Kenneth Chiu joined the Department of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in September 2004. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, and his PhD from Indiana University. He is currently a PI or co-PI on three cyberinfrastructure-related NSF grants.

Research Interests

Distributed systems, including grid computing, web services, and middleware; sensor networks; scientific computing; operating systems; computer graphics; networking.

Courses taught

• CS552: Operating Systems
• CS580C: Topics in Advanced Object-Oriented Programming

Selected Publications

• S. Tilak, B. Pisupati, K. Chiu, G. Brown and N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh. “A File-system Abstraction for Sensor Networks”, Energy Efficient Sense and Response System Workshop (EESR '05). Held with MobiSys 2005.
• Wei Lu, Kenneth Chiu, Aleksander Slominski, and Dennis Gannon. “A streaming validation model for soap digital signature”. In 14th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-14), 2005.
• Kenneth Chiu and Wei Lu. “A Compiler-Based Approach to Schema-Specific XML Parsing”. First International Workshop on High Performance XML Processing (Satellite of WWW2004).
• Kenneth Chiu, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, and Dennis Gannon. “The Proteus Multiprotocol Library”. In Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Supercomputing, November 2002.
• Kenneth Chiu, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, and Randall Bramley. “Investigating the Limits of SOAP Performance for Scientific Computing”. In Proceedings of the Eleventh IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC'02), July 2002.