Alex Depoutovitch

 

  Ph.D. Candidate

  University of Toronto
  Department of Computer Science

  Advisor:  Michael Stumm

     
 

My Ph.D. research is focused on Otherworld project, a mechanism that allows applications to survive operating system kernel failures and continue running after the kernel failure without loosing any data.
 
 

Research Publications Patents Presentations Resume

Education:

  • Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science
    University of Toronto
    Planning to graduate in Winter 2011
    Toronto, Canada

     

  • M.S. degree (Honours Diploma) in Applied Mathematics and Physics
    Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)
    Moscow, Russia, 2000

    Thesis title: Computer Approximation of Characteristics of Matter Accelerated by Shock Wave during Explosion of Supernova Type II

 

  • B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics
    Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)
    Moscow, Russia, 1998

Research interests  top↑

Operating systems
  •  Reliability
  •  Fault tolerance
  •  Virtualization
Autonomic computing

Parallel computations

Publications  top↑

1.  Depoutovitch, A. and Warkentin, A. File Systems: More Cooperation - Less Integration  
In Proc. of the Linux Symposium (2012) [pdf]

2 .  Depoutovitch, A. and Stumm, M. Otherworld - Giving Applications a Chance to Survive OS Kernel Crashes. 
Best Student Paper Award
In Proc. of the 5th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (2010) [pdf]

3 .  Depoutovitch, A. and Stumm, M. Otherworld - Giving Applications a Chance to Survive OS Kernel Crashes.
In Proc. of the 4th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (2008). [pdf]

4 .  Depoutovitch, A. and Stumm, M. Software Error Early Detection System Based on Run-time Statistical Analysis of Function Return Values.
Proc. of the 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing (2006) [pdf]

5 .  Depoutovitch, A. and Wainstein, A. Building Grid-Enabled Data-Mining Applications.
Doctor Dobbs Journal Volume 30, Issue 12, Pages 41-48 (2005) text

6 .  Nadyozhin, D. K. and Depoutovitch, A. An analytical approximation of post-shock conditions in type II supernova shells.
Astronomy and Astrophysics. 386, 711 (2002) [pdf]

7 .  Nadyozhin, D. K., Panov, I. V., Depoutovitch, A. A two-code method for studying some episodes of stellar nucleosynthesis.
In Proc. of the 10th workshop on "Nuclear Astrophysics" Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany, March 20-25, 2000

8 .  Depoutovitch, A. and Nadyozhin, D. K. Propagation of Shock Waves in Type-II Presupernovae.
Astronomy Letters, Volume 25, Issue 10, October 1999, pp.649-655 [pdf]

Patents  top↑

1.  Depoutovitch, A. and Sieroka, D. and Pollack, S. Method for Efficient Thread Usage for Hierarchically Structured Tasks

Publication number: US 2009/0070773 A1 Application number: 12/207,648 (2007)

 

Presentations  top↑

1.  Depoutovitch, A. Reboot without rebooting. 
Invited talk at Novell SuSe Labs Conference (July 2010)

2.  Depoutovitch, A. and Stumm, M. Otherworld - Giving Applications a Chance to Survive OS Kernel Crashes. 
Best Presentation Award
5th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (2010) [pdf]

3.  Depoutovitch, A. and Stumm, M. Otherworld - Giving Applications a Chance to Survive OS Kernel Crashes.
4th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (2008).  [slides]

4.  Depoutovitch, A. and Stumm, M. Software Error Early Detection System Based on Run-time Statistical Analysis of Function Return Values.
1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing (2006)  [slides]

5.  Depoutovitch, A. The use of grid computing to speed up prediction.
Workshop on Data Mining Methodology and Applications, The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, October 28-30 (2004)  [slides]