Michael R. Hines
	Binghamton University Dept. of Computer Science Vestal Parkway East Binghamton, NY 13902		http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mhines Email: A@B where A = mhines and B = cs.binghamton.edu Home: (607)-341-7256

Objective Seeking a full-time position for either post-doctoral research and/or software development in the areas of Virtual Machines, Networking, High-Performance Distributed Systems, and Operating Systems. I enjoy building and analyzing experimental, networked systems.

Education Doctoral Candidate, Computer Science - expected August 2009 SUNY Binghamton University, Aug 2006 - Current, Binghamton, New York (upstate) OSNET Laboratory on Operating Systems and Networks, http://osnet.cs.binghamton.edu Master of Science, Computer Science Florida State University, Aug 2003 - May 2005, Tallahassee, FL Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Johns Hopkins University, Aug 2001 - May 2003, Baltimore, MD Texas Academy of Math and Science, HS Diploma/Assoc. University of North Texas, Aug 1999 - May 2001, Denton, TX 2-year pre-college program, providing 60-hours of undergraduate credit. (www.tams.unt.edu) School for the Performing and Visual Arts Booker T. Washington H.S., Aug 1997 - May 1999, Dallas, TX Played classical piano for 10 years before college & currently as a hobby.

Employment History Research and Teaching Assistant (current) 2006 - 2009: Binghamton University 2003 - 2005: Florida State University Work in Operating Systems, Networks, Cluster Paging, and Virtual Machines Assisted Courses in C Programming (Undergraduate), Computer Architecture (Undergraduate), and Advanced Unix Programming (Graduate) Google, http://www.google.com Summer 2006: Mountain View, California Low-level systems C code and networking. (Work is classified under NDA). AT&T Labs, http://www.research.att.com Summer 2005: AT&T Shannon Research Lab, New Jersey Development of a Route Control Platform, designed for BGP-level inter and intra AS route optimization. Student Computer Consultant, http://sts.jhu.edu 2001 - 2003: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Worked on projects satisfying the technology needs of the students on campus, including networking, computer supply/support, lab facilities, web design, and policies for campus organizations.

Scholarships AT&T Labs Ph.D. Fellowship Recipient, 2005-2008, advised by Dr. Kobus van der Merwe, Researcher This award provides tuition and financial assistance for minority PhD students for 3 years of graduate school. Clifford D. Clark Ph.D. Fellowship Recipient, 2008-2009, from Binghamton University, Graduate School This award provides tuition and financial assistance for PhD students for 1 year of graduate school. Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship, 2001 - 2003, New York, NY. This award provides tuition assistance for 4 years of undergraduate education. Honors, Awards Outstanding Scholarly Achievement Award in Computer Science, Binghamton University, 2009 Computer Science Honor Society, 2005: Upsilon Pi Epsilon Academic Honor Societies, 2000: Alpha Lambda Delta, Phi Eta Sigma National Achievement Scholar, 2000; Dean's List and President's list for GPA, Fall 1999.

Publications Conference Papers Post-Copy Live of Virtual Machines, To Appear in SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, July 2009 M. Hines and Umesh Deshpande and K. Gopalan Post-Copy Based Live Virtual Machine Migration Using Adaptive Pre-Paging And Dynamic Self-Ballooning, [Slides] In Proc. of March, 2009 International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE '09), Washington, DC. M. Hines and K. Gopalan MemX: Supporting Large Memory Applications in Xen Virtual Machines, [Slides] In Proc. of November, 2007 Second International Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing (VTDC07). A workshop in cunjunction with Super Computing 2007, Reno, Nevada. M. Hines and K. Gopalan Measurement Informed Route Selection, Extended Abstract, In Proc. of April 2007 Passive and Active Measurements Conference (PAM'07), Belgium, Nick Duffield, Kartik Gopalan, Michael Hines, Aman Shaikh, Jacobus E. van der Merwe Distributed Anemone: Transparent Low-Latency Access to Remote Memory in Commodity Clusters, In Proc. of December, 2006 International Conference on High-Performance Computing (HiPC'06). Bangalore, India, M. Hines, J. Wang and K. Gopalan Anemone: Transparently Harnessing Cluster-Wide Memory, In Proc. of August, 2006 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'06). Calgary, Alberta, Canada, M. Hines, M. Lewandowski, J. Wang, and K. Gopalan Invited Presentations Trade-offs in Transient Fault Recovery Schemes for Redundant Multithreaded Processors In Proc. of December, 2006 International Conference on High-Performance Computing (HiPC'06). Bangalore, India Joseph Sharkey, Nayef Abu-Ghazaleh, Dmitry Ponomarev, Kanad Ghose, Aneesh Aggarwal The Entropia Virtual Machine for Desktop Grids, Presentation for LENS paper seminar @ Florida State University

