Ioana Cutcutache

<body> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <img border="1" src="my_photo.jpg" align="left" width="136" height="179" vspace="40" hspace="25"> <b> <font size="6" color="#000080"> </font><font size="2" color="#000080">     </font></b> </p> <p style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"> <font size="6" color="#000080"><b>      Ioana Cutcutache</b></font><font size="4">       <span style="font-style: normal">  </span></font></p> <address style="margin-left: 2px"><font size="4"><span style="font-style: normal">    <font face="Times New Roman">     </font></span></font> <span style="font-style: normal"> <font face="Times New Roman" size="4">    </font></span><font size="4"><span style="font-style: normal"><font face="Times New Roman">Research Assistant & Ph.D. Student</font></span></font></address> <address style="margin-left: 2px"><span style="font-style: normal"> <font face="Times New Roman" size="4">       </font></span></address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-left:2px"><span style="font-style: normal"> <font face="Times New Roman" size="4">              <a href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/cs/">Computer Science Department</a></font></span></address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-left:2px"><span style="font-style: normal"> <font size="4" face="Times New Roman">              <a href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/">School of Computing</a></font></span></address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-left:2px"><span style="font-style: normal"> <font size="4" face="Times New Roman">              <a href="http://www.nus.edu.sg/">National University of Singapore</a></font></span></address> <p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:2px"> <font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>              Office</b> : COM1 01-15 (Embedded Systems Research Lab 2)</font></p> <p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <font face="Times New Roman" size="4">              <b> Email</b> : <span style="font-style: normal">ioana at comp.nus.edu.sg</span></font></p> <p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">  </p> <p style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">  </p> <hr> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px"> <font size="5" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080"> <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700">About me</span></font></address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px">  </address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px"> <span style="font-style: normal"> I started my postgraduate studies at NUS in January 2006 and I work in the <a target="_top" href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~embsys/">Embedded Systems Lab</a> under the supervision of <a target="_top" href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~wongwf">Assoc. Prof. Wong Weng Fai</a>. I obtained my B.S. degree in Computer Science in 2005 from <a href="http://www.acs.pub.ro/index_eng.html">The Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers</a>, <a target="_top" href="http://www.pub.ro/English/eng.htm">Politehnica University of Bucharest</a>, Romania.</span></address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px">  </address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px"> <span style="font-style: normal">My research interests include dynamic instrumentation, compilers and embedded systems. </span></address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px"> <span style="font-style: normal">For more information on my research please visit <a href="research.htm">this</a> page.</span></address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px">  </address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px"> <span style="font-style: normal">Currently, as a research assistant, I also work at the A*STAR project EASEL - Engineering Architectures and Software for the Embedded Landscape.</span></address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">  </address> <hr> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px">  </address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px"> <span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 700"> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="5" color="#000080">My research</font></span></address> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px">  </address> <ul> <li> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px"> <span style="font-style: normal">I am currently working on a <b> pipelined profiling and analysis technique</b> which is a novel approach for parallelizing dynamic program profiling and analysis in order to take advantage of multi-core systems. A paper about it will be presented at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cgo.org">CGO 2008</a>. I am also investigating new ways of exploiting parallelism opportunities in sequential code for speeding up the execution on multi-cores.</span></address> </li> </ul> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:5px"> </address> <ul> <li> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px"> <span style="font-style: normal">As part of the EASEL project, I work on the design and implementation of a <b>SystemC-based simulator for wireless BAN platforms</b>. Our simulator is able to perform a fast, cycle-accurate execution-driven simulation of different medical applications (we are currently able to simulate an application that computes the systolic blood pressure based on ECG and SpO2 measurements) running on the target platform. The goal is to obtain accurate timing and energy estimates.