My research interests include performance evaluation, networks, operating systems and compiler optimizations. My current research focuses on the Morph project, which aims to provide a framework for automatically monitoring and optimizing software that runs on an end user's computer. The paper titled "System support for Automatic Profiling and Optimization" describes the project in detail and will appear in the 16^th ACM Symposium of Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) in October, 1997.

The Morph system is targeted towards personal computers. Therefore, it is extremely important to implement the system on Windows NT, one of the major operating systems for personal computers, and achieve performance improvements on common desktop software such as MS Office and Internet Explorer. We're currently spending large efforts in porting our Unix-based prototype system to Windows NT. We believe that this workshop would offer great help in understanding the Windows NT environment, how it is different from UNIX and how the differences affect our design choices of the Morph system.

Xiaolan (Catherine) Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
401 Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge MA 02138, USA
cxzhang@eecs.harvard.edu
Phone: (617)-496-8031
https://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cxzhang