J A S O N   N I E H    Dept of Computer Science, Columbia University
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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot
Jason Nieh Jason Nieh is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Co-Director of the Software Systems Laboratory at Columbia University. He has served as a consultant to both government and industry, including as the technical advisor to nine States on the Microsoft Antitrust Settlement, and as an expert witness before the US International Trade Commission. He is currently Chief Scientist of CellRox. Professor Nieh has made research contributions in software systems across a broad range of areas, including operating systems, virtualization, thin-client computing, cloud computing, mobile computing, multimedia, web technologies, and performance evaluation. He has authored over 100 papers and served on over 50 program committees, including as program chair of the SIGMETRICS/Performance and USENIX ATC conferences. Honors for his research work include the Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award, awarded once every two years in the physical sciences and engineering, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a Department of Energy Early Career Award, four IBM Faculty Awards and two IBM Shared University Research Awards, and various best paper awards, including the 2011 SOSP Best Paper Award and the 2004 MobiCom Best Student Paper Award. A dedicated teacher, he received the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award from the Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association for his innovations in teaching operating systems and for introducing virtualization as a pedagogical tool. Professor Nieh earned his B.S. from MIT and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering. He is married to Belinda Nieh and they have four children, Joanna, Caleb, Emma, and Zachary. They live in New York City.

TEACHING AND ADVISING RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
MS Advising, Spring 2012 T 2:00pm-4:00pm Location CSB 518
COMS E6118 Advanced Operating Systems Spring 2012 T 9:55am-11:45am Mudd 545
COMS E6901 Projects in Computer Science Spring 2012
COMS W4118 Operating Systems Fall 2011 TR 1:10pm-2:25pm Mudd 833 CS PhD students see OS Comp Exam; CS MS students see MS Waiver
COMS E6998 Mobile Computing with iPhone and Android Spring 2009 M 11:00am-12:50pm Mudd 1127
COMS E6998 Virtual Machines Spring 2008 T 12:35-2:25pm Mudd 1127
Program Committee, EuroSys 2012
Program Committee, Infocom 2012
External Review Committee, ASPLOS 2012
Program Committee, VEE 2012
Program Co-Chair, USENIX ATC 2011
Program Committee, Infocom 2011
Program Committee, MobiCom 2010
Program Committee, Sigmetrics 2010
Program Committee, SYSTOR 2010
Program Committee, FAST 2010
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Complete List)
Teaching Operating Systems Using Android
Jeremy Andrus and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the Forty-third ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2012), Raleigh, NC, March 2012. (Best Paper Award)
Cells: A Virtual Mobile Smartphone Architecture
Jeremy Andrus, Christoffer Dall, Alexander Van't Hof, Oren Laadan, and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the Twenty-third ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2011), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011. (Best Paper Award)
Pervasive Detection of Process Races in Deployed Systems
Oren Laadan, Nicolas Viennot, Chia-Che Tsai, Chris Blinn, Junfeng Yang, and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the Twenty-third ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2011), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.
Record and Transplay: Partial Checkpointing for Replay Debugging Across Heterogeneous Systems
Dinesh Subhraveti and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2011), San Jose, CA, June 2011.
Transparent, Lightweight Application Execution Replay on Commodity Multiprocessor Operating Systems
Oren Laadan, Nicolas Viennot, and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2010), New York, NY, June 2010.
RSIO: Automatic User Interaction Detection and Scheduling
Haoqiang Zheng and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2010), New York, NY, June 2010.
ASSURE: Automatic Software Self-healing Using REscue points
Stelios Sidiroglou, Oren Laadan, Carlos R. Pérez, Nicolas Viennot, Jason Nieh, and Angelos D. Keromytis, Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2009), Washington, DC, March 2009.
DejaView: A Personal Virtual Computer Recorder
Oren Laadan, Ricardo Baratto, Dan Phung, Shaya Potter, and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the Twenty-first ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2007), Stevenson, WA, October 2007.
pTHINC: A Thin-Client Architecture for Mobile Wireless Web
Joeng Kim, Ricardo Baratto, and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2006.
On the Performance of Wide-Area Thin-Client Computing
Albert Lai and Jason Nieh, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 24(2), May 2006. (Parts of this work appeared in SIGMETRICS 2002.)
THINC: A Virtual Display Architecture for Thin-Client Computing
Ricardo Baratto, Leonard Kim, and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the Twentieth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2005), Brighton, United Kingdom, October 2005.
Experiences Teaching Operating Systems Using Virtual Platforms and Linux
Jason Nieh and Chris Vaill, Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2005), St. Louis, MO, February 2005.
ksniffer: Determining the Remote Client Perceived Response Time from Live Packet Streams
David P. Olshefski, Jason Nieh, and Erich Nahum, Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2004), San Francisco, CA, December 2004.
MobiDesk: Mobile Virtual Desktop Computing
Ricardo Baratto, Shaya Potter, Gong Su, and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2004), Philadelphia, PA, September-October 2004. (Best Student Paper Award)
SWAP: A Scheduler With Automatic Process Dependency Detection
Haoqiang Zheng and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the First USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2004), San Francisco, CA, March 2004.
Using Certes to Infer Client Response Time at the Web Server
David P. Olshefski, Jason Nieh, and Dakshi Agrawal, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 22(1), February 2004. (Parts of this work appeared in SIGMETRICS 2002.)
A SMART Scheduler for Multimedia Applications
Jason Nieh and Monica S. Lam. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 21(2), May 2003. (Parts of this work appeared in SOSP 1997.)
The Design and Implementation of Zap: A System for Migrating Computing Environments
Steven Osman, Dinesh Subhraveti, Gong Su, and Jason Nieh, Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2002), Boston, MA, December 2002.
Examining VMware
Jason Nieh and Ozgur Can Leonard, Dr. Dobb's Journal, 315, Miller Freeman, San Mateo, CA, August 2000. (invited paper)