NILTON BILA
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Email: first-name-at-cs-dot-toronto-dot-edu
3302 - 10 King's College Rd.
Toronto, ON M5S 3G4
CANADA
RESEARCH
I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto.
My research interests include cloud computing, mobile systems
and ubiquitous computing. Presently, my focus is in
novel applications of cloud computing environments to reduce
energy use of desktop computers.
My advisor is Eyal de Lara.
I spent the winter of 2009 as a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University
working with Satya's research group.
Before that, I spent a summer at
Bell Labs
working with
Rick Hull
and the Intuitive Network Applications team.
HIGHLIGHTS
Jettison is a desktop virtualization solution that efficiently consolidates idle desktop VMs for energy conservation. Read our EuroSys 2012 paper to learn more.
PUBLICATIONS
Conference & Workshop Papers
- Jettison: Efficient Idle Desktop Consolidation with Partial VM Migration
Nilton Bila, Eyal de Lara, Kaustubh Joshi, H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Matti Hiltunen and Mahadev Satyanarayanan.
EuroSys 2012: The European Conference on Computer Systems, Bern, Switzerland, Apr. 2012.
[ PDF ] - Privacy-Sensitive VM Retrospection
Wolfgang Richter, Glenn Ammons, Jan Harkes, Adam Goode, Nilton Bila, Eyal de Lara, Vasanth Bala and Mahadev Satyanarayanan.
HotCloud '11: USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, Portland, OR, Jun. 2011.
[ PDF ] - The Case for Energy-Oriented Partial Desktop Migration
Nilton Bila, Eyal de Lara, Matti Hiltunen, Kaustubh Joshi, H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla and M. Satyanarayanan.
HotCloud '10: USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, Boston, MA, Jun. 2010.
[ PDF ] - Leveraging Smart Phones to Reduce Mobility Footprints.
Stephen Smaldone, Benjamin Gilbert, Nilton Bila, Liviu Iftode, Eyal de Lara and Mahadev Satyanarayanan.
MobiSys 2009: The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, Krakow, Poland, Jun. 2009.
[ PDF ] - Mobile User Profile Acquisition Through Network Observables and Explicit User Queries.
Nilton Bila, Jin Cao, Robert Dinoff, Tin Kam Ho, Richard Hull, Bharat Kumar and Paulo Santos.
MDM 2008: The 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Beijing, China, Apr. 2008.
[ PDF ] - Correlation-Based Content Adaptation For Mobile Web Browsing.
Iqbal Mohomed, Adin Scannell, Nilton Bila, Jin Zhang and Eyal de Lara.
Middleware 2007: The 8th International Middleware Conference, Newport Beach, CA, USA, Nov. 2007.
[ PDF ] - PageTailor: Reusable End-User Customization for the Mobile Web.
Nilton Bila, Troy Ronda, Iqbal Mohomed, Khai N. Truong and Eyal de Lara.
MobiSys 2007: The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jun. 2007.
[ PDF ] [ Project Page ]
Journal Articles
- Searching Complex Data Without an Index.
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Rahul Sukthankar, Adam Goode, Nilton Bila, Lily Mummert, Jan Harkes, Adam Wolbach, Larry Houston and Eyal de Lara.
IJNGC: International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, Vol. 1, No. 2, Nov. 2010. - Intuitive Network Applications: Learning User Context and Behavior.
Nilton Bila, Jin Cao, Robert Dinoff, Tin Kam Ho, Bharat Kumar, Daniel Lieuwen and Paulo Santos.
BLTJ: Bell Labs Technical Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 2008.
Demos & Posters
- Jettison: Efficient Idle Desktop Consolidation with Partial VM Migration.
Poster presented at at EuroSys 2012, Bern, Switzerland. - PageTailor: Reusable End-User Customization for the Mobile Web.
Demo presented at at MobiSys 2007, San Juan, PR.
Non-Refereed Papers
- The Manna Plug-In Architecture for Content-based Search of VM Clouds
Wolfgang Richter, Glenn Ammons, Jan Harkes, Adam Goode, Nilton Bila, Eyal de Lara and Mahadev Satyanarayanan.
Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report CMU-CS-10-111, Aug. 2010.
[ PDF ] - Searching Complex Data Without an Index
Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Rahul Sukthankar, Adam Goode, Nilton Bila, Lily Mummert, Jan Harkes, Adam Wolbach, Larry Huston and Eyal de Lara.
Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report CMU-CS-09-178, Dec. 2009.
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TEACHING ASSISTANCE
- CSC309H - Programming on the Web: Fall 2011, Winter 2011
- CSC207H - Software Design: Fall 2010, Fall 2008
- CSC369H - Operating Systems: Spring 2006
- CSC300H - Computers and Society: Fall 2006, Fall 2005
- CSC148H - Introduction to Computer Science: Spring 2008, Spring 2007
SEMINARS
- Computer Systems Lab
- Software Systems Reading Group
- Internet Systems Group
- Toronto Networking Seminar