Keerthana Boloor, a CPE Ph.D. student of Dr. Yannis Viniotis and Dr. Rada Chirkova, has been awarded an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship. The IBM Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded worldwide with around 70 recipients for 2010-2011 where the IBM Ph.D. Fellows are awarded a stipend for one academic year.

Keerthana’s research project, titled “Distributed event processing for efficient service level agreement based resource management of cloud computing systems,” aims to investigate complex event stream processing techniques for efficient resource management of cloud computing systems. More recently, map-reduced framework has proven very successful for highly parallel processing, storage and retrieval of large volumes of data.

The goals of this project are to investigate newer methods to maximally leverage the map-reduced framework for parallel processing, collection and event rule processing of streamed events for resource management of cloud computing systems. Her research considers most commonly deployed service level agreements for the rule processing and develop parallel algorithms for processing of these rules in a map-reduced framework.

Keerthana has also submitted a paper titled “Heuristic-based request scheduling subject to a percentile response time SLA in a distributed cloud” to Globecom 2010.

The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study. These include: computer science and engineering, electrical and mechanical engineering, physical sciences (including chemistry, material sciences, and physics), mathematical sciences (including optimization), business sciences (including financial services, communication, and learning/knowledge), and service science, management, and engineering (SSME).