Distributed systems have become the fundamental computing infrastructures for many important real-world applications such as Internet search engine, enterpise data center, virtualized hosting infrastructure, online file sharing, information analytics, and scientific computing. The DANCE research group conducts fundamental research in distributed systems with focuses on intellignent management of complex distributed systems, distributed data-intensive computing, and system reliablity and availability.

Distributed system research resembles dancing in many ways. Both are fun but challenging; both require a lot of coordinated thinking but are also super-rewarding!   --- Xiaohui (Helen) Gu.

• 2/2012: [Students] Congratulations to Zhiming for receiving an internship offer from IBM T.J. Watson and Hiep and Daniel for receiving internship offers from NEC Labs.
  
• 2/2012: [Publication] Congratulations to Yongmin, Hiep and Zhiming for having a paper accepted by ICDCS 2012.
  
• 1/2012: [Funding] Helen received NSF Career Award valued at $450K to support our research on robust hosting infrastructure. Thanks NSF for supporting our research!
• 12/2011: [Funding] DANCE group received a three-year grant from NSA Science of Security lablet to conduct research on security in cloud and mobile devices. The research is in collabraotion with Prof. William Enck's group.
  
• 10/2011:[Jobs] Congratulations to Juan and Sethu for receiving job offers from Amazon and NetApp ATG (aka research)!
  
• 9/2011:[Funding] Helen received the fourth IBM faculty award. Thanks IBM for the continuous support for our research!
  
• 7/2011:[Publication] Congratulations to Zhiming and Sethu for having paper accepted by ACM SOCC 2011, the top cloud computing conference with a low acceptance rate 30/178!
  
• 6/2011:[Publication] Congratulations to Kamal Kc for having a paper accepted by IEEE SRDS 2011.
  
• 5/2011:[Funding] Received $61K Google Research Award to study resource scaling for cloud!
  
• 5/2011:Congratulations to Juan for successfully defending her PhD thesis. She is officially Dr. Du now.
  
• 4/2011:[Publication] Congratuations to Yongmin and Juan for having full papers accepted to IWQoS 2011, the top venue in QoS research.
  
• 3/2011:[Students] Congratulations to Hiep and Kamal for receiving internship offers from NEC and Intel Labs.
  
• 3/2011: [Students] Congratulations to Kamal Kc for receiving College outstanding TA award!
  
• 10/2010: [Funding] received $14K IBM Faculty award to study automatic log analysis.
  
• 10/2010:PRESS project received best paper award from CNSM 2010!
  
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