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nitin agrawal

NEC Laboratories, Princeton, NJ
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intro
I work as a Researcher in the Storage group at NEC Labs in Princeton. In previous life, I graduated with a PhD from Wisconsin working with Professors Andrea and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau as part of the Advanced Systems Lab.

work
My research interests include operating systems and file & storage systems. I have also done a few internships. Here's a CV from April '09 and my dissertation from Aug '09.

recent activities
  • We have openings for full-time, post-doc and intern positions for Fall 2010 (details here)
  • KVZone release: NEC Labs benchmarking tool for key-value store evaluation
  • LWN article on Impressions (courtesy Valerie Aurora); subscription may be required
  • program committee for International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage 2010
  • program committee for International Conference on Parallel Processing 2010
  • invited speaker for SNIA Storage Developer Conference 2009
  • reviewing for conferences and journals, including FAST, ASPLOS, VLDB, USENIX, ACM TOS, SC, Elsevier MICPRO, Elsevier JPDS, IEEE TPDS, IEEE CAL
play
Deviate a bit or see these.

recent works [full list]
AVATARs for Pennies: Cheap N-version ProgrammingHotDep '10
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