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On April 30th, I am holding my public PhD defense.

Title

Three Pitfalls in Java Performance Evaluation.

Abstract

Executing a Java application is a complex matter when looking at what happens under the hood. The virtual machine (VM) runs the operations and takes care of class loading, compiling and optimising code, and garbage collection. Due to the interaction going on between the VM and the application and the non-determinism (e.g., due to time-based sampling) within the VM, no two executions will ever behave exactly alike. Performance analysis in this context should not be underestimated. In this dissertation, we uncover three pitfalls that have not been taken into consideration prior to this research.

While I think Michiel did a great job creating a flyer for a PhD public defense announcement/invitation in Microsoft Word, I think the world can use a Pages'08 template as well. So, based on Michiel's work, I present the flyer template.

I have submitted my PhD dissertation --- titled 'Three pitfalls in Java performance evaluation' --- to the Faculty of Engineering who convened on February 20th, 2008 and decided I was to be allowed to the first (internal) defense.

I am a co-author for a paper accepted at PACT 2006, titled "Performance Prediction based on Inherent Program Similarity", by K. Hoste, A. Phansalkar, L. Eeckhout, A. Georges, L.K. John and K. De Bosschere. Kenneth Hoste will present it tomorrow.

The paper abstract reads as follows. A key challenge in benchmarking is to predict the performance of an application of interest on a number of platforms in order to determine which platform yields the best performance. This paper proposes an approach for doing this.