Pacia Harper

pacia at cs(dot)wisc(dot)edu

Please note: I left UW-Madison in August 2002 to be a full-time parent. I am considering returning to work, but only in the Madison area.

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.


Research assistant to Mark Hill, Jan. 2000-Aug. 2002
M.S. in Computer Science, May 2001.
Passed Ph.D. qualifying exam, January 2001.
Adviser, Mark Hill.
 3.56/4.0 GPA.


University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.


B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, Cum Laude and with High Distinction, May 1998.
3.82/4.0 GPA overall, 3.81/4.0 GPA in mathematics and computer science.

GRE general test scores:
730 verbal (98th percentile)
770 quantitative (93rd percentile)
800 analytical (99th percentile)


GRE computer science subject exam:
800/990 (91st percentile).

Graduate Honors and Awards

Department of Energy High-Performance Computing Fellowship, August 2000-August 2002.
University of Wisconsin Fellowship, August 1999-August 2000.

Employment

Compaq/Tandem Labs, Cupertino, CA.
Intern, June-August 2000.


Designed and partially implemented InfiniBand over ServerNet II, a Compaq networking technology based on the Virtual Interface Architecture.

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.
Post-baccalaureate student employee in the Network Engineering group, August 1998-August 1999.


May-August 1999: Developed software tools to help analyze network traffic, as part of the Network Traffic Characterization project. Helped develop the infrastructure to run network tests.

August 1998-May 1999: Worked with Ian Philp on a Linux implementation of the Scheduled Transfer protocol, a high-speed OS-bypass networking protocol.

Wolfram Research, Champaign, IL.
Software Quality Assurance tester, September 1997-present.


Developed tests for Mathematica, "the world's foremost software for scientific and technical computing."

IBM, Austin, TX.
Intern, May-August 1997.


Wrote and executed the framework test plan for WebSM, a systems management product shipping with AIX 4.3.

Publications

Using Destination-Set Prediction to Improve the Latency/Bandwidth Tradeoff in Shared Memory Multiprocessors,
Milo M. K. Martin, Pacia J. Harper, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill, and David A. Wood,
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2003.

Evaluating Non-deterministic Multi-threaded Commercial Workloads,
Alaa R. Alameldeen, Carl J. Mauer, Min Xu, Pacia J. Harper, Milo M.K. Martin, Daniel J. Sorin, Mark D. Hill and David A. Wood,
Workshop On Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads (CAECW), February 2002.

Skills

Unix (Linux, Solaris)
Linux system administration
C, C++, Perl and Java
CVS (setting up repositories as well as using them)
gdb (Unix debugger)
LaTeX, HTML
writing (mathematical proofs, software documentation, literary and philosophical analysis)

Windows (NT, 98, 2000, XP)
Python and shell scripting
sockets programming
embedded systems design and programming
assembly language (Solaris and x86)
FrameMaker, StarOffice, PowerPoint
Mathematica, MatLab