Navendu Jain @ UTCS

Navendu Jain

Researcher
Microsoft Research

Recipient of the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship 2007-08

Research areas:
Data management and networked systems: large-scale distributed systems, database systems, operating systems, and security.

E-mail: navendu [AT] microsoft.com

News

VL2 paper accepted to SIGCOMM 2009.
NYTimes blog, The Register on the Marlowe project.
SMART paper accepted to ICDE 2009.
Network Imprecision paper accepted to OSDI 2008.
I'll be joining Microsoft Research.
I have graduated! Check out the Graduation ceremony.
Winner of the 2008 OpenSource Software Competition.

Service

Program Committee: Eurosys 2010 (Shadow PC), IWSC 2010, DEBS 2010, DEBS 2009, SMTPS 2010, SMTPS 2009 (Please submit your best papers).
External Reviewer: TDSC, TKDE, Journal of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems.

Research

The goal of my research is to develop practical techniques for distributed systems to improve scalability, security, and reliability. I'm particularly interested in data management and networked systems: large-scale distributed systems, database systems, operating systems, and security. My thesis research is on designing and building scalable and robust services for distributed monitoring. In prior work, I have built an adaptive resource manager and performance benchmarks for distributed stream processing, a resource allocation framework to achieve high availability for distributed applications, and a scalable replica synchronization protocol for data replication.

I'm currently working on the following projects:

PRISM: Precision-Integrated Scalable Monitoring [ICDE '09, OSDI '08, VLDB '07, SOSP '05 WIP]
SPC: Benchmarking and adaptive management of stream data processing systems [SIGMOD '06, ICDCS '06]
ZEN: High-availability resource allocation [INFOCOM '08]
TAPER: Scalable data replication [FAST '05]
Web Search: Refining web search results [WebDB '05]

Selected Publications (full list)

VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network.
Albert Greenberg, James Hamilton, Navendu Jain, Srikanth Kandula, Changhoon Kim, Parantap Lahiri, Dave Maltz, Praveen Patel, and Sudipta Sengupta.
ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM '09)
Barcelona, Spain, August 2009.
[PDF] [PS] [Bibtex] [Project Page]

Self-Tuning, Bandwidth-Aware Monitoring of Dynamic Data Streams.
Navendu Jain, Praveen Yalagandula, Mike Dahlin, and Yin Zhang.
25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '09)
Shanghai, China, April 2009.
[PDF] [PS] [Bibtex] [Project Page]

Network Imprecision: A New Consistency Metric for Scalable Monitoring.
Navendu Jain, Dmitry Kit, Prince Mahajan, Praveen Yalagandula, Mike Dahlin, and Yin Zhang.
8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '08)
San Diego, CA, December 2008.
[PDF] [PS] [Technical Report] [Bibtex] [Project Page]

STAR: Self-Tuning Aggregation for Scalable Monitoring.
Navendu Jain, Dmitry Kit, Prince Mahajan, Praveen Yalagandula, Mike Dahlin, and Yin Zhang.
33rd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB '07)
Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
[PDF] [PS] [Bibtex] [Technical Report] [Project Page]

Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of the Linear Road Benchmark on the Stream Processing Core.
Navendu Jain, Lisa Amini, Henrique Andrade, Richard King, Yoonho Park, Philipe Selo, Chitra Venkatramani.
25th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD '06)
Chicago, IL, June 2006.
[PDF] [PS] [Bibtex] [Project Page]

Adaptive Control of Extreme-Scale Stream Processing Systems.
Lisa Amini, Navendu Jain, Anshul Sehgal, Jeremy Silber, Olivier Verscheure.
26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '06)
Lisboa, Portugal, July 2006.
[PDF] [PS] [Bibtex] [Project Page]

Bio

I'm a researcher with Microsoft Research, Redmond. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin, working with Prof. Mike Dahlin. I received B.Tech and M.Tech in CSE from IIT Delhi. After IIT, I spent a fun summer visiting IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. My research interests are broadly in data management and networked systems: large-scale distributed systems, database systems, operating systems, and security. My graduate studies were supported in part by an IBM Ph.D. fellowship.

Contact

Office: ACES CS6SEo4D
1 University Station, C0500
Austin, TX 78712-0233 USA

Phone: (512) 232-7874 (Office)
Fax: (512) 232-7886
E-mail: navendu [AT] microsoft.com