Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy

Office: 238 Maxwell Dworkin 33 Oxford St. Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Phone: (617) 496-4510 FAX: (617) 496-6404 email: kir...@eecs.harvard.edu

About Me

I am a sixth (and final!) year PhD student in computer science at Harvard University. I am affiliated to the SYRAH group. My advisor is Prof. Margo Seltzer. My research interests are in file systems, cloud computing, and distributed systems. I am currently working on Provenance-Aware Storage Systems.

Job Application Material

My job application material are available here.

Recent Work

• Provenance for the Cloud, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Peter Macko, and Margo Seltzer, appears in 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10), Feb 2010.
• Causality-Based Versioning , Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy and David A. Holland, appears in ACM Transactions on Storage (ACM TOS), Nov 2009.
• Provenance as First-Class Cloud Data, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy and Margo Seltzer, appears in the 3rd ACM SIGOPS International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS'09), October 2009.
• Layering in Provenance Systems, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Uri Braun, David A. Holland, Peter Macko Diana Maclean, Daniel Margo, Margo Seltzer, and Robin Smogor, appears in 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'09), June 2009.pdf (old version appears as Harvard University Computer Science Technical Report TR-04-08. pdf)

• Provenance for the Cloud, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Peter Macko, and Margo Seltzer, appears in 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '10), Feb 2010.
• Layering in Provenance Systems, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Uri Braun, David A. Holland, Peter Macko Diana Maclean, Daniel Margo, Margo Seltzer, and Robin Smogor, appears in 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'09), June 2009.pdf
• Causality-Based Versioning , Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy and David A. Holland, appears in 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09), Feb 2009. pdf
  Selected as a top paper and forwarded to Nov. 2009 issue on Transactions on Storage (TOS).
  
• Improving Recoverability in Multi-Tier Storage Systems, Marcos Aguilera, Kimberly Keeton, Arif Merchant, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy and Mustafa Uysal , appears in 37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2007 , PDS Track), June 2007. pdf
  
• Provenance-Aware Storage Systems, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, David A. Holland, Uri Braun, and Margo Seltzer, appears in 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'06), June 2006. pdf
• A Versatile and User-Oriented Versioning File System, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Charles P. Wright, Andrew P. Himmer and Erez Zadok , appears in 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04), March 2004. pdf

• Causality-Based Versioning , Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy and David A. Holland, appears in ACM Transactions on Storage (ACM TOS), Nov 2009.
• PASSing the provenance challenge, David A. Holland,, Margo Seltzer, Uri Braun, and Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, appears in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE'08), September 2007. pdf

• Provenance as First-Class Cloud Data, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy and Margo Seltzer, appears in the 3rd ACM SIGOPS International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS'09), October 2009.
  Also appears in Operating Systems Review (OSR) special issue on LADIS.
  
• Making a Cloud Provenance-Aware, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Peter Macko , and Margo Seltzer, appears in 1st Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP'09), February 2009.pdf
• Choosing a Data Model and Query Language for Provenance, David A. Holland, Uri Braun, Diana Maclean, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, and Margo Seltzer, appears in 2nd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW'08), June 2008. pdf
• Ad-Hoc Multicast Routing on Resource-Limited Sensor Nodes, Bor-rong Chen, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, and Matt Welsh, appears in The Second ACM/Sigmobile workshop on Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks: from theory to reality (REALMAN'06), May 2006. pdf
  (Extended version appears as Harvard University Computer Science Technical Report TR-22-05)
• Issues in Automatic Provenance Collection , Uri Braun, David A. Holland, Simson Garfinkel, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, and Margo Seltzer, appears in International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW'06), May 2006. pdf
• Provenance-Aware Sensor Data Storage , Jonathan Ledlie, Chaki Ng, David A. Holland, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Uri Braun, and Margo Seltzer, appears in 1st IEEE International Workshop on Networking Meets Databases (NetDB), April 2005. pdf

• Galapagos: Automatically Discovering Application-Data Relationships in Networked Systems, Kostas Magoutis, Murthy Devarakonda, and Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, appears in 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, May 2007. pdf
• Reducing Storage Mangement Costs via Informed User-Based Policies, Erez Zadok, Jeffrey Osborn, Ariye Shater, Charles Wright, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy and Jason Nieh, appears in 12th NASA/IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST '04), April 2004. pdf

