Y. Charlie Hu
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor of Computer Science (by courtesy)
Purdue University
Address: 1285 EE Building, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1285
Phone: 765-494-9143
Fax : 765-494-3371
Email: ychu AaaaT purdue.edu
(See also the official home page)

Y. Charlie Hu's research interests are in distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and high performance computing. He leads the Distributed Systems and Networking Lab here at Purdue. He is a member of the Purdue Center for Wireless Systems and Applications (CWSA). Charlie received a Honda Initiation Grant Award in 2002 and an NSF CAREER Award in 2003. He co-founded the International Workshop on Mobile Peer-to-Peer Computing (MP2P) in 2004 and co-chaired the workshop in 2004 and 2005.

Charlie received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1997. Priori to joining Purdue in 2002, Charlie was a research scientist in the Systems group in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University. Charlie was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond in Fall 2008.

Selected Publications

Botnet Spam Campaigns can be Long Lasting: Evidence, Implications, and Analysis (SIGMETRICS 2009)
TDM MAC Protocol Design and Implementation for Wireless Mesh Networks (CoNEXT 2008)
How to evaluate exotic wireless routing protocols? (HotNets 2008)
iSPY: Detecting IP Prefix Hijacking on My Own (SIGCOMM 2008)
Context Based Routing: Technique, Applications and Experience (NSDI 2008)
Practical Defenses Against BGP Prefix Hijacking (CoNEXT 2007)
Practical Service Provisioning for Wireless Meshes (CoNEXT 2007)
Understanding Network Delay Changes Caused by Routing Events (SIGMETRICS 2007)
On the Impact of Research Network Based Testbeds on Wide-area Experiments (IMC 2006)
The Performance Impact of Kernel Prefetching on Buffer Cache Replacement Algorithms (SIGMETRICS 2005, IEEE TC 2007)
Program Counter Based Pattern Classification in Buffer Caching (OSDI 2004)
Program Counter Based Prediction Techniques for Dynamic Power Management (HPCA 2004, IEEE TC 2006)
Exploiting the Synergy between Peer-to-Peer and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (HotOS 2003)
Runtime Support for Distributed Sharing in Safe Languages (ACM TOCS 2003)

Research

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Funding

Our research is supported by the National Science Foundation, Cisco Systems, Honda R & D Americas, Semiconductor Research Corporation, Narus, and Purdue Research Foundation.

Ph.D Students

Note to applicants

Ph.D and M.S. Graduates

Teaching

EE 469 Operating Systems Engineering (Spring 2009)
EE 673 Distributed Computing Systems (Fall 2007)
EE 469 Operating Systems Engineering (Spring 2007)
EE 673 Distributed Computing Systems (Fall 2006)
EE 469 Operating Systems Engineering (Spring 2006)
EE 673 Distributed Computing Systems (Fall 2005)
EE 469 Operating Systems Engineering (Spring 2005)
EE 673 Distributed Computing Systems (Fall 2004)
EE 673 Distributed Computing Systems (Fall 2003)
EE 469 Operating Systems Engineering (Spring 2003)
EE 673 Distributed Computing Systems (Fall 2002)
EE 469 Operating Systems Engineering (Spring 2002)

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