Kyle’s Curriculum Vitae

Advisor

Education

• M.S. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, May 15, 2005. Load Balancing for High Speed Parallel Network Intrusion Detection (local) Advisor: Lambert Schaelicke
• B.S. Computer Science, Ohio University, June 2002 (Minor in Psychology)

Industry Experience

• Sandia National Laboratories, Intern, Scalable Computing Systems (June 2006–present)
• NetSeats Electronic Ticketing Systems, Software Developer (Jun–Sep 00, Nov–Jan 00, Jun–Sep 01, Nov–Jan 2001)

Books

• Qmail Quickstarter, published by Packt Publishing, June 2007 (Amazon)

Research Interests

• Large Scale Lightweight Threading
• High Performance Operating Systems
• Parallelism
• Network Intrusion Detection
• Firewalls
• Kernel-layer Traffic Handling

Refereed Articles

• Kyle Wheeler, Richard Murphy, Douglas Thain, Qthreads: An API for Programming with Millions of Lightweight Threads, in the Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (aka: IPDPS '08, in the MTAAP '08 workshop), IEEE Press, 2008. (pdf)
• Kyle Wheeler and Richard Murphy, Lightweight Threading for Architectural Design Research, in the CSRI Summer Proceedings 2007.
• Arun Rodriquez, Kyle Wheeler, Keith Underwood, and Peter Kogge, Fine-Grained Message Pipelining for Improved MPI Performance, in the Proceedings of IEEE Cluster 2006, IEEE Press, 2006.
• Lambert Schaelicke, Kyle Wheeler and Curt Freeland, SPANIDS: A Scalable Network Intrusion Detection Loadbalancer, in the Proceedings of Computing Frontiers, ACM CS Press, New York, N.Y., 2005. (pdf)

Teaching Assistantships

• CSE 211: Fundamentals of Computing (Dr. Matthias Scheutz) Fall 2002
• CSE 341: Operating System Principles (Dr. Lambert Schaelicke) Spring 2003

Honors, Awards, and Memberships

• Re-inducted into the University of Notre Dame Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, 2004
• Inducted into the Ohio University Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, 2002
• President of Athens Area Linux Users Group, 2000–2001
• Member of ACM since 2000

Unpublished Papers

• Memory Management in a Massively Parallel Shared-Memory Environment (pdf) Ph.D. Proposal; written April 14, 2007
• Distributed Firewall Policy Validation (pdf) CSE 598Z (Distributed Systems) Final Project; written December 7, 2004
• HyperTalk: The Language for the Rest of Us (pdf) CSE 531 (Programming Languages); written December 6, 2003
• Feedback-based Dynamic Traffic Load Balancing for High Speed Network Intrusion Detection (pdf) with Dr. Lambert Schaelicke. Masters Proposal; written August 2003
• Getting Emotional: A short survey of modern thought on machine affective states (pdf) Written May 2, 2003
• Investigation of the Power-Performance Trade-off in High-Performance Processors (pdf) with Todd Hoffenberg. CSE 521 (Architecture) Final Project; written April 2003.