Richard Gass
4720 Forbes Ave. Suite 410
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 297-4203
(412) 297-4110 (fax)
Richard Gass joined Intel Labs in July of 2004 as a research engineer and is currently splitting his time working in the Pittsburgh and Berkeley lablets. His current focus is on physical resource allocation for cloud computing infrastructures and spends a great deal of time maintaining, supporting and developing applications on the BigData cluster which is part of the OpenCirrus cloud-computing research testbed. Richard is also lead developer for Zoni, which is responsible for the management and allocation of physical machines, providing network isolation, and allowing rapid reconfiguration of cluster resources at small timescales.
His previous focus was on the ISADS (Interactive Search-Assisted Decision Support) project which used OpenDiamond as a backend to interactively search tera-byte-sized volumes of complex data, such as images, audio and video. (Press Release). Richard specifically worked on ISADS for Dermatology which is an application that is capable of searching for features within skin lesions. The resulting search provides similar images based on specific search criteria with the goal of presenting physicians with medically relevant data to base their decisions. Watch the video
Prior to Pittsburgh, Richard spent a few years in the Cambridge Lablet where he participated in projects like CoMo and Haggle.
Before moving to the UK, Richard spent 4 years at Sprint Advanced Technology Laboratories in Burlingame California where he was responsible for building the monitoring and analysis infrastructure for the IPMON project.
In 2010, Richard received a Ph.D. from University Pierre and Marie Curie under the advisement of Christophe Diot.
Richard Gass and Christophe Diot, "Eliminating Backhaul Bottlenecks for Opportunistically Encountered Wi-Fi Hotspots", Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Taipei, Taiwan, May 16-19, 2010 [PDF]
Richard Gass and Christophe Diot, "An Experimental Performance Comparison of 3G and Wi-Fi", Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Zurich, Switzerland, April 7-9, 2010 [PDF] [PDF Presentation] [PPT slideshow] [Talk]
Michael A. Kozuch, Michael P. Ryan, Richard Gass, Steven W. Schlosser, David O'Hallaron, James Cipar, Elie Krevat, Julio López, Michael Stroucken, and Gregory R. Ganger, "Tashi: Location-aware Cluster Management", First Workshop on Automated Control for Datacenters and Clouds (ACDC'09) [PDF]
Howard Zhou, Mei Chen, Le Zou, Richard Gass, Laura Ferris, Laura Drogowski, and James M. Rehg, "Spatially Constrained Segmentation of Dermoscopy Images", 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2008 [PDF]
Howard Zhou, Mei Chen, Richard Gass, James M. Rehg, Laura Ferris, Jonhan Ho, and Laura Drogowski, "Feature Preserving Artifact Removal from Dermoscopy Images", SPIE Symposium on Medical Imaging, 2008 [PDF]
E. Nordström, C. Diot, R. Gass, P. Gunningberg, "Experiences from Measuring Human Mobility using Bluetooth Inquiring Devices", In MobiEval 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Augustin Chaintreau, Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft, Christophe Diot, Richard Gass and James Scott, "Impact of Human Mobility on the Design of Opportunistic Forwarding Algorithms", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Volume 6, Issue 6, June 2007 [PDF]
Augustin Chaintreau, Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft, Christophe Diot, Richard Gass and James Scott, "Impact of Human Mobility on the Design of Opportunistic Forwarding Algorithms.", In Proceedings of 25th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2006), Barcelona, Spain, April 2006. [PDF]
Richard Gass, James Scott, and Christophe Diot, "Measurements of In-Motion 802.11 Networking.", In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing System and Applications (HOTMOBILE 2006), Washington, USA, April 2006. [PDF]
