Emma Buneci

Graduate Student, Computer Science Duke University Research Advisor: Daniel A. Reed VGrADS Activities: Working on Execution System (Resource Characterization) and LEAD Application emma@cs.duke.edu http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ebuneci

Educational Background

• B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Mathematics (2001), Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN
• M.S. Computer Science (2003), Duke University, Durham, NC
• Currently, Ph.D. Candidate, Duke University

Research Experience

Emma Buneci's research interests fall broadly under the area of distributed computing; specific interests lie in area of performance analysis and optimization in the context of scientific clusters.

Currently, she is working on a framework for expressing the qualitative temporal behavior of long-running scientific applications in order to validate the temporal performance behavior of such applications. The framework proposed will support virtual grids in a) monitoring and validation of the performance contracts of the scientific workloads and b) providing suggestions and high-level solutions for problems observed in the application behavior.

Awards and Honors

• Recipient of the Best Master Thesis Award from the Duke Computer
  Science Department, October 2004
• Recipient of a Graduate Teaching Assistant Award from the Duke
  Computer Science Department, September 2002.