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nitin agrawal

NEC Laboratories, Princeton, NJ
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I work as a Researcher in the Storage Systems group at NEC Labs in Princeton. In previous life, I graduated with a PhD from Wisconsin working with Professors Andrea and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. My research interests include operating systems and file & storage systems. Currently I am working on storage architectures for mobile and cloud platforms as part of the Mobius project.

news
  • FAST 2012 paper gets Best Paper award. For various flavors of this work in the popular media look at: MIT Tech Review, Slashdot, or simply read the paper
  • FAST 2011 paper gets Best Paper award
  • KVZone release: NEC Labs benchmarking tool for key-value store evaluation
  • LWN article on Impressions (courtesy Valerie Aurora)
  • Invited speaker for SNIA Storage Developer Conference 2009, 2012

  • community

  • PC member for NVM 2013, FAST 2013, ERSS 2012, IWSSPS 2010, ICPP 2010
  • Chair for FAST '13 Posters
  • Invited panelist for Department of Energy's SBIR funding program 2011
  • Reviewing for conferences and journals, including FAST, ASPLOS, VLDB, USENIX, ACM TOS, SC, Elsevier MICPRO, Elsevier JPDS, IEEE TPDS, IEEE CAL, ACM TECS, IEEE ESL, IEEE Pervasive Computing, ISCA

  • interns
  • Younghwan Go, KAIST. Summer 2013
  • Dorian Perkins, UC Riverside. Summer 2013
  • Shuai Hao, USC. Summer 2012
  • Aayush Gupta, Penn State. Summer 2011
  • Hyojun Kim, Georgia Tech. Summer 2011
  • Leo Arulraj, UW Madison. Summer 2010

  • publications [full list]
    Mobile Data Sync in a Blink
    HotStorage '13

    Delay-Tolerant Cloud for Mobile Data
    MDM '13

    Building Storage Systems for Mobile Devices
    NVM '12

    Revisiting Storage for Smartphones
    FAST '12, TOS '12
    Best Paper
    Examining Storage Performance on Mobile Devices
    Mobiheld '11

    Emulating Goliath Storage Systems with David FAST '11, TOS '12
    Best Paper
    AVATARs for Pennies: Cheap N-version Programming HotDep '10 Short Paper
    Key-Value Stores and Benchmarks for SSDs
    HotStorage '10
    Generating FS Images with Impressions
    FAST '09, TOS '09 Best Paper
    Design Tradeoffs for SSD Performance USENIX '08
    Five-Year Study of FS Metadata FAST '07, TOS '07 Award Paper
    Realistic FS Benchmarks with CodeMRI HotMetrics '08
    Effects of Disk Pointer Corruption
    DSN '08

    IRON File Systems
    SOSP '05

    Deconstructing Storage Clusters
    ISCA '05


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