Kaoutar El Maghraoui

elmagk@cs.rpi.edu, www.cs.rpi.edu/~elmagk

Objective:

A challenging and exciting position to pursue innovative research and development in the area of distributed computing and related fields that would best utilize expertise in reconfiguration management, middleware technologies, and resource management.

Research Interests:

• Middleware services for Dynamic Grids.
• Dynamic reconfiguration and management of large-scale systems.
• Load balancing, Resource allocation and QOS profiling in Dynamic Grids.
• Applications of parallel and distributed computing, including web applications, peer-to-peer computing, grid computing and scientific applications.
• Message Passing paradigms and tools for parallel programming.
• Distributed storage.
• Computer Science applications in the areas of medicine and the physical sciences.

Education:

08/02- Present PhD. Student in Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA. GPA 4.0

Expected Fall 2006.

01/00- 05/01 MS. in Computer Networks, Alakhawayn University, Morocco. GPA 3.98

09/95- 12/99 BS in Software Engineering, Alakhwayn University, Morocco. GPA 4.0

Experience:

01/03- Present Graduate Research Assistant

Computer Science Department

World-Wide Computing Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Thesis Title: A Framework for the Dynamic Reconfiguration of Scientific Applications in Grid Environments

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Carlos Varela.

06/05-08/05 Summer Researcher

Service Management Middleware Department

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Designed and implemented a prototype for the automatic generation of provisioning actions in a data center using AI planning techniques. The prototype has been integrated with IBM’s Rainforest project and was capable of generating deployment plans that can be executed using IBM’s Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator’s (TIO) provisioning manager.

Project Managers: Dr. Tamar Eilam and Dr. Giovanni Pacifici.

06/04-08/04 Summer Researcher

Service Management Middleware Department

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Designed and implemented a model-driven partial order-planner for resource provisioning over an existing infrastructure for IBM’s Rainforest project.

Project Manager: Dr. Giovanni Pacifici.

08/02- 12/02 Graduate Teaching Assistant (Fall 2002)

Computer Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

TA for the course Network Programming.

1/01-07/02 Computer Science Lecturer

` School of Science and Engineering, Alakhawayn University, Morocco.

Responsibilities included teaching: Assembly Language Programming, Computer Networks, C and Pascal Programming.

01/00-07/01 Graduate Research Assistant

Alakhawayn University, Morocco

Designed and implemented an algorithm to optimize H.323 Control Loops for multimedia applications adaptation under wireless Link conditions.

Sponsored by Lucent Technologies and Alakhawayn University.

Advisor: Dr. Tajje-eddine Rachidi.

1997-1999 Teaching Assistant under professorial supervision

Alakhawayn University, Morocco

Duties included utilizing expertise in Physics, Electrical Circuits, Assembly Language and Data Structures.

9/99-12/99 Member of the development team of an application suite for the EPOC platform

Implementation in C++

Sponsored by Omnidata and Alakhawayn University.

6/99-8/99 Summer internship at L’Office Cherifienne de Phosphate, Casablanca, Morocco

Developed an application that analyzes the financial feasibility of a project

6/98-8/98 Summer internship at La Société National des Autoroutes du Maroc, Rabat, Morocco

Developed website for the company

6/97-8/97 Summer internship at L’Office National de l’Eau Potable, Rabat, Morocco

Developed a database for the management of stock inventory

Publications:

• Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Travis Desell, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, and Carlos A. Varela. Towards an Internet Operating System: Middleware for Adaptive Distributed Computing, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA 2006), to appear.

• T. Desell, K. El Maghraoui, and C. Varela. Malleable Components for Scalable High Performance Computing, HPC Grid programming Environments and Components (HPC-GECO 2006), to appear

• K. El Maghraoui, B. Szymanski, and C. Varela, An Architecture for Reconfigurable Iterative MPI Applications in Dynamic Environments, Sixth International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM'2005).  Poznan, Poland, September 2005.

• Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Travis Desell, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, James D. Teresco, and Carlos A. Varela. Towards a Middleware Framework for Dynamically Reconfigurable Scientific Computing. In L. Grandinetti, editor, Grid Computing and New Frontiers of High Performance Processing. Elsevier, 2005.

• T. Desell, K. El Maghraoui, and C. Varela, Load Balancing of Autonomous Actors over Dynamic Networks, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-37 Software Technology Track, Hawaii, 2004.

