I am an associate professor of Computer Science and Systems within the School of Engineering and Technology at the University of Washington - Tacoma. My research interests broadly encompass Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, and Software Engineering.

Cloud and Distributed Systems (CDS) Research Lab

Our group engages in research spanning Serverless computing (FaaS), Containerization, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing, virtualization, performance and cost modeling of cloud application deployments, and cloud infrastructure management. By harnessing resource utilization metrics to characterize performance of applications and workloads running in the cloud, we develop and apply machine learning and statistical techniques to model application performance, address scaling, and improve autonomous resource management. Given a variety of ways applications can be deployed to cloud environments, our research aims to demystify the myriad of options to guide scientists and practitioners towards making informed deployment decisions that improve performance and availability while reducing hosting costs.

PhD Students: Robert W. Cordingly, Xinghan Chen, Varik Hoang, Anindya Dey MSCSS Students: Tomoki Kondo†, Runjie Jin†, Andrew Nguyen, Xinru Wu BSCSS Students: Austin Bomhold In Memorium PhD Student: Zohreh Sadeghi (memorial) MSCSS Alumni: Heyuan Wang, Agamjot Panesar (Meta), Naman Bhaia (MathWorks), Divyansh Dwivedi (Microsoft), Di Mo (Amazon), Sunita Garjurel (PrimeOrbit), Jasleen Kaur (Juniper Networks), Madhuri Sharma† (Amazon), Ruochen Wang (Amazon), Nischal Khadka (Google), Zening Zhao (TikTok), Bob Schmitz (Sinclair Digital), Siddharth Sheth (Rocket Mortgage), Navid Heydari (T-Mobile), Hanfei Yu† (Stevens Institute of Technology PhD Student), Sonia Xu (Amazon AWS), Ailian Li (Google), Raymond Schooley (APL-UW), Delvin Mackenzie (DigiPen), Edward Han (Amazon), Baojia Zhang (Airbnb), Minh Vu (Oracle), Huazeng Deng (Zoox), Lan Ly (Tempered Networks), Jugal Gahdhi (E-bay), Paranjit Singh (Amazon), Harrison Ross BSCSS Alumni: Lan Ly (Tempered Networks), Devin Durham (Microsoft), Wen Shu (T-Mobile), Sterling Quinn☨ (Amazon), Thaddaeus Hug (Anitian), Jake Yang (Boeing), David Perez (Colorado State University Research Assoc.) Industry Collaborators: Garrett Lahmann (T-Mobile), Shruti Ramesh (Airbnb), Vladimir Kaganyuk (T-Mobile) †-MSCSS thesis, ☨Honors thesis Weekly Research Meeting Spring Quarter 2025: Date/time inquire by email Location: Hybrid Zoom & MDS312 The weekly meeting is open to all students, undergraduate and graduate, with interest in learning about, and becoming involved in cloud and distributed systems research. Our research is currently supported by the National Science Foundation (1849970), and the National Institutes of Health (5R01GM126019-02). Our group collaborates with the eScience Institute at the University of Washington, Object Modeling System Laboratory at Colorado State University, the United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and the Natural Resource Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS). My research helps scientists, biologists, and practioners to leverage cloud computing to help improve the performance of applications while reducing hosting costs. Our publications include topics in cloud computing, scientific computing, performance modeling, web/service computing, software metrics, and requirements engineering. Contact Information: School of Engineering and Technology University of Washington, Tacoma 1900 Commerce Street, Room 229 Tacoma, WA 98402-3100 Office: Hours: Email: Cherry Parkes 229 TBA or by appointment via Zoom wlloyd@uw.edu