Computer Science - Duke University

Shivnath Babu

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Faculty Group: Systems & Architecture

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University, 2005
B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 1999

Honors & Awards

NSF CAREER, 2007-2011
IBM Faculty Award, 2008
IBM Faculty Award, 2007
IBM Faculty Award, 2006

Research

Parallel and distributed database systems, MapReduce systems like Hadoop, Data management for cloud computing.

Selected Publications

H. Herodotou, H. Lim, G. Luo, N. Borisov, L. Dong, F. B. Cetin, and S. Babu. "Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics." In Proc. of the Fifth Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), January 2011.
N. Borisov, S. Babu, N. Mandagere, and S. Uttamchandani. "Warding off the Dangers of Data Corruption with Amulet." In Proc. of the 2011 ACM Intl. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD), June 2011.
H. Herodotou and S. Babu. "Profiling, What-if Analysis, and Cost-based Optimization of MapReduce Programs." In Proc. of the 2011 Intl. Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), August 2011.
H. Herodotou, F. Dong, and S. Babu. "No One (Cluster) Size Fits All: Automatic Cluster Sizing for Data-intensive Analytics." In Proc. of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2011 (ACM SOCC 2011), October 2011.
S. Babu, N. Borisov, S. Uttamchandani, R. Routray, and A. Singh. "DIADS: Addressing the "My-Problem-or-Yours" Syndrome with Integrated SAN and Database Diagnosis." In Proc. of the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), February 2009.

Extended List of Publications