Biography of Calton Pu

Calton Pu was born in Taiwan, but grew up in Brazil.  He received his
PhD from University of Washington in 1986 and served on the faculty of
Columbia University and Oregon Graduate Institute.  Currently, he is holding
the position of Professor and John P. Imlay, Jr. Chair in Software at the
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology.  He is leading the
Infosphere project, part of the DARPA Information Technology Expedition
program.   Infosphere is a joint project between Georgia Tech and OGI, plus
a number of other collaborators.  Infosphere builds on his previous and
ongoing research interests.  First, he has been working on next-generation
operating system kernels to achieve high performance, adaptiveness,
security, and modularity, using program specialization, software feedback,
and domain-specific languages.  This area has included projects such as
Synthetix, Immunix, Microlanguages, and Microfeedback, applied to
distributed multimedia and system survivability.  Second, he has been
working on new data and transaction management by extending database
technology.  This area has included projects such as Epsilon
Serializability, Reflective Transaction Framework, and Continual Queries
over the Internet.  His collaborations include applications of these
techniques in scientific research on macromolecular structure data, weather
data, and environmental data, as well as in industrial settings.  He has
published more than 25 journal papers, 90 conference and refereed workshop
papers, and served on more than 40 program committees, including the co-PC
chair of SRDS'95, co-general chair of ICDE'97, and co-PC chair of ICDE'99.
He is currently an associate editor of IEEE TKDE, DAPD, and IJODL.  His
research is currently funded by NSF, DARPA, Intel, and other sources.