How To Chair The Science And Engineering Committee Of The American Computer Science Journal, \"I.E.A.A\"

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1 Candidate for Chair Evgenia Smirni College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1995, Computer Science. Professor of Computer Science, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 2008 Present; Visiting Researcher, IBM Research, Zurich Research Lab, Zurich, Switzerland, ; Associate Professor, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Performance Evaluation; Queueing Networks; Markov Chains; Workload Characterization Distributed Systems. ACM Activities: Board Member, SIGMETRICS, 2011 Present; Editor, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (PER), SIGMETRICS, Membership and Offices in Related Organizations: Member, IFIP W.G. 7.3, 2010 Present; Steering Committee Member, QEST, Awards Received: ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2013; Best paper award, International Teletraffic Congress 2010 (ITC22, 2010); Best paper award, Middleware, 2008; Best student paper award, QEST, STATEMENT SIGMETRICS is, in a way, part of most SIGs, as performance is an integral part of most computer science areas. As chair of SIGMETRICS, I will continue the work of the current board to strengthen our relationship with other SIGs, especially with those in systems-related areas as well as with the applied probability community. We will continue our efforts to increase membership, focusing especially on students by sponsoring

2 student-related events and provide travel grants to the annual conference. Most importantly, we will seek to strengthen our relationship with industry as real problems are the driving force of the development of new modeling techniques and tools for computer performance evaluation.

3 Candidate for Chair Vishal Misra Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2000, Electrical Engineering. Associate Professor, Computer Science, Columbia University, NY, 2001 Present; Founder and Chief Scientist, Infinio Inc., Cambridge, MA, 2011 Present; Vice Chair, Computer Science, Columbia University, NY, Networking; Internet Economics; Scheduling; Congestion Control; Wireless. ACM Activities: Vice Chair, SIGMETRICS, 2012 Present; Board of Directors, SIGMETRICS, ; Associate Editor, Journal of the ACM (JACM), 2014 Present; Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Networking, STATEMENT The major issue facing SIGMETRICS is strengthening a sense of identity. Currently, SIGMETRICS the organization and the community is mainly defined by the individuals associated with them. Long term strategic thinking needs to be developed so that the many diverse communities that publish papers in SIGMETRICS feel a sense of ownership and belonging rather than thinking of it as a venue to send a paper occasionally. A greater involvement of industry is also needed as performance analysis and modeling is a skill high in demand and we need to leverage this fact. My focus would be in addressing the issues mentioned above.

4 Candidate for Vice-Chair Adam Wierman California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2007, Computer Science. Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 2012 Present; Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, Networks; Energy; Applied Probability; Algorithms; Economics. Membership and Offices in Related Organizations: Board of Directors, SIGMETRICS, 2011 Present; Program Committee, SIGMETRICS, 2007 Present; Editorial Board, Performance Evaluation, 2010 Present. Awards Received: IEEE Communication Society William R. Bennet Prize, 2014; ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star Award, 2011; IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award, 2011; IEEE Green Computing Conference Best Paper Award, STATEMENT I have been actively involved in the SIGMETRICS community since my days as a graduate student. While SIGMETRICS is a healthy community, I feel that there are many ways it can improve. For example, while on the board of directors I have been working to help grow the community via increasing the size of the main SIGMETRICS conference, attracting workshops, and engaging related communities such as the green computing, smart grid, network economics, and applied probability communities. For example, this year SIGMETRICS will hold the NetEcon workshop in combination with ACM EC (the top Algorithmic Game Theory conference). Another initiative I will pursue as Vice-Chair will be the integration of the annual SIGMETRICS conference with the new ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance

5 Evaluation of Computing Systems (TOMPECS). At minimum, it will be important to have TOMPECS invite top SIGMETRICS papers for publication, and it would be to work toward maintaining an even larger pipeline between the journal and the conference. Through these and other initiatives I hope to help SIGMETRICS grow to become a larger and more visible community, while still maintaining it's top-tier reputation.

