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I am postdoctoral scholar at Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR).

I am currently looking for a faculty position. Brief information about me and my research can be found on this page. Browse the left menu if you want to find out more.

→ Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

→ Research Statement (pdf)

→ Teaching Statement (pdf)

Selected Publications

• Distributed Systems & Communication Protocols

  → A Theory of Nested Speculative Execution
  Cristian Ţãpuş, and Jason Hickey
  To be presented at the 9th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (Coordination 07)
  (pdf version)

  → MojaveComm: A Robust Group Communication Library for Grid Environments
  Cristian Ţãpuş, David Noblet, and Jason Hickey
  International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS'06)
  (pdf version)

  → A Mechanism for Sequential Consistency in a Distributed Objects System
  Cristian Ţãpuş, Aleksey Nogin, Jason Hickey, and Jerome White
  17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems PDCS-2004
  (pdf version)

  → Kernel Level Speculative DSM
  Cristian Ţãpuş, Justin D. Smith, and Jason Hickey
  Workshop on Distributed Shared Memory on Clusters (DSM 2003).
  part of the IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID 2003), Tokyo, Japan
  (pdf version)

• Compilers, Programming Models, and Tools for Reliable Systems

  → Distributed Speculative Execution for Reliability and Fault Tolerance -- an Operational Semantics
  Cristian Ţãpuş, and Jason Hickey
  Submitted to Distributed Computing Journal
  (pdf version)

  → The Mojave Compiler: Providing Language Primitives for Whole-Process Migration a nd Speculation for Distributed Applications
  Justin D. Smith, and Cristian Ţãpuş, and Jason Hickey
  The HIPS-TOPMoDRS Workshop at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'07), Long Bea ch, CA
  (pdf version)

  → FixD: Fault Detection, Bug Reporting, and Recoverability for Distributed Applica tions
  Cristian Ţãpuş, and David A. Noblet
  The HIPS-TOPMoDRS Workshop at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'07), Long Bea ch, CA
  (pdf version)

  → Building Extensible Compilers in a Formal Framework: A Formal Framework User's P erspective
  Nathaniel Gray, Jason Hickey, Aleksey Nogin, and Cristian Ţãpuş
  17th International Conference on Theo rem Proving in Higher Order Logics (TPHOLs2004) in Park City, Utah, Emerging Trends
  (pdf version)

• Robotics

  → Hands-Off Therapist Robot: Behavior Adaptation to User Personality for Post-Stro ke Rehabilitation Therapy
  Adriana Tapus, and Cristian Ţãpuş, and Maja Mataric
  The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'07), Rome, It aly
  (pdf version)

• Performance Analysis and Distributed Applications Tuning

  → Active Harmony: Towards Automated Performance Tuning
  Cristian Ţãpuş, I-Hsin Chung, and Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth
  Super Computting 2002 (SC2002), Baltimore, Maryland
  (pdf version)