Description:

Thursday / CS Teaching Demonstration
January 23rd / 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514

Speaker
Ram Kesavan

Talk Title
Ram Kesavan Teaching Demonstration, 

Abstract

This talk first briefly covers my career, transition to academia, and research interests. The remainder is a teaching demonstration, a lecture from a standard Operating Systems class, such as CS343. The lecture assumes that I/O connectivity and storage devices (hard drives, solid state drives, etc.) have been taught in prior lectures. It describes techniques used by systems practitioners to protect the data written to storage devices, including RAID.

Biography
Over his 25-year technology career, Ram Kesavan has worked in the systems area---primarily in storage, file systems, distributed systems, and distributed databases. He most recently worked in the database organization at Google Cloud, first as the Uber-TL of the Firestore team, and then as an individual contributor in the Spanner team working on Spanner Graph and ANN search indexing. Prior to Google he worked mostly in the WAFL file system team at NetApp, initially as a developer and then eventually as a Technical Director. Over the past 8 years, he has published 13 peer-reviewed papers that describe some of his technical work while at Google Cloud and NetApp. He has delivered guest lectures at various universities in the US, and formulated and taught a module on storage systems a few times at IIT Madras and IIT Delhi. He holds 22 patents, a PhD from The Ohio State University, and a BTech from IIT Madras.

Research/Interest Areas
storage and file systems, distributed systems, distributed databases
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