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Sankaran Sivathanu, PhD Student, Gatech Georgia tech

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Welcome !

I am a 2nd year grad student, working under Prof. Ling Liu at the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. My primary research area is Operating Systems. I am a part of the CERCS (Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems) group and I work at the DiSL (Distributed data intensive Systems Lab).

Research

My research spans the broad area of OS with a recent focus on storage systems. I currently work on a project called Pro-active Disks which aims at enhancing the storage layer's interaction with the higher layers of the system. A pro-active disk, in addition to responding to higher level read and write requests, also has the capability of transferring its knowledge to the higher layers of the system. A pro-active disk passes its knowledge to the higher layer through generic and sufficiently powerful interfaces. The higher layers viz. the file system can leverage the knowledge exported by the pro-active disk to enhance the system performance.

Prior to this, I worked on a few interesting projects, the details of which can be found in my resume.

My research statement can be found here.

Publications

Journals & Conferences :

[Under Submission]

1. Sankaran Sivathanu, Cristian Ungureanu and Ling Liu "Performance Modeling of Power-Aware Storage Arrays", Sep 2009

Technical Reports :

1. Sankaran Sivathanu and Ling Liu "Pro Active Disks - Opportunistic Flushing" Course Project Report, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dec 2007 [PDF]

2. Sankaran Sivathanu, Shankar Sridhar and Karthick Kumar "Design and Implementation of a Content-Based File System in LINUX" Undergrad Final Project Report - Anna University, April 2007 [PDF]

Posters :

1. Sangeetha Seshadri, Sankaran Sivathanu and Ling Liu "Enhancing Availability and Performance in Storage Systems and Services" CERCS IAB Meeting 2007, Georgia Institute of technology, Oct 2007 [PDF]

Internships

Summer 2009

NEC Labs America, Princeton, NJ (Grid Storage Group)

Analyzed power-performance trade-offs in existing power conservation techniques and proposed an analytical performance model for power-aware storage arrays.

Summer 2008

Netapp Inc. , Santa Cruz CA (Advanced Technology Group)

Analyzed the power consumption behavior of the various hardware and software components of NetApp Storage Servers and studied the effect of file systems/workloads on the storage system power consumption.

Courses

MGT6799 Legal Issues in Technology transfer by Prof. Arn Rubinoff

CS6262 Network Security by Prof. Wenke Lee

CS7210 Distributed Systems by Prof. Karsten Schwan

CS6505 Computability, Complexity and Algorithms by Prof. Venkateswaran

CS6210 Advanced Operating Systems by Prof. Ada Gavrilovska

CS8903 Introduction to Graduate Studies by Prof. Nick Feamster and Prof. Alex Gray

Teaching Assistantship

Spring 2009 - Advanced Operating Systems (Prof. Karsten Schwan)

Fall 2009 - Emerging Database Technologies (Prof. Ling Liu)

Resume

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About Me

I earned my undergraduate (Bachelor of Engg.) degree in Computer Science from Anna University, Chennai, India. I spent my entire school-life at St. John's Matriculation Higher Sec. School, Chennai. I was born and brought up in Chennai, India.

Apart from computing, I am also interested in law (partly influenced by my father who is a lawyer in India) , management and finance. I play badminton, squash and closely follow cricket. I have two brothers, Muthian and Gopalan, both software engineers at Google. Here is my mother's tamil poetry site and here is my picasa album.

Contact

Home :

1041 State Street NW

Apt 35

Atlanta GA 30318

Ph : 404 - 418 - 8188

Office :

KACB 3201

Klaus computing Building

Georgia Institute of Technology

266 Ferst Drive

Atlanta GA 30332