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Jason Nieh

American computer scientist

MIT
Stanford University

Scientific careerInstitutionsColumbia UniversityThesisThe design, implementation, and evaluation of SMART: A scheduler for multimedia applications (1999)Doctoral advisorMonica S. Lam Websitewww.cs.columbia.edu/~nieh/

Jason Nieh is a professor of Computer Science and co-director of the Software Systems Laboratory at Columbia University. He was the technical advisor to nine States regarding the Microsoft antitrust settlement and has been an expert witness before the United States International Trade Commission. He was Chief Scientist of Desktone, which was purchased by VMware, and currently holds the same position at CertiK.

Nieh is most well known for his work on virtualization.^[1] He was one of the early pioneers of operating-system-level virtualization, introducing key concepts such as process namespaces^[2] and file system layers^[3] which led to the development of Linux containers and Docker. He was an early proponent of desktop virtualization, conducting many of the early studies demonstrating the feasibility of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. He developed and influenced many key technologies for Arm virtualization, including the Linux ARM hypervisor, KVM ARM,^[4] and Arm architecture features to support virtualization host extensions, nested virtualization, and confidential computing.^[5] He was also the first to introduce virtual machines and virtual appliances to teach hands-on computer science courses such as operating systems,^[6] which has now become common practice at universities all over the world.

Recognition

2021: Guggenheim Fellowship in computer science^[7]
2021: Jay Lepreau Award^[8]
2019: ACM Fellow "for contributions to operating systems, virtualization, and computer science education"^[9]
2019: IEEE Fellow "for contributions to virtualization, scheduling, and mobile computing"^[10]
2014: Kenneth C. Sevcik Award^[11]
2012: SIGCSE Best Paper Award^[12]
2011: Symposium on Operating Systems Principles Best Paper Award
2004: International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Best Paper Award
2004: Sigma Xi Young Investigator Award^[13]

References

^ Bugnion, Edouard; Nieh, Jason; Tsafrir, Dan (2017). Hardware and Software Support for Virtualization. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-3-031-00625-8.
^ Osman, Steven; Subhraveti, Dinesh; Su, Gong; Nieh, Jason (2002). The Design and Implementation of Zap: A System for Migrating Computing Environments (PDF). Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, Boston, MA, USA. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
^ Potter, Shaya; Nieh, Jason (2011). Improving Virtual Appliance Management through Virtual Layered File Systems (PDF). Large Installation System Administration Conference, Boston, MA, USA. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
^ "Supporting KVM on the ARM architecture". Linux Weekly News. July 3, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2014.
^ "New Computing Security Architecture Protects Sensitive Private Data". Homeland Security News Wire. July 15, 2022. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
^ "Examining VMware". Dr. Dobb's Journal. August 1, 2000. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
^ "Jason Nieh". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
^ "USENIX Best Papers". USENIX Association. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
^ "2019 ACM Fellows Recognized for Far-Reaching Accomplishments that Define the Digital Age". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
^ "2019 Newly Elevated Fellows" (PDF). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
^ "SIGMETRICS Awards". ACM SIGMETRICS. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
^ "SIGCSE Annual Report 2011/2012". Special Interest Group Computer Science Education. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
^ "Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society / Programs / Prizes and Awards / Young Investigator / Award Winner". Sigma Xi. Retrieved March 16, 2015.