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Evgenia Smirni

Sidney P. Chockley Professor and Chair
Computer Science Department
School of Computing, Data Sciences, and Physics
William & Mary

Mailing address: College of William and Mary; Department of Computer Science; P.O. Box 8795; Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Office: ISC4 2389; Phone: +1-757-221-3580; Main Office: +1-757-221-3455; CV [ PDF ]

Research Interests

Performance, Reliability and Dependability, Applied Machine Learning, Analytical Modeling,
Workload Characterization, Markov Chains, Matrix-Analytic Methods, Performance Tools, High-Performance Computing

IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist, IFIP W.G.s 7.3 and 10.4

ICPE 2025 General co-Chair
SIGMETRICS 2023 General Chair

List of Publications (from the DBLP Bibliography Server)

Google scholar Profile

Service to the Community/Professional Activities

Keynote SRDS 2025: The 44th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Keynote DSN 2023: The 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Computers 2023 -
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2023 -
Program committee track chair (Cloud Computing and Data Centers) ICDCS 2021, 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Keynote 17th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST 2020), (part of the QONFEST multi-conference).
Keynote 10th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Mumbai, India, April 7-11, 2019
Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2019 - 2023
Program committee co-chair HPDC 2019, The 28th ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
Program committee co-chair SRDS 2019, The 38th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Program committee co-chair DSN 2017, The 47th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Program committee co-chair ICPE 2017, The 8th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
General co-chair QEST'10 and Numerical Solutions of Markov Chains 2010
Program committee co-chair HotMetrics 2010
Program committee co-chair SIGMETRICS/Performance'06
Program committee co-chair QEST'05
Editor Performance Evaluation Review 2003-2009
Associate Editor ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems 2015 -

Collaborators, Past and Present Students

Riccardo Pinciroli, Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2018-2020, now at Gran Sasso Research Institute, L'Aquila, Italy.
Lishan Yang , Ph.D., graduate 2022, Assistant Professor at George Mason
Anna Schmedding, Ph.D. student, in progress
Bowen Sun, Ph.D. student, in progress
Yiyang Lu, Ph.D. student, in progress
Bin Nie , Ph.D., graduated May 2019, Google
Jacob Alter, M.S., graduated May 2019
Ji Xue , Ph.D. graduated May 2017, Google
Feng Yan , Ph.D. graduated May 2016, Associate Professor at University of Houston.
Jiawei Wen, M.S., graduated 2016.
Lihua Ren, M.S., graduated 2016.
Lei Lu , Ph.D. graduated December 2014, VMWare, Palo Alto, CA.
Shannon Hughes, M.S. student, graduated May 2013,
Xenia Mountrouidou , Postdoctoral Research Associate 2009-2011, Assistant Prof. at Jacksonville State University
Giuliano Casale, Postdoctoral Research Associate 2007--2008, now Associate Professor at Imperial College London.
Ningfang Mi, Ph.D. graduated May 2009, Associate Professor, Northeastern University.
Qi Zhang, Ph.D., graduated December 2006, Microsoft Redmont.
Zhili Hua, M.S., graduated 2005
Ling Liu, M.S., graduated 2004
Alma Riska ,Ph.D., graduated November 2002, first placement at Seagate Research, now at Meta.
Vesselin Diev, M.S., graduated 2002
Daniela Puiu, M.S., graduated 2002
Melissa Rau, M.S., graduated 1999, NASA Langley