Awards

  • SOSP' 24 Best Paper Award
  • NSF CAREER Award 2024 (Title: Storage-Aware Fault Tolerance; $699K)
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students, Spring 2023
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Outstanding By Their Students, Fall 2022
  • Selected for Rising Stars in EECS '21
  • Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2020 (awards video: link)
  • FAST '20 Best Paper Award
  • Facebook Distributed Systems Research Grant (link)
  • Facebook Ph.D., Fellowship, 2019
  • Selected for Rising Stars in EECS '18
  • FAST '18 Best Paper Award
  • Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Scholarship, 2017
  • FAST '17 Best Paper Award Nominee
  • Departmental Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2015
  • Department Gold Medal for Ranking First during Under graduation, 2010
  • Tata Consultancy Services endowed Best Student Award, 2010

Conference Publications

LazyLog: A New Shared Log Abstraction for Low-Latency Applications. In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP ’24, November 2024.
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Best Paper Award

SplitFT: Fault Tolerance for Disaggregated Datacenters via Remote Memory Logging. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Conference on Computer Systems, EuroSys '24, Apr 2024.
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IONIA: High-Performance Replication for Modern Disk-based KV Stores. In Proceedings of the 22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, FAST '24, Feb 2024.
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Automatic Reliability Testing For Cluster Management Controllers. In Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI '22, July 2022.
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Exploiting Nil-Externality for Fast Replicated Storage. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP ’21, October 2021.
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Invited for fast-tracked publication in ACM Transactions on Storage
From Wisckey to Bourbon: A Learned Index for Log-structured Merge Trees. In Proceedings of the 14th Symposium on Operating System and Design Implementation, OSDI ’20, November 2020.
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Strong and Efficient Consistency with Consistency-aware Durability. In Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, FAST ’20, February 2020.

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Best Paper Award, Invited for fast-tracked publication in ACM Transactions on Storage

Geting More Performance with Polymorphism from Emerging Memory Technologies. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Systems and Storage, SYSTOR ’19, June 2019.
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Fault-Tolerance, Fast and Slow: Exploiting Failure Asynchrony in Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of the 13th Symposium on Operating System and Design Implementation, OSDI ’18, October 2018.
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Protocol-Aware Recovery for Consensus-Based Storage. In Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, FAST ’18, February, 2018.

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Best Paper Award, Best of the Rest at ATC ’19, Invited for fast-tracked publication in ACM Transactions on Storage

Redundancy Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance: Analysis of Distributed Storage Reactions to Single Errors and Corruptions. In Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, FAST ’17, March, 2017.

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Best Paper Award Nominee, Invited for fast-tracked publication in ACM Transactions on Storage

Correlated Crash Vulnerabilities. In Proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Operating System and Design Implementation, OSDI ‘16, November, 2016.

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Enabling Physical Analytics in Retail Stores using Smart Glasses. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom ’14, September, 2014.

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Other Publications

Reasoning About Modern Datacenter Infrastructures using Partial Histories. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems HotOS '21, June 2021.

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Strong and Efficient Consistency with Consistency-aware Durability. ACM Transactions on Storage, 17(1), ACM TOS, January 2021.

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Fast-tracked article to TOS

Protocol-Aware Recovery for Consensus-Based Distributed Storage. ACM Transactions on Storage, Vol. 14, Issue 3, ACM TOS, October, 2018.

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Fast-tracked article to TOS

Redundancy Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance: Analysis of Distributed Storage Reactions to File-System Faults. ACM Transactions on Storage, Vol. 13, No. 3, Article 20., ACM TOS, September, 2017.

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Fast-tracked article to TOS

Redundancy Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance: Analysis of Distributed Storage Reactions to Single Errors and Corruptions. ;login: The USENIX Magazine Vol. 42, No. 2, USENIX ;login:, June, 2017.

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Invited article

Demo: Tracking User Browsing on a Demo Floor. In Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom ’14 (demo), September, 2014.

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Teaching

CS 425: Distributed systems (Fall '24) (co-teaching with Indranil Gupta)
CS 591 SN: Systems and Networking Seminar (Fall '24) (Co-organizing w/ Jongyul Kim, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Indranil Gupta, and Tianyin Xu)
CS 425: Distributed systems (Fall '23) (co-teaching with Indranil Gupta)
CS 591 SN: Systems and Networking Seminar (Fall '23) (Co-organizing w/ Ramnatthan Alagappan, Indranil Gupta, and Tianyin Xu)
CS 598 FTS: Fault-tolerant and consistent data center systems (Spring '23)
CS 591 SN: Systems and Networking Seminar (Spring '23) (Co-organizing w/ Ramnatthan Alagappan, Indranil Gupta, and Tianyin Xu)
CS 598 AWG: ML for Systems (Fall '22) List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students
CS 591 SN: Systems and Networking Seminar (Fall '22) (Co-organizing w/ Ramnatthan Alagappan, Indranil Gupta, and Tianyin Xu)
CS 739: Distributed Systems (Spring ’20) (UW Madison) Graduate Student Instructor Award

Service

Co-chair

  • Co-organizing doctoral workshop at SOSP'23
  • FAST '23 Posters and WiP Co-chair
  • Journal of Systems Research, Student Editorial Board Co-Chair, 2021

Program Committee Member

  • OSDI '24
  • Eurosys '24
  • FAST '24
  • APSys '23
  • HotStorage '23
  • NVMW '23
  • SYSTOR '23
  • OSDI '23
  • SoCC '22
  • HotStorage '22
  • DSN-DSML '22
  • APSys '21
  • SYSTOR '21
  • HAOC '21 (co-organized with EuroSys '21)
  • EuroDW '21 (co-organized with EuroSys '21)

Outreach

  • Mentoring SOSP '21, OSDI '21, and EuroDW '21
  • President, W-ACM, UW Madison chapter of ACM’s Women in Computing, 2018
  • WACM Student Mentor, 2017

Other

  • SOSP '21 AMA Co-chair
  • NVMW, External Reviewer, 2020
  • ACM Transactions on Storage, Reviewer, 2019
  • EuroSys, Shadow PC Member, 2019
  • FAST, External Reviewer, 2018
  • EuroSys, Contributor to PC Reviews, 2017
  • OSDI, External Reviewer, 2016

Contact

  • aganesn2 AT illinois DOT edu