Ram Alagappan

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Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
• M.S., Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022-Present
• Postdoctoral Researcher, VMware Research Group, 2020-2022

Research Interests

• Storage systems
• Distributed systems
• Operating systems

Teaching Honors

• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, CS598: Storage Systems, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2023)
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, CS598: Storage Systems, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2023)
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, CS598: Storage Systems, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2022)
• Nominee, Wisconsin Student Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (SACM) Choice of Wisconsin (COW) Award, Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2020)
• Ranked 1st in all Courses in Student Evaluations, CS 739: Distributed Systems, Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2020)

Research Honors

• Best Paper Award, Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) (2024)
• NetApp Faculty Fellowship (NFF) (2024)
• Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation (NSF) (2023)
• Best Paper Award, USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) (2020)
• Honorable Mention - Graduate Student Research Award, Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2019)
• Best Paper Award, USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) (2018)
• Best Paper Award, USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) (2017)
• Nominee, Best Paper Award, USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST) (2017)

Public Service Honors

• Distinguished Reviewer, ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage) (2021)
• Best Shadow PC Reviewer, European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) (2019)