Midhul Vuppalapati
(How to pronounce?)Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
I am a PhD student in Cornell CIS where I am incredibly fortunate to be advised by Prof. Rachit Agarwal. My research interests are broadly in computer systems. I design and build operating systems and distributed systems the leverage the properties of modern hardware. My work also integrates ideas from computer architecture and computer networking.
I have also been fortunate to have industry experience through current and past positions at Google Systems Research Group, Azure Research - Systems, Samsung Memory Solutions Lab and Microsoft Research India.
I am on the academic job market 2025-2026!
Selected Publications
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Tiered Memory Management: Access Latency is the Key!
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Midhul Vuppalapati, Rachit Agarwal
ACM SOSP 2024
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Understanding the Host Network
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Midhul Vuppalapati, Saksham Agarwal, Henry N. Schuh, Baris Kasikci, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Rachit Agarwal
ACM SIGCOMM 2024
Best Student Paper Award, SIGMETRICS Best-of-the-rest
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Karma: Resource Allocation for Dynamic Demands
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Midhul Vuppalapati, Giannis Fikioris, Rachit Agarwal, Asaf Cidon, Anurag Khandelwal, Éva Tardos
USENIX OSDI 2023 -
Shortstack: Distributed, Fault-tolerant, Oblivious Data Access
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Midhul Vuppalapati*, Kushal Babel*, Anurag Khandelwal, Rachit Agarwal
USENIX OSDI 2022 -
Rearchitecting Linux Storage Stack for μs latency and High Throughput
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Jaehyun Hwang, Midhul Vuppalapati, Simon Peter, Rachit Agarwal
USENIX OSDI 2021 -
Building an Elastic Query Engine on Disaggregated Storage
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Midhul Vuppalapati, Justin Miron, Rachit Agarwal, Dan Truong, Ashish Motivala, Thierry Cruanes
USENIX NSDI 2020
Covered in the Morning Paper -
INSTalytics: Cluster Filesystem Co-design for Big-data Analytics
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Muthian Sivathanu, Midhul Vuppalapati, Bhargav Gulavani, Kaushik Rajan, Jyoti Leeka, Jayashree Mohan, Piyus Kedia
USENIX FAST 2019
Fast tracked to ACM Transactions on Storage 2020
Contact
Please feel free to contact me via email or step-by my office if you're at Cornell.
- midhul [at] cs [dot] cornell [dot] edu
- Address
- 440, Bill and Melinda Gates Hall,
107 Hoy Rd,
Ithaca, NY 14853
Misc
I like to juggle. As of 2025, I can juggle 5 balls, flash 7 balls, and juggle 3 clubs (which may or may not be on fire). Additionally, I enjoy passing clubs and occasionally performing with the awesome folks at the Cornell Juggling Club. I also love speeding around Ithaca on my Kepler (e-bike).