Paul Lu, PhD

Professor, Faculty of Science - Computing Science

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Science - Computing Science
Email
paullu@ualberta.ca

Overview

About

Education

  • B.Sc., Computing Science, University of Alberta, 1991
  • M.Sc., Computing Science, University of Alberta, 1993
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2000

Positions

  • Department Associate Chair (Undergraduate)

Research

Area

Software Systems

Interests

Parallel and distributed systems, operating systems, cloud computing, high-performance wide-area networks, bioinformatics.

Summary

I am interested in all aspects of high-performance computing, but especially parallel and distributed systems, and cloud computing. My research program centers on systems software (OS, VMs, parallel programming) and, most recently, high-performance data transfers and IaaS cloud computing.