Rahul Simha

Phone: 202-994-7181
E-mail: simha@gwu.edu
Campus Location(s): Phillips 717
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 3:30 - 5:30 PM

Prof.Simha interests are in the areas of: compilers, security, and computer systems in general, including embedded and distributed computing, networks and virtual machines.

Interests

Research: Compilers, Security, Embedded and Distributed Systems, Networks, Simulation, Bioinformatics. ; Teaching: Java, C, Algorithms, Integrated Science.

Education

PhD, 1990, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

MS, 1986, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Research

• Compilers: Prior work on instruction-level parallelism, power-aware compilation, embedded systems. Current interest: security and compilers.
• Security: Compilers and security, secure OS, electronic voting.
• Networks: Prior work on routing, optical networks, load balancing, performance optimization. Current interest: some problems in wireless networks.
• Simulation: Prior work on optimization in simulation, stochastic optimization methods. Current interest: complex systems, in particular, phase transition in combinatorial problems.
• Bioinformatics: Prior work on parallel protein folding. Current interest: modeling of biomolecular networks.
• Other areas: computer science education, science education, tablet computing.