While visiting the Space Needle in Seattle

Vijay Chidambaram

Computer Sciences and Statistics #7366,
1210 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706


My new web page at UT Austin can be found here.

I will be joining the Computer Science department at the University of Texas at Austin in Fall 2016. Prior to joining UT Austin, I will be spending one year as a post-doc at the VMWare Research Group.

I am was a grad student and Alumni Scholar in Computer Science @ University of Wisconsin Madison. I am interested in operating systems, file systems, and storage systems. I am working worked with Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau in the The ADvanced Systems Laboratory (ADSL). I was awarded the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship in 2014.

I did my undergradation in Computer Science @ College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University. My advisor was Prof. Ranjani Parthasarathi. My undergraduate research project focused on effective usage of flash storage in computer architecture. My CV can be found here.

I blog about systems research at The slow, the fast, and the correct. You can find me on Twitter at @vj_chidambaram.

Teaching

Fall 2014: Introduction to Operating Systems (CS 537)

News

Mar 2015: Our work on provable file-system semantics got accepted to HotOS 2015!

Jan 2015: I gave a talk about our work on Application Crash Vulnerabilities at the SDI/ISTC Seminar at CMU (Slides).

July 2014: Our work on Application Crash Vulnerabilities got accepted to OSDI 14!

Older News

Selected Publications

Crash Consistency: Rethinking the Fundamental Abstractions of the File System
Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Vijay Chidambaram, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Samer Al Kiswany, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
ACM Queue July 2015
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Beyond Storage APIs: Provable Semantics for Storage Stacks
Ramnatthan Alagappan, Vijay Chidambaram, Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Aws Albarghouthi, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
HotOS 2015
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All File Systems Are Not Created Equal: On the Complexity of Crafting Crash-Consistent Applications
Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Vijay Chidambaram, Ramnatthan Alagappan, Samer Al Kiswany, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
OSDI 2014
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Blizzard: Fast, Cloud-scale Block Storage for Cloud-oblivious Applications
James Mickens, Ed Nightingale, Jeremy Elson, Bin Fan, Asim Kadav, Vijay Chidambaram, Osama Khan, Krishna Nareddy, Darren Gehring
NSDI 2014
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Optimistic Crash Consistency
Vijay Chidambaram, Thanumalayan Sanakaranarayana Pillai, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
SOSP 2013
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Consistency Without Ordering
Vijay Chidambaram, Tushar Sharma, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
FAST 2012
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