilizing Multiple Data Transfer Streams: PORI, Jie Hu and Raymond Klefstad, THE 36th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PARALLEL PROCESSING (ICPP-07), (to appear), September 10-14, 2007, XiAn, China, Acceptance rate: 25%, URL.
C.27 Scheduling Divisible Loads on Bus Networks with Arbitrary Processors Release Time and Start-Up Costs: XRMI, Jie Hu and Raymond Klefstad, The 26th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC07), April 11-13, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Acceptance rate: 37%, URL.
C.26 Identification and Removal of Program Slice Criteria for Code Size Reduction in Embedded Systems, Mark Panahi, Trevor Harmon, Juan Colmenares, Shruti Gorappa, and Raymond Klefstad, International Embedded Systems Symposium 2007 (IESS'07), May 29 - June 1, 2007, Beckmann Center, Irvine, CA, Acceptance rate: 50%, URL.
C.25 Minimizing Average Response Time for Scheduling Stochastic Workload in Heterogeneous Computational Grids, Jie Hu and Raymond Klefstad, 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, December 18-21, 2006, Bangalore, India, Acceptance rate: 18.4%, URL.
C.24 Decentralized Load Balancing on Unstructured Peer-2-Peer Computing Grids, Jie Hu and Raymond Klefstad, The 5th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA'06), Pages 247-250, July 24-26, 2006, Cambridge, MA, Acceptance rate: 35%, URL.
C.23 DIRECT: A Robust Distributed Broker Framework for Trust and Reputation Management, Yue Zhang, Kwei-Jay Lin, and Raymond Klefstad, IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC '06) and Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE '06) (CEC/EEE 2006) June 26-29 2006 in Palo Alto, California, 21 pages, Acceptance rate: ?%, URL.
C.22 A Component Framework for Real-time Java, Juan A. Colmenares, Shruti Gorappa, Mark Panahi, and Raymond Klefstad, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) Work In Progress Track, April 4-7, 2006 San Jose, California, Acceptance rate: 30%.
C.21 Design, Implementation, and Test of a Wireless Peer-to-Peer Network for Roadway Incident Exchange, James Marca, Trevor Harmon, Raymond Klefstad, Applications of Advanced Technology in Transportation (AATT) 2006 held at the Wyndham Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, August 13-16, 2006, Acceptance rate: ?%.
C.20 Automatic Performance Visualization of Distributed Real-Time Systems, Trevor Harmon and Raymond Klefstad, Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Object and Component-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC'06), April 24-26 2006, Gyeongju, Korea, IEEE Computer Society, pages 531-538, Acceptance rate: 35/100 = 35%, URL.
C.19 Marco - A Middleware Architecture for Distributed Multimedia Collaboration, Chia-Yen Shih, Jie Hu, Jinhwan Lee, Raymond Klefstad, and Doug Tolbert, Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM'05), pages 366-373, Irvine, California, December 12-14, 2005, Acceptance rate: ?%.
C.18 RTZen: Highly Predictable, Real-time Java Middleware for Distributed and Embedded Systems, Krishna Raman, Yue Zhang, Mark Panahi, Juan A. Colmenares, Raymond Klefstad, ACM/IFIP/USENIX 6th International Middleware Conference (Middleware) 2005, November 28th - December 2nd, 2005, in Grenoble, France, pp. 225-248, Acceptance rate: 18/100 = 18%, URL.
C.17 A Distributed, Scalable, and Synchronized Framework for Large-Scale Microscopic Traffic Simulation, Yue Zhang, MingJie Lai, Raymond Klefstad, Riju Lavanya, R. Jayakrishnan, The 8th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), September 13-16, 2005, in Vienna, Austria, Acceptance rate: 208/312 = 66%
C.16 VADRE: A Visual Approach to Performance Analysis of Distributed, Real-Time Systems, Trevor Harmon and Raymond Klefstad, The 2005 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'05: June 27-30, 2005, Las Vegas, USA), pp. 121-126, Acceptance rate: 35%.
