Graduate Student Researcher
465 Soda Hall
Berkeley CA, 94720.
I'm a third year PhD student here at Berkeley, being advised by Randy Katz.
The best way to reach me is probably email to asrabkin at gmail.com, or at eecs.berkeley.edu.
Research
These days I mostly work on Chukwa, an open-source monitoring system being developed
by myself in collaboration with some folks at Yahoo's distributed infrastructure group.
Chukwa recently graduated to Hadoop subproject status, and we intend to put out a public release in the early summer of 2009.
We published a short paper on Chukwa at CCA '08
I was a coauthor of
Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing.
This was a white paper written by the RAD Lab faculty and a number of the systems graduate students. It's gotten a very great deal of response, and on the whole, we've been very happy with it.
I help organize the associated
Berkeley Cloud Computing blog. This blog is a bit of an experiment -- we wanted a way of responding to questions and criticism. Seems to be working out ok.
Some while back, I did some work on bank security questions. The paper, published at SOUPS '08, is available
here.
The tagged data supporting the paper is available [in a gzipped archive] here.
Slides for my conference talk are available as PDFs and also in
Power Point format.
This work received a fair bit of media attention -- I got interviewed by TIME and by an MSNBC blog.
Other activities
I wrote a weekly column in the Cornell Sun during my last year at Cornell.
Some of what I wrote seems rather dated now, but a fair bit has aged quite well.
