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I am a PhD student in Cornell CIS where I am advised by the incredibly amazing Prof. Rachit Agarwal. My research interests are broadly in the areas of systems & networking.

Before this I was a Research Fellow in the Systems group at Microsoft Research India, where I worked with Dr. Muthian Sivathanu & Dr. Kaushik Rajan. Further in the past, I obtained my undergraduate degree in Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Guwahati, where I worked with Prof. T Venkatesh.

Updates

• [May'24] Colloid accepted to SOSP'24!
• [Aug'24] Understanding the Host Network won best student paper at SIGCOMM'24!
• [May'24] Understanding the Host Network accepted to SIGCOMM'24!
• [Mar'23] Karma accepted to OSDI'23!
• [May'22] NetChannel accepted to SIGCOMM'22!
• [Mar'22] Shortstack accepted to OSDI'22!
• [Feb'22] Meta PhD Fellowship Finalist!
• [May'21] Understanding Host Network Stack Overheads accepted to SIGCOMM'21!
• [Mar'21] blk-switch accepted to OSDI'21!
• [Mar'20] SQL-on-Disaggregated-Storage covered in the Morning Paper
• [Dec'19] SQL-on-Disaggregated-Storage accepted to NSDI 2020!
• [Aug'19] Started at Cornell.
• [Jun'19] Instalytics fast-tracked to ACM Transactions on Storage 2020!

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Selected Publications

• Tiered Memory Management: Access Latency is the Key! [PDF] [Slides] [Code]
  Midhul Vuppalapati, Rachit Agarwal
  ACM SOSP 2024
  


• Understanding the Host Network [PDF] [Slides] [Code]
  Midhul Vuppalapati, Saksham Agarwal, Henry N. Schuh, Baris Kasikci, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Rachit Agarwal
  ACM SIGCOMM 2024
  Best Student Paper Award
  


• Karma: Resource Allocation for Dynamic Demands [PDF] [Slides] [Talk] [Code]
  Midhul Vuppalapati, Giannis Fikioris, Rachit Agarwal, Asaf Cidon, Anurag Khandelwal, Éva Tardos
  USENIX OSDI 2023


• Shortstack: Distributed, Fault-tolerant, Oblivious Data Access [PDF] [Slides] [Code]
  Midhul Vuppalapati*, Kushal Babel*, Anurag Khandelwal, Rachit Agarwal
  USENIX OSDI 2022


• Rearchitecting Linux Storage Stack for us latency and High Throughput [PDF] [Code]
  Jaehyun Hwang, Midhul Vuppalapati, Simon Peter, Rachit Agarwal
  USENIX OSDI 2021


• Building an Elastic Query Engine on Disaggregated Storage [PDF] [Slides] [Talk] [Code]
  Midhul Vuppalapati, Justin Miron, Rachit Agarwal, Dan Truong, Ashish Motivala, Thierry Cruanes
  USENIX NSDI 2020


• INSTalytics: Cluster Filesystem Co-design for Big-data Analytics [PDF] [Slides] [Talk]
  Muthian Sivathanu, Midhul Vuppalapati, Bhargav Gulavani, Kaushik Rajan, Jyoti Leeka, Jayashree Mohan, Piyus Kedia
  USENIX FAST 2019
  Fast tracked to ACM Transactions on Storage 2020

(* equal contribution)

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Contact

Please feel free to contact me via email or step-by my office if you're at Cornell.

Email

midhul [at] cs [dot] cornell [dot] edu

Address

440, Bill and Melinda Gates Hall,
107 Hoy Rd,
Ithaca, NY 14853

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Schedule

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Misc

I like to juggle. As of 2024, I can juggle 5 balls, flash 7 balls, and juggle 3 clubs (which may or may not be on fire). Additionally, I enjoy passing clubs and occassionally performing with the awesome folks at the Cornell Juggling Club. I also love speeding around Ithaca on my Kepler (e-bike).