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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 (วิทวัส ศรีสอ้าน in Thai)
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

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Research & Publications

Recent News

My research interests lie at the intersection between programing language and operating system. Specifically, my work tries to improve the overall performance of modern object-oriented languages through collaborations between operating systems and language runtime systems. To enable such collaborations, various techniques ranging from static program analyses through low-overhead runtime analyses are used to generate necessary information.

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:

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05/01/2013: SimRacer: A Scalable and Automated Framework to Support Testing for Process-Level Races has been accepted to ISSTA 2013.

08/02/2012: Du Li successfully defended his PhD dissertation. He is now a postdoc at CMU.

03/01/2012: SimTester: A Controllable and Observable Testing Framework for Embedded Systems paper presented at VEE 2012.

10/21/2011: SOS: Saving Time in Dynamic Race Detection with Stationary Analysis paper presented at SPLASH/OOPSLA 2011.

08/26/2011: Quarantine: A Framework to Mitigate Memory Errors in JNI Applications paper presented at PPPJ 2011.

Teaching

CSCE101: Fundamentals of Computer Science (F 2009) with the following summary of student's evaluation.
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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