Computer Science Engineer

Vijay Chidambaram

Computer Sciences and Statistics #7366,

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Madison, WI 53706

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http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/ vijayc/

Education PhD in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin Madison Expected May 2015

Advisors : Prof. Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau

MS in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin Madison May 2011

CGPA 3.875/4

B.E. in Computer Science, College of Engineering Guindy,

Anna University, India May 2009

CGPA 9.12/10

Research Operating systems, le systems, storage systems

Interests

Experience Research Assistant, UW Madison January 2010 - present

Working with Prof Andrea and Prof Remzi on le system consistency

and reliability

Intern, Microsoft Research Summer 2012

Worked on load balancing for Cosmos, a distributed storage system

Helped increase scalability of the system

Intern, Google Summer 2010

Worked on the successor to the Google File System, Colossus

Added to the disaster recovery capabilities of the system

Intern, Networks Lab, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Summer 2008

Worked on providing Single Sign On and other services for the users of a wide-area

network connecting 8 colleges across the state

Built a distributed testbed for network experiments

Intern, HeyMath!, Chennai, India Summer 2007

Created a mailing engine to serve the mass mailing needs of HeyMath!

The user interface was designed such that even laymen users could easily use the

web application.

Publications Consistency Without Ordering

Vijay Chidambaram, Tushar Sharma, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau,

Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau

USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2012)

Designing Persuasive Robots: How Robots Might Persuade People Using

Vocal and Nonverbal Cues

Vijay Chidambaram, Yueh-Hsuan Chiang, Bilge Mutlu

International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 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

International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2011)

Design-space exploration of ash augmented architectures

Thanumalayan S, Vijay Chidambaram, Ranjani Parthasarathi

Student Research Symposium, International Conference on High Performance

Computing (HiPC 2008)

Projects No-Order File System Spring 2011 - Fall 2011

De ned the di erent levels of consistency provided by le systems, and the mech-

anism needed to provide each level

Designed and implemented the No-Order File System (NoFS) which provides

consistency without resorting to the use of ordering points

Coerced Cache Eviction Spring 2010 - Fall 2010

Technique to force writes to disk where disks do not properly obey cache ush

commands

Implemented and tested in ext3 lesystem via a new journalling mode called

Discreet Mode Journalling

Small scale distributed key-value store Spring 2009

Distributed key-value store, modeled on Dynamo, capable of handling node and

network failures

Implemented in Google Go

Performance Analysis of Memcached Fall 2009

Carried out performance analysis of memcached, a distributed object store

Investigated gains from providing operating system support for memcached

Flash Augmented Architectures - Senior Year Undergraduate Project 2008- 2009

Examined the e ects of introducing ash and SSD storage in today s storage

hierarchy

Design replaced all of main and secondary memory with SSD storage

Analyzed the side-e ects of the design and applications which might potentially

bene t from such a design

GENIE - Distributed Testbed for Network Experiments Summer 2008

User can specify the topology of the virtual network graphically

Parameters of the virtual network such as link bandwidth and delay can be spec-

i ed by the user

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux

Computer

Languages: C, C++

Skills

Academic Alumni Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009

Honors

Leadership Google Student Ambassador, University of Wisconsin Madison 2010-2011

Activities

Head of Web Operations, Kurukshetra (National Tech-Fest of College Of Engineer-

ing, Guindy) 2009

Google Campus Ambassador, College of Engineering Guindy 2007-2008

Executive Director, Computer Society Of Anna University (Largest student org on

campus) 2007-2008

Other Among Top 20 out of 200 teams in the International Collegiate Programming Contest

Achievements North Central America Regionals 2009

Among Top 5 Conceptors on Topcoder, a competitive software development por-

tal. Conceptors work with the clients and the software designers to mesh out client

requirements technically 2009

Conceived and designed Riddles of the Sphinx 2008 and 2007, online technical

hunts conducted during Kurukshetra. Both ROS events attracted more than 200,000

participants from around the world 2007-2008

Conducted Sparks and Prodigy, events aimed at exposing school children to technol-

ogy 2007-2008

Conducted several online and onsite programming contests 2007-2009

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