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SUMMARY:Mastering the Design of Modern Complex Distributed Systems
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Iuliana Bacivarov\, ETHZ\nEver-increasing needs of society
  for richer functionality have catalyzed the emergence of novel highly-dis
 tributed\, highly-parallel systems. On-chip multi- and many-core systems e
 mbedding up to hundreds of heterogeneous cores are nowadays a reality. Oth
 er paradigms such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)\, Autonomous Sensor Netw
 orks and Swarms may foster as yet unforeseen applications\, by providing u
 biquitous\, distributed sensing\, processing\, communication\, and actuati
 on. Smart medical devices\, smart houses\, intelligent environmental and e
 nergy monitoring\, intelligent transportation\, social networks\, intercon
 nected together and interacting with each other may soon become standard a
 pplications governing our lives. The potential economical and societal imp
 act of such systems is huge\, and major investments are being made worldwi
 de to develop the technology.\nThe past 10 years of my research cover adva
 nces on embedded many-core systems. Specifically\, system-level design str
 ategies for specifying\, analyzing\, and optimizing such complex distribut
 ed systems were investigated. The key challenge is how to effectively expl
 oit the entire available computational power\, and optimize together timin
 g\, temperature\, and power consumption objectives. Two main aspects were 
 considered (1) when hardware parallelism cannot be fully exploited due to 
 unpredictable\, dynamic applications competing for resources or due to a s
 ub-optimal mapping caused by the huge dimensionality of the design space a
 nd (2) when computational power does not necessarily translate into high p
 erformance as the system runs into the thermal wall. The presentation will
  answer to these two challenges and will present practical implications wh
 en integrating the proposed aspects in a complete and automatic system-lev
 el design flow\, namely the Distributed Application Layer (http://www.tik.
 ee.ethz.ch/~euretile) that we have developed at ETH Zürich. My ambition f
 or the next 10 years is to make Cyber-Physical Systems (including Autonomo
 us Systems\, Swarms\, Smart Systems\, and so on) a reality that would dras
 tically improve our lives\, relying on new technological advances.\nBio: D
 r. Iuliana Bacivarov is a senior research scientist in the Computer Engine
 ering and Networks Lab at ETH Zürich\, which she joined as a post-doc in 
 2006. Before that\, she received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in micro and 
 nano-electronics from National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble\, France\
 , in 2003 and 2006\, respectively\, and her B.Sc. in electrical engineerin
 g from National Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest\, Romania\, in 2002.\nD
 r. Bacivarov’s main research interests are focused on the optimization o
 f applications distributed onto massively parallel architectures\, targeti
 ng both embedded systems and high performance computing systems. Her work 
 addresses system-level models and methods for programming\, analyzing the 
 performance\, and optimizing such systems as part of large scale EU-funded
  projects: SHAPES\, EURETILE\, PRO3D\, COMBEST\, and PREDATOR and Swiss na
 no-tera.ch founded projects: Ultrasound To Go and Extreme. She is coordina
 ting project activities in SHAPES (January 2006-December 2009)\, EURETILE 
 (started January 2010)\, and PRO3D (January 2010 – December 2012). Dr. B
 acivarov has authored or co-authored more than 50 publications\, of which 
 two have received best paper awards and two have been nominated. She is an
  established researcher in her community\, having given more than 35 talks
  at prestigious international conferences such as DAC\, DATE\, and ES Week
 \, of which 26 have been invited.
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