Swaminathan Sundararaman

Email: [swami] (at) cs (dot) wisc (dot) edu
7361 Computer Sciences and Statistics
1210 W. Dayton St.
Madison, WI 53706

(608) 262-2252
(608) 262-9777 (Fax)




About Me

I am a third year PhD student in Computer Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison. I work in the ADvanced Systems Laboratory, and my advisors are Prof. Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau.


Education


Research Interests

My research interests include File and Storage Systems, Operating Systems, and Distributed Systems.
    

Publications

Membrane: Operating System Support for Restartable File Systems
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Sriram Subramanian, Abhishek Rajimwale, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Michael M. Swift
To appear in the Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10)
February 2009, San Jose, CA.

Tolerating File System Mistakes with EnvyFS
Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Proceedings of the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (Usenix '09)
June 2009, San Dieago, CA.
Available as: PDF  PostScript  Bibtex
Talk Slides: PowerPoint   Video: QuickTime
Best Paper Award

Selective Versioning in a Secure Disk System
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Gopalan Sivathanu, Erez Zadok
Proceedings of the 17th USENIX Security Symposium (Usenix Security '08)
July 2008, San Jose, CA.
Available as: PDF  PostScript  Bibtex

Type-Safe Disks
Gopalan Sivathanu, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Erez Zadok
Proceedings of the 7th Usenix Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '06)
November 2006, Seattle, WA, USA.
Available as: PDF  PostScript  Bibtex

Workshop Papers:

Why panic()? Improving Reliability with Restartable File Systems
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Sriram Subramanian, Abhishek Rajimwale, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
Accepted in the Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File System (Hot Storage '09)
October 2009, Big Sky, Montana, USA.
Available as: PDF  PostScript  Bibtex
 

Exploiting Type-Awareness in a Self-Recovering Disk
Kiron Vijayasankar, Gopalan Sivathanu, Swaminathan Sundararaman, Erez Zadok
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS '07)
October 2006, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
Available as: PDF  PostScript  Bibtex
 


Internships

Summer 2008
Microsoft Research, Mountain View (Silicon Valley Lab) (Distributed Systems Group)
Light-weight Meta-data Server for Dryad   (Details confidential)

Summer 2006
VMware Inc., Palo Alto, California (Structured Data Access Group)
Storage VMotion: Cloning and mirroring live files across VMFS volumes.  (Details confidential)

Spring 2005
HP Labs, Bangalore, India (Handwriting Recognition Group)
Tracking and Capturing Annotations in Paper Based Workflows using Digital Pen and Paper Technology.  (Details confidential)

Summer 2001
Indian Bank, Chennai, India
Executive Information System.  (Details confidential)