Recent Student Research Grants & Undergrad Software Projects

The Student Research Grant program supported students conducting research that is useful to the greater USENIX Community. The Undergraduate Software Projects program provided support to undergraduates for useful software tools projects. Listed below are the projects and scholars we have recently supported. Please also visit our archive to browse past grants awarded by USENIX.

• Als, Adrian - Sheffield Hallam University - Error Correcting codes for voice generated cryptographic keys (10/01)

• Anderson, Darrell - Duke University - Cluster Performance Monitor (9/00)

• Jennifer Bevan - University of California, Santa Cruz - SoftFlow: Visualizing the Evolution of Static Dependency Graphs (9/01)

• Chen, Guanling - Dartmouth College - SOLAR (9/01)

• Chung, Sung-Won - Pusan National University - Design and Implementation of a Flexibility Layer for Efficient Filesystem Management (1/02)

• Etsion, Yoav - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Scheduling Interactive Processes in Linux (1/02)

• Gadde, Syam - Duke University - Remote Kernel Monitoring Using Network Logging (9/00)

• Gilfix, Michael - Tufts University - PEEP (The Sound Monitoring System) (9/00)

• Krishna, Rajesh Balan - Carnegie Mellon University - Adaptive Remote Execution for Cyber Foraging Area of interest: OS, pervasive computing (1/02)

• Larochelle, David - University of Virginia - Automatically Annotating Code to Detect Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities (9/01)

• Mathew, Frank - University of Mississippi - Optimizing Interrupt Pocessing Within The Linux Kernel (7/01)

• Miller, Robert C. - Carnegie Mellon University - Lightweight Structured Text Processing (9/00)

• Navarro, Juan E. - Rice University - Mitosis: A High Performance, Scalable Virtual Memory System (8/00)

• Pradhan, Prashant - SUNY Stony Brook - Design and Implementation of Aggregate TCP (6/00)

• Suchomski, Maciej and Lewicki, Pawel - Universidade Nova de Lisboa - How to better serve files: comparing NFS and CIFS (SMB) (1/01)

• Vaill, Chris - Columbia University - Scalable Proportional-Share Multiprocessor Scheduling (9/01)

• Wilhite, Benjamin - Virginia Tech - Automated Data Structure Visualization (1/02)

• Xiao, Li - College of William and Mary - Browsers-aware Proxy: Building a Secured Peer-to-Peer Internet Caching System (9/01)

Recent USENIX Scholars

This program provided support for student stipends, tuition, and other expenses for students with exceptional research ability and promise.