I am Antonio Barbalace, Senior Lecturer with the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA) in the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh .
My research focuses on System Software . Specifically, operating systems (Linux, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin, L4), virtualization environments (QEMU, QEMU/KVM, and Xen), and run-times/compilers/linkers (LLVM, gcc, ld, gold) for parallel, distributed and heterogeneous computer architectures (including near data processing platforms). My interests include general-purpose and real-time scheduling, synchronization protocols, distributed algorithms, networking, and storage systems. Performance analysis is my favorite way of investigation using tracing or simulation tools. Lately, I am investigating power efficiency, fault-tolerance, and security. I am also interested in industrial control systems, signal and image processing.
Education and Experience
Before moving to the University of Edinburgh I held an Assistant Professor position at Stevens Institute of Technology -- just in front of NYC. Earlier, I was a Principal Research Scientist and Manager at the Germen Research Center of Huawei in Munich, working within the OS and Virtualization team of the IT Software Infrastructure Lab (director Dr. Goetz Brasche). There, I started the work on the NDP Operating System, some real-time projects, and established a new microkernel hypervisor to be formally verified. Prior to the German Research Center, I spent 5 years as a Research Assistant Professor, and before a postdoc, at the Systems Software Research Group of ECE Virginia Tech, working closely with my mentor and supervisor Prof. Binoy Ravindran. At VT, I started with Prof. Ravindran the family of Popcorn projects (Linux, Xen, LLVM) which looked at how to manage hardware heterogeneity. At VT I also worked on other real-time and hypervisor projects -- financed mainly by ONR and ASFOR. Before moving to Virginia in November 2011, I was a Research Staff Member at the Italian National Research Council ( CNR ) in Padova, Italy, working at the big physics experiment RFX . I graduated with my PhD at the end of 2010 from the University of Padova under the supervision of Professors Giuseppe Zollino, Adriano Luchetta and Gabriele Manduchi.
Available Positions
I am looking for talented (BS, MS, PhD) students and postdocs to join my group at University of Edinburgh! If you like to hack system and application code, write me an email or stop by my office!