• Versionfs: A Versatile and User-Oriented Versioning File System, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-03-03 (MS thesis), December 2003. pdf
• Reducing Storage Mangement Costs via Informed User-Based Policies, Erez Zadok, Jeffrey Osborn, Ariye Shater, Charles Wright, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy and Jason Nieh, Stony Brook U. CS TechReport FSL-03-01, March 2003. pdf
• LSM for Enhanced Access Control, Ana Centeno, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy and Charles P. Wright, CSE508 Project Report, December 2002. pdf

Posters and Wips

• Choosing a Data Model and Query Language for Provenance, David A. Holland, Uri Braun, Diana Maclean, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, and Margo Seltzer, 2nd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop ( IPAW'08 ), June 2008. pdf
• Provenance-Aware Storage Systems, Margo Seltzer, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, David A. Holland, Uri Braun, and Jonathan Ledlie, Harvard Industrial Partnership (HIP) 2005, October 2005. pdf

Internships

• Microsoft Research (Distributed Systems and Security Group), Summer 2007
  Collaborators: John Dunagan and Sumit Basu
  Worked on improving the PC responsiveness (Details confidential) .

• HP Labs (Storage Systems Department), Summer 2006
  Collaborators: Kim Keeton, Marcos Aguilera, Arif Merchant and Mustafa Uysal
  Designed and prototyped a file system that manages multiple storage tiers (Details in here) .

• IBM Watson Research Center (Storage and Grid computing group), Summer 2005
  Collaborators: Kostas Magoutis and Murthy Devarakonda
  Designed and prototyped a model based approach for finding provenance of data for applications hosted by application containers (Details in here) .

• Modifying a System in Response to Indications of User Frustration
  Sumit Basu, John Dunagan, Kevin Duh, and Kiran-KumarMuniswamy-Reddy.
  Filed for patent.
  

• Recoverability of a dataset associated with a multi-tier storage system
  Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Kim Keeton, Marcos Aguilera, and Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy.
  Filed for patent.
  

• Stackable file systems and methods thereof
  Erez Zadok, Charles P. Wright, Akshat Aranya, Abhijith Damodara Das, Yevgeniy Y. Miretskiy, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, and Andrew P. Himmer.
  Filed for patent.
  

• June 2009: Layering in Provenance-Systems , USENIX'09.
  
• Feb 2009: Causality-Based Versioning , FAST'09.
  
• Feb 2009: Making the Cloud Provenance-Aware , TaPP'09.
  
• July 2007: Provenance Challenge , 2nd Provenance Challenge Workshop.
  
• Jan 2007: Issues in PASSv2 , 3rd PASS Workshop.
  
• August 2006: Policy Driven Data Management in a Multi-Storage Tier File System , HP Labs (Intern Talk).
  
• June 2006: Provenance-Aware Storage Systems, USENIX 2006.
  
• May 2006: Provenance Storage, 2nd PASS Workshop.
  
• December 2005: Provenance-Aware Storage Systems , FAST 2005 WIP.
  
• August 2005: Galapagos: Relating Applications and Data for End-to-End Information Lifecycle Management, IBM Watson (Intern Talk).
  
• April 2004: Reducing Storage Management Costs via Informed User-Based Policies, MSST 2004.
  
• April 2004: Versionfs: A Versatile and User-Oriented Versioning File System, FAST 2004.
  

Teaching

• Information Management, Spring 2008
• Information Management, Fall 2006
• Database and Information Management Systems Harvard Extension School , Spring 2006

Courses

• CS153 - Principles of Programming Languages Compilation, Fall 2007
• CS286r - Computational Mechanism Design, Spring 2007
• CS226r - Efficient Algorithms, Fall 2006
• CS262 - Introduction to Distributed Computing, Spring 2006
• CS261 - Research Topics in Operating Systems, Fall 2005
• ES101 - Applied Statistics, Fall 2005
• MIT 6.824 - Distributed Computer Systems, Spring 2005
• CS299r - Special Topics in Computer Science, Spring 2005
• CS263 - Wireless Communications and Sensor Networks, Fall 2004
• CS165 - Information Management, Fall 2004