Research Scientist, Red Hat Collaboratory<\/p>\n
Raja Sambasivan is a research scientist at Boston University (BU).\u00a0His<\/span>\u00a0research focuses on building the easily upgradeable or evolvable, multi-party distributed systems needed to support innovation in the cloud ecosystem.\u00a0<\/span>A core part of his research involves creating sophisticated diagnosis tools for these systems since the extreme difficulty of diagnosing new problems is a significant barrier to change.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>At BU, he leads the\u00a0Diagnosis and Control of Clouds Lab (DOCC Lab) and the Mass Open Cloud\u00a0(MOC) project.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong>From 2013 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the CS Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>He worked on the\u00a0<\/span>XIA<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>project and was advised by Professor\u00a0<\/span>Peter Steenkiste<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>His research focused on creating mechanisms for upgrading inter-domain routing on the Internet (SIGCOMM\u201917<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>In the Fall of 2013, he co-developed and co-taught the initial offering of CMU\u2019s graduate class on cloud computing (15-719<\/a>).<\/p>\n He completed his Ph.D. in the ECE Department at CMU in May 2013. He worked at the\u00a0Parallel Data Lab (PDL)\u00a0and was advised by Professor\u00a0<\/span>Greg Ganger<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>His dissertation focused on creating tools to\u00a0reduce the difficulty of diagnosing problems in distributed systems (NSDI\u201911<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>InfoVis\u201913<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>SoCC\u201916<\/a>).\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0His<\/span>\u00a0research on creating workflow-centric tracing infrastructures and diagnosis tools that use the resulting traces has been cited over 200 times. \u00a0It has also influenced industrial tracing efforts\u2014examples include Jaeger\u2019s trace-comparison visualizations and Uber\u2019s recent efforts to create many-to-many-trace-comparison tools.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n