Ada Gavrilovska completed her Ph.D. in the Systems Research Group, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology, working under the direction of Dr. Karsten Schwan. Her interests include conducting experimental systems research, specifically addressing high-performance applications on distributed heterogeneous platforms, and focusing on topics that range from operating and distributed systems, to virtualization, to programmable network devices and communication accelerators, to active and adaptive middleware and I/O. She has a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University Sts. Cyril and Methodius, in Skopje, Macedonia, and a M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
She is currently a Research Scientist at the Center of Experimental Research in Computer Systems, at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, where she also teaches courses on advanced opearting systems and high-performance communications topics.

Workshop on High-Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing (HPI-DC 2009), in conjunction with Cluster 2009, New Orleans, LA, Aug. 2009
Supercomputing 2009, Int'l Conf. for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Portland, OR, Nov. 2009. (Program Committe Member in Networking Track)
Workshop on Managed Multi-Core Systems (MMCS), joint with ASPLOS 2009, Washington, DC
3rd Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing (HPCVirt 2009), in conjunction with EuroSys 2009, Nuremberg, Germany, Mar, 2008
Supercomputing 2008, Int'l Conf. for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Austin, TX, Nov. 2008. (Program Committe Member in Networking Track)
16th IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects (HotI'08), Aug. 2008, Stanford, CA (PC member)
Workshop on Managed Multi-Core Systems (MMCS), joint with HPDC 2008, Boston, MA (Local Arrangements)
2nd Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing (HPCVirt 2008), in conjunction with EuroSys 2008, Glasgow, UK, Mar, 2008
7th IEEE Int'l Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA07), Boston, MA, Jul. 2008 (PC member, Publicity Co-Chair)
Workshop on Operating System Support for Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures, in conjunction with PACT 2007, Brasov, Romania, Sep. 2007
15th IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects (HotI'07), Stanford, CA (PC member)
14th Int'l Conf. on High Performance Computing (HiPC), Goa, India, Dec. 2007 (PC member, Communication Networks track)
6th IEEE Int'l Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA07), Boston, MA, Jul. 2007 (PC member)
1st Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing (HPCVirt 2007), in conjunction with EuroSys 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, March 2007 (Program Committee Member)
Supercomputing 2006, Int'l Conf. for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Tampa, FL, Nov. 2006. (Program Committe Member in Networking Track)
ICPP-06, 35th International Conference on Parallel Processing, Columbus, OH, Aug. 2006. (Program Committe Member in OS and Resource Management Track)
SeNS-2006, International Workshop on Semantic Enabled Networs and Services, held with ICDE-2006, Atlanta, GA, April 2006, (Program Committee Member).
Intel IXA Education Summit, Hudson, MA, Sep. 27-28, 2005, (Program Committee & Panelist).
HPI-DC 2005, 1st Workshop on High-Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing, held with HPDC-14, July 2005, Reserach Triangle Park, NC (Program Co-Chair)
GLOBECOM 2005 Symposium on Advances for Networks & Internet, Nov. 2005, St. Louis, MO (Program Committee Member)

ViP: Virtualized multi-core Platforms
High Performance IO
Application-Programmable Routers and Interconnects
Georgia Tech Network Processors Group
Middleware Group
Multicore Curriculum Development

Current:
CS4210 Advanced Operating Systems: Spring 2009
  CS8803GOS Graduate Introduction to Operating Systems: Spring 2009 -- NOTE: This course DOES NOT count towards the MS/PhD Systems requirements. Graduate students without adequate systems background should register for this course before taking CS6210. CS8803GOS is cross-listed with CS4210 -- see CS4210 for syllabus information.

Past:
CS6210 Advanced Operating Systems: Fall 2008, Fall 2007
CS8803 GOS Graduate Introduction to Operating Systems: Fall 2008
CS4210 Advanced Operating Systems: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Summer 2006, Spring 2006, Summer 2005, Summer 2004
CS4803/8803HPC High Performance Communication: Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 2005
CS8803 HPC High Performance Communication -- Korea Embedded Computing MS Program: Summer 2007
CS3300 Introduction to Software Engineering: Fall 2005
CS4240 Compilers and Interpreters: Fall 2004

