Parallel and distributed systems and environments, quality of service, real-time computing, and parallel and distributed simulation.

Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2000
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Thesis Title: "Interactive Parallel Simulation Environments"
Thesis Advisor: Professor Richard M. Fujimoto
Minor: Industrial and Systems Engineering

M.S. in Computer Science, December 1994
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Focus: parallel and distributed computing
Advisors: Professor Richard M. Fujimoto and Professor Karsten Schwan

B.S. in Math and Computer Science, June 1991
EMORY UNIVERSITY
Advisor: Professor David Ford

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 1998 to present
Research Scientist II


THE MITRE CORPORATION, June - September 1997
Staff Simulation and Modeling Engineer


GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 1996 to 1998
Graduate Research Assistant


GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 1995-1996
Research Scientist I

Distributed and Parallel Systems:
• Exploring and developing methods for interactive parallel simulation in particular: steering, controlling, and monitoring parallel simulations. Results published in PADS-98 and nominated for best paper.
• Latency hiding with optimistic simulations, developed optimistic I/O, a new mechanism for initiating computationally intensive calculations before they are needed to provide glitch-free virtual environments. Results published at the 1999 International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Simulation.
• Efficient global virtual time computations. Results published in the ACM journal: Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.
• Parallel pattern matching algorithms (string matching). Results submitted for journal publication.
• Parallel real-time path planning for formations of robots (with Tucker Balch). Results to appear in ICRA-2000.
• Developing a user interface for children to program robots in simulated soccer for RoboCup Junior (with funding provided by the RoboCup Federation). To be demonstrated at IJCAI-2000.

Information Systems:
as a Research Scientist at GTRI contributed to the HyperTech project. HyperTech provides a graphical hypertext interface to data stored in a standard, commercial relational database system. Provided the Treemap view an interface to view hierarchical data; provided an interface for automatic and intelligent path (link) generation; also implemented and designed an effective database caching scheme.

• Cloning Parallel Simulations, Maria Hybinette and Richard M. Fujimoto, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, (accepted with minor revisions)

• Latency Hiding with Optimistic Computations, Maria Hybinette and Richard M. Fujimoto, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, (accepted for publication)

• Computing Global Virtual Time in Shared-Memory Multiprocessors, Richard M. Fujimoto and Maria Hybinette, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, October 1997

• Practical Parallel Pattern Matching, Maria Hybinette and Karsten Schwan, submitted

Refereed Conferences/Workshops:

• Behavior-Based Coordination of Large-Scale Robot Formations, Tucker R. Balch and Maria Hybinette, The Fourth International Conference on Multiagent System (ICMAS-2000), Boston, MA, July 2000

• Social Potentials for Scalable Multi-Robot Formations, Tucker R. Balch and Maria Hybinette, 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robots and Automation (ICRA-2000), San Francisco, CA, April 2000

• Optimistic Computations in Virtual Environments, Maria Hybinette and Richard M. Fujimoto, In Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Simulation (VWSIM-99), San Francisco, California, January 1999

• Towards Parallelization of Large-Scale Ada Simulations Using Time Warp, Christopher Carothers, Maria Hybinette and Richard M. Fujimoto, In Proceedings of the 1998 International Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Reno, Nevada, July 1998

• Dynamic Virtual Logical Processes, Maria Hybinette and Richard M. Fujimoto, In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS-98), Banff, Alberta, May 1998, best paper nominee

• Cloning: A Novel Method for Interactive Parallel Simulation, Maria Hybinette and Richard M. Fujimoto, In Proceedings of the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, December 1997

• GTW: A Time Warp System for Shared Memory Multiprocessors, Das, S., R. Fujimoto, K. Panesar, D. Allison and M. Hybinette, In Proceedings of the 1994 Winter Simulation Conference, Orlando, Florida, December 1994

• Interactive Parallel Simulation Environments, Maria Hybinette, Ph.D. Thesis, Technical Report. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA., May 2000

• Cloning Parallel Simulations: Clone-Sim 0.9 -- A Programmer's Manual and Specifications, Maria Hybinette and Richard M. Fujimoto, Technical Report. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA., 1999

• Cloning Parallel Simulations: Interactive-Sim 0.9 -- A Programmer's Manual and Specifications, Maria Hybinette and Richard M. Fujimoto, Technical Report. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA., In Preparation

• Georgia Tech Time Warp (GTW version 3.0) Programmer's Manual, Samir Das, Richard Fujimoto, Kiran Panesar, Maria Hybinette and Christopher D. Carothers, Technical Report. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. July 1997

• The HyperTech User Manual, Maria Hybinette, Susan Liebeskind, Susan Hatcher and Kirk Pennywitt, Technical Report. Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, 1995

• Best Paper Nominee, 1998 Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation.
  
• Art Editor of The Phoenix Magazine, Emory University
  
• Varsity Cross-Country Team, 5km, Emory University
  
• Varsity Track Team, 800m, 1500m, triple jump, Emory University
  
• Athlete of the Week, Emory University
  
• Winner, National Art Competition, award presented by His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, the King of Sweden
• Publication Officer, Graduate Student Committee, CoC, Georgia Tech.

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