Published injsysresearch2021 Year in ReviewWe started the Journal of Systems Research (JSys), a new diamond open-access journal, in 2021. We outlined the reasons why we do so, along…Dec 28, 2021Dec 28, 2021
Published injsysresearchA new journal for systems researchTLDR: The review process and publication model for systems research is not optimal in a number of ways. We propose a new diamond-access…Aug 17, 20202Aug 17, 20202
Published inCSR TalesCSR Tale #10: The story of CrashMonkeyI figured it was time for another story of my own. This is the story of the CrashMonkey project, and how it came to be published at OSDI…Oct 8, 2018Oct 8, 2018
Published inCSR TalesCSR Tale #9: Reliability of Distributed StorageCSRTale #9 comes from two award-winning graduate students in Wisconsin, Ramnatthan Alagappan and Aishwarya Ganesan. Ram and Aishwarya work…Aug 22, 2018Aug 22, 2018
Published inCSR TalesCSR Tale #8: Why Terrible Reviews Are Good For You!CSR Tale #8 comes from Prof. Barzan Mozafari at Michigan. Barzan leads a research group designing the next generation of scalable databases…May 24, 2018May 24, 2018
Published inCSR TalesCSR Tale #7: The importance of following your curiosityCSR Tale #7 comes from Prof. Yehia Elkhatib, an Assisstant Professor at Lancaster University, and a visiting professor at École de…Apr 19, 2018Apr 19, 2018
Published inCSR TalesCSR Tale #6: A masterclass in collaboration!This CSRTale comes from Nipun Batra (post-doc at the University of Virginia), Jack Kelly (researcher at Google DeepMind), and Oliver Parson…Mar 19, 20181Mar 19, 20181
How to pick a grad school for a PhD in Computer ScienceI’ve been giving this advice to a number of students over the past few days, and following Matt Might’s advice, I’m penning this down…Mar 2, 20181Mar 2, 20181
Published inCSR TalesCSR Tale #5: The story of PebblesDBI figured it was time I pitched in with a story of my own. This is the story of how our PebblesDB key-value store came to be built and…Jan 21, 2018Jan 21, 2018
Tips for Academic Job InterviewsIt will be interview season for faculty candidates soon, and I thought I would jot down some tips for job interviews in academia/research…Jan 12, 2018Jan 12, 2018