6 Candidate for Vice-Chair Arif Merchant Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA USA Ph.D., Stanford University, 1991, Computer Science. Staff Research Scientist, Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA, 2010 Present; Principal Research Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, ; Research Scientist, NEC Computer and Communications Research Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, Distributed Storage Systems; Stochastic Models of Computer Systems; Storage QoS; Storage Provisioning; Dependable Storage Systems. ACM Activities: Secretary/Treasurer, SIGMETRICS, ; General Chair, SIGMETRICS Conference, 2011; Program Co-Chair, SIGMETRICS Conference, Awards Received: SOSP Best Paper Award, STATEMENT I am honored to be nominated for the position of Vice Chair of SIGMETRICS. I published my first conference paper at SIGMETRICS many years ago, and found the combination of analytical and systems work presented there to be a perfect match for my interests. Since then, I have been a regular participant in the conference and related workshops. I have presented several papers at the SIGMETRICS conference; served on the Program Committee 11 times; and served as the General Chair and Program Co-Chair. Our SIG is the premier group for academics, students, and professionals interested in the theory and practice of performance evaluation in computer systems. We have a long tradition of participation from industrial researchers like me, and I would like to further foster

7 collaborations between faculty and students in academia and researchers in industry. As Vice Chair, I hope to promote the continued growth of SIGMETRICS as a forum for improving the state of the art in performance evaluation; for students to participate, learn, and become part of our community; and for professionals to contribute new research problems and to explore new techniques in an applied setting.

8 Candidate for Secretary-Treasurer Erich M. Nahum IBM Research, Yorktown, Heights, NY, USA Ph.D., University Massachusetts-Amherst, 1996, Computer Science. Research Staff Member, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, 1996 Present; Adjunct Faculty Member, Columbia University, New York, NY, ; Research Assistant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Networking; Performance Evaluation; Operating Systems; Distributed Systems. ACM Activities: Board Member, SIGMETRICS, ; Information Director, SIGCOMM, ; Editorial Board Member, ToIT, ; "Rising Star" Award Committee Chair, SIGMETRICS, Membership and Offices in Related Organizations: Steering Committee Member, HotCloud, USENIX, ; HotCloud Workshop, USENIX, 2010; Co-Chair, Annual Technical Conference, USNENIX, Awards Received: ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2012; IBM Sixth Patent Plateau Achievement Award, 2012; IBM Eminence and Excellence Award, STATEMENT It is an honor and a privilege to be considered for the position of Secretary-Treasurer for ACM SIGMETRICS. I have been involved with the SIGMETRICS community since 1992, most recently as a member of the Board of Directors from My research at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center has centered around the performance aspects of experimental networked systems. I have been on the SIGMETRICS Program Committee several times, the IFIP Performance PC, and chaired the Rising Star Award committee.

9 My goals as Treasurer are to keep SIGMETRICS on its current sound financial footing, and expand its influence to new and growing areas to increase its relevance to the wider community. My thanks for your consideration.

10 Candidate for Secretary-Treasurer Niklas Carlsson Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 2006, Computer Science. Associate Professor, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, 2013 Present; Assistant Professor, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, ; Research Associate, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Performance evaluation; Distributed systems and networks; Content delivery and multimedia; Network measurements and system; Characterization/modeling; Popularity dynamics. ACM Activities: Co-chair and organizer, ACM GreenMetrics (with SIGMETRICS), 2009 Present; PC member, SIGMETRICS, ; Publicity chair, SIGMETRICS, 2015; Member, ACM (including SIGMETRICS), 2005 Present. Membership and Offices in Related Organizations: Member, IEEE, 2009 Present; Academic chair, IEEE STC on Sustainable Computing (STCSC), ; TPC Co-chair, MASCOTS, Awards Received: Best paper award, ACM SIGCOMM workshop Future Human-Centric Multimedia Networking (FhMN), STATEMENT I am honored to run for the position of Secretary-Treasurer of SIGMETRICS. Since I attended my first SIGMETRICS conference in 2004, I have been active in the community. First, primarily as a researcher, but later also as a program committee member, publicity chair, and for the past six years as co-chair and organizer of GreenMetrics (a workshop colocated with ACM SIGMETRICS). I believe that SIGMETRICS plays a very important role as the research community as a whole becomes more interdisciplinary and the world

11 increasingly relies on the reliability and performance of computer systems and the services these systems provide. Our community has long helped bridge theory and practice within and across different research areas, while keeping performance at the center. If elected, I will work with the other elected officers to further strengthening SIGMETRICS value to the research community as whole. In my role as treasurer, I would focus on ensuring that we have a solid financial foundation and remain within financial constraints, but also work towards growing and revitalizing the community.

