Twinkle Jain

PhD Student

  • MCA, MBM Engineering College, Jodhpur - India

Twinkle Jain is a PhD student in the systems and networks program at Northeastern University, advised by Professor Gene Cooperman. Jain’s research is focused on providing resilience in the distribution environment using a user-level transparent checkpoint-restore technique. Prior to joining Northeastern, Jain earned her Master’s degree from M.B.M Engineering College in India.

About Me

  • Hometown: Rajasthan, India
  • Field of Study: Systems and Networks, High Performance Computing
  • PhD Advisor: Gene Cooperman

What are the specifics of your graduate education (thus far)?

After receiving Master's degree from India, I joined Northeastern in Fall'16 for my second Master in Computer Science. I decided to switch to Ph.D. after one year of MS.

What are your research interests?

Resilience in the High-performance computing world has gained a lot of interest in recent years. My research focuses around providing resilience in the distributed environment using a user-level transparent checkpoint-restore technique.

What's one problem you'd like to solve with your research/work?

I'd like to provide a transparent network with a fault tolerance mechanism for high-performance computing.

What aspect of what you do is most interesting?

I find the ability to checkpoint and restore user application in user-space (without root privilege) most interesting.

What are your research or career goals, going forward?

Along with improving my research skills, I am looking forward to solving the problem mentioned above.