Intel Labs People - Phillip B. Gibbons

Phillip B. Gibbons

phillip.b.gibbons@intel.com

Intel Labs Pittsburgh
4720 Forbes Avenue, Suite 410
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA

Phone: (412) 297-4114
Fax: (412) 297-4110

Mini-Bio

Phillip B. Gibbons is a Principal Research Scientist at Intel Labs Pittsburgh. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. He joined Intel Labs (called Intel Research at the time) in 2001 after 11 years at (AT&T and Lucent) Bell Laboratories. Gibbons is an Adjunct (Full) Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.

Current Research Projects

Hi-Spade: A hierarchy-savvy approach to algorithm design and systems for emerging parallel hierarchies.
Log Based Architectures: Hardware-supported logging for program monitoring and recovery on CMPs.
Sybil Defenses: Novel protocols to limit the impact of malicious users in distributed systems.
Dynamic Physical Rendering: Programmable matter composed of myriad tiny robots.

Selected Prior Research Projects

IrisNet: A core architecture and software infrastructure for a worldwide sensor web.
Aqua: Approximate query answering for fast exploratory data analysis of massive data sets (data warehouses).
Compas: Improved modeling, algorithm design, and performance for networks, parallel disk systems, SMPs, and supercomputers.
LPWA: Browse the web with greater privacy, convenience, and spam control.

Selected Talks and Surveys (Note: Viewing ppt files in a browser may miss out on the animations.)

Trumping the Multicore Memory Hierarchy with Hi-Spade (ppt).
Keynote Talk at the 10th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM '10), Columbus, OH, April 2010.
Theory: Asleep at the Switch to Many-core (ppt).
Invited talk at the NSF-sponsored Workshop on Theory and Many-Cores, College Park, MD, April 2009.
Hang On for The Ride: The Thrills and Spills of Sensornet Research (ppt).
Keynote Talk at the 6th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '08), Raleigh, NC, November 2008.
Fun with Networks: Social, Sensor, and Shape-Shifting (ppt).
Keynote Talk at the 22nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC '08), Arcachon, France, June 2008.
Data-Rich Computing: Where It's At (ppt).
Invited talk at the 2008 Data-Intensive Computing Symposium, Sunnyvale, CA, March 2008.
Distinct-Values Estimation over Data Streams (pdf).
Invited book chapter for Data Streams Management: Processing High-Speed Data Streams (to appear), January 2007.
IrisNet: A Planetary Scale Architecture for Multimedia Sensors (ppt).
Last version of an invited talk on IrisNet given at various venues, including as keynote talks at DCOSS '05 and BaseNets '06, January 2007.
Approximate Query Processing: Taming the TeraBytes (ppt).
Tutorial presented at VLDB '01, Rome, Italy, September 2001.
Synopsis Data Structures for Massive Data Sets (pdf).
Invited book chapter for External Memory Algorithms, September 1998.

Online Papers (a few years out of date)

Topic area: Parallel and distributed processing, focusing on chip multiprocessors (CMPs), models of computation, formal verification, fundamental algorithms, synchronization, scheduling, security, and testing.
Topic area: Sensor systems
Topic area: Querying massive databases and data streams, focusing on approximate query answering, synopsis data structures, distributed data streams, and tuning databases to modern procesors.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Recent Awards and Honors (2006-present)

ACM Fellow (inducted 2006)
Flexible Hardware Acceleration for Instruction-Grain Program Monitoring, by S. Chen, M. Kozuch, T. Strigkos, B. Falsafi, P. Gibbons, T. Mowry, V. Ramachandran, M. Ryan, O. Ruwase and E. Vlachos.
Selected for IEEE Micro's Top Picks from the 2008 Computer Architecture Conferences
DSybil: Optimal Sybil-Resistence for Recommendation Systems, by H. Yu, C. Shi, M. Kaminsky, P.B. Gibbons and F. Xiao.
On the short list for the best paper award for Oakland '09
Space Profiling for Parallel Functional Programs, by D. Spoonhower, G.E. Blelloch, R. Harper and P.B. Gibbons.
Selected for a special journal issue for the best papers in ICFP '08
Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage, by S. Nath and P.B. Gibbons.
Selected for a special journal issue for the best papers in VLDB '08
Optimal Inter-Object Correlation when Replicating for Availability, by H. Yu and P.B. Gibbons.
Selected for a special journal issue for the best papers in PODC '07
SybilGuard: Defending Against Sybil Attacks via Social Networks, by H. Yu, M. Kaminsky, P.B. Gibbons and A. Flaxman.
Selected for a special journal issue for the best papers in SIGCOMM '06
Availability of Multi-Object Operations, by H. Yu, P.B. Gibbons and S.K. Nath.
Co-winner of the best paper award for NSDI '06
Note: Additional (pre-2006) professional awards and honors are listed in my c.v.

Recent Professional Service (2006-present)

Editorial Board: Journal of the ACM (2001-present)
Editorial Board: IEEE Transactions on Computers (2005-2007)
Editorial Board: Parallel Processing Letters (2001-2006)
External Review Committee: 16th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS'11)
Program Committee: 8th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '10)
Program Committee: 37th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP '10)
Program Committee: 2010 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '10)
General Co-Chair: 9th International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE '10), held in conjunction with SIGMOD '10
Program Committee: 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '10)
Program Committee: 12th SIAM Workshop on Algorithm Engineering & Experiments (ALENEX '10)
Co-organizer: NSF Workshop on Enabling Data-Intensive Computing: from Systems to Applications, 2009
Program Committee: 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '09)
Program Vice-Chair: 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '09)
Program Committee: 6th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '08)
Program Co-Chair: ImageSense'08: Workshop on Applications, Systems, and Algorithms for Image Sensing (ImageSense'08), held in conjunction with SenSys '08
Program Committee: 22nd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC '08)
Program Committee: 34th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '08)
Program Committee: 32nd ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sigmetrics '08)
Program Committee: 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '08)
Program Co-Chair: 5th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '07)
Program Committee: 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '07)
Program Committee: 2007 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '07)
Program Committee: 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '07)
Program Committee: 4th ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '06)
Program Chair: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '06)
Program Committee: 2006 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '06)
Program Co-Chair: 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN '06)
Steering Committee Member: ACM International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) (2007-present)
Steering Committee Member: IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) (2004-present)
Conference Chair (head of Steering Committee): ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) (2003-2007). Steering Committee Member (2000-present)
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University (2003-present), Adjunct Associate Professor (2000-2003)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh (2003-present)
Note: Additional (pre-2006) professional service is listed in my c.v.

Personal

My wife's home page: Linda Moya
A few races I've run recently: 2010 Fathers Day 5K, 2010 Pittsburgh Half Marathon, 2009 Fathers Day 5K, and 2009 Pittsburgh Half Marathon.