Computer Systems Lab

Alumni

Electronic dissertations are available at etda.libraries.psu.edu

Ph.D. (with first employment)

  • Sultan Mahmud Sajal, Improving the Fidelity of Trace-Driven Experiments in Cloud Computing Systems, Summer 2024 (Meta)
  • Lexiang Huang, Optimizing Cloud Efficiency: A Performance and Cost Perspective, Spring 2024 (NetApp)
  • Adithya Kumar, Leveraging Heterogeneity in Designing Systems for Emerging Datacenter Applications, Fall 2022 (Meta)
  • Morteza Ramezani, Systems Optimizations for Learning and Processing on Large Scale Graphs, Spring 2022 (LinkedIn)
  • Shulin Zhao, Optimizing Energy and Performance for Next-Generation Extended Reality (XR) Devices, Fall 2021 (Facebook)
  • Haibo Zhang, Optimizing Video Processing for Next-Generation Mobile Platforms, Spring 2020 (Facebook)
  • Iyswarya Narayanan, Towards Maximizing the Efficiency of Datacenter Power and Server Infrastructure, Fall 2019 (Facebook)
  • Prasanna Rengasamy, Tackling the Computation and Memory Needs of Interactive Workloads on Next Generation Platforms, Fall 2019 (Apple)
  • Nima Elyasi, Extracting better performance from the Parallelism Offered by SSDs, Spring 2019 (Samsung Research)
  • Cheng Wang, Improving Cost-Efficacy in Public Clouds: Optimal Control Subject to Cloud-Tenant Interactions, Summer 2016 (VMWare)
  • Di Wang, Provisioning and Harnessing Energy Storage in Datacenters, Summer 2014 (Microsoft Research, Redmond)
  • Aayush Gupta, Towards Smarter Flash-based Storage Management For Enterprise Workloads, Fall 2012 (IBM Almaden)
  • Byung Chul Tak, Systems Infrastructure for Supporting Utility Computing in Clouds, Spring 2012 (IBM TJ Watson)
  • Sriram Govindan, Optimizing Power Delivery Cost in Datacenters, Summer 2011, (Microsoft)
  • Niranjan Kumar Soundararajan, Addressing Reliability Issues in Performance-Critical Processor Structures, Summer 2010 (Intel)
  • Shiva Chaitanya, Addressing Performance Challenges in Secure Storage Systems, Fall 2009 (Network Appliance)
  • Youngjae Kim, Design Challenges on Enterprise-scale Storage Systems Employing Hard Drives and NAND Flash based Solid-state Drives, Fall 2009 (Oak Ridge National Lab.)
  • Angshuman Parashar, Redundancy and Parallelism Tradeoffs for Reliable, High-performance Architectures, Spring 2007 (Intel Corporation)
  • Partho Nath, Content Addressable Data Management, Spring 2007 (Cisco Systems, Inc)
  • Jianyong Zhang, Self-tuning Storage Systems for Performance Virtualization, Spring 2006 (Google)
  • Chun Liu, Exploiting Multi-threaded Application Characteristics to Optimize Power and Performance of Chip Multi-processors, Summer 2005 (AMD)
  • Murali Vilayannur, Run-time Support for Effective Memory Management in Large-scale Applications, Summer 2005 (Argonne National Lab.)
  • Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Power Management for Enterprise Storage Systems , Summer 2005 (Asst. Prof. of CS, Univ. of Virginia)
  • Gokul B. Kandiraju, Towards Autonomic Memory Management, Spring 2004 (IBM T. J. Watson)
  • Yanyong Zhang, Scheduling and Resource Management for Next Generation Clusters, Summer 2002 (Asst. Prof. of ECE Dept., Rutgers Univ.)
  • Ning An, Accessing Spatial Data on Resource-rich and Resource-constrained Systems, Spring 2002 (Oracle Corp.)
  • Shailabh Nagar, Communication and Scheduling for Clusters: A User-level Perspective, Summer 2001 (IBM T. J. Watson)
  • Mau-Tsuen Yang, An Automatic Scheduler for Real-Time Vision Applications, Fall 2000 (Dong Hwa Univ., Taiwan)
  • Aniruddha S. Vaidya, Router Design and Analysis for High Performance Interconnects, Fall 1999 (Intel Corporation)

