This award provides funding to assist approximately 10 US-based graduate students to attend the 10th USENIX Symposium on File and Storage Technology (FAST), which is held on February 14-17, 2012, in San Jose, CA.
’12) brought together file and storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions inthe design, implementation, evaluation and deployment of storage systems. This award provided financial support for that enabled student researchers to attend the conference. Any student enrolled full-time at an accredited university or college was welcome to apply for a stipend. Stipends have two components: registration costs and travel expenses. Summary of students that were selected for stipends and funded by the NSF grant: Ishani Ahuja, University of Wisconsin, Madison Ishani is a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research interest lies under file and storage systems. Ishani’s current research project involves building intelligent storage systems on cloud storage services. She is a first-time conference grant recipient. Estella Lai, Harvey Mudd College Estella is an undergraduate student at Harvey Mudd College. Her main focus is file storage. Estella’s current project involves IOTTA (I/O Traces, Tools and Analysis). She is a first-time conference grant recipient. Zhichao Li, Stony Brook University Zhichao is a 3rd year PhD student at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on green storage and operating system strategies with special interests in file system and cloud storage and computation. He is presenting his paper titled, "Power Consumption in Enterprise-Scale Backup Storage Systems." Zhichao is a first-time conference grant recipient. Yathindra Naik, University of Utah Yathindra is a 1st year graduate student at the University of Utah. He is a research assistant and currently working on a disk failure injection framework for the Emulab testbed. Yathindra’s interests span storage, file systems, operating systems embedded systems and software reliability. He is a first-time conference grant recipient. Hyojun Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology Hyojun is a PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is interested in flash storage and is presenting his paper, "Revisiting Storage for Smartphones," which received a Best Paper Award. Fei Meng, North Carolina State University Fei is a PhD student at North Carolina State University. His research focuses onincorporating SSD devices in operating systems. Fei’s current project uses SSDs as astaging tier between memory and parallel file systems. He is a first-time conference grant recipient. Jeffrey Hemphill, Harvey Mudd College Jeffrey is an undergraduate student at Harvey Mudd College. His interests include flash-based storage and he is curious as to whether or not SSDs will supplant hard drives.Jeffrey is juggling several projects, maintaining the IOTTA SNIA repository, tutoring and developing a website. He is a first-time conference grant recipient. Doowon Kim, University of Utah Doowon is a Master’s student at the University of Utah. Hewas recently involved in a "green storage" project where he researched how to minimize energy consumption of storage in data centers. Doowon is a first-time conference grantrecipient. Xinyue Fan, Florida International University Xinyue is a 1st year PhD student at Florida International University. She is a research assistant at Virtualized Infrastructure, Systems and Application Laboratory. Xinyue isinterested and currently working on a project involving storage research. She is a first-time conference grant recipient.
