I am a masters student working in the Flux Research Group. Jay Lepreau is my advisor. I collaborate with Anton Burtsev and Mike Hibler.

My research interests span Operating Systems and Distributed Systems. In the past few years, my focus has been on Storage Systems and System Virtualization. This gives me a chance to hack on Unix kernels, which is super exciting. In my life before grad school, I used to work on VERITAS' Cluster Volume Manager and Volume Replicator. My resume is HERE.

At Utah, my research revolves around the Emulab Time-Travel project, which aims to enhance Emulab with stateful-swapping (no more losing experiment state because of idle-swaps) and provide experimenters with a tool to checkpoint and replay large networked experiments (yes, go back in time and redo the same thing!). Along with Anton, I've been hacking on Xen. We had designed and implemented a prototype for John Carter's Distributed Systems course. We also presented it as a poster at NSDI 2006. More recently, I've extended the Linux LVM snapshot facility into a simple general-purpose branching storage system. Towards my master's thesis, I'm currently putting the pieces together, with some optimizations thrown in, to prototype Emulab stateful-swapping.

Update: I'm done with my master's thesis: Stateful-Swapping in the Emulab Network Testbed. Some of this is also included in this EuroSys 2009 paper.

In spring 2006, I did a semester-long project on addressing the problem of Proving DDoS Attacks in the Internet, for Sneha Kasera's Network Security course. For John Regehr's Program Analysis course, I attempted implementing the partial redundancy elimination algorithm, GVN-PRE, in the LLVM compiler framework. The implementation worked okay, but sadly enough, did not end up with great results.

Often times, when the real gets to me, I take to the reel. Since my threshold for what constitutes a good movie is low, there is no dearth of movies to watch. I like movies with style and/or substance. But tend to stay away from fantasy, science fiction and horror -- that's right, no Potters, Star Wars or Psychos. Besides movies, I enjoy dancing (strictly offstage), filter coffee, contemporary fiction, day-dreaming and other random things...