C.15 Tool-Based Configuration of Real-Time CORBA Middleware for Embedded Systems, Shruti Gorappa, Juan A. Colmenares, Hojjat Jafarpour, Raymond Klefstad Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC'05), pages 342-349, Acceptance rate: 35%, URL.
C.14 Patterns and Tools for Achieving Predictability and Performance with Real-time Java, Krishna Raman, Yue Zhang, Mark Panahi, Juan A. Colmenares, Raymond Klefstad, The 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA) 2005, Hong Kong, pp. 247-253, Acceptance rate: 33.33%, URL.
C.13 Adaptive Personalization of Mobile Content Delivery, Daniel Billsus, Raymond Klefstad, Michael J. Pazzani, 3rd International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (UAHCI), Las Vegas, March 2005, Acceptance rate: 35%. PDF
C.12 Empirical Evaluation of OpenCCM for Java-based Distributed, Real-time, and Embedded Systems, Shruti Gorappa and Raymond Klefstad, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC) 2005, pp. 1288-1292, Acceptance rate: 37%, URL.
C.11 Late Demarshalling: A Technique for Efficient Multi-language Middleware for Embedded Systems, Gunar Schirner, Trevor Harmon, Raymond Klefstad, Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA) 2004, Acceptance rate: 33%. PDF
C.10 Enhancing Real-time CORBA via Real-time Java Features, Arvind Krishna, Douglas C. Schmidt, Raymond Klefstad, IEEE 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2004, Vol. 24, pp. 66-73, Acceptance rate: 15%, PDF.
C.9 ZEUS: A CORBA Framework for Service Location and Creation, Nishanth Shankar and Raymond Klefstad, IEEE/ISPJ 2004 Symposium on Applications and the Internet-Workshops (SAINT 2004 Workshops), pages 382-388, ISBN 0-7695-2050-2, Acceptance rate: 50%, URL.
C.8 Enhancing Real-time CORBA Predictability and Performance, Arvind Krishna, Douglas C. Schmidt, Krishna Raman, Raymond Klefstad, Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA) 2003, Acceptance rate: 26%. PDF
C.7 Design and Performance of a Dynamically Configurable, Messaging Protocols Framework for Real-time CORBA, Raymond Klefstad, Sumita Rao, Douglas C. Schmidt, Proceedings of the Distributed Object and Component-based Software Systems part of the Software Technology Track at the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 6 - 9, 2003, Big Island of Hawaii, pp. 320 (10 pages), won Best Paper award. Acceptance rate: 50%. PDF
C.6 Towards Predictable Real-time Java Object Request Brokers, Arvind Krishna, Raymond Klefstad, Douglas C. Schmidt, Angelo Corsaro, Ninth IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'03), pages 49-57, Acceptance rate: 30%, URL.
C.5 Design and Performance of a Modular Portable Object Adapter for Distributed, Real-Time, and Embedded CORBA Applications, Raymond Klefstad, Arvind S. Krishna, Douglas C. Schmidt, Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA) 2002, pp. 549-567. Acceptance rate: 25%, URL
C.4 Virtual Component - A Design Pattern for Memory-Constrained Embedded Applications, Angelo Corsaro, Douglas C. Schmidt, Raymond Klefstad, Carlos O'Ryan, Programming Languages of Patterns (PLoP) 2002, pp. 4-16. Acceptance rate: 91%. PDF
C.3 Towards Highly Configurable Real-time Object Request Brokers, Raymond Klefstad, Douglas C. Schmidt, and Carlos O'Ryan, IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC) 2002, pp. 437-447. Acceptance rate: 22%, PDF.
C.2 Adaptive Personalization for Mobile Content Delivery, All Talks ppt Daniel Billsus, Craig Evans, Raymond Klefstad, Michael J. Pazzani, NSF Next Generation Data Mining (NGDM) 2002.
C.1 Learning Probabilistic User Profiles: applications for finding interesting Web sites, notifying users of relevant changes to Web pages, and locating grant opportunities, Ackerman, Mark; Billsus, Daniel; Gaffney, Scott; Hettich, Seth; Khoo, Gordon; Kim, Dong Joon; Klefstad, Ray; Lowe, Charles; Ludeman, Alexius; Muramatsu, Jack; Omori, Kazuo; Pazzani, Michael J.; Semler, Douglas; Starr, Brian; Yap, Paul. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Magazine, v18, n2, 1997, pp. 47-56, PDF

