CSR Tales

CSR Tale #11: All Things Accelerators with Chris Rossbach

By Amogh Akshintala

This story is structured as a conversation between one of our editors, Vijay Chidambaram, and Prof. Christopher Rossbach. Chris is an Assistant Professor at UT Austin and Senior…

CSR Tale #10: The story of CrashMonkey

I figured it was time for another story of my own. This is the…

CSR Tale #9: Reliability of Distributed Storage

CSRTale #9 comes from two award-winning graduate students in Wisconsin, Ramnatthan Alagappan and Aishwarya Ganesan. Ram and Aishwarya work with Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau in the Advanced Systems Lab. In this…

CSR 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 using advanced statistical models. Recently, their VATS lock scheduling algorithm was adopted by…

CSR Tale #7: The importance of following your curiosity

CSR Tale #7 comes from Prof. Yehia Elkhatib, an Assisstant Professor at Lancaster University, and a visiting professor at École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal. Yehia works on distributed systems and cloud computing, and is the…

CSR 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 (Data Scientist at Centrica). The tale starts when all of them were each a PhD student at a different…

CSR Tale #5: The story of PebblesDB

I 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 published at SOSP 17. The story also involves my post-doc experience at VMware Research.

CSR Tale #4: Yak Shaving with Michael Ekstrand

Our final CSRTale for 2017 comes from Michael Ekstrand, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boise State University, where he co-leads the People and Information Research Team (PIReT) with Dr. Sole Pera. His research…

CSR Tale #3: The paper that took 10 years to publish!

CSR Tales goes international in this post, with our third tale coming from Prof. Javier Bustos-Jiménez in Chile. Javier is the director of the NIC Labs at the University of Chile. His research interests include complex networks, internet…