Self-portrait

About Me

Welcome to my home page. I've been a graduate student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor since Fall 2005. I am in the Computer Science and Engineering doctoral program.

I currently serve as the Vice-President and Treasurer for CSEG, the Computer Science and Engineering Graduate student organization.

Research

I currently work with with Peter Chen on the uses of high-level speculative execution.

Publications

  • Benjamin Wester, James Cowling, Edmund B. Nightingale, Peter M. Chen, Jason Flinn, and Barbara Liskov. Tolerating latency in replicated state machines through client speculation. In NSDI '09, April 2009. [PDF] [Talk: PPT | PDF]
  • Ashwini Kumar, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Benjamin Wester, and Kang Shin. Online feedback-based estimation of dynamic page service time. ACM SIGBED Review 3, 2. Apr. 2006.

Teaching

Fall 2007: I was the Graduate Student Instructor for EECS 482: Introduction to Operating Systems.

Community

I have reviewed for the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems journal.

Contact Me

My office address is:

Benjamin Wester
University of Michigan
Dept of EECS

CSE Building
2260 Hayward St.
, Rm. 4929
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121

I can be reached over email: email address

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