Jeremy J. Sugerman
		Gates Building, Room 376; Stanford, CA 94305

Professional/Academic Interests:

   Building systems for, and influencing the design of, many-core
   commodity systems-- CPUs, GPUs, and heterogeneous hybrids.

   Designing virtualization / hypervisor architectures, I/O models, and
   virtual hardware / APIs for virtual machines.

   Generally interested in the hardware/software boundary and a wide
   range of systems topics including operating systems, parallelism,
   graphics hardware, and networking.

Education:

09/2003 - 08/2010 Stanford University, Stanford, CA
                  Ph.D.; Computer Science
		  Thesis: "Programming Many-Core Systems with GRAMPS"
                  Advisor: Pat Hanrahan
                  Stanford Graduate Fellow (http://sgf.stanford.edu/)

09/1997 - 06/1998 Stanford University, Stanford, CA
                  M.S.; Computer Science, Systems concentration
                  Advisor: Mendel Rosenblum

09/1994 - 06/1998 Stanford University, Stanford, CA
                  Dual B.S.; Computer Science and Mathematics
                  Advisor: Mendel Rosenblum
                  Graduated with distinction

Professional Experience:

04/1998 - 09/2010
   VMware Inc., Palo Alto, CA
   First employee hired, currently Principal Engineer

   Operate at-large with the CTO and R&D VPs to investigate, challenge,
   and advise our architectural strategies for the core hypervisors,
   virtual hardware, desktop virtualization, and GPU virtualization.
   Help shape our software development and planning processes to scale
   with an R&D organization and products that have grown rapidly for
   many years.  Advise the Co-Development R&D group in helping partners
   and interacting with internal development.

   Prior responsibilities have included:

   Helped virtualize the x86 architecture.  Worked on just about everything
   pertaining to machine virtualization, in depth on CPU, motherboard /
   chipset, SCSI and IDE devices, NIC, and graphics emulation and
   virtualization; Also Guest operating system and virtual BIOS bring-up;
   Led / Co-led group investigations into disk performance, interactive
   performance, ACPI support, and Keyboard/Mouse/Graphics support.  Mentored
   new many new employees, both recent college graduates and from elsewhere
   in industry.  Led the creation, staffing, and definition of the R&D side
   of the Community Source Program and serve as ongoing advisor.  Advised on
   3D virtualization, hardware assisted I/O virtualization and a variety of
   infrastructure, scaling, and organizational issues.  Championed high
   level visions of the future for virtual hardware.

   And the customary assortment of startup odd-jobs (including e.g.,
   wiring phones and teaching people to make Ethernet cables, covering
   customer support and systems administration, buying snacks, ...).

   2009 ACM Software System Award, with Ed Bugnion, Scott Devine, Mendel
   Rosenblum, and Edward Wang, for VMware Workstation For Linux 1.0.

10/2005 - 05/2006
   NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara CA
   Intern (Part-time during the academic year)

   With a fellow student, designed and analyzed ray tracing for the
   then-prerelease G80 GPU and CUDA development environment.  Produced a ray
   tracer with written report and accompanying presentation characterizing
   performance and identifying the architecture's and tool chain's strengths
   and weaknesses.  Some recommendations were incorporated into subsequent
   products and patents.

06/1997 - 09/1997
06/1996 - 09/1996
   Taos Mountain Software, Palo Alto CA (now Santa Clara, CA)
   Technical Staff Member

   Contract UNIX system and network administrator.  Supported internal PPP /
   ISDN users and general weekend coverage at Sun Microsystems in 1996.  One
   of two principal network / system administrators at a startup in 1997,
   fulfilling a wide range of duties.

Research Experience:

09/2003 - 08/2010
   Stanford University Graphics Lab & Pervasive Parallelism Lab, Stanford, CA
   Research Assistant with Pat Hanrahan

   Investigated future graphics pipelines and programming models for
   many-core CPU and GPU future architectures-- SIMD, threaded,
   streaming, heterogeneous, ...
   
   Previously: Pursued GPGPU work including the BrookGPU programming
   language, the GPUBench suite of microbenchmarks, and a variety of GPU
   ray tracing efforts: k-D tree traversal and optimizations, combining
   OpenGL/D3D rendering with ray tracing.  Participated in ray tracing
   investigation, porting to x86 and Cell processors.
   
   Explored unconventional architectures including: Larrabee, Cell,
   GPUs, Niagara (casually), and others (plus vanilla multi-core CPUs).
   
04/2004 - 06/2004
04/2007 - 06/2007
   Stanford University Computer Science Dept., Stanford CA.
   Teaching Assistant, CS240: Advanced Topics in Operating Systems

   Teaching assistant for Dawson Engler.  The course covers a mixture of
   seminal and current papers on key OS topics.  Co-wrote and graded exams,
   led class discussion for a few papers, supported students.

