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I am a first-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University where I am advised by Prof. Rachit Agarwal. My research interests are broadly in the areas of Systems & Networking.

Before this I was a Research Fellow in the Systems group at Microsoft Research India, where I worked with Dr. Muthian Sivathanu & Dr. Kaushik Rajan on improving the efficiency of datacenter scale Big-data analytics processing by co-designing the query engine with the underlying storage system.

I obtained my undergraduate degree in Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Guwahati, where I worked on practical & adaptive peer-assisted video streaming with Dr. T Venkatesh.

Recent News

• [Mar'20] SQL-on-Disaggregated-Storage covered in the Morning Paper
• [Feb'20] Presented SQL-on-Disaggregated-Storage at NSDI 2020!
• [Dec'19] SQL-on-Disaggregated-Storage accepted to NSDI 2020!
• [Oct'19] Attended CCC Wide-Area Data Analytics workshop, Washington, D.C.
• [Aug'19] Started at Cornell.
• [Jun'19] Instalytics fast-tracked to ACM Transactions on Storage 2020!
• [Feb'19] Presented Instalytics at FAST'19.

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Publications

Conference papers

• Building an Elastic Query Engine on Disaggregated Storage [PDF] [BibTeX]
  Midhul Vuppalapati, Justin Miron, Rachit Agarwal, Dan Truong, Ashish Motivala, Thierry Cruanes
  USENIX NSDI 2020, Santa Clara, California


• INSTalytics: Cluster Filesystem Co-design for Big-data Analytics [PDF] [BibTeX]
  Muthian Sivathanu, Midhul Vuppalapati, Bhargav Gulavani, Kaushik Rajan, Jyoti Leeka, Jayashree Mohan, Piyus Kedia
  USENIX FAST 2019, Boston, Massachusetts

Journal / Invited papers

• INSTalytics: Cluster Filesystem Co-design for Big-data Analytics [PDF] [BibTeX]
  Muthian Sivathanu, Midhul Vuppalapati, Bhargav Gulavani, Kaushik Rajan, Jyoti Leeka, Jayashree Mohan, Piyus Kedia
  Fast tracked paper
  ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) 2020

WIPs / Posters

• WebRTC-based peer assisted framework for HTTP live streaming [Link] [BibTeX]
  Midhul Vuppalapati, Hema Kumar Yarnagula, Venkatesh Tamarapalli
  Best Poster Award
  COMSNETS 2017, Bangalore, India

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Talks

• Building an Elastic Query Engine on Disaggregated Storage @ NSDI'20 [Slides]
  



• INSTalytics: Cluster Filesystem Co-design for Big-data Analytics @ FAST'19 [Slides]
  

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Contact

Please feel free to contact me via email or step-by my office if you're at Cornell.

Email

midhul [at] cs [dot] cornell [dot] edu

Address

G-23, Bill and Melinda Gates Hall,
107 Hoy Rd,
Ithaca, NY 14853

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