About

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. My research interests span distributed systems, databases, networking, and algorithms.

I am looking for highly motivated graduate students. Please send me an email if you are interested.

News

04/26/21: What serverless computing is and should become published in CACM!
04/13/21: NetApp Faculty Fellowship with Abhishek Bhattacharjee! Thanks NetApp!
01/03/21: NSF CAREER Award! Thanks NSF!
01/03/21: Caerus accepted to NSDI’21!
08/12/20: Pancake wins Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX Security’20! Thank you USENIX!
06/22/20: Pancake accepted to USENIX Security’21!
04/20/20: Le Taureau accepted to SIGMOD’20!
01/06/20: Started at Yale!

OS Stack for Disaggregated & Serverless Architectures:

What serverless computing is and should become: the next phase of cloud computing [CACM’21]
Caerus: NIMBLE Task Scheduling for Serverless Analytics [NSDI’21]
Le Taureau: Deconstructing the Serverless Landscape & A Look Forward [SIGMOD’20]
A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing [UC Berkeley Tech Report]

High-performance storage stacks for automated data:

Distributed Monitoring & Diagnosis Stack for High Speed Networks [NSDI’19 Paper], [Code]

Secure cloud systems:

Pancake: Frequency Smoothing for Encrypted Data Stores [USENIX Security’20 Paper] [Code]

(Prior work) Queries on compressed data:

Succinct: Enabling Queries on compressed data [NSDI’15 Paper], [Code: C++], [Code: Java]
BlowFish: Dynamic Storage-Performance Tradeoff in Data Stores [NSDI’16 Paper]
Sprint: Regular Expression Queries on Compressed Data [Tech Report], [Code]
ZipG: Serving Queries on Compressed Graphs [SIGMOD’17 Paper]