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39
Citations
22584
World Ranking
9464
National Ranking
4006

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - ACM Fellow For contributions to virtual machines and cloud computing

Overview

Steven Hand is affiliated with Google in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Engineering and Computer Science. Their work spans the subfields of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, and Medical Laboratory Technology.

The scientist's research topics encompass a range of areas including:

  • Advanced Optical Network Technologies
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G
  • Power Line Communications and Noise
  • Mobile Agent-Based Network Management
  • Quality and Safety in Healthcare

Steven Hand has contributed to multiple publication venues with frequent appearances in:

  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • IEEE Access
  • IET conference proceedings.
  • AHFE international

Recent papers by Steven Hand include:

  • "Point-to-Multipoint Optical Networks Using Coherent Digital Subcarriers," 2021, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • "Digital Subcarrier Multiplexing: Enabling Software-Configurable Optical Networks," 2022, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • "A New Operational Paradigm for IPoDWDM Networks," 2024, IEEE Access
  • "Field trial of a management architecture for advanced smart pluggable transceivers in diverse hosts," 2023, IET conference proceedings.
  • "Human Factors in an Agile Environment: Capturing Value in Healthcare," 2025, AHFE international

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Antonio Napoli
  • Dave Welch
  • Johan Bäck
  • Warren Sande
  • João Pedro

In 2017, Steven Hand was awarded the ACM Fellow distinction for contributions to virtual machines and cloud computing.

Best Publications

  • Xen and the art of virtualization

    Paul Barham;Boris Dragovic;Keir Fraser;Steven Hand

  • Live migration of virtual machines

    Christopher Clark;Keir Fraser;Steven Hand;Jacob Gorm Hansen

  • PaLM 2 Technical Report

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  • Unikernels: library operating systems for the cloud

    Anil Madhavapeddy;Richard Mortier;Charalampos Rotsos;David Scott

  • Safe Hardware Access with the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor

    Keir Fraser;Steven Hand;Rolf Neugebauer;Ian Pratt

  • CIEL: a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow computing

    Derek G. Murray;Malte Schwarzkopf;Christopher Smowton;Steven Smith

  • Baggy bounds checking: an efficient and backwards-compatible defense against out-of-bounds errors

    Periklis Akritidis;Manuel Costa;Miguel Castro;Steven Hand

  • Improving Xen security through disaggregation

    Derek Gordon Murray;Grzegorz Milos;Steven Hand

  • Self-adaptive and self-configured CPU resource provisioning for virtualized servers using Kalman filters

    Evangelia Kalyvianaki;Themistoklis Charalambous;Steven Hand

  • Borg: the next generation

    Muhammad Tirmazi;Adam Barker;Nan Deng;E. Haque

  • Satori: enlightened page sharing

    Grzegorz Miłós;Derek G. Murray;Steven Hand;Michael A. Fetterman

  • Plutarch: an argument for network pluralism

    Jon Crowcroft;Steven Hand;Richard Mortier;Timothy Roscoe

  • Autopilot: workload autoscaling at Google

    Krzysztof Rzadca;Pawel Findeisen;Jacek Swiderski;Przemyslaw Zych

  • Practical taint-based protection using demand emulation

    Alex Ho;Michael Fetterman;Christopher Clark;Andrew Warfield

  • Queues don't matter when you can JUMP them!

    Matthew P. Grosvenor;Malte Schwarzkopf;Ionel Gog;Robert N. M. Watson

  • Firmament: fast, centralized cluster scheduling at scale

    Ionel Gog;Malte Schwarzkopf;Adam Gleave;Robert N. M. Watson

  • Self-paging in the Nemesis operating system

    Steven M. Hand

  • Musketeer: all for one, one for all in data processing systems

    Ionel Gog;Malte Schwarzkopf;Natacha Crooks;Matthew P. Grosvenor

  • Proceedings of the 25th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

    Ethan Miller;Steven Hand

  • The case for crowd computing

    Derek G. Murray;Eiko Yoneki;Jon Crowcroft;Steven Hand

  • Mnemosyne: Peer-to-Peer Steganographic Storage

    Steven Hand;Timothy Roscoe

  • Autopilot: Workload Autoscaling at Google Scale

    Krzysztof Rzadca;Paweł Findeisen;Jacek Świderski;Przemyslaw Zych

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Harris
Tim Harris Oracle (United States)
Jon Crowcroft
Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge
Ian Pratt
Ian Pratt University of Cambridge
Richard Mortier
Richard Mortier University of Cambridge
Timothy Roscoe
Timothy Roscoe ETH Zurich
Pietro Liò
Pietro Liò University of Cambridge
John Wilkes
John Wilkes Google (United States)
Paul Barham
Paul Barham Google (United States)
Hamed Haddadi
Hamed Haddadi Imperial College London
Peter Pietzuch
Peter Pietzuch Imperial College London

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