01/1997 - 03/1997
09/1997 - 12/1997
04/1998 - 06/1998
   Stanford University Computer Science Dept., Stanford CA.
   Independent study / Research Assistant with Mendel Rosenblum

   With a partner, wrote a Pentium CPU simulator for the SimOS project.  At
   its peak, the system booted a then-current Linux kernel.  Began as a
   Senior Project and continued as ongoing research. 

Honors and Awards:

09/1996 Invited to Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society
06/1998 Graduated with distinction, Stanford University
07/2001 Best Paper Award, 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
2003-2008 Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University
01/2009 Larrabee paper in IEEE Micro special issue: Top Picks from Computer
        Architecture Conferences
07/2009 Extended GPU Virtualization paper in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems
        Review special issue: Best papers from WIOV '08 and VEE '09
2009 ACM Software System Award: VMware Workstation For Linux 1.0

Publications:

   Bugnion, E., Devine, S., Rosenblum, M., Sugerman, J., and Wang, E.,
   "Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the original VMware
   Workstation", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, November 2012

   Sanchez, D., Lo, D., Sugerman, J., Yoo, R., and Kozyrakis, C., "Dynamic
   Fine-Grain Scheduling of Pipeline Parallelism", Parallel Architectures and
   Compilation Techniques, October 2011

   Sugerman J., "Programming Many-Core Systems with GRAMPS", Ph.D.
   Thesis, Stanford University Computer Science Department, August 2010.

   Sugerman J., Fatahalian K., Boulos S., Akeley K., and Hanrahan P., "GRAMPS:
   A Programming Model for Graphics Pipelines", ACM Transactions on Graphics,
   January 2009.

   Dowty M., Sugerman J., "GPU Virtualization on VMware's Hosted I/O
   Architecture", First Workshop on I/O Virtualization, December 2008.
   Extended and reprinted in a special issue of ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems
   Review, July 2009.

   Seiler L., Carmean D., Sprangle E., Forsyth T., Abrash M., Dubey P.,
   Junkins S., Lake A., Sugerman J., Cavin R., Espasa R., Grochowski E., Juan
   T., Hanrahan P., "Larrabee: A Many-Core x86 Architecture for Visual
   Computing", Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2008, August 2008.  Reprinted in
   2008 IEEE Micro special issue "Top Picks from Computer Architecture
   Conferences".
   
   Horn D., Sugerman J., Houston M, and Hanrahan P., "Interactive k-D tree GPU
   Ray Tracing", Proceedings of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, May
   2007.

   Foley T., Sugerman J., "KD-Tree Acceleration Structures for a GPU
   Raytracer", Proceedings of the conference on Graphics hardware 2005, August
   2005.

   Fatahalian K., Sugerman J., Hanrahan P., "Understanding the Efficiency of
   GPU Algorithms for Matrix-Matrix Multiplication", Proceedings of the
   conference on Graphics hardware 2004, August 2004.

   Buck I., Foley T., Horn D., Sugerman J., Fatahalian K., Houston M.,
   Hanrahan P., "Brook for GPUs: Stream computing on graphics hardware",
   Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2004, August 2004.
   
   Sugerman, J., Venkitachalam G., Lim, B., "Virtualizing I/O Devices on
   VMware Workstation's Hosted Virtual Machine Monitor", Proceedings of the
   2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, July 2001.  Best paper award.

Posters Presented:
   Sugerman, J., Foley T., Yoshioka S., Hanrahan P., "Ray Tracing on a Cell
   Processor with Software Caching", Poster Compendium 2006 IEEE Symposium
   on Interactive Ray Tracing, Salt Lake City, UT, September 2006

   Horn, D., Houston, M., Foley, T., Sugerman, Hanrahan P., "GPU-based
   rasterization-raytracing hybrid", Poster Compendium 2006 IEEE Symposium
   on Interactive Ray Tracing, Salt Lake City, UT, September 2006

Unpublished papers:
   Sugerman J., and Foley T., Internal report on ray tracing algorithms,
   strategies, and performance characteristics on G80, NVIDIA, May 2006 

Program Committees
   2008 Program Committee: Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing (now HPG)
   2010 Program Committee: Workshop on I/O Virtualization 

Patents Filed:
   "Inter process Communication Based on Queues", Anupam Chanda, Kevin
   Christopher, Jeremy Sugerman, Petr Vandrovec, and Gustav Wibling (VMware)

   "Systems and Methods for Voting Among Parallel Threads", John Nickolls, 
   Lars Nyland, Peter Mills, Jeremy Sugerman, Timothy Foley, Brian Fahs,
   Michael Garland, and David Luebke (NVIDIA)

   "Virtualization System with a Remote Proxy", Ramesh Dharan, Matt Ginzton,
   and Jeremy Sugerman (VMware)

References are available upon request.