12 Candidate for Board of Directors Cathy H. Xia The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999, Operations Research. Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2012 Present; Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, ; Research Staff Member, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Height, NY, Performance modeling and analysis; Queueing systems and stochastic networks; Distributed control and optimization; Service systems; Cloud computing, Big data applications. ACM Activities: Workshop Chair, ACM SIGMETRICS, 2013; Tutorial Chair, ACM SIGMETRICS, 2008; Student Activity Chair, ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance, 2006; TPC member, ACM SIGMETRICS, Membership and Offices in Related Organizations: Program Co-Chair, INFORMS Midwest, 2011; Editorial Board, Performance Evaluation, 2011 Present; Topical Editor, Wiley Encyclopedia of ORMS, 2012 Present. Awards Received: IEEE Infocom Best Paper Runner-up Award, 2013; IBM Shared University Research Award, STATEMENT It has been my pleasure to be part of the vibrant SIGMETRICS community for over 10 years. My past service in SIGMETRICS (as Workshop Chair for SIGMETRICS 2013, as Tutorial Chair for SIGMETRICS 2008, as Student Activity Chair for SIGMETRICS 2006, and as PC member), has helped me to develop my organizational skills and has given me an understanding of the needs of the SIGMETRICS community. The opportunity to serve

13 in my capacity as a director on the board of SIGMETRICS, would allow me to help out the community more effectively. The era of big data is upon us, and I believe, it has created an unprecedented opportunity for SIGMETRICS. If elected, I would like to work diligently with the rest of the board members: to expand upon the existing success of SIGMETRICS, to ensure that we attract the most important innovations to be published at SIGMETRICS, to strengthen the relationship with other scientific areas, and to push for a broader presence across multiple disciplines. It would be an honor and privilege to serve on the SIGMETRICS Board, should I be given the opportunity to do so.

14 Candidate for Board of Directors Subhabrata Sen AT&T Labs-Research, Bedminster, NJ, USA Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2001, Computer Science. Lead Inventive Scientist, AT&T Labs- Research, Bedminster, NJ, 2014 Present; Lead Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs-Research, Bedminster, NJ, ; Principal Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ, Large-scale operational systems and services; Optimizing cross-layer interactions in Cellular and Cloud; Application Performance and Quality of Experience (QoE); Application & Network measurements, Monitoring and analysis; IP network management. ACM Activities: Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, SIGCOMM, 2012 Present; Co-Chair, Workshop on Mining Network Data (MineNet), SIGCOMM/SIGMETRICS, ; Chair, Student and Latin America Faculty Travel Grant Committee, SIGCOMM, 2005; TPC member: IMC/Multimedia/Mobisys/SIGCOMM All Things Cellular, SIGMETRICS/SIGCOMM/SIGMM/SIGMOBILE, Membership and Offices in Related Organizations: Member/Senior Member, IEEE, 2001 Present; Guest Editor, HIgh Performance Mobile Internet Special Issue, IEEE Internet Computing, 2014; TPC member: INFOCOM/ICNP/ICDCS/WWW/ITC, IEEE/WWW, 2003 Present. Awards Received: Distinguished Member of the 2015 IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee, 2014; AT&T Science and Technology Medal, 2013; AT&T Labs President Excellence Award, 2011; AT&T CTO Innovation Award, 2008.