Pan Hui, Augustin Chaintreau, Richard Gass, James Scott, Jon Crowcroft, and Christophe Diot, "Pocket Switched Networking: Challenges, Feasibility and Implementation Issues.", In Proceedings of the Second IFIP Workshop on Autonomic Communications 2005, Athens, Greece, October 2005. [PDF]
Pan Hui, Augustin Chaintreau, James Scott, Richard Gass, Jon Crowcroft and Christophe Diot, "Pocket Switched Networks and the Consequences of Human Mobility in Conference Environments", In Proceedings of the SIGCOMM 2005 Workshop on Delay Tolerant Networking, Philadelphia, USA, August 2005. [PDF]
Augustin Chaintreau, Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft, Christophe Diot, Richard Gass and James Scott, "Pocket Switched Networks: Real-world mobility and its consequences for opportunistic forwarding", Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-617, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, February 2005. [PDF]
Richard Gass, "In-Motion Networking: Enabling Network Services to Users on the Move" Ph.D. Thesis, June 29, 2010
Richard Gass, "Zoni and Tashi in Open Cirrus" Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, Korea, May 13, 2010 [ppsx]
Richard Gass, "Open Cirrus Research Testbed, A testbed for Internet-scale cloud computing research" Intel Labs Berkeley Open House, March 2010 [PDF]
Richard Gass, Michael Kozuch, David O'Hallaron, "Zoni, Physical Resource Allocation for Cloud Computing" Intel Labs Berkeley Open House, March 2010 [PDF]
Richard Gass and David O'Hallaron, "Zoni and Tashi Overview and Demonstration" iMalaysian Institue of Microelectronic Systems, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Feb 2010
Milind Bhandarkar (Yahoo), Richard Gass, Michael Kozuch, Michael Ryan (Intel Labs), "S06: Open-Source Stack for Cloud Computing", Super Computing 2009, Portland Oregon, November 15, 2009 [Tutorial Page] [Intro] [Tashi] [Zoni]
Richard Gass, Michael Kozuch, David O'Hallaron, Michael Ryan, "Zoni: Physical Resource Allocation for Cloud Computing", Intel Labs Pittsburgh Open House, November 2009 [PDF]
Interactive Search-Assisted Decision Support for Dermatology - DermFind Application Overview, March 2009, [m4v]
Richard Gass, Mei Chen, Howard Zhou, James M. Rehg, Laura Ferris, Jonhan Ho, Laura Drogowski, "ISADS: Interactive Search-Assisted Decision Support. Designing An Application for Dermatology", Intel Developers Forum, Day 0 Keynote, San Francisco, August 2008 [WMV]
Mei Chen and Richard Gass ISADS query by image
Mei Chen, Richard Gass, Howard Zhou ISADS for Dermatology, an app for skin lesion exploration
Richard Gass, Mei Chen, Howard Zhou, James M. Rehg, Laura Ferris, Jonhan Ho, Laura Drogowski, "ISADS: Interactive Search-Assisted Decision Support. Designing An Application for Dermatology", Research at Intel Day, June 2007 [PDF]
Richard Gass, Mei Chen, Howard Zhou, James M. Rehg, Laura Ferris, Jonhan Ho, Laura Drogowski, "ISADS: Interactive Search-Assisted Decision Support. Designing An Application for Dermatology", Intel Research Pittsburgh, Open House, October 2007 [PDF]
Richard Gass, Mei Chen, Howard Zhou, James M. Rehg, Laura Ferris, Jonhan Ho, Laura Drogowski, "ISADS: Interactive Search-Assisted Decision Support. Designing An Application for Dermatology", Intel Research Symposium, July 2007 [PDF]
Howard Zhou, Mei Chen, Richard Gass, James M. Rehg, Laura Ferris, Jonhan Ho, Laura Drogowski, "ISADS: Interactive Search-Assisted Decision Support. Automatic Extraction of Dermascopic Features", Intel Research Symposium, July 2007 [PDF]
Richard Gass, James Scott, Christophe Diot, "YAAP - Yet Another Access Point", Intel Research Cambridge, Open House, 2006
Richard Gass, Christophe Diot, "YAAP - Yet Another Access Point", Intel Braunschweig Grand Opening, April 23, 2006 [PDF]