Computer Science - Duke University

Shivnath Babu

Assistant 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, 2007
IBM Faculty Award, 2006

Research

Database systems, Architectures and algorithms for self-managing database systems, Autonomic computing. Data management for new application domains

Selected Publications

S. Duan, S. Babu, and K. Munagala. Fa: A System for Automating Failure Diagnosis. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference onData Engineering (ICDE), April 2009
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
S. Duan and S. Babu. "Processing Forecasting Queries." In Proc. of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), September 2007
B. Chandramouli, C. Bond, S. Babu, and J. Yang. "Query Suspend and Resume." In Proc. of the 2007 ACM Intl. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD), June 2007
P. Shivam, S. Babu, and J. Chase. "Active and Accelerated Learning of Cost Models for Optimizing Scientific Applications." In Proc. of the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), September 2006

Extended List of Publications