Computer Science University

Sameer Agarwal

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Berkeley, CA - 94720 http://www.sameeragarwal.net

EDUCATION PhD Candidate (Advisor: Ion Stoica) August 2009 -

Computer Science (Operating Systems and Networks)

University of California, Berkeley

Recipient of Berkeley Graduate Fellowship 2009-10

CGPA: 4.0/4.0

Bachelor of Technology July 2005- May 2009

Computer Science and Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Recipient of President of India Gold Medal 2009

CGPA: 9.76/10

INTERESTS Computer Networks, Cloud Computing and Datacenter Networking

WORK/ University of California Berkeley & Facebook Inc. (Nov 2010 - ).

RESEARCH Working with Dhruba Borthakur & Ion Stoica in implementing snapshot sup-

port for HDFS like distributed le systems.

Google, Mountain View (May 2010 - August 2010). Worked as part

of the System Health team in Platforms & Networking Group in analyzing the

Network Health of Google s Datacenters with Dr. Sridhar Machiraju.

University of California Berkeley (Aug 2009 - ). Working with Ion

Stoica on a variety of projects ranging from designing scheduling algorithms for

MapReduce like frameworks by predicting task durations, designing pro-active

le replication schemes for HDFS based systems and exploring the tradeo s

and usefulness of stateless packet classi cation protocols.

McKinsey & Company, San Francisco (Jan 2010- May 2010). Worked

on a semester long class project in devising mathematical techniques for large

scale data analytics using machine learning and cloud computing to optimize

eServices websites.

Cornell University, Ithaca (May 2008 - July 2008) . Developed a socket-

based gray-box ow control protocol for multicast communications speci cally

suited for the clustered environments found in modern datacenters with Prof.

Kenneth P. Birman (Cornell University) and Dr. Mahesh Balakrishnan (Mi-

crosoft Research, Silicon Valley)

IBM Research Lab, India (May 2007 - July 2007) Applied Web Ontology

techniques and machine learning in the voice domain to search unstructured

RDF graphs and triplets e ciently with Nitendra Rajput.

PUBLICATIONS/ Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Sameer Agarwal, Srikanth Kandula, Albert Green-

TECHNICAL berg, Ion Stoica. Scarlett: Coping with Skewed Content Popularity in

REPORTS MapReduce Clusters. In ACM EuroSys 2011.

Sameer Agarwal, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Dilip Joseph, Ion Stoica. Scaling

Packet Classi cation by O oading (in submission ).

Sameer Agarwal, Ion Stoica. Chronos: A Predictive Task Scheduler for

MapReduce. University of California, Berkeley. December 2010.

Sameer Agarwal, Charles Reiss. Latency & Accuracy Tradeo s in a Ve-

hicle Path Inference Task. University of California, Berkeley. May 2010.

Sameer Agarwal, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan. To Queue or Not to Queue,

in MapReduce. University of California, Berkeley. May 2010.

Sameer Agarwal, Larry Sun, Jiening Zhan. Mathematical Techniques for

Website Analysis . University of California, Berkeley. May 2010.

Sameer Agarwal, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Kenneth P. Birman. Multicast Flow

Control: for Clustered Applications in Datacenters. Cornell University,

Ithaca, New York, USA, July 2008.

Sameer Agarwal, Jan Gotz, Ulrich Ruede. Fundamentals of Parallel Pro-

cessing. Indo-German Winter Academy 2007, December 2007.

Sameer Agarwal. N-triples based Semantic Search. IIT Guwahati, Septem-

ber 2007.

Sameer Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput. Where are You?: An application in

Location Inferencing. IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, July, 2007.

Sameer Agarwal, Nitendra Rajput. Ontology Based location Inferencing.

IBM India Research Lab, New Delhi, June 2007

Sameer Agarwal, Naveen Cherukuri. Design and Fabrication of a 4 Bit

Central Processing Unit based on Micro programmed Control. De-

partment of Computer Science, IIT Guwahati, April, 2007.

HONORS AND President of India Gold Medal 2009 for being the best outgoing student

SCHOLARSHIPS at the Indian Institute of Technology.

Recipient of the prestigious OP Jindal Engineering and Management

scholarship given to only 25 students all over India from various IITs and

IIMs for undergraduate studies at IIT, Guwahati.

Recipient of the Cornell University Summer Research Fellowship 2008

given to only 3 Computer Science undergraduates from the IITs.

Selected for the Indo-German Winter Academy 2007 in collaboration with

the IITs and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany during winter

2007.

TEACHING Head TA (Prof. Scott Shenker)

EE 122: Introduction to Communication Networks (Fall 2010)

University of California, Berkeley

COMPUTER Programming Languages : C, C++, Java, Perl & Python.

SKILLS

Database Systems : MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2

Operating Systems : Linux, Solaris, Windows

Web design : HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP, JSP

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