15 STATEMENT As the world embraces increasingly complex software infrastructures and cloud services, performance research in its many dimensions becomes even more important. The SIGMETRICS community is uniquely positioned to make valuable contributions in this space. I am honored and excited to run for a position on the Board of Directors. I have participated in this community for over 15 years. Performance, measurements and optimizations underlie my research, and the vast majority of the 88 publications (including SIGMETRICS, IMC, SIGCOMM, and Mobisys) and 47 issued patents I co-authored. I co-chaired the MineNet Workshop for 3 years, including when it was sponsored by SIGMETRICS. Working for a large communications company, I have a close-up view of the kind of real-world technical challenges facing large networked services, and how theoretical work can lead to useful and novel practical solutions that account for the complexity and constraints of these systems. In particular, I hope to help advance the SIG by: 1. Encouraging research efforts to be more informed by real-world problems; promoting stronger engagement with industrial partners. 2. Encouraging risky research, and publication of negative results that usefully extend scientific understanding. 3. Partnering with other SIGs for cost-effective international faculty/students outreach (e.g., via mentorships).

16 Candidate for Board of Directors Nick Duffield Texas A&M University, ECE, College Station, TX, USA Ph.D., University of London, Mathematical Physics, Full Professor, Texas A&M University, ECE, College Station, TX, 2014 Present; Research Professor, Rutgers University - DIMACS, New Brunswick, NJ, ; Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ, Computer Networking; Network Measurement; Data Science; Algorithms; Applied Probability. ACM Activities: Editor-at-Large, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2014 Present; Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, ; TPC Member, ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, 2004; TPC Member, ACM MAMA Workshop, Membership and Offices in Related Organizations: Chief Editor for Big Data, Frontiers in ICT, 2014 Present; TPC Co-chair, PERFORMANCE, IFIP, 2013; Chair, Working Group on Packet Sampling, Internet Engineering Task Force, Awards Received: ACM SIGMETRICS Test-of-Time, 2013; ACM SIGMETRICS Test-of-Time, 2012; AT&T Fellow, 2007; IEEE Fellow, STATEMENT I recently returned to academia after a career in industrial research, and I am looking forward to helping advance SIGMETRICS' goals in the computer systems research community. I publish frequently at the SIGMETRICS annual conference, and have served on program committees for both that conference, and for others sponsored by SIGMETRICS. I have also served as Associate Editor, and currently as Editor-at-Large, for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

17 As a member of the SIGMETRICS board of directors, I would work with both the board and the wider membership of SIGMETRICS to identify new opportunities for the SIG to expand and support its technical community, including: 1. Promoting workshops in new application areas related to its core domains, including those outside the annual conference cycle and in conjunction with related ACM SIGS. 2. Forming regional chapters that could attract and serve the needs of the growing numbers of computer systems researchers worldwide. 3. Helping to develop new programs to increase the participation of women and minorities in the technical community. I look forward to helpling increase the impact and reach of SIGMETRICS.

18 Candidate for Board of Directors Alex X. Liu Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2006, Computer Science. Associate Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 2012 Present; Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, ; Research/Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Big Data Measurement and Modeling; Active Network Measurement; Probabilistic Algorithms; Networking Algorithms; Network Security. ACM Activities: Technical Program Committee Member, SIGMETRICS, ; Student Activities Chair, SIGMETRICS, ; Finance Chair, SIGMETRICS, ; Publication Chair, SIGMETRICS, Membership and Offices in Related Organizations: R4 -Central USA, IEEE, 2008 Present. Awards Received: William C. Carter Award by IEEE & IFIP, 2004; Best Paper Award, 20th IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking (ICNP), 2012; Best Paper (Runner Up) Award, 31st IEEE SRDS Conference, 2012; Best Student Paper Award, 24th USENIX LISA Conference, STATEMENT My strongest motivation to serve for SIGMETRICS is deep in my heart. I have actively engaged in the SIGMETRICS community during my past career and attended each conference. I have published ten papers in the annual SIGMETRICS conference. I have served SIGMETRICS in various roles such as the Technical Program Committee Member, Publication Chair, the Finance Chair, and the Student Activities Chair. I have obtained student travel funds from NSF for SIGMETRICS two times.

