Raju Rangaswami Associate Professor School of Computing and Information Sciences College of Engineering and Computing Florida International University Office: ECS 386 Email:  raju[at]cs[dot]fiu[dot]edu Tel: 305-348-6230 Fax: 305-348-3549

Bio   Research    Teaching   Service   Publications   Honors & Awards

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Research

My current research interests include operating systems, storage systems, virtualization, security, and real-time systems.

Selected Recent Publications:

Application Performance Modeling in a Virtualized Environment, HPCA 2010
BORG: Block-reORGanization for Self-Optimizing Storage Systems, FAST 2009
Anatomy of a Real-time Intrusion Prevention System, ICAC 2008
The Case for Active Block Layer Extensions, SPEED 2008
EXCES: External Caching in Energy Saving Storage Systems, HPCA 2008
Workload-based Generation of Administrator Hints for Optimizing Database Storage Utilization, ACM TOS 2008


Students I work with:

Ricarfens Augustin (B.S.)
Fernando Farfan (Ph.D.)
Daniel Galano (B.S.)
Jorge Guerra (Ph.D.)
Ricardo Koller (Ph.D.)
Sajib Kundu (Ph.D.)
Leonardo Marmol (B.S.)
Luis Useche (Ph.D.)

Past Students

Collaborators: Anurag Acharya, Himyanshu Anand, Gary Chan, Edward Chang, Milton Chen, Peter Clarke, Yi Deng, Zoran Dimitrijevic, Kaushik Dutta, Hector A. Duran-Limon, Vagelis Hristidis, Kyle Kakligian, Tao Li, Jason Liu, Nagarajan Prabakar, Masoud Sadjadi, Klaus Schauser, Shuichi Shimizu, Geoffrey Smith, Indranil Sengupta, Yuan-Fang Wang, David Watson, Chi Zhang, Ming Zhao.

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Honors and Awards

• NSF CAREER Award, 2008-2013.
• FIU Excellence in Faculty Scholarship, 2008.
• Excellence in Research Award, School of Computing and Information Sciences, 2008.
• Department of Energy Early CAREER (ECPI) Award, 2006-2009.
• University of California Dissertation Fellowship, 2004.
  
• Dean's Fellowship, UCSB, 1999.

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Professional Service

• NSF Panelist: 2005-2007, 2009.
  
• Publicity Co-chair, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2007.
  
• Demonstration Co-chair, ACM Multimedia, 2006.
  
• Program Committees:
  
• SYSTOR: The Annual Haifa Experimental Systems Conference, 2010
• International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2010
• USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2009
• IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), 2009
• IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), 2008
• IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2007
• IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2006
• ACM Workshop on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming, co-located with ACM Multimedia, 2005
• IEEE WIRELESSCOM 2005
• IEEE ICME 2005

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Teaching 

• Fall 2009: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
  
• Spring 2009: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
  
• Spring 2009: Operating Systems (COP 5614)
  
• Fall 2008: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
  
• Spring 2008: Operating Systems (COP 5614)
  
• Fall 2007: Advanced Operating Systems (COP 6611)
  
• Fall 2007: UNIX System Administration (COP 4343)
  
• Spring 2007: Storage Systems (CIS 5346)
  
• Fall 2006: Advanced Operating Systems (COP 6611)
  
• Fall 2006: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
  
• Spring 2006: Storage Systems (CIS 5346)
  
• Spring 2006: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
  
• Fall 2005: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
  
• Spring 2005: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)
• Spring 2005: Storage Systems (COP 5995)
  
• Fall 2004: Operating Systems Principles (COP 4610)

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