The Grainger College of Engineering
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Ram Alagappan

Ram Alagappan
Ram Alagappan
Assistant Professor

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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

Research Areas

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)

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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)

Recent Courses Taught

  • CS 423 (CSE 423) - Operating Systems Design
  • CS 591 SN - Systems and Networking Seminar
  • CS 598 CDS - Cloud Storage Systems
  • CS 598 RAP - Cloud Stor Sys: Theory&Practic

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