The program creates opportunities for faculty and students at leading colleges, universities and research institutes worldwide to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP.
The awards offered through the IRP are intended to provide financial support for a graduate student to assist the principal investigator in conducting a collaborative research project with HP Labs, the company’s central research facility. Awards provide cash support for one year, typically in the range of $50,000 to $75,000, inclusive of overhead costs, and renewable up to a maximum of three years at HP’s discretion.
The IRP 2011 call for proposals attracted 626 submissions from 525 researchers at 239 universities in more than 30 countries. This year, a total of 62 projects at 51 universities received funding; approximately 50 percent are receiving funding for a second or third year. A full list of awardees, project titles and where they align to HP Labs’ research is available at
http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/2011_results.html.
The applicants for the 2011 IRP awards were invited to submit proposals that specifically aligned to HP’s strategic focus areas, such as cloud, information analytics and sustainability. Examples include:
A key facet of cloud computing is it enables businesses of all sizes to respond quickly to changing conditions such as demand peaks and configuration changes by flexibly adapting resources. The research being carried out by Professor Paul Anderson at the University of Edinburgh aims to transform existing capabilities by applying artificial intelligence techniques that automatically create and execute strategies to reconfigure cloud services, guaranteeing continuity of service as resources such as processing capacity are flexed or reconfigured.
Several IRP awards directly support HP’s research into scalable, power- and cost-efficient, automated and programmable data centers. At the University of Michigan, Professor Trevor Mudge’s project has been researching techniques to optimize resource usage in data centers. A key element of the work is harnessing the distributed memory in multiple virtual machines, consolidating it into a single resource. In addition to revealing new approaches to designing data-centric data centers, the research has potential for significant energy savings and reduced operating costs.
Central to HP’s strategy is the creation of products and services that enable its customers to harness and exploit vast amounts of digital information. IRP awards to Professor Atri Rudra at the University at Buffalo and to Carnegie Mellon University’s Parallel Data Lab focus in this area. The goal of this research is to create techniques that give end users assurances about the integrity of information they store in the cloud. Further, it will enable users to measure and compare systems from different providers, and incorporate consistency metrics into their service-level objectives.
“With the goal of inspiring some of the brightest minds from around the world, the HP Labs Innovation Research Program has seen researchers submit projects that firmly tie into areas that reflect our strategic focus, such as cloud, information analytics and sustainability,” said Prith Banerjee, senior vice president, Research, HP, and director, HP Labs. “The strength of the entries this year demonstrates the value of our investment in the ongoing partnerships we have with participating universities and also our commitment to driving forward the next generation of technologists and scientists.”
During the first three years of the program, HP funded 131 IRP projects, which in turn have generated more than 200 research papers and more than 35 patents and patent applications worldwide. Equally important, the program has helped to provide financial support and learning experiences for more than 200 post-graduate students.
As part of HP’s commitment to open innovation, the IRP facilitates the creation of collaborative research projects with top researchers and entrepreneurs in academia, government and businesses worldwide. Each of the IRP projects is aligned with HP Labs’ high-impact research themes, which in turn reflect HP’s strategy of providing seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world. Successful relationships created through the program allow HP to extend its research footprint, advancing the state of the art, and nurturing the new technologies that will be incorporated in future generations of HP’s products and services.
2011 HP Labs Innovation Research Program award winners by region
Americas
Dr. Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University
Dr. Gabriel Taubin, Brown University
Dr. Travis Breaux, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Bruce Krogh, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Duke University
Dr. Xinming Ou, Kansas State University
Dr. Michael Braun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Jeremy Cooperstock, McGill University
Dr. Ness Shroff, Ohio State University
Dr. Patrick Chiang, Oregon State University
Dr. Wenjie Jiang, Princeton University
Dr. Jan Allebach, Purdue University
Dr. Elias Franses, Purdue University
Dr. Charles Killian, Purdue University
Dr. Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Edward Knightly, Rice University
Dr. Beth Pruitt, Stanford University
Dr. Samuel Palermo, Texas A&M University
Dr. Trent Jaeger, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Anna Squicciarini, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Atri Rudra, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Dr. Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona
Dr. Chen-Nee Chuah, University of California, Davis
Dr. Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis
Dr. John Owens, University of California, Davis
Dr. James Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dr. Daniel Friedman, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dr. Hui Fang, University of Delaware
Dr. Jose C. Principe, University of Florida
Dr. Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr Thomas Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. William Sanders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Chengxiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Mark Kushner, University of Michigan
Dr. Kang Shin, University of Michigan
Dr. Haitao Li, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Dr. Gerard Medioni, University of Southern California
Dr. Chengkai Li, University of Texas at Arlington
Dr. Ashish Khisti, University of Toronto
Dr. Rajeev Balasubramonian, University of Utah
Dr. Feifei Li, University of Utah
Dr. Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz, University of Waterloo
Dr. David Schweidel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dr. Ethan Munson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dr. Naren Ramakrishnan, Virginia Tech
Dr. Dan Fleming, Western Michigan University
EMEA – Europe, Middle East and Africa
Dr. Alper Sen, Bilkent University
Dr. Babak Falsafi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Dr. Jason Riley, Imperial College London
Dr. Aad van Moorsel, Newcastle University
Dr. Tommaso Di Noia, Technical University of Bari
Dr. Shie Mannor, Technion, Israel
Dr. Shai Shalev-Shwartz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dr. Robert M. Richardson, University of Bristol
Dr. Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh
Dr. Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz
APJ – Asia Pacific and Japan
Dr. Inkyu Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Dr. Yanmin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Dr. Shueng-Han Gary Chan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dr. Lei Chen, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Dr. Zhiliang Wang, Tsinghua University
Dr. Mark Billinghurst, University of Canterbury
More information about HP Labs is available at
www.hpl.hp.com.
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