Curriculum Vitae

Roman Vitenberg
School: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Major: Computer Science

Level of training: PhD Candidate [PhD Degree Started March 1998]

Computer Science Department,
Technion - Israel Istitute of Technology,
Haifa 32000, Israel

GPA: 97.6/100
phone: +972-4-8294934
fax: +972-4-8221128
email: romanv@cs.technion.ac.il
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~romanv

Research Interests:

Distributed Systems
Distributed Objects and Object Oriented Platforms for Distributed Systems
Scalable Computing
Communication Protocols
Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
Fault Tolerance and High Availability
Web Caching and Infrastructure
Group Communication and Specifications of Group Communication Systems

References

Prof. Danny Dolev, Computer Science dept., Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel, dolev@cs.huji.ac.il
Dr. Roy Friedman, Computer Science dept., Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel, roy@cs.technion.ac.il
Dr. Idit Keidar, MIT Lab for Computer Science, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, idish@theory.lcs.mit.edu
Prof. Yair Amir, Computer Science dept., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA, yairamir@cs.jhu.edu
Prof. Hagit Attiya, Computer Science dept., Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel, hagit@cs.technion.ac.il
Dr. Alexander Keller, IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA, alexk@us.ibm.com

Additional references are available upon request

Education

date	degree	major	University
started Mar 1998	PhD	Computer Science	Technion, Haifa, Israel
	Thesis topic: Internet-Wide Caching of Distributed Objects Advisors: Dr. Roy Friedman
Jan 1998	MSc	Computer Science	Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
	Cum laude Thesis title: Properties of Group Communication and Their Utilization Advisors: Prof. Danny Dolev Lab project: Implementation of Session and Membership Services in the Transis Group Communication System
Apr 1994	BSc	Computer Science & Mathematics	Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
	Cum laude

Employment History

dates	company/school	position	responsibilities
06/01-08/01	The T.J.Watson IBM Research Center	Summer Student	Design of efficient dependency tracking architecture for application management.
1996-1998	CS Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Transis project, High-Availability group	Programmer and Research Associate	Development of distributed applications in the Transis environment and development of the Transis system itself. (Transis is a communication sub-system for high-availability.) Programming in C and Java.
1994-1995	Parametric Technology Corporation	System Programmer and System Manager	Development of a library for platform-independent system services. The library was written in C and worked on different UNIX versions. As a system manager I managed Alpha-NT workstations.
1993-1994	Eshbel Ltd.	Programmer	Development of a distributed database system that employed the client/server model over TCP/IP communication. The system was written in C and ran in different UNIX environments.

Academic Experience

dates	company/school	position	responsibilities
Mar 1998 - present	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Teaching Assistant	Teaching assistant in the following courses: Introduction to Computer Networks, Distributed Systems
Feb 1995 - Feb 1998	Open University of Israel	Teacher	Teacher of the Operating Systems and Compilers advanced undergraduate courses.
Oct 1994 - Feb 1998	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Teaching Assistant	Teaching assistant in the following courses: Distributed algorithms, Operating systems, Programming languages, Laboratory in UNIX programming

Technical Environments:

Programming languages: C, C++, Java, Ada, Prolog, Scheme(Lisp), Fortran, Pascal etc.
Operating systems: UNIX (most of the flavors), Windows
Platforms for distributed systems: CORBA, DCOM, RMI etc.
Protocols: HTTP, TCP/IP etc.

Journal and Conference Publications:

Quantifying Rollback Propagation in Distributed Checkpointing, Adnan Agbaria, Hagit Attiya, Roy Friedman and Roman Vitenberg, In proceeding of the 20th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'2001), October 2001
A Framework for Caching Multimedia Objects in the Internet, Roy Friedman and Roman Vitenberg, In proceedings of the Internation Workshop on Multimedia Middleware (M3W), October 2001
Group Communication Specifications: A Comprehensive Study, Gregory V.Chockler, Idit Keidar and Roman Vitenberg, To appear in ACM Computing Surveys, December 2001.
Consistency Conditions for a CORBA Caching Service, Gregory V.Chockler, Roy Friedman and Roman Vitenberg, In proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC'2000), October 2000.
Implementing Caching Service for Distributed CORBA Objects, Gregory V.Chockler, Danny Dolev, Roy Friedman and Roman Vitenberg, In proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Distributed Systems, Platforms, and Open Distributed Processing (Middleware'2000), April 2000. This publication was given the best conference paper award.
Symphony: Managing Virtual Servers in the Global Village, R.Friedman, A.Schuster, A.Itzkovitz, E.Biham, E.Hadad, V.Kalinovsky, S.Kleyman and R.Vitenberg, In proceedings of European Conference on Parallel Computing (EuroPar'99), September 1999.
Efficient State Transfer in Partitionable Environments, Yair Amir, Gregory V. Chockler, Danny Dolev and Roman Vitenberg, In proceedings of European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems (ERSADS), March 1997, pages 183-191.

Software Releases:

Cascade - Caching Service for Corba Objects.
Described in "Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms" by Maarten van Steen and Andrew S. Tanenbaum.

Other Professional Activities:

Reviewer for Computer Networks Journal, IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering (TSE), 22th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'2002), International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2002), 18th ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP'2001), 15th International Symposium on DIStributed Computing (DISC'2001), 20th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC'2001), 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium and 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS/SPDP'99), 5th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'98), PODC'98.
Student member of the ACM (SIGOPS).

Honors:

The Vatat Scholarship for Doctoral Students, 2001.
The Intel Prize for Doctoral Students, 2000.
The Best Paper and the Best Student Paper Prizes, Middleware'2000.
The Wolf Foundation Prize for Doctoral Students, 2000.
The Outstanding Student Award of NDC Research Ltd., 1997.

Personal:

Born: April 8, 1971.
Citizenship: Israeli.
Marital Status: Married.
Languages: Russian (native), English (fluent), Hebrew (fluent), French (basic).

Roman Vitenberg School: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Major: Computer Science Level of training: PhD Candidate [PhD Degree Started March 1998] Computer Science Department, Technion - Israel Istitute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel