Projects

QoS-Aware Elastic Virtual Machine Scheduling

• Explored cloud-based elastic virtual machine scheduling for batch, micro-batch, and stream processing models.
• Saved up to 49% cost compared to a conventional static scheduling technique.

• Developed a web-dashboard to monitor offset lags for Kafka for stream processing:

PILOTS

• Researched a new domain-specific programming language PILOTS for spatio-temporal data streaming application to facilitate the development of smarter flight systems.
• Development of PILOTS was inspired by the Air France 447 accident which original cause of the accident was airspeed sensor failures. PILOTS tries to detect data errors by cross-checking multiple data streams and fix them when possible.
• Local news exposures: Troy Record, Albany Times Union.

• Demo video of a PILOTS program detecting and correcting the airspeed sensor failure occurred in the Air France 447 accident:

Enhancements to SALSA

• Added experimental new features for the SALSA programming language:
  • “netif” option support for theaters to specify which network interface to use.
  • Android support
    • Modified SALSA source code (based on v1.1.5): salsa1.1.5.tgz.
    • SALSA theater code for Android: AndroidTheaterService.java, MainActivity.java.
    • Migration test code: Migrate.salsa.
  • “extip” option support to enable migration to/from virtual machines on Amazon EC2.

C-Snap with 3D

• Integrated a 3D-system to the C-Snap visual programming environment using three.js.
• This was a summer research project supervised by Professor Eglash and Professor Moorthy.

Interactive Audio/Graphics Generation using Kinect

• Developed a interactive audio/graphics generation system using Microsoft Kinect
• The system makes use of human body positions obtained with Kinect and generates audio and graphics interactively
  • Graphics library: GLUT (OpenGL Utility)
  • Programming language for audio: Chuck
• Screenshots