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About Me

This home page belongs to Witawas Srisa-an (Wit-ta-wat See-sa-an), an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Nebraska at Lincoln. I received my Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology in May 2002. Prior to joining UNL, I was a researcher at Iowa State University in the ECE department.

General Information:

Witawas Srisa-an
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Nebraska at Lincoln
105 Schorr Center
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0150
Phone: (402) 472-5004
Fax: (402) 472-7767
E-mail: witty@cse.unl.edu

My schedule (Fall 2009):

See my most current schedule (updated daily)

Research & Publications

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My research interest is in the area of garbage collection. My work is not exactly the same as those guys who drive a big garbage truck down your alley once or twice a week. On the contrary, it is related to object-oriented programming especially in the Java programming language and .NET computing framework. I am a member of The Laboratory for Empirically-based Software Quality Research and Development (ESQuaReD). More information about my research activities can be found below:

Publications: in HTML format
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Awards: in HTML format
Students: in HTML format
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03/11/2009: Effects of Different Nursery Sizing Policies on Performance accepted to ISMM '09.

10/22/2008: Contention-Aware Scheduler paper presented at OOPSLA '08.

02/01/2008: Garbage Collection: Java Application Servers' Achilles Heel article appeared in Elsevier Science of Computer Programming.

10/23/2007: MicroPhase paper presented at OOPSLA '07.

10/21/2007: GC-Friendly Thread Scheduling Policies paper presented at ISMM '07.

Teaching

For this semester, I am teaching Fundamentals of Computer Science (CSCE101) and Computer Engineering Senior Design Project (CSCE489). In the past, I also taught:

CSCE101: Fundamentals of Computer Science (F 2008) with the following summary of student's evaluation.
CSCE990: seminar on Cyber-Physical Systems (F 2008).
CSCE990: Advanced Runtime Systems (Sp 2008) with the following summary of student's evaluation.
CSCE990: Network Systems Seminar on Transactional Memory (F 2007).
CSCE351: Operating System Kernels (F 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007).
CSCE496/896: Embedded Systems Design and Implementation (Sp 2005, 2006).
CSCE496/896: Performance Analysis of O-O Systems (Sp 2004, F 2005).
CSCE489: Senior Design Project (F 2004, 2007).
CSCE488: Computer Engineering Professional Development (Sp 2004, 2007).
CSCE230: Computer Organization(Summer 2003).
CSCE430: Computer Architecture (Sp 2003, Sp 2008).

Hobbies

Since I work in a rapidly changing world of computers, I like other things around me to be a lot more static (almost like frozen in time). For example, I love automobiles from the late 60's and early 70's. This is especially true for my all time favorite marque, Alfa Romeo. Living in the US provides a great incentive for owning an Alfa. First, the car is not well loved by most, so the price is very reasonable. Parts are not terribly difficult to find. They are also easy to work on.

In addition, I love to cook. I like to take photographs using the old Contax SLRs from the 70s and listen to my favorite songs on my old but trusty 1972 Linn LP12 turntable.

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