• K. El Maghraoui, J. Flaherty, B. Szymanski, J. Teresco, and C. Varela, Adaptive Computation over Dynamic and Heterogeneous Networks, Fifth International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM'2003).  Czestochowa, Poland, September 2003.

• K. El Maghraoui, and T. Rachidi, Towards building H.323-aware wireless systems: H.323 Control Loops and Applications adaptation to wireless link conditions, The 5^th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2001), Proceedings Volume XVI, Pages 106-113, Orlando, Florida, 2001.

• Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Travis J. Desell, and Carlos A. Varela. Network Sensitive Reconfiguration of Distributed Applications. Technical report, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of Computer Science, 2005.

• Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Carlos Varela, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Joseph E. Flaherty, and James D. Teresco. A Middleware Framework for Dynamically Reconfigurable MPI Applications. Technical report CS-04-09, Williams College Department of Computer Science, 2004

Poster Presentations:

• K. El Maghraoui, J. Chabarek, C. Varela, B. Szymanski, and J. Teresco, SALSA_MPI: A Framework for Dynamically Reconfigurable MPI Applications, Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Networking (CPCN04), RPI, Troy, NY, April 2004.

• T. Desell, K. El Maghraoui, C. Varela, and B. Szymanski, IOS: A Middleware for Autonomous Worldwide Computing, Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Networking (CPCN04), RPI, Troy, NY, April 2004.

• K. El Maghraoui, C. Varela, B. Szymanski, and J. Teresco, Adaptive Parallel Computation over Dynamic and Heterogeneous Networks, Conference on Adaptive Methods for Partial Differential Equations and Large Scale Computation (ADAPT03), Troy, NY, October 2003.

Public Talks:

· An Architecture for Reconfiguring Iterative MPI Applications in Dynamic and Heterogeneous Environments

SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP06), San Francisco, CA, February 2006.

Current Projects:

• Design, implementation and evaluation of load balancing algorithms for IOS (Internet Operating System); a middleware for load balancing and dynamic reconfiguration for Actor based applications in heterogeneous and dynamic grids.
• Design and implementation of IOS-MPI, an extension to MPI to support load balancing and process migration in dynamic grids.
• Implementation of a Gigabit messaging for the SALSA language (Simple Actor Language, System and Architecture).

Selected Course-Related Projects:

• Design and implementation of a parser and optimizer for SML/NG, a simple markup language designed for the new generation of hypertext rendering micro-devices.
• Development of a distributed Web search engine using Java RMI.
• Implementation of an HTTP load balancing server.
• Study and Design of a company’s Fast Ethernet Network that is upgradeable to Gigabit Ethernet.

Relevant Computer Skills:

• Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 98/XP/2000/NT, Unix, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD.
• Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Pascal, Assembly (X86 family), Visual Basic, ML, Lisp, Prolog.
• Internet Technologies: HTML, XML.
• OO modeling: UML
• Programming Paradigms: Parallel programming (MPI), Distributed programming (Java RMI), Multithreaded programming, Grid Computing (Globus).
• Protocols: TCP/IP, ATM, Myrinet GM, H.323.
• Database Development: Access, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL.
• Version Control Systems: CVS.

Awards & Honors:

• RPI’ Computer Science Student Service Award, 2005.
• RPI scholarship to participate in the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference, October 8^th, 2004.
• American Association of University Women fellowship for the academic year 02/03
• President’s List: Alakhawayn University (10 Semesters)
• First Place: First Arab-African ACM Collegiate Programming Contest, 11/98; Alakhawayn University
• Third Place: Math Olympiads Competition, 4/98; Alakhawayn University
• Highest Baccalaureate Score, 6/95, Academy of Settat.

Professional Activities:

• RPI Computer Science Graduate Curriculum Committee, Graduate Student Representative (Fall 2005-Spring 2006).
• Student Volunteer at Super Computing 2005 (SC 05).
• Reviewer for: DOA 2003 International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications, ICSOC03 International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, TEDC03 and TEDC 05 1st and 3^rd IEEE International Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries, Euro- Par 2005, the Scientific Programming Journal, winter 2005, and Coordination 2006.
• ACM Programming contest Judge: Arab-African Collegiate Programming Contest, 9/99 and 11/00.
• Student Government Association Member, 8/98-6/99.
• Memberships: IEEE, ACM, SWE.

References:

Available upon request