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Peter Dinda is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Northwestern University, holding an additional appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has over five years of experience leading the Computer Engineering Systems division in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dinda earned his B.S. in Electrical Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on experimental computer systems, particularly on parallel distributed systems, and he has authored approximately 140 scientific papers. Dinda is a major contributor to several large publicly available codebases and holds five patents. His ongoing research includes virtualization, operating systems, distributed and parallel computing, and programming languages for parallel computing. He is also interested in empathic systems that enhance user satisfaction and systems-level decision-making. Dinda is a Fellow of the IEEE.
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