Invited Talks

The founder has been an invited speaker at international conferences, including CMG2015 and ICPE2016 and its co-located workshops and tutorials.
Recent Invited Talks at Conferences
  1. Integrating Software and Systems Performance Engineering Process into Software Development Processes. Opening plenary talk at CMG2015, San Antonio, Texas, November 2015. Also presented as a webinar hosted by the Computer Measurement Group, August 2015.
  2. Tutorial at the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE2016), Delft, the Netherlands, March 2016. Subject: Incorporating Software and Systems Performance Engineering Process into Software Development Processes.
  3. Keynote address at the Large Scale Testing Workshop (part of ICPE2016), Delft, the Netherlands, March 2016. Title: Automated Analysis of Load Test Results of Systems with Equilibrium or Transient Behaviour
  4. Best Practices for Writing and Managing Performance Requirements. Invited tutorial, SPLASHCON/OOPSLA 2013, Indianapolis, October 2013.
Other Invited Presentation
  1. Methods and Processes for Ensuring the Performance of Software Systems. Princeton ACM/IEEE-CS Meeting, November 2014. Also presented at Computer Science Dept. colloquium, The College of New Jersey, March 2015.
  2. Automating the Analysis of Load Test Results to Assess the Scalability and Stability of a Component-Based of SOA-Based System. Computer Science Department, University College London, July 2009.
  3. Best Practices for Writing and Managing Performance, Reliability, and Availability Requirements, Tutorial, WICSA 2007, Mumbai, India, January 2007.
  4. Experience with Performance Engineering in an Agile Development Process. Computer Science Department, University of Helsinki, October 2006; IIT Bombay, January 2007.
  5. Performance-Related Characteristics of Scalability and Their Consideration in Systems Architecture and Design. Philadelphia Computer Measurement Group, June 2004; Computer and Information Science Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, November 2004.
  6. Performance Testing and Scalability Analysis. Fraunhofer Institut, Berlin, April 2004.
  7. The Future of IT: A Performance Engineering Perspective. Invited panelist at the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, March 2003. Slides may be downloaded from http://www2.cs.purdue.edu/40th/infotech.html.
  8. Characteristics of Scalability and Their Impact on Performance. Princeton Chapter of ACM, April 2001.
  9. Maintaining Service Performance in Case of Failure: A Practitioner’s Experience and Thoughts on Where Queueing and Reliability Intersect. The Laurence Baxter Memorial Lecture. SUNY Stony Brook, April 2000.
  10. Experience with Performance Engineering in an Agile Development Process, JAOO 10th Annual Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, October 2006. Session Chair: Eberhard Wolff.
  11. Problems in Expediting Protocol Processing: Performance Analysis of Kernel Mode Priority Scheduling and Front End Protocol Processing. ORSA/TIMS Applied Probability Special Interest Conference on the Analysis and Control of Large Scale Stochastic Systems, Chapel Hill, N.C., May 1988. Session Chair: Prof. N. van Dijk, Free University of Amsterdam.
  12. Decomposition Approaches to Modeling Problems in Computer Networks. ORSA/TIMS Conference, St. Louis, October 1987. Session Chair: Prof. J. Gani, University of California, Santa Barbara.
  • Numerous talks and panels at internal workshops at Siemens and AT&T Labs.​​
  • Invited to give talks at the following institutions: Dept. of Computer Science, University College London; Dept. of Computer Science, University of Helsinki; IIT Bombay; Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University; Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University; École Nationale Superieure des Télécommunications, Paris; Institute Nationale des Télécommunications, Évry/Paris; Twente University, Enschede; Free University of Amsterdam; Computer Science Institute (CWI), Amsterdam; National Bureau of Standards; School of Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona; Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dartmouth College; Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland; Dept. of Computer Science, University of Arizona; Dept. of Applied Probability and Statistics, University of California, Santa Barbara; IBM Rochester; IBM Zurich Laboratory; Dept. of Statistics and Computer Science, University College London.