Virginia M. LoAssociate Professor

Her research has been funded by four grants from the National Science Foundation and a grant from the Oregon Advanced Computing Institute. She was also recipient of an IBM T.J. Watson Graduate Fellowship in Computer Science. She has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, on an NSF CISE MIPS Oversight Review Panel, as well as NSF CISE Infrastructure and Research Panels. She currently serves on the Program Committees for the Workshop on Large-Scale and Volatile Desktop Grids and the Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing. Prof. Lo has also been supported by curriculum grants from NSF and Intel Corp.
Prof. Lo's research lies in the area of scheduling and resource management for parallel, distributed, and peer-to-peer systems. Her earlier work focused on the development of algorithms and tools for mapping parallel computations to regular parallel architectures, addressing task mapping, processor allocation, and I/O-sensitive scheduling. Her current work addresses the problem of resource management for peer-based desktop grid systems with a focus on resource discovery, scheduling and migration for faster throughput, result verification, and trust-based scheduling. In addition, she is looking at abstract scheduling models for multicore-based, hierarchical and heterogeneous architectures.