InjsysresearchbyVijay Chidambaram·Dec 28, 20212021 Year in ReviewWe started the Journal of Systems Research (JSys), a new diamond open-access journal, in 2021. We outlined the reasons why we do so, along…
InjsysresearchbyVijay Chidambaram·Aug 17, 2020A new journal for systems researchTLDR: The review process and publication model for systems research is not optimal in a number of ways. We propose a new diamond-access…A response icon2A response icon2
InCSR TalesbyVijay Chidambaram·Oct 8, 2018CSR Tale #10: The story of CrashMonkeyI figured it was time for another story of my own. This is the story of the CrashMonkey project, and how it came to be published at OSDI…
InCSR TalesbyVijay Chidambaram·Aug 22, 2018CSR Tale #9: Reliability of Distributed StorageCSRTale #9 comes from two award-winning graduate students in Wisconsin, Ramnatthan Alagappan and Aishwarya Ganesan. Ram and Aishwarya work…
InCSR TalesbyVijay Chidambaram·May 24, 2018CSR Tale #8: Why Terrible Reviews Are Good For You!CSR Tale #8 comes from Prof. Barzan Mozafari at Michigan. Barzan leads a research group designing the next generation of scalable databases…
InCSR TalesbyVijay Chidambaram·Apr 19, 2018CSR Tale #7: The importance of following your curiosityCSR Tale #7 comes from Prof. Yehia Elkhatib, an Assisstant Professor at Lancaster University, and a visiting professor at École de…
InCSR TalesbyVijay Chidambaram·Mar 19, 2018CSR Tale #6: A masterclass in collaboration!This CSRTale comes from Nipun Batra (post-doc at the University of Virginia), Jack Kelly (researcher at Google DeepMind), and Oliver Parson…A response icon1A response icon1
Vijay Chidambaram·Mar 2, 2018How to pick a grad school for a PhD in Computer ScienceI’ve been giving this advice to a number of students over the past few days, and following Matt Might’s advice, I’m penning this down…A response icon1A response icon1
InCSR TalesbyVijay Chidambaram·Jan 21, 2018CSR Tale #5: The story of PebblesDBI figured it was time I pitched in with a story of my own. This is the story of how our PebblesDB key-value store came to be built and…
Vijay Chidambaram·Jan 12, 2018Tips for Academic Job InterviewsIt will be interview season for faculty candidates soon, and I thought I would jot down some tips for job interviews in academia/research…