Charles Killian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University.  
He received an NSF CAREER award in 2011, as well as an HP Open Innovation award.  
In 2008 he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego 
under the supervision of Amin Vahdat.  Before transferring to UCSD in August 2004, he completed 
his Masters in Computer Science from Duke University with Amin Vahdat, and his Bachelors Degrees 
in Computer Science and Applied Math from NC State University in 2002. His systems and networking research 
focuses on building and testing distributed systems, and bridges this research with software engineering, 
security, data mining, and programming languages.  Since 2004 he has implemented the Mace programming language 
and runtime, built numerous distributed systems, and designed MaceMC, the first model checker capable of finding 
liveness violations in unmodified systems code and best paper award at NSDI.  Chip has built many additional tools 
and enhancements since then, including performance testing, work on parallel event processing, automated attack discovery, 
and data mining logs to discover performance problems.