Frank Mueller

Computer Science

  • Phone: 919-515-7889
  • Office: Engineering Building II (EB2) 3266

Frank Mueller is a professor in the Computer Science Department at NC State University.

Research Interests

  • Architecture and Operating Systems
  • Cloud Computing
  • Embedded and Real-Time Systems
  • Parallel and Distributed Systems
  • Quantum Computing
  • Scientific and High-Performance Computing
  • Software Engineering and Programming Languages

Education

DegreeProgramSchoolYear
Ph.D.Doctor of Philosophy in Computer ScienceFlorida State University1994
MSCSMaster of Science in Computer ScienceFlorida State University1991
BSCSBachelor of Science in Computer ScienceTechnical University Berlin1987

Honors and Awards

  • 2019 | Best Paper Award at the IEEE Cluster Computing Conference (Cluster)
  • 2019 | Gauss Award for “most outstanding research paper submitted to the International Supercomputing Conference” (ISC)
  • 2018 | Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data (BDCAT)
  • 2018 | ACM Fellow
  • 2017 | Outstanding Paper Award at the European Conference on Real-Time Systems
  • 2016 | IEEE Fellow
  • 2014 | Humboldt Research Award (Humboldt Foundation)
  • 2012 | Gold Core Member Award, IEEE- Computer Society (IEEE-CS)
  • 2011 | Distinguished Member Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • 2010 | NVIDIA Research Award
  • 2009 | Google Research Award
  • 2007 | Humboldt Research Fellowship (Humboldt Foundation)
  • 2007 | Gelato (IP)2 Award, Innovative Project on Itanium processors
  • 2007 | Best Paper Award, IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
  • 2006 | IBM Faculty Award
  • 2003 | National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award
  • 2003 | Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS)
  • 2002 | Best Paper Award at the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
  • 2002 | Faculty Research and Professional Development Award, North Carolina State University
  • 1999 | Advisor of Best Master’s Thesis at Humboldt University Berlin in Computer Science
  • 1989 | Fulbright-Stipend and Stipend by the Federation of German-American Clubs

 

Publications

CLAIRE: Enabling Continual Learning for Real-time Autonomous Driving with a Dual-head Architecture
Zhang, H., & Mueller, F. (2022), 2022 IEEE 25TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (ISORC 2022), pp. 51–60. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISORC52572.2022.9812816
Combining Hard and Soft Constraints in Quantum Constraint-Satisfaction Systems
Wilson, E., Mueller, F., & Pakin, S. (2022), SC22: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, NETWORKING, STORAGE AND ANALYSIS. https://doi.org/10.1109/SC41404.2022.00018
Guest editorial: Special issue on the 2020 IEEE symposium on real-time distributed computing (ISORC)
Cucinotta, T., Mueller, F., & Simmhan, Y. (2022, March), JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE, Vol. 124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2022.102437
P-ckpt: Coordinated Prioritized Checkpointing
Behera, S., Wan, L., Mueller, F., Wolf, M., & Klasky, S. (2022), 2022 IEEE 36TH INTERNATIONAL PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYMPOSIUM (IPDPS 2022), pp. 436–446. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS53621.2022.00049
T-SYS: Timed-Based System Security for Real-Time Kernels
McDonald, B., & Mueller, F. (2022), 2022 13TH ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (ICCPS 2022), pp. 247–258. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCPS54341.2022.00029
Hummingbird: efficient performance prediction for executing genomic applications in the cloud
Bahmani, A., Xing, Z., Krishnan, V., Ray, U., Mueller, F., Alavi, A., … Pan, C. (2021), BIOINFORMATICS, 37(17), 2537–2543. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab161
Mapping Constraint Problems onto Quantum Gate and Annealing Devices
Wilson, E., Mueller, F., & Pakin, S. (2021), PROCEEDINGS OF SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON QUANTUM COMPUTING SOFTWARE (QCS 2021), pp. 110–117. https://doi.org/10.1109/QCS54837.2021.00016
NUMA-aware memory coloring for multicore real-time systems
Pan, X., & Mueller, F. (2021), JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE, 118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2021.102188
Quantum Annealing Stencils with Applications to Fuel Loading of a Nuclear Reactor
Fustero, J., Palmtag, S., & Mueller, F. (2021), 2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUANTUM COMPUTING AND ENGINEERING (QCE 2021) / QUANTUM WEEK 2021, pp. 265–275. https://doi.org/10.1109/QCE52317.2021.00044
Systemic Assessment of Node Failures in HPC Production Platforms
Das, A., Mueller, F., & Rountree, B. (2021), 2021 IEEE 35TH INTERNATIONAL PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYMPOSIUM (IPDPS), pp. 267–276. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS49936.2021.00035

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