Alexandra Fedorova

Dr. Alexandra Fedorova

Assistant Professor
School of Computing Science, SFU
Sloan Research Fellow

I lead the Systems Research Group at SFU, and co-founded the SyNAr (Systems, Networking and Architecture). My research focuses on system design for multicore processors and on parallel computing.

I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University in 2006. My thesis was on Operating System Scheduling for Chip Multithreaded Processors, under the supervision of Margo Seltzer.

During my graduate school years I worked as an intern at Sun Microsystems, initially with Chris Small, and later with Mark Moir and his team.

My research is supported by Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems), National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (I hold two Strategic grants, Engage and Discovery grants), British Columbia Innovation Council, NSERC Networks of Centers of Excellence on Graphics Animation and New Media (GRAND), Google, STMicroelectronics, Research in Motion, Electronic Arts BlackBox, and Intel.

If you are a prospective student interested to join my group, read this info page.

News

• I am a recipient of a Sloan Fellowship in 2012
• I am a recipient of the 2011 Anita Borg Early Career Award. Award presentation video at USENIX is here (fast-forward 2/3 of the video).
• The source code for our contention-aware user level scheduler (implemented by Sergey Blagodurov) is now available at sourceforge.
• SFU is ranked #1 again among Canada's comprehensive universities -- a position it has held eight times since the rankings began 20 years agomore than any other university. It is also the third year in a row that SFU has perched on top.
• AKULA -- our in-house tool for rapid prototyping and evaluation of schedulers on multicore processors and clusters of servers -- is available for download, thanks to Sergey Zhuravlev. Read about AKULA in our PACT paper.
• In the summer of 2010 I was invited to take part in the Intel Parallel Programming Talk Series
• I am a project leader in the Canadian Network or Centers of Excellence GRAND (GRaphics, Animation and New MeDia). GRAND was awarded $23M in funding in 2010. My project Platform Performance is about improving interactions between new media applications and multicore hardware.
• Recently I was interviewed for the launch of OpenSolaris 2009.06. Click here to watch the video.

Professional Activities:

• Techincal Program committees: HotOS 2013, HotPar 2012, USENIX 2012, VEE 2012, ASPLOS 2012, HotPar 2011, USENIX 2011, EuroSys 2011, PPoPP 2011, HiPEAC 2011, PACT 2010, HotPar 2010, EuroSys 2010, PESPMA 2009-2010, ASPLOS 2009, HotPar 2009, ACM Operating Systems Review 2009 (Special Issue on the Interaction among the OS, Compilers and Multicore Processors), WIOSCA 2007-2010, MMCS 2008-2010, SPAA 2008.
• Chairing activities: Chair of Provocative Ideas Session at ASPLOS 2012, Program committee co-chair, HotPar 2009 (with Jim Larus)
• Other conference organization: HotPar Steering Committee, Local Arrangements Chair for High Performance Graphics 2011 (HPG'11)