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	H. Andrés Lagar-Cavilla  M.Sc, Ph.D. Candidate.   Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 10 King's College Road Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3G4   Office: BA 5200  Bahen Centre 40 St. George - M5S 2E4 Phone:  416-946-8875 Fax: 416-978-1931 Email: andreslc <at> cs . toronto . edu
My Own Research: Spontaneous Installation

Publications

Hypervisor Support for Identifying Covertly Executing Binaries (2nd author), Usenix Security 2008, to appear.

Low-Bandwidth VM Migration via Opportunistic Replay (2nd author), HotMobile 2008, Napa Valley, CA, USA (bibtex).

Interactive Resource-Intensive Applications Made Easy, Middleware 2007, Newport Beach, CA, USA (bibtex). 
     Middleware 2007 talk slides in PPT.

VMM-Independent Graphics Acceleration, VEE 2007, San Diego, CA, USA (bibtex). 
     VEE 2007 talk slides (Open Document).

Resume

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Research Interests

Currently collaborating with the Biocomputing Laboratory at the University of Toronto in support for cluster-scale applications in VM farms.

The Snowbird VM-based application migration project constitutes roughly half of my doctoral dissertation. With Snowbird, applications that alternate between computational and interactive phases are seamlessly migrated, combining the best of remote and local execution.

Collaborated with Lionel Litty and his advisor David Lie in Patagonix, a hypervisor security substrate that is able to identify executing code even if the OS kernel is compromised, allowing the detection and preventing the execution of stealthy malware.

Developed VMGL, a VMM-independent 3D hardware acceleration virtualization solution.

I am a member of the Internet Suspend-Resume project with Satya's group at Carnegie Mellon. Frequently working together with Niraj Tolia.

Conducted some preliminary explorations on ways to characterize, measure and benchmark the interactive performance of systems.

My M.Sc. thesis comprised research on the robustness of simplified simulation models widely used in the evaluation of ad hoc network routing protocols.

Last Updated May 9, 2008.