Qualifications Research: Xen Virtual machines: Currently working on hypervisor-level projects including improvements to virtual machine memory systems and virtual machine migration. Network Memory: Developed a multi-user clustered remote memory system (non-DSM) for low-memory remote I/O within linux and Xen. Extensive work with networking, algorithms and kernel programming. Route Control Platform: designed for BGP-level inter/intra AS route optimization. Work done at AT&T Research Labs, New Jersey. Programming Languages: C, Advanced | C++, Advanced | Java, Advanced Subversion and CVS user. Past Linux-based Projects Include: Distributed Memory System Virtual Machine Over-subscription Two TCP Network Simulators minimal C compiler VLIW Architectural Simulators Shells, Web Crawler and Database Population object-store file storage system, functional translator for C Network and packet analysis engine. Linux Kernel & Virtualization Programming: Significant driver development experience in locking primatives, interrupt and thread management. Skill in kernel debugging, including analysis and serial console capture. Hardware: written code for: - U-boot bootloader for Freescale PowerPC Linux - Many 64-bit & 32-bit x86 and AMD systems - Programmed For Little-endian and Big-endian Processors Scripting Languages: | Perl | PHP | Java | JSP | Bash | Python | XML/XSLT | CSS | html Databases: MySQL | Postgresql | Oracle Developed several contracted websites in the past. Knowledge of SQL Tables, Joins, Prepared Statements, and Database Administration Linux Administration: Linux 2.6.*/2.4 and BSD Unix: kernel driver develoment, sockets programming, and shell scripting Xen & VMware Administration Editor of choice: VIM (vi improved) Filesystems: Multi-booted filesystems Authentication: Setup LDAP and NIS Network Authentication for up to 20 Cluster Machines Services Administered: Bind/DNS nameserver installation NFS / SunRPC mounted user directories DHCP and PXE-booted machines Postfix/SMTP mailserver installation Apache/Tomcat webserver installations Desktop management w/ VNC, SSH Public/Private Key Authentication Migration of users between servers for maintenance Migration of virtual machines for server management Network Administration: Hardware: Gigabit ethernet and 10 GigGE fiber hardware Setups for Masqueraded LANs, Hubs and Switching toplogies Installation of 1-U and 2-U Rack slots in climate-controlled environments Firewall rule management and port allocation for both Cisco IOS and Linux IP Tables Protocols: Extensive implementation of client/server based software for: RIP/OSPF and BGP inter and intra-AS route advertisement TCP/IP programming and simulation, kernel-to-kernel remote memory paging Raw device-level packet interception and insertion and traffic analysis.

Certifications Information Security Specialist, May, 2003 Course-based certification Certified by (CNSS), the Committee on National Security Systems, in coordination with Florida State University. Consult National Training Standard for INFOSEC professionals, http://www.cnss.gov/Assets/pdf/nstissi_4011.pdf , for more info.

Organizations IEEE, Member #80491103 President, Computer Science Graduate Student Organization, 2008-2009

References Dr. Kartik Gopalan, PhD Advisor, kartik@cs.binghamton.edu Dr. Kobus van der Merwe, PhD Advisor, kobus@research.att.com

Curriculum Graduate CS SUNY Binghamton & Florida State (2003-2006) Undergraduate CS Johns Hopkins University (2001-2003) Lower-Level Undergrad (University of North Texas, Academy of Math & Science) (1999-2001) Adv. Networking Systems Adv. Unix Programming Adv. Algorithms Compiler Construction Comp. Architecture Comp. Security Data & Communication Networks Internet Protocols Logic Network Security Operating Systems Programming Languages Systems Administration Web Services Automata Comp. Architecture Cryptography (Graduate) Comp. Networks Data Structures & Algorithms Databases Digital Systems Fundamentals Embedded Systems Graphics Intro CAD Pro-e Logic Network Security Operating Systems Programming Languages (Graduate) Storage Systems Various Programming Courses Mathematics: Calculus I Calculus II Calculus III Differential Equations Linear Algebra Pre-Calculus Sciences: Physics, 2 sem. & lab Chemistry, 2 sem. & lab Biology, 2 sem. & lab Humanities: Literature & writing, 2 sem. History, 2 sem. Science & Religion (@ Hopkins)