• Active CoordinaTion (ACT) - Towards Effectively Managing Virtualized Multicore Clouds, Mukil Kesavan, Adit Ranadive, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Cluster 2008, Japan, Sep. 2008.
• Flexible Classification on Heterogeneous Multicore Appliance Platforms, Priyanka Tembey, Anish Bhatt, Dulloor Rao, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, ICCCN'08, St. Thomas, VI, Aug. 2008.
• Performance Implications of Virtualizing Multicore Cluster Machines, Adit Ranadive, Mukil Kesavan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Workshop on HPC System Virtualization, in conjunction with Eurosys'08, Glasgow, UK, Mar. 2008.
• Enabling Semantic Communications for Virtual Machines via iConnect, Himanshu Raj, Sanjay Kumar, Balasubramanian Seshasayee, Radhika Niranjan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing (VTDC2007), in conjunction with Supercomputing 2007, Reno, NV, Nov. 2007.
• Towards IQ-Appliances: Quality-awareness in Information Virtualization, Radhika Niranjan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Priyanka Tembey, 6th Int'l Conf. on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA07), Cambridge, MA, Jul. 2007.
• High Performance Hypervisor Architectures: Virtualization in HPC Systems, Ada Gavrilovska, Sanjay Kumar, Himanshu Raj, Karsten Schwan, Vishakha Gupta, Ripal Nathuji, Radhika Niranjan, Adit Ranadive, Purav Saraiya, 1st Workshop on System-level Virtualization for High Performance Computing (HPCVirt), in conjunction with EuroSys 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, Mar. 2007.
• Virtualizing Heterogeneous Many-core Platforms, Greg Diamos, Ada Gavrilovska, Vishakha Gupta, Sanjay Kumar, Himanshu Raj, Karsten Schwan, Sudhakar Yalamanchili, EuroSys 2007 Poster, Lisbon, Portugal, Mar. 2007.
• Utilizing Network Processors in Distributed Enterprise Environments, Paul Royal, Mitch Halpin, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, 5th Int'l Conf. on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA06), Cambridge, MA, Jul. 2006.
• AutoFlow: Autonomic Information Flows for Critical Information Systems., Karsten Schwan, Brian F. Cooper, Greg Eisenhauer, Ada Gavrilovska, Matt Wolf, Hasan Abbasi, Sandip Agarwala, Zhongtang Cai, Vibhore Kumar, Jay Lofstead, Mohamed Mansour, Balasubramanian Seshasayee, and Patrick Widener, Autonomic Computing: Concepts, Infrastructure, and Applications, ed. Manish Parashar and Salim Hariri, CRC Press, 2006.
• Tuning File System Block Addressing for Performance, Harrison Caudill, Ada Gavrilovska, ACM Southeaster Conf., Melbourne, FL, Mar. 2006.
• Advanced Networking Services for Distributed Multimedia Streaming Applications, Ada Gavrilovska, Sanjay Kumar, Srikanth Sundaragopalan, Karsten Schwan, Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer Publishing, May/Jun 2007.
• Addressing Data Compatibility on Programmable Networking Platforms, Ada Gavrilovska, and Karsten Schwan, Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communication Systems (ANCS'05), Oct. 2005.
• C-Core: Using Communication Cores for High Performance Network Services, Sanjay Kumar, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, and Srikanth Sundaragopalan, 4th Int'l Conf. on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA05), Cambridge, MA, July 2005.
• Platform Overlays: Enabling In-Network Stream Processing in Large-scale Distributed Applications, Ada Gavrilovska, Sanjay Kumar, Srikanth Sundaragopalan, and Karsten Schwan, 15th Int'l Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV'05), Skamania, WA, June 2005, .
• An Approach Towards Enabling Intelligent Networking Services for Distributed Multimedia Applications, Srikanth Sundaragopalan, Ada Gavrilovska, Sanjay Kumar, and Karsten Schwan, 4th Int'l Conf. on Inteligent Mulimedia Computing and Networking (IMMCN'05), Salt Lake City, UT, July 2005.
• The Execution of Event-Action Rules on Programmable Network Processors, Ada Gavrilovska, Sanjay Kumar, and Karsten Schwan, 1st Workshop on Operating System and Architectural Support for the On-Demand IT Infrastructure (OASIS 2004), held in conjunction with ASPLOS-XI, Boston, MA, Oct. 2004.
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• SPLITS Stream Handlers: Deploying Application-level Services to Attached Network Processors, Ada Gavrilovska, Ph.D. Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.
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• Cooperative Application-level Processing on Hosts and their Attached Network Processors, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Austen McDonald, Hailemelekot Seifu, and Ola Nordstrom, Poster Session, 11th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Atlanta, Georgia, November 4-7, 2003.
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• Network Processors as Building Blocks in Overlay Networks, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, Hailemelekot Seifu, and Ola Nordstrom, 11th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HOT-I 2003), Palo Alto, California, August 22-24, 2003.
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• Service Morphing: Integrated System- and Application-level Service Adaptation in Autonomic Systems, Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan, Sandip Agarwala, Ada Gavrilovska, Greg Eisenhauer, Santosh Pande, Calton Pu, and Matthew Wolf, 5th Annual International Workshop on Active Middleware Services (AMS 2003), Seattle, Washington, June, 2003.
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• Stream Handlers: Application-specific Message Services on Attached Network Processors, Ada Gavrilovska, Kenneth Mackenzie, Karsten Schwan, and Austen McDonald, 10th Symposium on High Performance Interconnects (HOT-I 2002), Palo Alto, California, August 21-23, 2002.
  PostScript [140K]
• A Practical Approach for `Zero' Downtime in an Operational Information System, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan, and Van Oleson, 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-2002), Vienna, Austria, July 2-5, 2002.
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  also available as a technical report: GIT-CC-02-14
• Adaptable Mirroring in Cluster Servers, Ada Gavrilovska, Van Oleson, and Karsten Schwan, 10th International Conference on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-10), San Francisco, California, August 7-9, 2001.
  PostScript [184K]
  also available as a technical report: GIT-CC-01-01
• Time-Critical Visual Exploration of Scalably Large Data, William Ribarsky, Davis King, Ada Gavrilovska, and Rogier van de Pol, Dagstuhl Workshop on Scientific Visualization, Springer Verlag, 1998.
  also available as a technical report: GIT-CC-98-10