Phillip B. Gibbons phillip.b.gibbons@intel.com Intel Labs Pittsburgh 4720 Forbes Avenue, Suite 410 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA Phone: (412) 268-6215

Mini-Bio

Phillip B. Gibbons is a Principal Research Scientist at Intel Labs (2001-present) and Principal Investigator for the Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing (2011-present). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. He joined Intel Labs (called Intel Research at the time) after 11 years at (AT&T and Lucent) Bell Laboratories. Gibbons is an Adjunct (Full) Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research areas include parallel computing, databases, big data, cloud computing, sensor networks, distributed systems and computer architecture. Gibbons' publications span theory and systems, across a broad range of computer science (e.g., papers in ASPLOS, CCS, CIDR, EuroSys, JFP, PACT, PLDI, PODC, PPoPP, SIGMOD, SPAA, ToN and VLDBJ in 2010-2012).

Google scholar page:  Phillip B Gibbons

News

• ACM has just launched the ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC), a new journal for novel and innovative work on all aspects of parallel computing.
• IEEE has just launched the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), a new journal for novel and innovative work on all aspects of cloud computing.

Current Research Projects

• Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing: A $15M+ research partnership with Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Princeton, and UC Berkeley.
• Hi-Spade: A hierarchy-savvy approach to algorithm design and systems for emerging parallel hierarchies.
• Log Based Architectures: Hardware-supported logging for program monitoring and recovery on CMPs.
• Sybil Defenses: Novel protocols to limit the impact of malicious users in distributed systems.

Selected Prior Research Projects

• IrisNet: A core architecture and software infrastructure for a worldwide sensor web.
• Aqua: Approximate query answering for fast exploratory data analysis of massive data sets (data warehouses).
• Compas: Improved modeling, algorithm design, and performance for networks, parallel disk systems, SMPs, and supercomputers.
• LPWA: Browse the web with greater privacy, convenience, and spam control.
• Claytronics: Programmable matter composed of myriad tiny robots.

Selected Talks and Surveys (Note: Viewing ppt files in a browser may miss out on the animations.)

• Trumping the Multicore Memory Hierarchy with Hi-Spade (ppt).
  Distinguished Lecture at Cornell University, Department of Computer Science, Ithaca, NY, September 2011.
• Trumping the Multicore Memory Hierarchy with Hi-Spade (ppt).
  Keynote Talk at the 10th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM '10), Columbus, OH, April 2010.
• Theory: Asleep at the Switch to Many-core (ppt).
  Invited talk at the NSF-sponsored Workshop on Theory and Many-Cores, College Park, MD, April 2009.
• Hang On for The Ride: The Thrills and Spills of Sensornet Research (ppt).
  Keynote Talk at the 6th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '08), Raleigh, NC, November 2008.
• Fun with Networks: Social, Sensor, and Shape-Shifting (ppt).
  Keynote Talk at the 22nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC '08), Arcachon, France, June 2008.
• Data-Rich Computing: Where It's At (ppt).
  Invited talk at the 2008 Data-Intensive Computing Symposium, Sunnyvale, CA, March 2008.
• Distinct-Values Estimation over Data Streams (pdf).
  Invited book chapter for Data Streams Management: Processing High-Speed Data Streams (to appear), January 2007.
• IrisNet: A Planetary Scale Architecture for Multimedia Sensors (ppt).
  Last version of an invited talk on IrisNet given at various venues, including as keynote talks at DCOSS '05 and BaseNets '06, January 2007.
• Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes (ppt).
  Tutorial presented at VLDB '01, Rome, Italy, September 2001.
• Synopsis Data Structures for Massive Data Sets (pdf).
  Invited book chapter for External Memory Algorithms, September 1998.

Online Papers (a few years out of date)

• Topic area: Parallel and distributed processing, focusing on chip multiprocessors (CMPs), models of computation, formal verification, fundamental algorithms, synchronization, scheduling, security, and testing.
• Topic area: Sensor systems
• Topic area: Querying massive databases and data streams, focusing on approximate query answering, synopsis data structures, distributed data streams, and tuning databases to modern procesors.