Workshops

W.4 Toward a Unified Standard for Worst-Case Execution Time Annotations in Real-Time Java, Trevor Harmon and Raymond Klefstad, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems, March, 2007, IEEE Computer Society, Acceptance rate 50%.
W.3 A Survey of Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis for Real- Time Java, Trevor Harmon and Raymond Klefstad, Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Java and Components for Parallelism, Distribution and Concurrency, March, 2007, IEEE International, Acceptance rate: 10/17 = 59%, URL.
W.2 Adaptive Techniques for Minimizing Middleware Memory Footprint for Distributed, Real-Time, Embedded Systems, Mark Panahi, Trevor Harmon, Raymond Klefstad, IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (CCW) 2003, pp. 54-58. Acceptance rate 40%. RTF.
W.1 ZEN: Implementing Real-time CORBA with Real-time Java, Raymond Klefstad, Mayur Despande, Carlos O'Ryan, Douglas C. Schmidt, Real-Time & Embedded Distributed Object Systems Workshop, Object Management Group (OMG) 2002.

Invited Talks

T.4 Adaptive Techniques for Minimizing Middleware Memory Footprint for Distributed, Real-Time, Embedded Systems, IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (CCW) 3003, October 20, 2003.
T.3 Reconfigurable and Adaptive Middleware for Distributed, Real-time, Embedded Systems, Center for Embedded Computer Systems Symposium on RASC technology, September 30, 2003. PowerPoint.
T.2 Design and Performance of a Dynamically Configurable, Messaging Protocols Framework for Real-time CORBA, IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) 36 2003.
T.1 The Key to Success in a High-Tech Career, ACM Career Expo at UCI - special guest speaker, January 2003 Power Point Thank you note

Grants and Contracts

Status	Title	Funding Agency	Role (PI Percentage)	Duration	PI Amount (Total Award Amount)	Salary per Calendar Year
complete	"Components and Aspects for Embedded Middleware: Additional Conference Travel Support"	NSF Embedded & Hybrid Systems (EHS)	PI	4/20/06 to 5/20/08	$4,000	0 Mo
complete	"Collaborative Research: Components and Aspects for Embedded Middleware"	NSF Embedded & Hybrid Systems (EHS)	Co-PI (50%)	9/1/04 to 9/30/08	$330,000 ($690,000)	2 Mo
complete	"Optimizing Middleware Layers for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Applications"	Boeing Aerospace Inc	PI	7/1/04 to 12/31/04	$50,484	4 Mo (35%)
complete	"Asynchrony Optimization Patterns and Middleware for Middle-tier Servers"	Unisys Corporation	PI	7/1/04 to 12/30/04	$100,000	1 Mo
complete	Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) "Protocol Engineering Research Center" (PERC) (with professors from Stanford, UIUC, UCSB, UCD, UCSC, and UCI)	Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)	Co-PI (12.5%)	10/15/03 to 10/15/05	$275,000 ($2,200,000)	1 Mo
complete	"Optimizing Middleware Layers for Distributed Real-Time and Embedded Applications"	Boeing contract part of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Program for Composition of Embedded Systems (PCES)	PI	1/1/03 to 12/31/04	$803,000	1 Mo
complete	"Transparently Fulfilling Scalability and Real-Time Quality-of-Service Requirements through Composition of Middleware Services"	Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR)	PI	6/1/02 to 06/31/03	$150,000

