Farhana Dewan

of the Department of Computer Science, has been named a recipient of the 2013 Ralph H. Kummler Award for Distinguished Achievement in Graduate Student Research. Farhana has performed research, under the tutelage of Professor Nathan Fisher, on developing online algorithms for determining whether a compositional real-time system can satisfy its timing interface. This work is tremendously important for ensuring that, when different real-time subsystems are integrated into a single computational platform, one subsystem's behavior does not negatively affect the timing behavior of the other subsystem. Her most recent work on this topic has appeared at the 33rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2012) and received the Best Student Paper award. Farhana has coauthored five conference publications, a journal paper, and two workshop papers.