I am a 6th year graduate student and PhD candidate at the computer science department at UCLA. I'll be graduating soon; my dissertation is based on my two main projects, Anvil and Featherstitch. My advisor is Eddie Kohler.
I am interested in operating systems, networking and theory. I work at the "TERTL" lab in 3440 Boelter Hall. (We have a cool logo on our door, and real turtles inside. We're also currently the only lab in the CS department with IPv6!)
I am also an "emeritus" member of the UCLA LUG and I used to help to run its "installfests" once a quarter.
Projects
Anvil, a modular backend data store for a database designed to minimize disk seeks and allow greater storage format flexibility.
Featherstitch (previously known as Kudos), a storage system built around explicit write dependency tracking.
Publications
- Modular Data Storage with Anvil. Mike Mammarella, Shant Hovsepian, and Eddie Kohler. SOSP 2009, October 2009. [PDF]
- Generalized File System Dependencies. Christopher Frost, Mike Mammarella, Eddie Kohler, Andrew de los Reyes, Shant Hovsepian, Andrew Matsuoka, and Lei Zhang. SOSP 2007, October 2007. [PDF]
- The KudOS Architecture for File Systems. Andrew de los Reyes, Christopher Frost, Eddie Kohler, Mike Mammarella, and Lei Zhang. SOSP WIP 2005, Brighton, United Kingdom, October 2005. [PDF]
Other stuff
Wanna buy TERTL stuff? (Or other TERTL stuff?)
If it's night time, you can look at static images of our turtles instead of the live feed.
Several of us pulled a little prank on Eddie involving a lot of peeps; video here (download).
The CS department has some root certificates available.
I have previously been a TA for CS 111, operating systems.
My favorite ramen place is Hakata Ramen.
My personal website is crystalorb.net.
Anybody who has ever confused "its" and "it's" should check Bob's Quick Guide to Its and It's (and Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe).
(You can also tell the difference by asking whether, in a fake old-timey accent, you'd substitute "'tis" for the word. You'd only do that for "it's.")
You can see the Hollywood sign on Google Maps here, and with Street View here.
Want to schedule some compute jobs?