Lucy Cherkasova

Biography

Dr. Ludmila Cherkasova is a principal scientist at HP Labs, Palo Alto, USA.  Her current research interests are in developing quantitativemethods for the analysis, design, and management of concurrent and distributed systems (such as emerging systems for "Big Data" processing, internet and media applications, virtualized environments,
and next generation data centers). Dr. Cherkasova has initiated, managed and led to success multiple R&D projects. She is the ACM Distinguished Scientist. She has authored over 70 referred publications and more than 65 patent applications. Her most recent works were on the design of new technologies for efficient management,
capacity planning of internet and enterprise systems with emphasis on performance and scalability issues.

Most of my publications and patents are under my official name "Ludmila Cherkasova" while most of the professional activities are under my nick-name "Lucy Cherkasova".

Please see for details, activities, patents, and publications my old (but up to date) web page:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Lucy_Cherkasova/

Here is the link to my old page.

Research interests

Big data, Hadoop, distributed systems, WWW, networking, internet technologies, streaming media sytems, performance analysis, modeling and simulation, system and algorithm optimization.