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Vijay Chidambaram

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


I am 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 with Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau in the The ADvanced Systems Laboratory (ADSL).

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 resume can be found here.

I blog about my research and other file-system related stuff here. You can find me on Twitter here.

News

Jan 2013: I will be spending summer 2013 working with James Mickens at Microsoft Research.

May 2012: Our work on Coerced Cache Eviction was covered in Computing Now.

Publications

Consistency Without Ordering
Vijay Chidambaram, Tushar Sharma, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
FAST 2012
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Designing Persuasive Robots: How Robots Might Persuade People Using Vocal and Nonverbal Cues
Vijay Chidambaram, Yueh-Hsuan Chiang, Bilge Mutlu
HRI 2012
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Coerced Cache Eviction: Dealing with Misbehaving Disks through Discreet-Mode Journaling
Abhishek Rajimwale, Vijay Chidambaram, Deepak Ramamurthi, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
DSN 2011
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Design-space exploration of flash augmented architectures
Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Vijay Chidambaram, Ranjani Parthasarathi
HiPC 2008 Student Symposium
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Technical Reports

Consistency Without Ordering (Extended version)
Vijay Chidambaram, Tushar Sharma, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
UWCS-TR-2012-1709

Miscellaneous

Is Ordering of Disk Updates Required to Maintain File-System Crash-Consistency?
Vijay Chidambaram
Tiny Transactions on Computer Science (TinyToCS) Volume 2, 2013
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Posters

Consistency Without Ordering
Vijay Chidambaram, Tushar Sharma, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
FAST 2012

Coerced Cache Eviction: Dealing with Misbehaving Disks through Discreet-Mode Journaling
Abhishek Rajimwale, Vijay Chidambaram, Deepak Ramamurthi, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
OSDI 2010

Internships

Researcher Intern. Microsoft Research
Redmond, WA. June-September, 2012
I worked on improving load balancing in Cosmos (a distributed, scalable storage system).

Software Engineering Intern. Systems Infrastructure Group, Google
New York City, NY. June - August, 2010.
I worked on Colossus (a distributed file system based on the Google File System) adding to its disaster recovery capabilities.

Software Engineering Intern. HeyMath!
Chennai, India. May - June, 2007.
I created a mailing engine to serve the public relations and marketing divisions of HeyMath!