AVANI

PhD Student, UCSC Computer Science LAB: E-MAIL: JABBER: SSRC E2 381 avani at soe dot ucsc dot edu agadani at gmail dot com

I am a PhD student working under Dr. Ethan Miller in the Storage Systems Research Center at UC Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California.

My research interests are focused around techniques for dynamically re-allocating and re-computing redundancy groups to combat availability degradation from component instability in storage systems. To guide this work, I am also researching machine-learning based prediction modeling for availability loss. This work applies to many important storage infrastructures including archival storage, cloud computing, and sensor networks.

I am also interested in information survival on P2P networks (Project Page) and large-stripe parity in MAID-based archival systems (Project Page). I am always looking for people to collaborate with, particularly on information survival.

Before coming to UC Santa Cruz, I worked under Dr. Terran Lane in machine learning at the University of New Mexico. I researched Bayesian network structure search and unsupervised, spectral classification methods for heterogeneous data with hidden and missing variables.

I maintain a small set of vim scripts to use with the Ciao programming language

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