Background

Shravan Gaonkar is a researcher in the Advanced Technology Group at NetApp. His research interests include file and storage systems, performance and modeling, and fault tolerance. He joined NetApp after completing his Ph.D. from the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Prof. William H. Sanders. His dissertation is titled “Exploring Design Configurations of System Models: From Simultaneous Simulation to Search Heuristics” He also received a Master of Science degree from the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, India.

Publications

Designing Dependable Storage Solutions for Shared Application Environments. S. Gaonkar, K. Keeton, A. Merchant, and W. H. Sanders. Accepted (Jul 2008) into IEEE Transaction in Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC).
Micro-Blog: Sharing and Querying Content Through Mobile Phones and Social Participation, S. Gaonkar, J. Li, R. R. Choudhury, L. Cox and A. Schmidt, To appear in MOBISYS 2008.
Scaling file systems to support petascale clusters: A dependability analysis to support informed design choices S Gaonkar, E. W. D. Rozier, A. Tong, W. H. Sanders Dependable Systems and Networks, June 2008.
Simultaneous Simulation of Alternative System Configurations. S. Gaonkar and W. H. Sanders. Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, Changsha, Hunan, China, Dec. 12-14, 2005, pp. 41-48.
Designing a Rate-Based Transport Protocol for Wired-Wireless Networks S Gaonkar, R. R. Choudhury, L. Magalhaes, and R. Kravets. IEEE Broadnets, Sep 2007.

Recent Talks

"Scaling file systems to support petascale clusters: A dependability analysis to support informed design choices", DSN 2008