Nalini
BelaramaniNalini
BelaramaniPhd Candidate
Department of Computer Sciences
The
University of Texas at Austin
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About Me:
I am a
Phd Candidate at the Department of
Computer Sciences in The
University of Texas at Austin. I work in
the Laboratory
for Advanced Systems Research under the
supervision Prof. Mike
Dahlin. Before this, I was at the
University of Hong
Kong where I received my Bachelors
of Engineering in Computer Engineering and Masters of Philosophy in
Computer Science.
At HKU, I was working for the
Systems Research Group with Dr. Francis Lau and
Dr. Cho-Li Wang.
I grew up in Hong Kong so I can speak Cantonese as well as English, Hindi and Sindhi.
I am currently trying to learn Spanish. I enjoy swimming, cooking,
dancing, reading, and watching movies.
Research:
Main areas:
It is imperative for large-scale systems and mobile systems to adapt
to meet the needs of changing environments, workloads, and resource or
power constraints. Building systems that adapt is a very complex task.
My goal is to make it easier to build flexible and adaptive systems.
Since data storage is an important aspect of any system, I am
currently focusing my energies on distributed data storage systems.
Instead of building a storage system in a ad-hoc manner, I have
developed a framework with which designers follow a systematic
approach to design and implement their systems. The result is that
development time is reduced from months to weeks. The flexibility of
the framework makes it easy to adapt implemented systems to new
environments.
I have work on three distributed storage-related projects
I have previously worked on the SPARKLE project that makes it easy to build
applications for mobile environments that adapt to the device or context they execute in.
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Distributed Systems, Mobile Systems, Data Replication,
Storage Systems, Adaptive Systems, and Declarative Programming.
Data Replication
Component-Based Systems & Mobile Computing
In submission (Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems).
In submission (Usenix Annual Technical Conference).
Sixth Symposium on Network Systems Design and Implementation
(NSDI2009), Boston, USA, 22-24 April 2009.
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of
Computer Sciences, Feb 2009, TR-09-08.
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of
Computer Sciences,May 2008, TR-08-25.
The University of Texas at Austin, Department of
Computer Sciences,October 2007, TR-07-57.
Third Symposium on Networked Systems Design and
Implementation (NSDI2006), pp. 59-72, San Jose, USA, 8-10 May 2006
The Handbook of Mobile Middleware, Auerbach Publications,
pp.441-463, 20 October 2006.
Enabling Technologies for Wireless E-Business, Springer, 2006
International Conference on Embedded
and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2004), pp. 776-785, Aizu, Japan, 26-28 August 2004
Intelligent Virtual World: Technologies and Applications in Distributed
Virtual Environments, Chapter 10, pp 191-212, World Scientific Publishing Co.
Release: 31 Jul 2004
The 9th International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed
Computing Systems (FTDCS2003), pp. 226-232, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, May 28
to 30, 2003
Master's of Philosophy Thesis, The University of Hong Kong, August 2002
Posters and Talks:
Posters
Talks
21st ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP2007),
Stevenson, USA, 14-17 October 2007.
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, August 2006
Tata Research Development and Design Center, Pune, India, August 2006
Last Updated: Mar 2009