Timothy Zhu is an associate professor in computer science and engineering at Penn State. He received both his B.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where his research was on resource management in clouds. At Penn State, his systems research group is focused on the broad area of performance management in the context of cloud computing including topics such as performance debugging, resource management, designing efficient heterogeneous systems, sustainability, maintaining tail latency quality of service, performance evaluation, etc. Prior to starting his Ph.D., Timothy worked on kernel-mode device driver development for GPUs at NVIDIA, a leading visual computing technology company. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, a EuroSys best student paper award for TetriSched, and a EuroSys runner-up paper award for TraceUpscaler.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering