James H. Anderson Professor Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Room FB112 Brooks Building CB #3175 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 (919) 962 - 1757 (voice) (919) 962 - 1799 (fax) (919) 962 - 1922 (secretary, Dorothy Turner) anderson at cs.unc.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 1990.
• M.S., Computer Science, Purdue University, 1983.
• B.S., Computer Science, Michigan State University, 1982.

Honors

• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1996.
• U.S. Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 1995.
• Computer Science Student Association Teaching Award, 1995, 2002, 2005, and 2012.
• IEEE Fellow, 2012.

Research Interests

• Distributed and Concurrent Algorithms
• Real-Time Systems
• Linux

Real-Time Systems Group Webpage

Recent and Upcoming Conferences I'm Involved With

• 21st International Conference on Real Time Networks and Systems (RTNS 2013), Sophia Antipolis, France, October 2013.
• 19th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, Taipei, Taiwan, August 2013.
• 25th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Paris, France, July 2013.
• 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Montreal, Canada, July 2013.
• 50th Design and Automation Conference, Austin Texas, June 2013.
• The 2012 International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Tampere, Finland, October 2012.
• 14th Real Time Linux Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2012.

Current Research Projects

• LITMUS^RT (Linux Testbed for MUltiprocessor Scheduling in Real-Time systems).

• A Comprehensive Framework for Real-Time Multiprocessor Synchronization.

• Enabling Next-Generation Multicore Platforms in Embedded Applications.

• Scheduling and Certification of Mixed-Criticality Systems.

• Supporting Mixed-Criticality Avionics Workloads on Multicore Platforms.

• A Real-Time Linux for Multicore Platforms.

• Supporting Complex Real-Time Workloads on Multicore Platforms.

Index of My Papers

Past Students

• Jae-Heon Yang, Ph.D. received August 1994 (at Maryland). Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon, Korea. Dissertation: Scalable Synchronization in Shared Memory Multiprocessing Systems. Download dissertation in postscript or PDF .

• Mark Moir, Ph.D. received August 1996. Currently employed by Oracle. Formerly, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, the University of Pittsburgh. Dissertation: Efficient Object Sharing in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors. Download dissertation in postscript or PDF .

• Srikanth Ramamurthy, Ph.D. received December 1997. Member of the Technical Staff, Panasas, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA. Dissertation: A Lock-Free Approach to Object Sharing in Real-Time Systems. Download dissertation in postscript or PDF .

• Ed Overton, M.S. received December 1997 (Math Department). Currently employed by SAS. Thesis: A Foray into Uniprocessor Real-Time Scheduling Algorithms and Intractability. Download thesis in postscript or PDF .

• Rohit Jain, M.S. received May 1998. Last known employer: Microsoft.

• Yong-Jik Kim , Ph.D. received December 2003. Currently back home in Korea working for Google. Dissertation: Time Complexity Bounds for Shared-memory Mutual Exclusion. Download dissertation in postscript or PDF .

• Anand Srinivasan , Ph.D. received December 2003. Currently employed by Google in India. Dissertation: Efficient and Flexible Fair Scheduling of Real-time Tasks on Multiprocessors. Download dissertation in postscript or PDF .

• Phil Holman , Ph.D. received August 2004. Currently employed by SAS. Dissertation: On the Implementation of Pfair-scheduled Multiprocessor Systems. Download dissertation in postscript or PDF .

• Vasile Bud , M.S. received May 2005. Currently employed somewhere in NYC.

• Umamaheswari Devi , Ph.D. received December 2006. Currently employed by IBM Research. Dissertation: Soft Real-Time Scheduling on Multiprocessors. Download dissertation in postscript or PDF .

• Aaron Block , Ph.D. received August 2008. Currently an assistant professor at Austin College, Sherman, Texas. Dissertation: Multiprocessor Adaptive Real-Time Systems. Download dissertation in postscript or PDF .

• John Calandrino , Ph.D. received August 2009. Currently employed by Microsoft. Dissertation: On the Design and Implementation of a Cache-Aware Soft Real-Time Scheduler for Multicore Platforms. Download dissertation in postscript or PDF .

• Hennadiy Leontyev , Ph.D. received April 2010. Currently employed by Google. Dissertation: Compositional Analysis Techniques for Multiprocessor Soft Real-TIme Scheduling. Download dissertation in postscript or PDF .

• Andrea Bastoni, Ph.D. received May 2011 at University of Rome "Tor Vergata", advised by Marco Cesati (co-advised by me). Currently employed by MBDA, a Finmeccanica Company, in Italy. Dissertation: Towards the Integration of Theory and Practice in Multiprocessor Real-Time Scheduling. Download dissertation in PDF .

• Bjoern B. Brandenburg, Ph.D. received December 2011. Currently employed as an assistant professor at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Dissertation: Scheduling and Locking in Multiprocessor Real-Time Operating Systems. Download dissertation in PDF . Companion dissertation webpage with additional performance graphs. Winner, 2012 Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering. Winner, 2012 Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Engineering. Winner, 2012 EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Current Students

• Cong Liu

• Mac Mollison

• Glenn Elliott

• Alex Mills (from OR)

• Jeremy Erickson

• Chris Kenna

• Jonathan Herman

• Bryan Ward

• Ben Casses

Click here for proof that my students are the hardest working students in the department.

Teaching

• Before Fall 2006.
• Fall 2006, Comp 750[202], Algorithm Analysis.
• Spring 2007, Comp 735[247], Distributed and Concurrent Algorithms.
• Fall 2007, Comp 455[181], Models of Languages and Computation.
• Spring 2008, Comp 737[232], Real-time Systems.
• Fall 2008, Comp 750, Algorithm Analysis.
• Spring 2009, Comp 735, Distributed and Concurrent Algorithms.
• Fall 2009, Comp 750, Algorithm Analysis.
• Spring 2010, Comp 737, Real-time Systems.
• Fall 2010, Comp 455, Models of Languages and Computation.
• Fall 2010, Comp 790-062, Avionics Software.
• Spring 2011, Comp 735, Distributed and Concurrent Algorithms.
• Fall 2011, Comp 750, Algorithm Analysis.
• Fall 2011, Comp 790-062, Cyber-Physical Systems.
• Spring 2012, Comp 737, Real-time Systems.
• Fall 2012, Comp 750, Algorithm Analysis.
• Spring 2013, Comp 735, Distributed and Concurrent Algorithms.