Conferences

• Conferences I've published in include: ASPLOS, CCS, CIDR, CVPR, DCOSS, EuroPar, EuroSys, FAST, FC, ICDCS, ICDE, ICFP, ICPR, IPSN, ISCA, KDD, Multimedia, NDSS, NSDI, Oakland, PACT, PLDI, PODC, PODS, PPoPP, SenSys, SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, SIGMOD, SODA, SPAA and VLDB.
• Conferences I've served on the Program Committee for include: DCOSS, DISC, ICALP, Middleware, IC2E, ICDCS, ICDE, ICDM, IPDPS, IPPS, IPSN, ISPAN, KDD, PODC, PPoPP, RTSS, SenSys, Sigmetrics, Sigmod, SPAA, SPDP, SSDBM, STOC, and VLDB. I've also served on the external review committee for ASPLOS and PODS.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Recent Awards and Honors (2006-present)

• ACM Fellow (inducted 2006)
• Flexible Hardware Acceleration for Instruction-Grain Program Monitoring, by S. Chen, M. Kozuch, T. Strigkos, B. Falsafi, P. Gibbons, T. Mowry, V. Ramachandran, M. Ryan, O. Ruwase and E. Vlachos.
  Selected for IEEE Micro's Top Picks from the 2008 Computer Architecture Conferences
• DSybil: Optimal Sybil-Resistence for Recommendation Systems, by H. Yu, C. Shi, M. Kaminsky, P.B. Gibbons and F. Xiao.
  On the short list for the best paper award for Oakland '09
• Space Profiling for Parallel Functional Programs, by D. Spoonhower, G.E. Blelloch, R. Harper and P.B. Gibbons.
  Selected for a special journal issue for the best papers in ICFP '08
• Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage, by S. Nath and P.B. Gibbons.
  Selected for a special journal issue for the best papers in VLDB '08
• Optimal Inter-Object Correlation when Replicating for Availability, by H. Yu and P.B. Gibbons.
  Selected for a special journal issue for the best papers in PODC '07
• SybilGuard: Defending Against Sybil Attacks via Social Networks, by H. Yu, M. Kaminsky, P.B. Gibbons and A. Flaxman.
  Selected for a special journal issue for the best papers in SIGCOMM '06
• Availability of Multi-Object Operations, by H. Yu, P.B. Gibbons and S.K. Nath.
  Co-winner of the best paper award for NSDI '06
• Note: Additional (pre-2006) professional awards and honors are listed in my c.v.

Recent Professional Service (2010-present)

• Editor-in-Chief:  ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC) (2012-present), a new journal launched in January 2013
• Editorial Board:  IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC) (2013-present), a new journal launched in January 2013
• Editorial Board:  Journal of the ACM (2001-present)
• Co-organizer:  NSF Workshop on Research Directions in the Principles of Parallel Computation, June 2012
• Program Area-Chair:  2013 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'13)
• Program Committee:  32nd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC'13)
• Program Committee:  IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E'13)
• Program Committee:  18th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'13)
• Program Committee:  13th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Conference on Middleware (Middleware'12)
• Program Committee:  38th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB'12)
• Program Committee:  39th EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP'12)
• Program Committee:  8th ACM International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN'12)
• Program Committee:  2012 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'12)
• External Review Committee:  31st ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS'12)
• Program Committee:  11th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'11)
• Program Committee:  30th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC'11)
• Program Committee:  35th ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sigmetrics '11)
• External Review Committee:  16th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS'11)
• Program Committee:  8th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '10)
• Program Committee:  37th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP '10)
• Program Committee:  2010 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '10)
• General Co-Chair:  9th International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE '10), held in conjunction with SIGMOD '10
• Program Committee:  9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '10)
• Program Committee:  12th SIAM Workshop on Algorithm Engineering & Experiments (ALENEX '10)
• Steering Committee Member:  ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)   (2007-2010)
• Steering Committee Member:  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS)   (2004-present)
• Conference Chair (head of Steering Committee):  ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA)   (2003-2007).   Steering Committee Member (2000-present)
• Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University (2003-present), Adjunct Associate Professor (2000-2003)
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh (2003-present)
• Note: Additional (pre-2010) professional service is listed in my c.v.

Personal

• My wife's home page: Linda Moya
• A few races I've run recently: 2012 Pittsburgh Marathon, 2011 Pittsburgh Marathon, 2010 Great Race 10K, 2010 Pretty Good Race, 2010 Fathers Day 5K, 2010 Pittsburgh Half Marathon, 2009 Fathers Day 5K, and 2009 Pittsburgh Half Marathon.