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MSR Cambridge, here I come!
I’m going to spend this Summer in stealth mode at Microsoft Research, Cambridge working with Christos Gkantsidis and Hitesh Ballani on a super-secret project. Hopefully, we’ll have some cool results on a hot topic. This will be my first time in England/UK as well. Looking forward to the English weather that I’ve heard so much ...
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PolyViNE has been accepted at VISA’2010
Our paper, “PolyViNE: Policy-based Virtual Network Embedding Across Multiple Domains” is set to appear in VISA’2010 workshop (with SIGCOMM’2010) in New Delhi. I worked on it during my last few months in Waterloo (circa Winter/Spring 2009), and it has been lying around ever since because everyone had been busy. Finally, its going to wake up ...
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Spark short paper has been accepted at HotCloud’10
An initial overview of our ongoing work on Spark, an iterative and interactive framework for cluster computing, has been accepted at HotCloud’10. I’ve been joined the project last February, while Matei has been working on it since last Fall. I will have uploaded the paper in the publications page. once we have taken care of ...
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Prelim, begone, I will have no more of thee!
Update: I’ve finally uploaded the reading list. Here it is! Took the networking Prelim last Thursday and passed. I was a never fan of oral interrogations; heck, I am not a fan of any interrogation for that matter. And this one was really a close call; I am just happy to reach alive at the ...
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I have received the Best TA Award (Winter’09)
I am excited to announce that I have received the Best TA Award from the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo for my service as the Head TA of the CS436 (Distributed Computer Systems) course during the Winter 2009 term. I would like to give my heartfelt gratitude to the course instructor ...
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Feature Article on Network Virtualization in IEEE ComMag
“Network Virtualization: State of the Art and Research Challenges” has been featured in the IEEE Communications Magazine‘s July 2009 issue in its Network and Service Management Series. This one is a quick overview of a lot of things related to network virtualization: its past, present, and possible future. The main objective is to let the huge readership ...
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Presenting at INFOCOM’2009 in Brazil
Finally I am getting the opportunity to present my work in front of my peers, arguably in the biggest networking conference in size and impact. The slides are ready, the stage is set, and I am hoping I will be able to deliver. Since this is my first presentation in an international conference, I am ...
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Signed, sealed, delivered I’m done (with Master’s)
After 633 days, reading few hundred papers, writing a few, watching 100+ movies, reading 30+ fictions, eating lots of food, and doing many other things, my Master’s is over :D . I successfully presented/defended my thesis on 21st Jan 2009, and my thesis committee have approved it without any changes (there were 3 typos :( ...
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I’ve been awarded the Cheriton Scholarship
A very good news on the 2nd working day of the year… This is the time when you can say “off to a great start” :D I have been awarded the Cheriton Type I scholarship (10,000$ for two years) to continue my PhD in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. I would like ...
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ViNE-Yard has been accepted at INFOCOM’2009
Just in. Our paper “Virtual Network Embedding with Coordinated Node and Link Mapping”, which presents D-ViNE and R-ViNE algorithms, has been accepted at INFOCOM’2009. Apparently, I have overtaken myself and will be presenting my first paper in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil next April. :D Here goes the abstract: Recently network virtualization has been proposed as ...
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