Ricardo Koller

rkoll001[at]cs[dot]fiu[dot]edu

Education

• Florida International University
Under the guidance of Prof. Raju Rangaswami.
PhD, Computer science, 2007 to 2011 (expected)

• Universidad Catolica Boliviana (Bolivian Catholic University)
BS in Systems Engineering, Computer science, 2001 to 2005

Research Interests

• Operating Systems
• Storage Systems

Experience

• Research assistant at Florida International University
January 2007 to Present

• MTS Intern at VMware
June to August 2011

• MTS Intern at VMware
June to August 2010

• Research intern at IBM Research, India
June to August 2009

• Research intern at IBM Research, India
June to August 2008

• Software developer at Jalasoft
January 2005 to December 2006 (2 years)

Publications

• Truly Non-Blocking Writes (PDF)
  Luis Useche, Ricardo Koller, Raju Rangaswami, Akshat Verma
  Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, June, 2011.

• Estimating Application Cache Requirement for Provisioning Caches in Virtualized Systems (PDF)
  Ricardo Koller, Akshat Verma, and Raju Rangaswami
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), July 2011.

• CosMig: Modeling the Impact of Reconfiguration in a Cloud
  Akshat Verma, Gautam Kumar, Ricardo Koller, Aritra Sen
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), July 2011.

• Generalized ERSS Tree Model: Revisiting Working Sets (PDF)
  Ricardo Koller, Akshat Verma, and Raju Rangaswami
  Proceedings of the IFIP International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation, November, 2010.

• WattApp: An Application Aware Power Meter for Shared Data Centers (PDF)
  Ricardo Koller, Akshat Verma, Anindya Neogi
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, June, 2010.

• I/O Deduplication: Utilizing Content Similarity to Improve I/O Performance (PDF)
  Ricardo Koller and Raju Rangaswami
  Proceedings of the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February, 2010.

• SRCMap: Energy Proportional Storage Using Dynamic Consolidation (PDF)
  Akshat Verma, Ricardo Koller, Luis Useche, and Raju Rangaswami
  Proceedings of the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, February, 2010.

• Anatomy of a Real-time Intrusion Prevention System (PDF)
  Ricardo Koller, Raju Rangaswami, Joseph Marrero, Igor Hernandez, Geoffrey Smith, Mandy Barsilai, Silviu Necula, S. Masoud Sadjadi, Tao Li, and Krista Merrill
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, June, 2008.

• The Case for Active Block Layer Extensions (PDF)
  Jorge Guerra, Luis Useche, Medha Bhadkamkar, Ricardo Koller, and Raju Rangaswami
  Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Storage and I/O Virtualization, Performance, Energy, Evaluation and Dependability (SPEED), held in conjunction with IEEE HPCA, February, 2008.