Bhuvan Urgaonkar, bhuvan

Bhuvan Urgaonkar received his B.Tech (honors) in computer science and engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (1999), and M.S. (2002) and Ph.D. (2005) in computer science at the University of Massachusetts. His research involves applying ideas from distributed computing, resource management, scheduling, performance evaluation, and analytical modeling to the design and evaluation of data centers, networked systems, operating systems, virtualization techniques, and storage systems.

Urgaonkar is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2010), research awards from HP Labs (2010) and Cisco (2007),  and has co-authored best student papers at IEEE MASCOTS 2008 and ICAC 2005 conferences.  He is a senior member of the ACM, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of USENIX.

Research Interests:

Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Operating Systems/Virtual Machines, Performance Evaluation, Power Management,  Storage Systems 

Selected Publications:

1. Urgaonkar, R., B. Urgaonkar, M. J. Neely, A. Sivasubramaniam. June 2011. Optimal Power Cost Management Using Energy Storage in Data Centers.  In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2011). San Jose, CA.
2. Gupta, A., Y. Kim, B. Urgaonkar. March 2009. DFTL: A Flash Translation Layer Employing Demand-based Selective Caching of Page-level Address Mappings. In Proceedings of the ACM Interational Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2009). pp. 229-240.  Washington, D.C.
3. Tak, B.-C., C. Tang, C. Zhang, S. Govindan, B. Urgaonkar, R. N. Chang. June 2009. vPath: Precise Discovery of Request Processing Paths from Black-Box Observations of Thread and Network Activities. In Proceedings of the Thirty Fourth USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX 2009). San Diego, CA. 
4. Urgaonkar, B., G. Pacifici, P. Shenoy, M. Spreitzer, A. Tantawi. June 2005. An Analytical Model for Multi-tier Internet Services and Its Applications. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2005). pp. 291-302. Banff, Canada.
5. Urgaonkar, B., P. Shenoy, T. Roscoe. December 2002. Resource Overbooking and Application Profiling in Shared Hosting Platforms. Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2002). pp. 239-254.  Boston, MA.