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 third year PhD student in computer science at Harvard University. I am affiliated to the SYRAH group. My advisor is Prof. Margo Seltzer.

I received my BE in computer science from PES Institute of Technology (affiliated to Bangalore University). I worked for a year at IBM India after I received my BE. I then received my MS in computer science at Stony Brook University. I worked with Prof. Erez Zadok at Stony Brook.

Research

My research interests are Operating Systems, Computer Networks & Computer Architecture. I am now working on Provenance-Aware Storage System

Previous projects:

• Versionfs - a stackable versioning file system
• Elastic Quotas - a stackable disk quota management file system
• FiST - stackable file system language and templates

• 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

• 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

• 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
  Mentor: John Dunagan
  Worked on improving the PC responsiveness (Details confidential) .

• HP Labs (Storage Systems Department), Summer 2006
  Mentor: Kim Keeton
  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
  Mentor: Kostas Magoutis
  Designed and prototyped a model based approach for finding provenance of data for applications hosted by application containers (Details in here) .

• 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.
  
• December 2003: Versionfs: A Versatile and User-Oriented Versioning File System, MS thesis defense, Stony Brook University.
  

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

Resume- last updated Jan 2007.