Contact Info

Byung Chul Tak

Ph.D. Candidate
Computer Systems Lab
Computer Science & Engineering Department
Pennsylvania State University - University Park

Address: 349 IST Building
University Park, PA 16802
Email:
Advisor: Dr. Bhuvan Urgaonkar

Short Biography

  • Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science & Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
  • M.S. in Computer Science, KAIST, Daejun, Korea
  • B.S. in Computer Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

My previous work experiences are as follows.

  • 08 summer: Internship at IBM TJ Watson Research Lab (Mentor:Chun Zhang)
  • 09 summer: Internship at IBM TJ Watson Research Lab (Mentor:Chunqiang Tang)

Activities

Web and Publicity Chair for WISH 2009 Workshop

Research Interests

My research interests are in Virtual Machines, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems and System Monitoring.

Publications

  1. vPath: Precise Discovery of Request Processing Paths from Black-Box Observations of Thread and Network Activities Byung Chul Tak, Chunqiang Tang, Chun Zhang, Sriram Govindan, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Rong N. Chang. To appear in the proceedings of 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'09), San Diego. June 2009.
  2. Rotational Lease: Providing High Availability in a Shared Storage File System, Byung-Chul Tak, Yon Dohn Chung, Sunja Kim and Myoung Ho Kim. The 2005 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC'05), Sorrento, Italy, LNCS 3726, Springer-Verlag, 2005.9
  3. Designing a Real-time Java Virtual Machine Embedded Systems for Web Computing, Young-Min Lee, Byung-Chul Tak, and Shin-Dug Kim. International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'00), pp. 1897-1903, Las Vegas, June 2000.