To Tune or not To Tune
Nov 5, 2020
Abstract
Thomas Pasquier is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Bristol (UK). Thomas has been working on how to make systems more transparent and how to use the insights gained. During today session, Thomas will discuss his work with colleagues at Cambridge on auto-tuning on the spark platform. We proposed an (open-source) extension to Spark which learns to automatically select good configuration as more workload are executed. This work was recently discussed in a KDD article.
Location
Microsoft (virtually)
Authors
Associate Professor
I am an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, where I am a member of the Security and Systems research themes.
Previously, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia and remain affiliated with the UBC Security & Privacy Group and the Systopia Lab.
My research asks a fundamental question: How do we make complex systems observable enough to secure, understand, and safely modify them? I explore this question through work on system auditing and accountability, intrusion detection, and mechanisms for safely extending and optimizing complex systems.