Prof. William H. Sanders

Contact

University of Illinois
451 Coordinated Science Laboratory, MC-228
1308 West Main Street
Urbana, IL 61801-2307
USA
Tel: +1 (217) 333-0345
Fax: +1 (217) 244-3359
E-mail: whs AT illinois.edu

Assistant (Jenny Applequist): +1 (217) 244-8920

Professional Background

Acting Director, Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC, 2008-Present.
Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, 2005-Present.
Director, Information Trust Institute, UIUC, 2004-Present.
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, 1998-Present.
Research Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC, 1998-Present.
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC, 1994-1998.
Research Associate Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC, 1994-1998.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Comp. Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1994.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Elect. and Comp. Engineering, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1988-1994.
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, 1988.
M.S.E., Computer, Information and Control Engineering, University of Michigan, 1985.
B.S.E., Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, 1983.

Research Interests

Head of the Performability Engineering Research Group (PERFORM).

Dependability/security evaluation
Fault-tolerant computing
Reliable and secure distributed systems
Computer networks and protocols

Editorships

On the editorial board of Performance Evaluation
Area Editor for Simulation and Modeling of Computer Systems for the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Recent Conference Organizational Activities

Local Organizing Committee member, 6th Symposium on Understanding Complex Systems (UCS 2006)
International Liaison Chair, 2005 European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC-5)
Steering Committee Chair, QEST (International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems, 2004-present.
General Chair of the 2003 Illinois International Multiconference on Measurement, Modelling, and Evaluation of Computer-Communication Systems
Program Co-Chair of PNPM 2003 (the 10th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models)
Program Co-Chair of Performance TOOLS 2003 (13th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation)
Program Co-Chair of the ACM SIGMETRICS 2003: the International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Short Biography

William H. Sanders is a Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, the Director of the Information Trust Institute, and Acting Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. He is a past Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing and past Vice-Chair of IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of Performance Evaluation and is the Area Editor for Simulation and Modeling of Computer Systems for the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.

Dr. Sanders's research interests include performance/dependability evaluation, dependable computing, and reliable distributed systems. He has published more than 200 technical papers in these areas. He is a co-developer of three tools for assessing the performability of systems represented as stochastic activity networks: METASAN, UltraSAN, and Möbius. Möbius and UltraSAN have been distributed widely to industry and academia; more than 500 licenses for the tools have been issued to universities, companies, and NASA for evaluating the performance, dependability, security, and performability of a variety of systems. He is also a co-developer of the Loki distributed system fault injector and the AQuA/ITUA middlewares for providing dependability/security to distributed and networked applications.