Honors and Awards

Best Paper, IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) 36, Design and Performance of a Dynamically Configurable, Messaging Protocols Framework for Real-time CORBA January 2003.
Best Content/Most Useful, for AdaptiveInfo mobile-phone embedded, intelligent, wireless browser, BREW 2002 Developers Conference, June 2002.
Funniest Faculty, from UC Irvine School of Engineering, December 2002.
Outstanding Professor, from UC Irvine ICS graduating seniors, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002.
Outstanding Non-Senate Teacher Award, from ICS Department, 1999, 2000.
Best Professor Award (from UC Irvine Greek Fraternity Council), 1994, 1996.
Golden Floppy Award, from ICS Department, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998.
Magna Cum Laude, UC Irvine, 1981.
Phi Beta Kappa, UC Irvine, 1981.

Teaching Experience

Other Teaching Experience

I have taught a variety of courses in industry including the following by title:

CORBA programming with ACE and TAO
Design Patterns for Distributed Computing and Communication
Object-Oriented Design Patterns
Object-Oriented Design
C++ Programming
Advanced C++ Programming
Java Programming
Ada Programming

I have taught these courses for the following companies and organizations:

SPAWAR System Center and JTRS Technology Laboratory, San Diego - 2006
Apex Telecom - 2003
Contracted Computer Training (CCT) http://www.contracted.com - 2003
SPAWAR System Center and JTRS Technology Laboratory, San Diego - 2002
Point Mugu Naval Air Station - 2002
Raytheon (formerly Hughes Aircraft) - 2000, 2001
Beckman Instruments - 1995,1996
Perkin-Elmer - 1993,1994
Norden Systems (A division of United Technologies) - 1988,1989

School Service

Phi Beta Kappa Nominating Committee for School of Engineering - 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.

I served as an invited judge for the Society of Women Engineers “Mr. Engineer Talent Showcase.” - May 2015

Departmental Service

Ad-Hoc Faculty Search Committee, CS department - 2016.
Developed Ethics and Contemporary Issues module for course to address ABET weakness, which resulted in weakness being removed shortly after ABET review - 2012,
Volunteered to teach the senior design project course series - 2006, 2007
Strategic Planning Committee, EECS department - 2003, 2004, 2005.
Chair, Strategic Planning Committee, EECS department - 2006.
5 Year Planning Committee, for CS part of EECS department - 2003, 2004, 2005.
Undergraduate Faculty Advising Seminar Host (for ABET), EECS department - April 2006, April 2003, May 2003.
Ad Hoc Committee on Committees, EECS department - 2002.
Undergraduate Program Committee, ICS department - 1994 to 1999. Worked to improve the quality of the undergraduate curriculum and degree requirements.
Faculty Advisor for Undecided/Undeclared students, ICS department - 1999 to 2001.
Coach and faculty advisor for the UC Irvine ACM Programming Team - 1991 to 1999. All three of our teams each year typically scored in the top twenty percent of about sixty teams. We won the Western US Regional Competition one year, beating out top schools including Cal. Tech., Harvey Mudd, UCLA, and UCSD.