</span></address> </li> </ul> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px"> </address> <ul> <li> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px"> <span style="font-style: normal">Previously, I have been working on a new <b>algorithm for integrating instruction scheduling with the linear-scan register allocation</b>. This algorithm is able to take advantage of the execution frequencies obtained through profiling and it was implemented in a real compiler, OpenIMPACT. The experimental results showed that it is competitive in the quality of the generated code while halving the time taken to perform these two optimizations. A <a target="_blank" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.860">paper</a> on this is going to be published in </span>Software: Practice and Experience<span style="font-style: normal"> journal.</span></address></li> </ul> <hr> <h1 style="margin-left: 15px"> <font size="5" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">Publications</font><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">  </font></h1> <h1 style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top:40px"> <span style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline"><font size="4"> Journal</font></span></h1> <p style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top:3px; margin-bottom:0"> <font face="Verdana">- Ioana Cutcutache, Weng-Fai Wong<b> - <a target="_blank" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.860">Fast, frequency-based, integrated register allocation and instruction scheduling</a></b></font></p> <p style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top:3px; margin-bottom:0"> <font face="Verdana">  accepted for publication in <i>Software: Practice and Experience</i></font></p> <p style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top:30px"> <u><font size="4" color="#000080">Conference</font></u></p> <p style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0">- Qin Zhao, Ioana Cutcutache, Weng-Fai Wong <b>- PiPA: Pipelined Profiling and Analysis on Multi-core Systems</b></p> <p style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0">  accepted at International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cgo.org">CGO 2008</a>)</p> <p style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top:30px"> <u><font size="4" color="#000080">Workshop</font></u></p> <p style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top:4px; margin-bottom:0"> <font color="#000080">- Kathy Dang Nguyen, Ioana Cutcutache, Saravanan Sinnadurai, Shanshan Liu, Cihat Basol, Adrian Curic, Bok Teck Tok, Xu Lin, Tulika Mitra </font></p> <p style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top:4px; margin-bottom:0"> <font color="#000080">  <b>A SystemC-based Fast Simulator for Biomonitoring Applications on Wireless BAN</b></font></p> <p style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top:4px; margin-bottom:0"> <font color="#000080">  Workshop on Software and Systems for Medical Devices and Services 2007 (<a target="_blank" href="http://oris.csie.ntu.edu.tw/SMDS07/">SMDS 2007</a>)</font></p> <address style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left:15px"> </address> <hr> <h1 style="margin-left: 15px"> <font size="5" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">PhD Progress</font></h1> <h1 style="margin-left: 15px"> <span style="font-weight: 400"> <font size="5">QEs</font></span></h1> <p style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top:4px; margin-bottom:0"> I passed the written PhD Qualifying Examinations in December 2006.</p> <p style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top:4px; margin-bottom:0"> As part of the qualifying examinations, I presented a graduate research paper in May 2007 (<a href="files/grp.pdf">pdf</a>, <a href="files/grp.pps">pps</a>).</p> <h1 style="margin-left: 15px"> <span style="font-weight: 400"> <font size="5">Coursework</font></span></h1> <table border="0" width="82%" id="table2"> <tr> <td width="452"> <p style="margin-left: 15px"><b>Spring 2007</b></p> <ul> <li> <a href="http://ivle.nus.edu.sg/course/template.asp?courseid={53499D89-C0A4-4A0A-B4B4-30BC5D488AEE}"> CS 4275</a> - Programming Real-Time Systems</li> <li><a href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs5219/">CS 5219</a> - Automated Software Validation</li> </ul> </td> <td width="366"> <p style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top:4px; margin-bottom:0"><b>Fall 2007</b></p> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-top:4px; margin-bottom:0"> <a href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs5215/">CS 5215</a> - Constraint Programming</p></li> </ul>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="452"> <p style="margin-left: 15px"> <b>Spring 2006</b></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs4271/">CS 4271</a> - Critical Systems and their Verification</li> <li><a href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs5214/">CS 5214</a> - Design of Optimising Compilers</li> <li><a href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs5270/">CS 5270</a> - Verification of Real Time Systems</li> </ul></td> <td width="366"> <p style="margin-left: 15px"> <b>Fall 2006</b></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~cs5272/">CS 5272</a> - Embedded Software Design</li> <p> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <h1 style="margin-left: 15px; margin-top:4px; margin-bottom:0"> <font size="5" face="Comic Sans MS"><font color="#000080">Photos 2006</font> </font> </h1> <p style="margin-left: 15px; 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