Postdoc (with first employment)

  • Euiseong Seo, Sept. 2007-Jan. 2009 (Asst. Prof. of ECE, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST))
  • Jeong Hwan Choi, Sept. 2007-Aug. 2008 (Post-Doctoral Researcher of CS, KAIST)

M.S. (with first employment)

  • Hamidreza Zare, LEGOStore: A Linearizable Geo-Distributed Store Combining Replication and Erasure Coding, 2021
  • Nader Alfares, Adapting Key-Value Storage Systems to Minimize Cost in the Public Cloud, 2019
  • Aman Jain, SplitServe: Efficiently Splitting Complex Workloads over IaaS and FaaS, Microsoft, 2019
  • Chetan Sharma, Design and Implementation of a Cost-Effective Linearizable Geo-Distributed Key-Value Store Combining Replication and Erasure Coding, 2018 (Microsoft)
  • Farshid Farhat, Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Stragglers in MapReduce Framework, 2015 (pursuing PhD)
  • Paul Bily, Implementation and Evaluation of a Software-based Power Virtualization Technique, 2013
  • Kanishk Jain, Quality of Service Benefits of Flash in a Storage System, Fall 2008 (Cisco)
  • Arjun R. Nath, Fall 2008 (Intel)
  • Dharani Sankar Vijayakumar, Implementation and Evaluation of a Storage System for Long Term Data, Fall 2008 (VMWare)
  • Srinath Sridharan, Fall 2008 (Ph.D Course, U of Wisc Madison)
  • Amitayu Das, 2007 (Cisco)
  • Nandagopal Kirubananthan, Memory Energy Characterization and Optimization for the SPEC2000 Benchmarks, 2001 (Motorola)
  • Balaji Viswanathan, OS Paging Issues for DRAM Energy Management, 2001
  • Ajit Banerjee, Implementation and Evaluation of MPI over Myrinet, 1999 (Inktomi)
  • Ajay Hampapur, Adaptive Subpaging Schemes, 1999 (Cisco Systems)
  • Ji Jin, Techniques for Analyzing Range Queries on R-Trees, 1999 (Microstrategy)
  • Rongqing Lu, Towards an Efficient Implementation of Parallel Spatial Joins Using R-Trees, 1999 (Inktomi)
  • Nareshkumar Rajkumar, Design and Implementation of MPI for Myrinet on Windows NT, 1999 (Sybase)
  • Rajagopal Subrahmaniam, Implementing Coscheduling Heuristics for Windows NT Clusters, 1999 (Unisys)
  • Harsh Parandekar, Impact of Access Control Techniques and Subpaging Parameters on Application Performance, 1998 (Cisco Systems)
  • Mangesh Kasbekar, pSNOW: A Tool to Evaluate Architectural Issues for NOW Environments, 1998 (Akamai)
  • Dale Seed, MU-Net: Protected User-level Communication for Myrinet, 1997 (Intel)
  • Manjunath Bangalore, Remote Subpaging Across a Fast Network, 1997 (Cisco Systems)

B.S. Honors Thesis

  • Evan Driscoll, 2006
  • Cheryl Jerozal, A Comparison of the Effect of Cache Size on Hit Ratio of Popular Cache Replacement Algorithms, 2006
  • Jason H. Ganetsky, Garbage Collection for Content-Addressable Parallel File Systems, 2006
  • Alan R. Effrig, Application-level CPU Energy Management for Handheld Devices, 2001
  • James I. Bognar, LIONGUIDE: A Road Map Application for Handheld and Mobile Devices, 2001
  • David J. Rudda, Impact of User-level Messaging Parameters on Application Performance, 1999
  • Marc Khadpe, Simulation of Scheduling Strategies for a Network of Workstations, 1999