Paul Lu

 

Professor and

   Director of Outreach

 

Department of Computing Science

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E8

Canada

 

paullu [at] cs.ualberta.ca

Office:  Athabasca Hall 3-40

Fax:  (780) 492-1071

 

Academic Biography

 

Ph.D. Computer Science, 2000, University of Toronto

Thesis:  Scoped Behaviour for Optimized Distributed Data Sharing

 

M.Sc. Computing Science, 1993, University of Alberta

Thesis:  Parallel Search of Narrow Game Trees

 

B.Sc. Honours, Computing Science, 1991, University of Alberta

 

Research Interests

 

High-Performance Computing, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning in Software Systems

 

I am interested in all aspects of high-performance computing, but especially parallel and distributed systems, and cloud computing. My research program centers on systems software (OS, VMs, parallel programming) and, most recently, high-performance data transfers and IaaS cloud computing. In the past few years, I have used machine learning (ML) to classify the network protocols in use, to support performance optimizations.