Hi. I'm a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the
Computer Science Department at the University of New Mexico. I work with
Barney Maccabe and
Patrick Bridges in the
Scalable Systems Lab. At UNM, I'm working on projects in
high-performance I/O, configurable operating systems and lightweight file systems for high-performance computing. My core research interests are in metadata and data management, particularly data privacy, and how to describe, manage, and protect data efficiently at different levels in the application/operating system/hardware stack.
I received my Ph.D. in August 2005 from the
College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. My advisor,
Karsten Schwan, directs the
Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS). My dissertation described a novel method of providing data protection in high-performance and pervasive applications, building on efficient data representation and data transport middleware developed at Georgia Tech.
See my
research projects page for more information on the kinds of things I've been up to, or my
calendar if I'm not where you thought I would be.
news and updates
(Jan 2008) I'm searching for a tenure-track faculty position. See my
CV,
research statement,
teaching statement, or get
the whole package in one PDF document.
selected publications
- Jiantao Kong, Ivan Ganev, Karsten Schwan and Patrick Widener. "CameraCast: Flexible Access to Remote Video Sensors". In Proc. Fourteenth Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN'07), San Jose, California, January, 2007.
- Ron A. Oldfield, Arthur B. Maccabe, Sarala Arunagiri, Todd Kordenbrock, Rolf Riesen, Lee Ward and Patrick Widener. "Lightweight I/O for Scientific Applications". In Proc. 2006 IEEE Conference on Cluster Computing, Barcelona, Spain, September, 2006.
- Jiantao Kong, Karsten Schwan and Patrick Widener. "Protected Data Paths: Delivering Sensitive Data via Untrusted Proxies". In Proc. 2006 International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2006), Ontario, Canada, October, 2006.
- Patrick Widener, Greg Eisenhauer, Karsten Schwan and Fabian E. Bustamante. 'Open Metadata Formats: Efficient XML-Based Communication for High-Performance Computing'. In Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools, and Applications (5), 2002, pp.315-324. Invited submission.
Or see the
full list.
miscellany
I'm in Farris Engineering Center, room 301-E (next to the Scalable Systems Lab space).
USPS address: Department of Computer Science, MSC 01-1130, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131
email:
pmw at cs dot unm dot edu
