Marin Litoiu

Marin Litoiu

Associate Professor

 

York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3

 

Phone: 416-736-2100 x20987

Email: mlitoiu(at)yorku.ca

Research Partners:

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Until recently, I was a Research Staff Member with Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM Toronto Lab, where I led the research programs in software engineering, system management and autonomic computing. I led more than 30 collaborative projects with professors and students across the globe.  Two of the most important roles:

·         Director of Research for  Centre of Excellence for Research in Adaptive Systems (CERAS)

·         Chair of the Board of Directors for Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER)

 

Other past jobs: Assistant Professor, University Politehnica of Bucharest (Romania); Visiting Scientist, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and Universitat Politecnica de Catalunia (Spain).


Current appointments

·         Associate Professor: School of Information Technology and  Computer Science and Engineering Department, York University

·         Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

·         IBM CAS Faculty Fellow

·         List of recent professional activities


Research highlights:

·         I am interested in performance modeling and evaluation, capacity planning,  adaptive and autonomic systems, software as a service and Internet technologies

·         My performance evaluation tool:  APERA

·         Representative papers

·         I hold 5 international patents

 

Current projects:

·         Adaptive Web Services: sponsored by NSERC

·         Ultra Large Scale Systems: sponsored by IBM

·         Management Services for Cloud Computing: sponsored by IBM and OCE

 

Graduate Students

Hamoun Ghanbari, PhD, Computer Science

Cornel Barna, PhD, Computer Science

Andrei Solomon, MSc, Computer Science

Ivan Makarenka, MSc, Computer Science, part-time (IBM Toronto Lab)

Adrian Deen, MSc, Computer Science, part-time (IBM Toronto Lab)


In the news

·         IBM/OCE press release on TaaS

·         An YFile profile of my research

·         IEEE Software interview

·         IT World article on TaaS

·         2009 IBM Project of the Year Award


 

Conferences - Organizer or PC Member: 2008-2009

·         The 3rd International Workshop on Cloud Computing (IWCC 2009)

·         IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2009)

·         IEEE International Conference of Program Comprehension (ICPC 2009)

·         CASCON 2009

·         ACM ICSE SEAMS Workshop 2009

·         PESOS 2009

·         MESOA 2009


Teaching

2009-2010 courses:

          CSE 6002, Engineering Adaptive Systems

ITEC 4010, System Analysis and Design II

            ITEC 4020: Internet Client Server Systems. Section A&B