Professional Activities

Research Institution Affiliations
- UCI Center for Embedded Computing Systems (CECS), Faculty Research Affiliate (since 2002)
Grant Review Panels
- NSF Grant Proposal Review Panel, Embedded & Hybrid Systems, February 2007.
- NSF Grant Proposal Review Panel, Embedded & Hybrid Systems, March 2005.
Program Committees
- Technical program committee member of the International Symposium on Object Real-time Computing, ISORC 2006.
- Session Chair for IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2005).
- Program Committee, the 26th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2005), 6-8 December 2005.
- Program Committee, Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems (OOPS) track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2006.
- Program Committee, Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software (ACP4IS) 2005,
- Technical Program Committee, IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
- Technical Program Committee, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2005, Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems (OOPS),
- Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on e-Commerce Technology for Dynamic E-Business (CEC04-EAST) 2004, Web site
- Session Chair for two mini-tracks of IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS), 39: Distributed Object and Component-based Software Systems mini-track and Adaptable & Evolvable Software Systems, January 2005
- Session Chair, Service Oriented Computing Workshop, International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT) 2004 Web site
- Session Chair, Distributed Object and Component-based Software Systems mini-track of IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) 37, January 2004
- Session Chair, Adaptable and Evolvable Software Systems mini-track of IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) 37, January 2004
- Session Chair, 9th IEEE Real-time Technology & Applications Symposium (RTAS) 2003
- Program Chair, OOPS track of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2004 track on Object-Oriented programming languages and distributed-object systems.
- Mini-track co-chair, IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) 37, Adaptive and Evolvable Software Systems: Techniques, Tools, and Applications, January 2004.
- Technical program committee member of the 4th International Symposium on Distributed Objects & Applications, DOA 2002.
- Technical program committee member of the International Symposium on Object Real-time Computing, ISORC 2002.
- Area session chair at the 4th International Symposium on Distributed Objects & Applications, DOA 2002, October 28-November 1, 2002, Irvine CA.
- Design Pattern Shepherd, PLoP 2002.
Workshops and Conferences Organized
- Local Arrangements Chair for Middleware 2007 in Newport Beach, CA (this was a lot of work!).
- IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) 37 Mini-track co-organizer, "Adaptive and Evolvable Software Systems: Techniques, Tools, and Applications," January 2004.
- MURI Workshop organizer, "Protocol Engineering Research Center," UC Irvine, September 2002.
Reviewer for Professional Submittal
- Reviewer for Parallel Processing Letters 2007.
- Reviewer for IBM Systems Journal 2007.
- Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 2007.
- Reviewer for special issue of the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology on "Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing" 2006.
- Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 2006.
- Reviewer for ISORC 2006
- Reviewer for SAC 2004
- Reviewer for HICSS 2004
- Reviewer for ICDCS 2003
- Reviewer for ISORC 2002
- Reviewer for DOA 2002
Memberships: IEEE, ACM, and USENIX

Expertise

Advanced concept expertise: distributed computing, real-time computing, embedded systems, design patterns, multi-threading, compilers, interpreters, object-oriented design, object-oriented programming
Middleware: CORBA, real-time CORBA, Java RMI, Sun RPC, sockets
Programming languages: C++, C, Java, RTSJ (Real-time Java), Ada, Lisp, Prolog, Pascal, Python
Operating systems programming: POSIX, Unix, ACE

System Development Experience

11/2005 - Present: Software Expert Consultant for Space and Weapons Systems Center in San Diego for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) project

6/2000 - present: Chief Architect and Systems Programmer
Used Java to develop ZEN, a real-time Java ORB, at UC Irvine. Alpha released June 2002.
11/2001 - 1/2002: Software Consultant
Designed and implemented an intelligent news browser for cell phones (in C under QUALCOMM BREW SDK) for Adaptive Info. Won award for Best Content/Most Useful from Qualcomm BREW 2002 Developers Conference.
6/1997 - 9/1997: Chief Architect and Systems Programmer
Used C++ and Java to develop Syskill and Webert, a client-server intelligent search engine for the world wide web. Used as the basis for the key product for Prof. Mike Pazzani�s startup company.
6/1996 - 9/1996: Chief Architect and Project Manager
Used C++ to develop the framework for an extensible, portable compiler to be used for research on optimizing compilers, with Prof. Alex Nicolau and Prof. Nikil Dutt.
6/2000 - 7/2000: Software Consultant
Used C to build a Unix-based custom client-server communication framework for a critical product (Pick To Light Warehouse System) of Optum Corp. in Costa Mesa, CA. When their programmers were unable to build it, I was consulted to design, implement, test, and deliver it in one week, so that they were able to deliver their product on time.
6/1981 - 6/1988: Designed and implemented Adash, the Ada shell, and Arcturus, an interactive interpreter-based programming environment for Ada. Developed in C on Unix, this system demonstrated concepts developed during graduate school research and served as proof of principle for dissertation.
6/1981 - 6/2001: co-founded Irvine Compiler Corporation. Designed and implemented compilers and related software tools for Ada, C, C++, Pascal.

