Scholar
Cristina L. Abad
Google Scholar ID: 3gOMoe0AAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,664
H-index
19
i10-index
30
Publications
20
Co-authors
20
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Research funded by industry grants from Google (2016, 2018), Microsoft (2017), and AT&T Labs (2019)
- Best Student Paper Award at Middleware 2021 for the 'Sizeless' paper
- Delivered keynotes and invited talks at international venues, including STARLESS Workshop at PerCom'22 (2022 keynote), UIUC CS Colloquium (2022), and Charles University D3S Seminar (2024)
- Contributed to the Apache Hadoop codebase
- Member of USENIX, ACM, IEEE, and SPEC RG Cloud Computing working group
Research Experience
- Worked for three years as a Software Engineering Intern on the Hadoop Core Team at Yahoo, Inc. (UIUC Research Park) during PhD studies
- Collaborated on multiple projects with Prof. Yi Lu
- Leads DiSEL lab projects in cloud computing, including storage workload modeling, model-based synthetic workload generation, cloud caching, and scheduling on Hadoop, containerized microservices, and serverless FaaS platforms
- Opened two graduate and one undergraduate research positions in 2022–2023
- Visited the University of Würzburg in March 2024 to continue work on the ROOT project
- PC Co-Chair for ICPE 2024 (15th International Conference on Performance Engineering)
Background
- Professor at ESPOL University in Guayaquil, Ecuador
- Leads the Distributed Systems @ ESPOL Research Lab (DiSEL)
- Co-directs the Big Data Research Group
- Main research interests lie at the intersection of distributed systems and performance engineering
- Focuses on improving performance and scalability of software infrastructure for Big Data and Cloud Computing
- Aims to build systems that auto-adapt to workload changes without expert human intervention
