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Dr. Teller's Current PhD Students


Diana Villa
PhD Candidate
diana.villa@gmail.com


Diana has received the following scholarships, honors, internships, and degrees:

Internships


June-August, 2004 IBM Corporation Austin,TX
Overview: Developed a new performance framework used to study the memory
subsystem behavior of Power-based shared-memory multiprocessors.

June-August, 2003 IBM Corporation Austin,TX
Overview: Ehanced performance framework and worked on installing performance
analysis capabilities on our own p690 system at UTEP.


Scholarships and Honors


IBM-NPSC Ph.D. Fellowship Recipient for 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006
Murchison Graduate Scholarship Recipient
Banner Bearer for the UTEP Graduate School, 2003 Winter Commencement


Degrees

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
May 2001, The University of Texas at El Paso
Graduated with Honors, Overall GPA 3.60

Master of Science in Computer Science
December 2003, The University of Texas at El Paso
Graduated with Honors, Overall GPA 4.0

Completed 57 credit hours towards a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Current GPA 3.94



 

 

Mitesh Meswani
PhD Candidate
mmeswani@miners.utep.edu

Education

PhD Candidate in Computer Engineering, UTEP, Jan 2002 to present
MS in Computer Science , UTEP, Aug 1999 - Dec 2000
B.E. in Computer Engineering from Univ Of Bombay, India, July 1995 -July 1999

Scholarships and Honors


Reliance Industry scholarship for the academic year 1995-1996
Reliance Industry scholarship for the academic year 1997 - 1998
Life Time member of UPE society.
Public Relations Officer for the Indian Students Association at UTEP for the academic year 2002-2003.

Internships and Professional Experience

Software Engineer Part Time Intern at TCS ltd, India (aug 98- June 99), prototyping e-business solutions for small scale clients.

Software Engineer at Motorola,Dallas (Jan 2001 to Dec 2001), developing real time embedded environment applications for Base Station Systems.

System Admin Intern at TNRCC, Austin (July 2002 to Aug 2002), administration of windows based system using Novell Netware and hardware upgrades including system images and network node installation.

Short Biography

During his Bachelors degree in India Mitesh worked on a part time basis developing e-commerce prototypes for small scale clients. During his studies, two years were paid by Reliance Industry scholarships. Upon graduation he traveled from India to UTEP for graduate studies in 1999.

Mitesh has been in UTEP for close to four years during which he has worked with Dr Longpre for his Masters degree in the area of Computer Security and implemented a digital contract solution as a Masters Project. Upon completion of MS degree he took up a software engineering job in the year 2001 for Motorola developing real time applications.

After one year of job experience, he came back to UTEP to complete his PhD degree. After one year in the program, and upon completion of the Qualifying exams he joined POEMS group as a Research Assistant with Dr Teller in the area of performance modeling. Mitesh is in the process of finding a suitable problem in the area of performance modeling for a dissertation topic.

Mitesh is currently an intern at Intel


Ricardo Portillo
PhD Candidate
raportil@miners.utep.edu

Ricky is currently working on the use of sampled event traces acquired from performance counters to capture the behavior of application/machine pairs.  He has done two internships at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory working on performance analysis of multiprocessor systems.

Conferences


SuperComputing 2001; Denver, Co

IBM ACAS 2004 Conference; Austin, Texas

MASCOTS 2004; Volendam, Netherlands

Publications

Mining Performance Data from Sampled Event Traces; MASCOTS 2004

Interests


Performance Analysis, High-Performance Systems and Artificial Intelligence


Seetharami Reddy Seelam
PhD Candidate
seelam@miners.utep.edu


Short Biography


Since August 2001, Seelam has been a Ph.D. student at UTEP. Currently he is working with his advisor Dr. Patricia Teller on modeling parallel systems.  He earned his M.S. in Computer Science from UTEP in 2002 and Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Civil Engineering from Osmania University, India in 1999.  Dr. Vladik Kreinovich was his advisor for his master's thesis.

Currently, Seelam also is the user liaison for IBM p690 "Top Gun" system, newest addition to UTEP's HPC facilities.  He is also working with Dr. Teller on developing mechanisms to provide dynamic adaptivity in operating systems; this is a joint project with IBM Austin's Linux Technology Center (LTC).  Seelam worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center from June 2003 to December 2003 as a Technical Co-op and he was invited again to work at IBM Research from May 2004 to August 2004.

Seelam has research interests in performance modeling, parallel and distributed systems,  high performance computing, tools for performance analysis and tuning, computer architecture and operating systems.  He has been a student reviewer for Computing Reviews since 2002.  He received the Cotton Memorial Fellowship for his academic achievements in the 2003-2004 and the 2004-2005 academic years.

He is a member of ACM, and an inductee of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE), the Computer Science Honorary Society for outstanding undergraduate and graduate students. For more up-to-date information please visit his web page at www2.cs.utep.edu/~seelam or email him.