November 5, 2009
Graduate student Tudor Dumitras has won the prestigious John Vlissides Award at the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA).
This award is given to the doctoral student showing significant promise in applied software research and the most potential for having a significant impact on the practice of software development.
Dumitras' thesis advisor is Prof. Priya Narasimhan. His work involves dependable software upgrades in distributed systems. He also won the ACM Student Research Competition at OOPSLA 2009.
Ph.D. Student Tudor Dumitras