Musfiq Niaz Rahman

Hi, Welcome to my page. I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. I passed my BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. 

Resume

In PDF format.

Teaching

Spring 2014: CS 0447 Computer Organization and Assembly Language

Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2009: CS0447

Fall 2008: CS 1541 Computer Architecture

Spring 2008: CS 0441 Discrete Structures for Computer Science

Fall 2008: CS 0441 Discrete Structures for Computer Science

Research and Publication

As a researcher, I work on system reliability and fault-tolerance managed through system software. My fields of interests are in Operating System internals, Device Drivers, Virtualized Execution Environments and Computer Architecture. 

1. M.Rahman, B. R. Childers, S. Cho. StealthWorks: Emulating Memory Errors, International Conf. on Runtime Verification 2010.

2. M.Rahman, B. R. Childers, S. Cho. COMeT: Continuous Online Memory Test. Pacific Rim Conf. on Dependable Computing, 2011. \A0\A0

Interesting Links

Linux Kernel

My not-so-organized notes on kernel memory management: http://niaz-kernel-hacking.blogspot.com/

Linux Kernel Source Code Browser: http://lxr.linux.no/

Mel Gorman\92s Linux Memory Management Page: http://www.skynet.ie/~mel/docs/

Kernel for newbies: http://kernelnewbies.org/

LWN Magazine: http://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/

Linux Kernel Documentation Project: http://www.nongnu.org/lkdp/

X86 Protected Mode Programming

A good tutorial by Alexei A. Frounze: http://members.tripod.com/protected_mode/alexfru/pmtuts.html

Ralph Brown\92s Interrupt List: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/files.html

Some old tools found interesting while working: Helppc: http://stanislavs.org/helppc/, TechHelp

Open-Source Virtualization Projects

KVM

KVM main developer Avi Kivity\92s Blog: http://avikivity.blogspot.com/
KVM Forum: http://forums.meulie.net/viewforum.php?f=43

Contact Information

Musfiq Niaz Rahman

6404 Sennott Square

Department of Computer Science,

University of Pittsburgh

Email: musfiq AT cs DOT pitt DOT edu