Raju Rangaswami Professor Systems Research Laboratory (SyLab) School of Computing and Information Sciences College of Engineering and Computing Florida International University Office: ECS 386 Email:  raju[at]cs[dot]fiu[dot]edu Tel: 305-348-6230 Fax: 305-348-3549

Bio   Research    Teaching   Service   Publications   Honors & Awards

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Call for Papers

FAST'18    MSST'17   

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Research ( Systems Research Laboratory)

My current research interests include storage systems, virtualization, databases, real-time systems, web services, cloud computing, and mobile computing. More information is available at the SyLab webpage.

Selected Recent Publications:

Native OS Support for Persistent Memory with Regions., MSST 2017
Synergy: A Hypervisor Managed Holistic Caching System. , TCC 2017
ProvUSB: Block-level Provenance-Based Data Protection for USB Storage Devices., CCS 2016
StepAhead: Rethinking File System Namespace Translations, APSys 2016
A Fast and Slippery Slope for File Systems, INFLOW 2015
To ARC or not to ARC, HotStorage 2015
NVMKV: A Scalable, Lightweight, FTL-aware Key-Value Store, ATC 2015
Centaur: Host-side SSD Caching for Storage Performance Control, ICAC 2015 Best Paper Award
Revenue Driven Resource Allocation for Virtualized Data Centers, ICAC 2015
Non-blocking Writes to Files, FAST 2015
NVMKV: A Scalable and Lightweight Flash Aware Key-Value Store, HotStorage 2014
Write Policies for Host-side Flash Caches, FAST 2013
Software Persistent Memory, ATC 2012
Modeling Virtualized Applications using Machine Learning Techniques, VEE 2012
Truly Non-blocking Writes, HotStorage 2011
Cost Effective Storage using Extent Based Dynamic Tiering, FAST 2011
Generalized ERSS Tree Model: Revisiting Working Sets, Performance 2010
Anatomy of a Real-time Intrusion Prevention System, ICAC 2008


Students I work with:

Daniel Campello (Ph.D.)
Humberto Chacon (B.S.)
Daniel Costaesa (B.S.)
Muhammad Ataur Rahman Chowdhury (Ph.D.)
Hector Lopez (Ph.D.)
Leonardo Marmol (Ph.D.)
Steven Lyons (B.S.)
Ricardo Santana (Ph.D.)

Past Students

Collaborators: Anurag Acharya, Himyanshu Anand, Wendy Belluomini, Gary Chan, Edward Chang, Milton Chen, Peter Clarke, Yi Deng, Zoran Dimitrijevic, Kaushik Dutta, Hector A. Duran-Limon, Jody Glider, Ajay Gulati, Vagelis Hristidis, Kyle Kakligian, Tao Li, Jason Liu, Nagarajan Prabakar, Himabindu Pucha, Masoud Sadjadi, Klaus Schauser, Shuichi Shimizu, Geoffrey Smith, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Nisha Talagala, Indranil Sengupta, Akshat Verma, Yuan-Fang Wang, David Watson, Chi Zhang, Ming Zhao.

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Honors and Awards

• NetApp Faculty Fellowship, 2016.
• ICAC'15 Best Paper Award, 2015.
• Intel URO Award, 2013.
• NetApp Faculty Fellowship, 2013.
• Charter Member, National Academy of Inventors, 2012.
• FIU Faculty Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities, 2011.
• IBM Faculty Award, 2011.
• NetApp Faculty Fellowship, 2011.
• USENIX FAST'10 Fast-Tracked paper, 2010.
• FIU Top Scholar, 2010.
• NSF CAREER Award, 2008-2013.
• FIU Excellence in Faculty Scholarship, 2008.
• Excellence in Research Award, School of Computing and Information Sciences, FIU, 2008.
• Department of Energy Early CAREER (ECPI) Award, 2006-2009.
• University of California Dissertation Fellowship, 2004.
  
• Dean's Fellowship, UCSB, 1999.

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Professional Service

• Steering Committee Member, USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), since 2012.
• Editorial Board, Springer Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases, since 2014.
• NSF Panelist: 2005-2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015.
  
• Program Chair, USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2012
• Program Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/O (SNAPI), 2011
• Publicity Co-chair, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2007.
  
• Demonstration Co-chair, ACM Multimedia, 2006.
  
• Program Committees:
  
• USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2015
• IEEE 23nd International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (Mascots), 2015
• ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2015
• USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2015
• USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2014
• USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2014
• IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster), 2014
• ACM International Systems & Storage Conference (SYSTOR), 2014
• International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2014   
• International Workshop on Virtualization and Cloud Computing (IWVCC), 2014   
• IEEE Mass Storage Systems and Technologies Conference (MSST), 2013
• IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), 2013   
• IEEE Mass Storage Systems and Technologies Conference (MSST), 2012
• SYSTOR: The Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference (SYSTOR), 2012
• USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2012
• IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2012   
• IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), 2012   
• USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2011
• IEEE Mass Storage Systems and Technologies Conference (MSST), 2011
• SYSTOR: The Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference (SYSTOR), 2011
• International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2010
• USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2010
• International Conference on High-Performance Computing (HiPC), 2010
• SYSTOR: The Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference, 2010
• International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2010
• USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2009
• IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), 2009
• IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), 2008
• IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2007
• IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2006
• ACM Workshop on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming, co-located with ACM Multimedia, 2005
• IEEE WIRELESSCOM 2005
• IEEE ICME 2005

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Teaching 

• Spring 2014: Programming III (COP 4338)
  
• Spring 2014: Operating Systems (COP 5614)
  
• Fall 2013: Advanced Operating Systems (COP 6611)
  
• Fall 2013: Operating Systems (COP 5614 - Online)
  
• Spring 2013: Programming III (COP 4338)
  
• Spring 2013: Operating Systems (COP 5614)
  
• Fall 2012: Storage Systems (CIS 5346)
  
• Spring 2012: Programming III (COP 4338)
  
• Spring 2011: Programming III (COP 4338)
  
• Spring 2011: Operating Systems (COP 5614)
  
• Fall 2010: Advanced Operating Systems (COP 6611)
  
• Spring 2010: Storage Systems (CIS 5346)
  
• Fall 2009: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
  
• Spring 2009: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
  
• Spring 2009: Operating Systems (COP 5614)
  
• Fall 2008: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
  
• Spring 2008: Operating Systems (COP 5614)
  
• Fall 2007: Advanced Operating Systems (COP 6611)
  
• Fall 2007: UNIX System Administration (COP 4343)
  
• Spring 2007: Storage Systems (CIS 5346)
  
• Fall 2006: Advanced Operating Systems (COP 6611)
  
• Fall 2006: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
  
• Spring 2006: Storage Systems (CIS 5346)
  
• Spring 2006: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
  
• Fall 2005: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
  
• Spring 2005: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
• Spring 2005: Storage Systems (COP 5995)
  
• Fall 2004: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)

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