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MULI BEN-YEHUDA February 20, 2010
| Address: | 27 Yakinton St., Haifa, Israel
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| Telephone: | +972-54-6976101
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| E-mail: | mulix@mulix.org, muli@il.ibm.com
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| Web: | http://www.mulix.org
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| Blog: | http://mulix.livejournal.com
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| A technical leadership position in systems
research, working on challenging research problems at the
intersection of operating systems, virtual machines, and computer
architecture.
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| 2009 -- Current | Manager, Virtualization and System
Architecture--IBM Haifa Research Lab.
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I managed a team of
approximately 10 researchers working in the areas of hypervisor,
operating system, and I/O technologies.
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| 2003 -- Current | Researcher--IBM
Haifa Research Lab.
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I conceived, researched, designed and
implemented systems either alone, as part of a team, or while
leading a team. For example, I:
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| 2002 | Linux kernel Engineer - Qlusters, Inc., Tel
Aviv, Israel.
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I developed some of the core components
of Qlusters' Linux based cluster OS.
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| 2000 -- 2001 | Programmer and Systems
Analyst--Pointer Software Systems, Israel.
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I designed and
implemented creative solutions to customers' problems, such as an
object serialization framework, an embedded database engine, and a
library for GSM modems.
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| 1997 -- 2000 | Programmer and Programming Team
Leader--IDF, Intelligence Corps.
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I designed and implemented
several projects dealing with parsing, understanding and
representing large amounts of data.
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| 2009 | IBM Research Accomplishment
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Received an IBM
Research Accomplishment for contributions to ``Linux and Open
Virtualization''.
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| 2008 | IBM Research Accomplishment
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Received an IBM
Research Accomplishment for contributions to ``Availability Manager
for virtual machine availability systems management in IBM Systems
Director''.
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| 2006-2011 | IBM Master Inventor
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Appointed Master
Inventor in recognition of extraordinary contributions to IBM's
intellectual property.
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| Operating Systems: | Excellent knowledge of
the Linux kernel, system libraries and software. Core Linux
developer. Familiarity with other operating systems and
hypervisors.
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| Programming: | Excellent knowledge of C. Varying levels of
proficiency in C++, Java, Perl, Python, ML, Pascal, Lisp, shells,
x86 and PPC asm.
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| SW Engineering: | Well versed in all aspects of
the software engineering process, including research, analysis,
design, review, development, QA and verification.
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| Management: | Experienced in management of small
groups and managing geographically distributed research and
software development projects.
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| Communication: | Excellent oral and written communication
skills, teaching and training experience. Frequent speaker on
technical subjects.
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| [vnic09]: |
Applying Amdahl's Other Law to the Data
Center, IBM JR&D, 53(5)
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| [nap09]: |
NAP: A Building Block for Remediating Performance
Bottlenecks via Black Box Network Analysis, ICAC '09
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| [reservoir09]: |
The RESERVOIR Model and Architecture for
Open Federated Cloud Computing, IBM JR&D, 53(4)
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| [sio08]: |
Scalable I/O--A Well-Architected Way to Do
Scalable, Secure and Virtualized I/O, WIOV '08
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| [kvmda08]: |
Direct Device Assignment for Untrusted
Fully-Virtualized Virtual Machines, IBM Research Report H-0263
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| [hydra08]: |
Tapping into the Fountain of CPUs--On
Operating Systems Support for Programmable Devices, ASPLOS '08
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| [vigilant08]: |
Vigilant--Out-of-band Detection of
Failures in Virtual Machines, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems
Review, 42(1)
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| [cdpvm08]: |
Virtual Machine Time Travel Using Continuous
Data Protection and Checkpointing, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems
Review, 42(1)
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| [iommu07]: |
The Price of Safety: Evaluating IOMMU
Performance, OLS '07
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| [iponly06]: |
IP Only Server, USENIX '06
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| [iommu06]: |
Utilizing IOMMUs for Virtualization in Linux and
Xen, OLS '06
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| [tcpaccel06]: |
Loosely Coupled TCP Acceleration
Architecture, HOTI '06
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| [Patents]: |
Patent disclosures, Author of 24
patent disclosures which have been submitted for filing to the
USPTO. Full list is available upon request.
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| Workshop Co-Chair: | WIOV '10, WIOV '08, SYSTOR '07.
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| Journal guest editor: | ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review,
special issue on Research and Developments in the Linux kernel.
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| PC Member: | ICS '10, WIOV '10, SYSTOR '10, SYSTOR '09,
MMCS '09, WIOV '08, SYSTOR '07.
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| Publicity Chair: | SYSTOR '09.
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| Member: | USENIX, ACM SIGOPS, EuroSys.
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| Linux Kernel | http://www.mulix.org/kernel.html
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I am an active Linux kernel developer, maintaining the Calgary
IOMMU and contributing to other areas of the kernel.
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| KVM Hypervisor | http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki
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I
am an active KVM hypervisor developer. I am working on IOMMU
support for KVM, and also contribute to other areas of the
hypervisor.
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| Xen Hypervisor | http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/
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I developed
IOMMU support for Xen, and also contributed to other
areas of the hypervisor.
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| syscalltrack | http://syscalltrack.sf.net
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I co-founded the syscalltrack project, led it and was its most
active developer. syscalltrack is a Linux kernel 2.4 based tool
for debugging and monitoring a Linux system. I designed and
implemented large parts of the kernel modules, the configuration
and control utilities, the libraries and the testing framework.
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| ADSL/pptp | http://www.mulix.org/adsl.html
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I reverse-engineered the pptp protocol and wrote patches to the
pptp client to allow Linux users in Israel to connect to Bezeq's
ADSL service.
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| Various | http://www.mulix.org/code.html
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I contributed patches to several other free software projects.
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| Partial studies in Computer Science in the
Technion and the Open University, Haifa, Israel.
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Fluent in Hebrew and English.
Available upon request.