Actively looking to hire CS and EE PhD students in the area of software systems.
If you are interested please send an email with your CV to:
first_name (dot) last_name (at) columbia (dot) edu
I am an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (jointly affiliated) at Columbia University, and a member of Columbia's Data Science Institute. I have broad research interests in software systems and security.
Previously I was the Senior Vice President of Email Protection at Barracuda Network, where I was the co-GM of the $200M email security and archiving business, with a team of 100 engineers and product managers. I was fortunate to take part in building two successful products, (Sentinel and Forensics). I joined Barracuda via the acquisition of the startup I founded during my PhD, Sookasa, where I was the CEO and co-founder.
I completed my PhD at Stanford University under Mendel Rosenblum and Sachin Katti, focusing on distributed storage systems. My research was adopted in commercial storage systems of several companies, including Facebook, Tibco, Hortonworks and Rubrik, and was recognized by best paper awards in OSDI, UseSec, CIDR and ATC, and by the NSF CAREER and ARO's young investigator awards. I obtained a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and BS in Computer and Software Engineering from the Technion.
Link to full CV.
Office: CEPSR 913, Columbia University
If you are interested please send an email with your CV to:
first_name (dot) last_name (at) columbia (dot) edu
I am an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (jointly affiliated) at Columbia University, and a member of Columbia's Data Science Institute. I have broad research interests in software systems and security.
Previously I was the Senior Vice President of Email Protection at Barracuda Network, where I was the co-GM of the $200M email security and archiving business, with a team of 100 engineers and product managers. I was fortunate to take part in building two successful products, (Sentinel and Forensics). I joined Barracuda via the acquisition of the startup I founded during my PhD, Sookasa, where I was the CEO and co-founder.
I completed my PhD at Stanford University under Mendel Rosenblum and Sachin Katti, focusing on distributed storage systems. My research was adopted in commercial storage systems of several companies, including Facebook, Tibco, Hortonworks and Rubrik, and was recognized by best paper awards in OSDI, UseSec, CIDR and ATC, and by the NSF CAREER and ARO's young investigator awards. I obtained a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and BS in Computer and Software Engineering from the Technion.
Link to full CV.
Office: CEPSR 913, Columbia University
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- [07/2025] Software-based radiation protection paper accepted to ASPLOS'26.
- [03/2025] PCIe pooling with CXL paper accepted to HotOS'25.
- [03/2025] AI phishing study accepted to IMC'25.
- [12/2024] Memstrata wins best paper of H1'24 from Open Compute's Composable Memory System's Group
- [11/2024] Phishing network characterization paper accepted to PAM'25.
- [11/2024] Cookie Monster wins distinguished artifact honorable mention at SOSP'24.
- [10/2024] Nazar and Fusion accepted to ASPLOS'25.
- [08/2024] DPack accepted to Eurosys'25.
- [08/2024] Cookie Monster accepted to SOSP'24.
- [06/2024] WattMeter accepted to HotCarbon'24.
- [06/2024] Paper on eBPF page fault handling accepted to eBPF Workshop'24.
- [06/2024] Paper on Orleans transactions accepted to VLDB'24.
- [05/2024] MGit accepted to ICML'24.
- [04/2024] Harry wins the NSF PhD fellowship. Congrats Harry!
- [03/2024] Memstrata accepted to OSDI'24.
- [01/2024] Chablis wins best paper award at CIDR'24!
- [01/2024] Kelly wins 2024 Avanessians doctoral fellowship. Congrats Kelly!
- [11/2023] Teaching new class on eBPF and extensible OSes in the spring.
- [10/2023] Chablis acceped to CIDR'24.
- [09/2023] Mars Attacks accepted to HotNets'23.
- [07/2023] Turbo accepted to SOSP’23.
- [04/2023] RubbleDB accepted to ATC'23.
- [03/2023] Chardonnay and Karma accepted to OSDI'23.
- [03/2023] Memtrade accepted to SIGMETRICS'23.
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