Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Florida State University, 2007
• M.S. in Computer Science, Florida State University, 2003
• B.E. in Computer Engineering,Poona University, India, 2001

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Research:

• Static and dynamic/adaptive compilers
• Computer architecture
• Embedded systems

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Honors:

• IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, 2006-07
• Florida State University Featured Student, November 2006
• Finalist in the Florida State University Research and Creativity Awards, April 2006

Selected Publications:

• Prasad Kulkarni, Matthew Arnold, and Michael Hind, Dynamic Compilation: The Benefits of Early Investing published in the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE '07), June 14-16, 2007.
• Prasad Kulkarni, David Whalley, Gary Tyson, and Jack Davidson, Evaluating Heuristic Optimiza- tion Phase Order Search Algorithms published in the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO '07), pp. 157-169, March 2007. [Acceptance Rate: 30.95%]
• Prasad Kulkarni, David Whalley, Gary Tyson, and Jack Davidson, In Search of Near-Optimal Optimization Phase Orderings published in the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES '06), pp. 83-92, June 2006. [Acceptance rate: 25.3%]
• Prasad Kulkarni, David Whalley, Gary Tyson, and Jack Davidson, Exhaustive Optimization Phase Order Space Exploration published in the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Code Generation and Opti- mization (CGO '06), pp. 306-318, March 2006. [Acceptance rate: 36.25%]
• Prasad Kulkarni, Steve Hines, Jason Hiser, David Whalley, Jack Davidson, and Douglas Jones, Fast Searches for Effective Optimization Phase Sequences published in the ACM SIGPLAN Confer- ence on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI '04), pp. 171-182, June 2004. [Acceptance rate: 19.53%]
• Prasad Kulkarni, Wankang Zhao, Hwashin Moon, Kyunghwan Cho, David Whalley, Jack Davidson, Mark Bailey, Yunheung Paek, and Kyle Gallivan, Finding Effective Optimization Phase Sequences published in the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES '03), pp. 12-23, June 2003. [Acceptance rate: 22.7%]
• Prasad Kulkarni, Wankang Zhao, Steve Hines, David Whalley, Xin Yuan, Robert van Engelen, Kyle Gallivan, Jason Hiser, Jack Davidson, Baosheng Cai, Mark Bailey, Hwashin Moon, Kyunghwan Cho, Yunheung Paek, and Douglas Jones, VISTA: VPO Interactive System for Tuning Applications published in the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 5(4):819 - 863, November 2006.
• Prasad Kulkarni, Steve Hines, David Whalley, Jason Hiser, Jack Davidson, and Douglas Jones, Fast and Efficient Searches for Effective Optimization Phase Sequences published in the ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2(2):165-198, June 2005.
• Prasad Kulkarni, David Whalley, Gary Tyson, and Jack Davidson, Practical Exhaustive Optimiza- tion Phase Order Exploration and Evaluation submitted in the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS). [Submitted: October 2006]

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