Varun Marupadi

I am currently pursuing a PhD from the Department of Computer Science at Duke University . I previously earned my Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Madras, India. I am working under my advisor, Dr. Jeffrey Chase.

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Publications

Cutting Corners: Workbench Automation for Server Benchmarking
Piyush Shivam, Varun Marupadi, Jeff Chase, Thileepan Subramaniam and Shivnath Babu
2008 Usenix ATC
Boston, Massachusetts June 2008
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Harnessing Virtual Machine Resource Control for Job Management
Laura Grit, David Irwin, Varun Marupadi, Piyush Shivam, Aydan Yumerefendi, Jeff Chase and Jeannie Albrecht
HPCVirt 2007
Lisbon, Portugal March 2007
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SmokeScreen: Flexible Privacy Controls for Presence-Sharing
Landon P. Cox, Angela Dalton and Varun Marupadi
MobiSys 2007
Puerto Rico, June 2007
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Presence Exchanges: Toward Sustainable Presence-Sharing
Landon P. Cox, Angela Dalton and Varun Marupadi
7th IEEE WMCSA
Blaine, Washington, April 2006
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Experience

• Summer 2008 - Worked for VMware, mentored by Ken Barr on an architecture for building self-scaling clustered virtual appliances.
• Teaching Assistant to Dr. Jeffrey Chase for CPS 212 - Distributed Information Systems , Fall 2007
• Teaching Assistant to Dr. Jeffrey Chase for CPS 114/214 - Networks and Distributed Systems , Spring 2007
• Summer 2006 - Worked for Network Appliance's Advanced Technology Group on fast-path VM communication on the Xen hypervisor.
• Teaching Assistant to Dr. Jeffrey Chase for CPS 196 - Systems and Networks , Spring 2006
• Summer 2005 - Creating a web service for internal use by the department.
• Teaching Assistant to Dr. Robert Wagner for CPS 110 - Introduction to Operating Systems, Spring 2005
• Teaching Assistant to Dr. Robert Wagner for CPS 110 - Introduction to Operating Systems, Fall 2004

Courses

• CPS 230 : Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2004
• CPS 296 : Advanced Topics: Mathematical Modeling of Continuous Systems, Fall 2004
• CPS 220 : Advanced Computer Architecture, Fall 2004
• CPS 300 : Introduction to Graduate Study, Fall 2004
• CPS 210 : Graduate Operating Systems, Spring 2005
• CPS 214 : Computer Networks, Spring 2005
• CPS 216 : Advanced Database Systems, Spring 2005
• CPS 296 : Advanced Topics: Computer Security, Spring 2005
• CPS 296 : Advanced Topics: Self-Interested Computing, Fall 2005
• CPS 399 : Special Readings: Distributed Systems, Fall 2005
• ECE 255 : Mathematical Methods for Systems Analysis, Fall 2005
• Decision 411 : Statistical Forecasting, Spring 2005
• CPS 270 : Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2006