Supervising and Advising

Advised Ph.D. Students (who completed the Ph.D.)

Juan Colmenares
Shruti Gorappa
Trevor Harmon
Jie Hu

Former Students and UCI-DOC Lab Members

Jie Hu (Finished Ph.D., now working)
Hojjat Jafarpour
Jinhwan Lee
Mark Panahi
Krishna Raman
Yue Zhang (completed Ph.D. with K.J. Lim)
Espartaco "Spart" Arguello (Staff)
Jaiganesh Balasubramanian (M.S.)
Darrel Brunsch (M.S.)
Angelo Corsaro (M.S. earned Ph.D. at Washington U. St Louis)
Lin Cui
Mayur Deshpande (finished Ph.D.)
Priyanka Gontla (M.S.)
Arvind Krishna (M.S., completed a Ph.D. at Vanderbuilt)
Mingjie Lai (M.S.)
Hui Liu (M.S.)
Malli Machupalli (M.S.)
Peter Martini (Staff)
Bruce Miller (M.S.)
Jennifer Offtermatt (Staff)
Carlos O'Ryan (Ph.D.)
Ossama Othman (M.S.)
Gunar Schirner (M.S.)
Nishanth Shankar (M.S.)
Chia-Yen Shih
Sudhir Srinivasa

Degree Committee Service

Ph.D. Committee Member

Trevor Harmon, 6/2008 (Advisor)
Shruti Gorappa, 6/2008 (Advisor)
Juan A. Colmenares, 6/2008 (Advisor)
Jay Hu, 1/2008 (Advisor)
Moon C. Kim, 11/2007
DongHua Deng, 3/2006
Carlos O'Ryan, 3/2004 (Advisor)

Ph.D. Candidacy Exam Committee

Trevor Harmon, 10/2005 (Advisor)
Hojjat Jafarpour, 9/2005 (Advisor)
Juan A. Colmenares, 9/2005 (Advisor)
Dan Tsai, 9/2005
Shruti Gorappa, 8/2005 (Advisor)
Yu Zhang, 5/2005 (Advisor)
Jay Hu, 4/2005 (Advisor)
Haitao Gong, 3/2005
Liang Zhang, 9/2004
Moon Kim, 9/2004
DongHua Deng, 9/2004
Tao Yu, 6/2004

Ph.D. Preliminary Exam Committee

First-year class, 5/2008
First-year class, 5/2007
First-year class, 5/2006
(Format changed after 2005 to written exams followed by oral exam)
Trevor Harmon, 6/2005 (Advisor)
Mark Panahi, 6/2005 (Advisor)
Hojjat Joffapour, 6/2005 (Advisor)
Juan A. Colmenares, 6/2005 (Advisor)
Junhwan, 6/2005 (Advisor)
Seung-Mok, 6/2004
Shruti Gorappa, 6/2004 (Advisor)
Yunyun Yang, 6/2004
Yue Zhang, 6/2004 (Advisor)
Haito Gong, 6/2004
Moon Choel Kim, 6/2004
Sevin Fide, 6/2004
Krishna Raman, 6/2004 (Advisor)
Jie Hu, 6/2004 (Advisor)
Xu Zhang, 6/2004
Chia-Yen Shih, 6/2004 (Advisor)

M.S. Thesis Committee
- Mark Raymond, 5/2008