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Shimin Chen

shimin dot chen at intel dot com

4720 Forbes Ave. Suite 410
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 297-4100
(412) 297-4110 (fax)

Personal web page: http://www2.pittsburgh.intel-research.net/~chensm/

Biography

Shimin Chen is a research scientist at Intel Research Pittsburgh. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005, and his B.E. and M.E. from Tsinghua University in China in 1997 and 1999, respectively. Chen's research interests include database systems, computer architectures, operating systems and other software systems. His Ph.D. work focused on redesigning data structures and algorithms in relational database systems in light of modern computer architecture features such as CPU cache prefetching. At Intel Research, he has been working on exploiting modern hardware features, including many-core processors, CPU caches, and flash based devices, for software correctness, performance and power efficiency, and supporting data-intensive and compute-intensive applications on data-center-scale clusters.

Publications

  • Shimin Chen, Michael Kozuch, Theodoros Strigkos, Babak Falsafi, Phillip B. Gibbons, Todd C. Mowry, Vijaya Ramachandran, Olatunji Ruwase, Michael Ryan, Evangelos Vlachos. "Flexible Hardware Acceleration for Instruction-Grain Lifeguards". IEEE Micro, Jan/Feb 2009 Special Issue: Micro's Top Picks in Computer Architecture Conferences (IEEE Micro Top Picks).
  • Olatunji Ruwase, Phillip B. Gibbons, Todd C. Mowry, Vijaya Ramachandran, Shimin Chen, Michael Kozuch, Michael Ryan. "Parallelizing Dynamic Information Flow Tracking Lifeguards"(pdf). In proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'08).
  • Shimin Chen, Michael Kozuch, Theodoros Strigkos, Babak Falsafi, Phillip B. Gibbons, Todd C. Mowry, Vijaya Ramachandran, Olatunji Ruwase, Michael Ryan, Evangelos Vlachos. "Flexible Hardware Acceleration for Instruction-Grain Program Monitoring"(pdf). In proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'08) (slides).
  • Shimin Chen, Steven W. Schlosser. "Map-Reduce Meets Wider Varieties of Applications." (pdf). Intel Research Pittsburgh Tech Report, IRP-TR-08-05, May, 2008.
  • Guy E. Blelloch, Rezaul A. Chowdhury, Phillip B. Gibbons, Vijaya Ramachandran, Shimin Chen, Michael Kozuch. "Provably Good Multicore Cache Performance for Divide-and-Conquer Algorithms"(pdf).  In proceedings of the 2008 ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA'08).
  • Shimin Chen, Anastassia Ailamaki, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Todd C. Mowry. "Improving Hash Join Performance through Prefetching"(pdf). ACM Transactions on Database Systems, September, 2007 (TODS).  (This is the journal version of the ICDE 2004 paper.  It includes a detailed performance study on an Itanium 2 machine, detailed analyses of the prefetching techniques, and discussion on practical issues of implementing the prefetching techniques in production DBMSs.)
  • Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kozuch, Vasileios Liaskovitis, Anastassia Ailamaki, Guy E. Blelloch, Babak Falsafi, Limor Fix, Nikos Hardavellas, Todd C. Mowry, Chris Wilkerson. "Scheduling Threads for Constructive Cache Sharing on CMPs" (ps, pdf). In proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'07).
  • Shimin Chen, Babak Falsafi, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kozuch, Todd C. Mowry, Radu Teodorescu, Anastassia Ailamaki, Limor Fix, Gregory R. Ganger, Bin Lin, Steven W. Schlosser. "Log-Based Architectures for General-Purpose Monitoring of Deployed Code" (pdf).  In proceedings of Workshop on Architectural and System Support for Improving Software Dependability (ASID) held with ASPLOS, 2006.
  • Vasileios Liaskovitis, Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Anastassia Ailamaki, Guy E. Blelloch, Babak Falsafi, Limor Fix, Michael Kozuch, Todd C. Mowry, Chris Wilkerson. "Parallel Depth First vs. Work Stealing Schedulers on CMP Architectures" (pdf).  In proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'06), brief announcements track.
  • Shimin Chen. "Redesigning Database Systems in Light of CPU Cache Prefetching" (ps, pdf). Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department, December 2005.
  • Shimin Chen, Anastassia Ailamaki, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Todd C. Mowry. "Inspector Joins" (ps, pdf). In proceedings of the 31st VLDB Conference, 2005 (VLDB'05).
  • Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Suman Nath. "Database-Centric Programming for Wide-Area Sensor Systems" (ps, pdf). In proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, 2005 (DCOSS'05).
  • Shimin Chen, Anastassia Ailamaki, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Todd C. Mowry. "Improving Hash Join Performance through Prefetching"(ps, pdf). In proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering, 2004 (slides) (ICDE'04). The full paper was published as CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-03-157, October 2003. (Co-winner of Best Paper Award in ICDE 2004)
  • Roger Barga, Shimin Chen, and David Lomet. "Improving Logging and Recovery Performance in Phoenix/App" (pdf). In proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering, 2004 (ICDE'04).
  • Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Todd C. Mowry, and Gary Valentin. "Fractal Prefetching B+-Trees: Optimizing Both Cache and Disk Performance"(ps,pdf). In proceedings of the 2002 SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (slides) (SIGMOD'02). The full paper was published as CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-02-115, March 2002.
  • Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, and Todd C. Mowry. "Improving Index Performance through Prefetching"(ps, pdf). In proceedings of the 2001 SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (slides) (SIGMOD'01). The full paper was published as CMU Technical Report CMU-CS-00-177, December 2000. (Runner-up for Best Paper Award in SIGMOD 2001)

Services

  • PC member for DAMON workshop, Chicago, IL, June, 2006.
  • PC member for DAMON workshop, Beijing, China, June, 2007.
  • PC member for ICDE, Cancun, Mexico, April, 2008.
  • PC member for SIGMOD, Vancouver, Canada, June, 2008.
  • PC member for DAMON workshop, Vancouver, Canada, June, 2008.
  • PC member for ICDE, Shanghai, China, March-April, 2009.
  • External reviewer: SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, PLDI, TODS, PACT, HPCA.