About Me
I have graduated with MS, and I now work at Riverbed Technology, Inc..
I completed my Masters in Computer Science from Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University in December 2007.
At Stony Brook, I was working in the File systems and Storage Lab under the guidance of Prof. Erez Zadok.
I did my B.Tech in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Trivandrum, India. I worked for IBM India Software Labs and Emuzed, Inc. before joining Stony Brook.
Projects
While I was in FSL, I worked on the following projects.
This project proposes the notion of a type-safe disk (TSD), a disk system that has knowledge of the pointer relationships between blocks. Visit the project page for technical details.
The FiST (File System Translator) system combines a set of stackable file system templates for
each operating system, and a high-level language that can describe stackable file systems in a cross-platform portable fashion.
Using FiST, stackable file systems need only be described once. FiST's code generation tool, fistgen, compiles a
single file system description into loadable kernel modules for several operating systems (currently Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD).
Publications
Exploiting Type-Awareness in a Self-Recovering Disk (BibTeX) (PDF)
Kiron Vijayasankar, Gopalan Sivathanu, Swaminathan Sundararaman, and Erez Zadok.
In proceedings of the Third ACM International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2007) held in conjunction with the 14th ACM CCS.
DHIS: discriminating hierarchical storage (BibTeX) (PDF)
Chaitanya Yalamanchili, Kiron Vijayasankar, and Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University). Gopalan Sivathanu (Google Inc.).
In proceedings of the Israeli Experimental Systems Conference (ACM SYSTOR '09).
Internships
VMware Inc., Palo Alto, California [June 2007 - August 2007]
Structured Data Access Group (VMFS), VMkernel.
Designing a Hybrid Distributed Lock Manager algorithm for the VMware File System (VMFS). (Details Confidential)
Technical Talks
Oct 2007, "Exploiting Type-Awareness in a Self-Recovering Disk", ACM StorageSS '07, Alexandria, VA.
Aug 2007, "Hybrid Locking for the VMware File System", Intern Talk, VMware Inc, Palo Alto, CA.
Courses
Fall 2006
CSE 506: Operating Systems, Prof. Erez Zadok
CSE 508: Network Security, Prof. Radu Sion
CSE 515: Transaction Processing, Prof. Radu Grosu
Spring 2007
CSE 509: System Security, Prof. Rob Johnson
CSE 533: Network Programming, Prof. Hussein G. Badr
CSE 590: Secure Storage, Prof. Erez Zadok, Prof. Radu Sion. This page has links to some papers that I plan to cover in my talk on 04/10/2007.
Fall 2007
CSE 529: Simulation and Modeling, Prof. Hussein G. Badr
CSE 548: Analysis of Algorithms, Prof. Jie Gao
Contact Information
E-mail: kironv [at] gmail [dot] com
Cell: 631-880-8724
Resume
Available on request.