January 2025
Ziyue Qiu Wins Best Paper at ValueTools 2024!
Congratulations to Ziyue Qiu, and her co-authors Juncheng Yang and Mor Harchol-Balter who brought home the best paper award at the 17th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (ValueTools) held in Milan, Italy in December 2024. Their work asks "Can Increasing the Hit Ratio Hurt Cache Throughput?" and ultimately shows that increasing the hit ratio can actually hurt the throughput (and request latency) for many caching algorithms.
November 2024
Sophia (Qingyang) Cao
Wins ACM Student Research Competition at SOSP 2024!
Congratulations to Sophia on winning the ACM Student Research contest at SOSP this year. To participate, for the first round, she had to submit an abstract of her research. In the second round, semi-finalists had to present a poster detailing their research. In the final round she gave a presentation. Evaluations are based on the presenter’s knowledge of his/her research area, the contribution of the research, and the quality of the oral and visual presentation. Sophia's research on "Possum: A Tail of Dynamic Flash Capacity for Sustainability" investigates managing flash storage density for improved performance and device endurance.
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