One more successful PhD defense

CISTER/INESC-TEC PhD student Dakshina Dasari has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Timing Analysis of Real-Time Systems Considering the Contention on the Shared Interconnection Network in Multicores”. Dakshina received her PhD with distinction from the University of Porto where she was enrolled in the PhD program jointly taught by CISTER/INESC-TEC and FEUP.

In her work Dakshina has studied multiple aspects of the contention problem for shared resources in multicore settings. A particular attention was given to the contention for a single shared memory bus and the potential impact of sharing that resource on the timing behavior of the applications. She has also studied other shared resources like the memory controller and the network-on-chip in modern many-core architectures. She has contributed significantly to that research domain and has developed a set of methods to augment the state-of-the-art worst-case execution time analysis techniques with the extra delay induced by these shared resources.

Dakshina has achieved solid performance throughout the four years of her PhD, with a total of four papers published in international conferences and one paper published in a renowned journal (and another one still under submission). The main opponents were Prof. Daniel Mossé from the University of Pittsburgh, (USA) and Prof. Thomas Nolte from Mälardalen University (MDH), Västerås (Sweden), both highly respected authorities in the field.