Honors and Awards • Yahoo! Graduate Teaching Award, 2013 • Runner-up at Cornell Startup Weekend, 2012 • SIGMOD 2011 Best Paper Award for “Entangled Queries: Enabling Declarative Datadriven Coordination” • Certificate of Achievement for outstanding contributions as a Teaching Assistant, Fall 2010 • Autodesk Fellowship, Cornell University, 2009-2010 • Bigyan Sinha Memorial Award, 2009 • O. P. Jin...

Startup of distillation columns is one of the most difficult operations of chemical processes. Since it often lasts a period of time, leads to off-products and costs much energy, optimization of startup operating policies for distillation columns is of great interest in process industry. Most previous studies on column startup have been restricted to theoretical investigations such as modeling,...

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In this paper, we describe two techniques for assuring a high integrity startup in a PC based computing environment. We begin with background information on PC startup procedures and current integrity threats against normal PC startup. We then describe a sound technique for assuring a high integrity startup and the basis for its soundness. Next we show a second method which is not sound, but wh...

Author experiences from working jointly and within startups inform this chapter. Emphasizing the importance of employees achieving unprecedented productivity through working collaboratively and supported by flexible roles and social technologies cannot be understated. Startup employees led by the entrepreneur are masters of embracing complexity. This means the startup team understands cause and...

Harvesting energy from the environment by using a thermoelectric generator (TEG) or photovoltaic cells provides a solution for battery-free sensor networks or electronic healthcare systems. In these systems, the harvested energy is supplied at a very low voltages, requiring a low-startup-voltage power circuit for kick-start from low voltage. A previous sub-100mV-startup-voltage boost converter ...

The startup time of open source desktop applications and environments does not compare well with other systems, especially closed-source systems. We perform a detailed analysis of the startup of the GNOME desktop environment using a mixture of available open-source tools and ad-hoc measuring techniques, identifying bottlenecks and examining strategies to improve performance. Our results show th...

SMB represents one of the widely established periodic adsorption processes and its periodic and nonlinear dynamics presents a significant challenge to the formulation and solution of the optimal startup issue. A multistage startup concept allowing to adjust operating conditions stage-wise is proposed. The startup problem is then formulated aiming at driving the system towards the reference cycl...