19 I am fully committing to providing my best service to SIGMETRICS as a Member of the Board of Directors. I envision bringing SIGMETRICS to a new level of success from the following three fronts: quality, participation, and support. For quality, I will work with the Board on establishing more rigorous review processes and further improving publication quality. For participation, I will work with the Board on broadening the SIGMETRICS community and increasing conference participation. For support, I will work with the Board on obtaining more funding from government agencies and industry. My strategy to achieve these goals is to work with the Board on enhancing the social relevance of SIGMETRICS work while maintaining its competitive edge on scientific beauty.

20 Candidate for Board of Directors Augustin Chaintreau Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Ph.D., INRIA-Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2006, Computer Networks. Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Computer Science Department, New York, NY, ; Member of the Technical Staff, Technicolor, Paris, France, Networked Algorithms; Social Networks; Privacy and Personal Information Management; Economics of Networking; Mobile Networking. ACM Activities: Program Committee chair for ACM CoNEXT, ACM SIGCOMM, 2014; Student Grant/Activity chair for SIGMETRICS, SIGCOMM and COSN, ACM SIGMETRICS and SIGCOMM, Membership and Offices in Related Organizations: PC members for 26 conferences, ACM, IEEE and AAAI, Awards Received: ACM SIGMETRICS Rising Star, 2013; NSF CAREER Award, STATEMENT If it s published at SIGMETRICS, then I m pretty sure it solved a very difficult problem, but maybe not one I care about. This is something that I commonly heard when promoting our SIG to students and colleagues. I respond that we serve people who manage big systems as in web services, networks, energy, whenever they face a long-standing challenge, amenable to system design, measurement and mathematics. These days, after following SIGMETRICS for ten years, I end by mentioning that if you address Big Data rigorously, you ought to do it there. This nomination is an honor, and an opportunity to reinvigorate principles that make SIGMETRICS a (great) home:

21 1. Some communities limit their expertise to either proof or experimentation, a true SIGMETRICS researcher cares about advancing both. 2. Some communities hardwire topics to address in their columns, SIGMETRICS maintains a large breadth. 3. One can only justify attending three-day programs with such breadth if each paper excels at its job. You know it, even publishing a SIGMETRICS poster is tough! If elected, my immediate focus goes to: (1) our scope: grow SIGMETRICS reach in big data areas, (2) our process: plan to propose transition to rolling-journal successful for PVLDB-SIGGRAPH.

22 Candidate for Board of Directors Giuliano Casale Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom Ph.D., Politecnico di Milano, 2006, Computer Performance Evaluation. Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Imperial College London, United Kingdom, 2013 Present; Imperial College Junior Research Fellow, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, ; Research Staff Member, SAP Research, United Kingdom, Software Performance Engineering; Workload Characterization; Performance Modeling. ACM Activities: Editor, ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 2011 Present; Program Co-Chair, ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance, 2012; General Co-Chair, ACM/SPEC ICPE, 2013; Student Activities Chair, ACM SIGMETRICS, Membership and Offices in Related Organizations: Member, IFIP Working Group 7.3, 2013 Present; Steering Committee Member, WOSP, 2013 Present; Steering Committee Member, ICAC, 2014 Present. Awards Received: Best in Innovation Paper Award, ACM/SPEC ICPE Conference, 2012; Best Paper Award, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference, STATEMENT I am a proud to be a member of SIGMETRICS for the past 15 years and, if elected, it would be a privilege and honor to serve on its Board of Directors. I would contribute my organizational experience as program co-chair of SIGMETRICS/Performance 2012 and as co-organizer of venues such as ICAC, ICPE, MASCOTS, and QEST. I would also leverage my contacts to bring to the Board the views of different groups of performance evaluation researchers.

23 In my opinion, in the next few years SIGMETRICS should focus on broadening its human capital, for instance with an increased financial support for students and by improving its visibility to ACM student chapters. Our community should also expand and diversify its membership base across geographic regions, for example by organizing overseas editions of the main conference at regular intervals. We should also continue to support the careers of students who join our community by making sure that industrial research fair and career panels are featured in all editions of the SIGMETRICS conference.