RSRG News Archive


  • RSRG Wins GSC Indoor Soccer Tournament

    Great job, team!! Photos are up at Fun@RSRG.

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  • Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Award

    Lingwen Gan is a recipient of the 2015 Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Award for his thesis on smart grid. Congratulations!!

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  • Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship

    Subhonmesh Bose has been selected as one of the inaugural Atkinson postdoctoral fellows at Cornell. Congratulations!!

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  • SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award - Honorable Mention

    Zhenhua Liu has received an honorable mention from the SPEC Research Group for his thesis. Congratulations!!

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  • 2014 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize

    Mani Chandy and his colleague are the recipients of this year's Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their paper titled "Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of Distributed Systems." Congratulations!!

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  • DISC 2014 Best Paper Award

    Rachel Cummings and colleagues have received the DISC 2014 Best Paper Award for their paper titled "Speed faults in computation by chemical reaction networks." Congratulations!!

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  • Ph.D. Thesis Award

    Enrique Mallada has been awarded the ECE Director's Ph.D. Thesis Award by the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Cornell. Congratulations, Enrique!

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  • William R. Bennett Prize

    Minghong Lin, Adam Wierman, Lachlan Andrew and Eno Thereska have been selected as recipients of IEEE ComSoc's 2014 William R. Bennett Prize for their paper on "Dynamic Right-Sizing for Power-Proportional Data Centers." Congratulations!

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  • RSRG Competes in the Los Angeles Triathlon Series

    Members of RSRG competed in the Los Angeles Triathlon Series on April 13, 2014. Photos are up at Fun@RSRG!

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  • RSRG Takes a Hike

    Members of RSRG hiked to Parker Mesa in Topanga State Park on January 25, 2014. Photos are up at Fun@RSRG!

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  • Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship

    Subhonmesh Bose has been selected as one of the inaugural Atkinson postdoctoral fellows at Cornell. Congratulations!!

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  • SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award - Honorable Mention

    Zhenhua Liu has received an honorable mention from the SPEC Research Group for his thesis. Congratulations!!

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  • 2014 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize

    Mani Chandy and his colleague are the recipients of this year's Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their paper titled "Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of Distributed Systems." Congratulations!!

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  • DISC 2014 Best Paper Award

    Rachel Cummings and colleagues have received the DISC 2014 Best Paper Award for their paper titled "Speed faults in computation by chemical reaction networks." Congratulations!!

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  • Ph.D. Thesis Award

    Enrique Mallada has been awarded the ECE Director's Ph.D. Thesis Award by the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Cornell. Congratulations, Enrique!

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  • William R. Bennett Prize

    Minghong Lin, Adam Wierman, Lachlan Andrew and Eno Thereska have been selected as recipients of IEEE ComSoc's 2014 William R. Bennett Prize for their paper on "Dynamic Right-Sizing for Power-Proportional Data Centers." Congratulations!

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  • RSRG Competes in the Los Angeles Triathlon Series

    Members of RSRG competed in the Los Angeles Triathlon Series on April 13, 2014. Photos are up at Fun@RSRG!

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  • RSRG Takes a Hike

    Members of RSRG hiked to Parker Mesa in Topanga State Park on January 25, 2014. Photos are up at Fun@RSRG!

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  • Congratulations to Xiaoqi Ren

    Xiaoqi was one of the highest-rated TAs in the TQFR for Fall 2013! Congratulations on your great work!

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  • IEEE PES 2013 Best Paper Award

    Subhonmesh Bose and Adam Wierman have received the award for "Best Paper on System Operations and Market Economics" at the IEEE PES General Meeting for their paper titled "A unifying approach for assessing market power in deregulated electricity markets." Congratulations!

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  • Katrina Ligett Receives Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship

    Katrina Ligett is one of only seven early-career faculty who have received 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowships. Congratulations!

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  • Katrina Ligett Receives NSF CAREER Award

    Congratulations to Katrina Ligett for her receipt of the NSF's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award for her 5-year project, "The Value of Privacy."

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  • HP's Net-Zero Energy Data Center Named a 2013 Computerworld Honors Laureate

    Zhenhua Liu's work made up a significant part of HP's Net-Zero Data Center Architecture. Congratulations, Zhenhua!

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  • Mani Chandy appointed to the board of directors of the California Energy Systems for the 21st Century (CES-21) Project

    Congratulations, Mani!

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  • Net-zero data center architecture released

    HP has announced a net-zero data center architecture that makes use of algorithms developed in collaboration with our group!

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  • IGCC Best Paper Award

    Congratulations to Minghong Lin, Zhenhua Liu, Adam Wierman, and Lachlan Andrew for receiving the Best Paper award at the 2012 IEEE Green Computing conference for their paper "Online algorithms for geographical load balancing!"

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  • Minghong Lin wins IBM PhD Fellowship

    Congratulations to Minghong for this prestigious honor!

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  • Facebook Fellowship Finalist

    Congratulations to Minghong Lin for being named a finalist in the 2012 Facebook Fellowship Program. This is an extremely competitive program that seeks to support Ph.D. students doing groundbreaking research in computer science.

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  • RSRG Runners Featured in Caltech Today

    Congratulations on running the Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon!
    Photos available at the Fun@RSRG page.

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  • Okawa Foundation Research Grant Awarded

    Congratulations to Steven Low, Recipient of a 2011 Okawa Foundation Research Grant!

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  • GreenMetrics Best Student Paper Award

    Congratulations to Zhenhua Liu, Minghong Lin, Adam Wierman, Steven Low, and Lachlan Andrew for receiving the Best Student Paper award at the 2011 ACM GreenMetrics conference for their paper "Geographical Load Balancing with Renewables!"

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  • Disaster Prevention Research in Kyoto

    Annie Liu spent 8 weeks at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University working on improving simultaneous event detection and parameter estimation in the earthquake early warning system.

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  • Sigmetrics Rising Star Award

    Congratulations to Adam Wierman for receiving the 2011 ACM Sigmetrics Rising Star Researcher Award. The award recognizes his outstanding contributions in the design and analysis of scheduling policies, which provided fundamental insights into scheduling and fairness in modern computing systems.

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  • INFOCOM Best Paper Award

    Congratulations to Minghong Lin, Adam Wierman, and Lachlan Andrew for receiving the Best Paper award at the 2011 IEEE INFOCOM conference for their paper "Dynamic right-sizing for power-proportional data centers!"

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  • Performance Best Paper Award

    Congratulations to Jayakrishnan Nair, Adam Wierman, and Bert Zwart for receiving the Best Paper award at the 2010 IFIP Performance conference for their paper "Tail-robust scheduling via Limited Processor Sharing!"

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  • Adam Wierman wins a 2010 ASCIT Teaching Award

    Congratulations to Adam Wierman, who has been recognized as an exceptional teacher by the students of Caltech.

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  • Adam Wierman wins NSF Career Award

    Congratulations to Adam Wierman on receiving an NSF Career grant for his project "Towards a rigorous foundation for scheduling in modern systems."

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  • An Okawa Foundation Award

    Prof. Adam Wierman was recognized by the Okawa Foundation as a top young researcher in the telecommunications field.

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  • ASCIT Teaching Award

    Prof. Mani Chandy received an ASCIT Teaching award, which is awarded by the Undergraduate Academics and Research Committee (ARC) for exceptional teaching.

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  • MSR New Faculty Award

    Prof. Adam Wierman was named a finalist for the Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship, which honors "exceptional new faculty members engaged in innovative computing research."