Congratulations to the whole Spark community on the prestigious award and its 1800+ contributors and innumerable users. As I look back, memories from years ago continue to remind me how fortunate I was to be able to make small contributions at the infancy of this juggernaut.
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FedScale Wins the Best Paper Award at ResilientFL’2021
Many congratulations to Fan, Yinwei, and Xiangfeng!
Check out FedScale at fedscale.ai
Oort Wins the Distinguished Artifact Award at OSDI’2021. Congrats Fan and Xiangfeng!
Oort, our federated learning system for scalable machine learning over millions of edge devices has received the distinguished artifact award at this year’s USENIX OSDI conference!
This is a testament to a lot of hard work put in by Fan and Xiangfeng over the course of last couple years. Oort is our first foray into federated learning, but it certainly is not the last.
Oort and it’s workloads (FedScale) are both open-source at https://github.com/symbioticlab.
Honored to be Named Morris Wellman Professor!
This is such a great and humbling news! Many many thanks to my students, collaborators, and those who nominated and supported me.
Leap Wins the Best Paper Award at ATC’2020. Congrats Hasan!
Leap, the fastest memory disaggregation system to date, has won a best paper award at this year’s USENIX ATC conference!
This is a happy outcome for Hasan‘s persistence on this project for more than two years. From coming up with the core idea to executing it well, Hasan has done a fantastic job so far; I expect more great outcomes for his ongoing works.
Leap is open-source and available at https://github.com/symbioticlab/leap.
Received VMware Early Career Faculty Award!
A few weeks ago, I received a cold email from VMware Research’s Irina Calciu with this great news! The award is to support our ongoing research on memory disaggregation. VMware is doing some cool work in this space as well, and I look forward to collaborating with them in near future.
I’d like to thank VMware for their vote of confidence and support, as well as my students whose hard work this award recognizes. We have several good results in the pipeline, and hopefully we’ll get to share them with the world soon.
Received NSF CAREER Award. Thanks NSF!
The overarching goal of the proposal is to take a holistic view to make memory disaggregation practical by addressing challenges in the end host, inside the network, and throughout the entire cluster.
Thanks NSF for supporting the proposal and Deep Medhi for championing it. I’d like to also thank Barzan, Harsha, Prabal, and Vyas for sharing their experiences with me. Last but not the least, this was possible due to my incredible students who laid out the groundwork.
Approximate Graph Analytics Wins the Best Paper Award at GRADES-NDA’2018
All credit goes to Anand. Congratulations!!!
Received SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award
About a week or so ago Bruce Maggs, SIGCOMM’s awards chair, kindly informed me over the phone that my dissertation on coflows has been selected for the 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award. The committee for the award included Ratul Mahajan, Dina Papagiannaki, Laurent Vanbever (chair), and Minlan Yu, and the citation reads:
Chowdhury’s dissertation provides novel and application-aware networking abstractions which significantly improve the performance of networked applications running in the cloud.
It’s a great honor to join some great researchers who’ve won this award before me.
It goes without saying that this achievement wouldn’t have been possible without my great advisor Ion Stoica keeping me on course, my excellent collaborators over the years, and many others who paved my way in multiple ways. I am also grateful to some of my biggest supporters: Randy Katz, Mike Franklin, Srikanth Kandula, and Vyas Sekar. An equal amount of credit, if not more, goes to my family and friends, who cheered me on and supported me for so many years. I don’t say it often enough: thank you!
Received Google Faculty Research Award
I’m Feeling Lucky! Thanks Google. Eagerly looking forward to the excitements in coming days.