NEW: I am graduating and looking for academic & industrial positions. (Application Materials)

I am a graduate student in the Computer Science department at UC Berkeley. I work with Prof. Ion Stoica in the AMP Lab.

Email: ganesha AT cs DOT berkeley DOT edu

Address:
492A RAD Lab
Soda Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720

Research

I'm interested in systems and networking.

Selected Publications: (Full List)

• Effective Straggler Mitigation: Attack of the Clones
  G. Ananthanarayanan, A. Ghodsi, S. Shenker, I. Stoica
  USENIX NSDI, Lombard, IL, Apr 2013.
  
• PACMan: Coordinated Memory Caching for Parallel Jobs [pdf]
  G. Ananthanarayanan, A. Ghodsi, A. Wang, D. Borthakur, S. Kandula, S. Shenker, I. Stoica
  USENIX NSDI, San Jose, CA, Apr 2012.
  
• Disk-Locality in Datacenter Computing Considered Irrelevant [pdf]
  G. Ananthanarayanan, A. Ghodsi, S. Shenker, I. Stoica
  USENIX HotOS, Napa, CA, May 2011.
  

Selected Talks:

• Effective Straggler Mitigation: Attack of the Clones [pptx] [pdf]
  AMPLab Summer Retreat, May 2012 and Hortonworks Inc., Nov 2012.
  
• Aggressive Cloning of Jobs for Effective Straggler Mitigation [pptx] [pdf]
  USENIX HotCloud, Jun 2012.
  
• PACMan: Coordinated Memory Caching for Parallel Jobs [pptx] [pdf]
  USENIX NSDI, Apr 2012, Intel ISTC-CC Retreat, Nov 2012, and VMWare Inc., May 2012.
  
• Coordinated In-Memory Caching for Data Intensive Clusters [pptx] [pdf]
  Yahoo! Research, Jun 2011 and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Jul 2011.
  
• Disk-Locality in Datacenter Computing Considered Irrelevant [pptx] [pdf]
  USENIX HotOS, May 2011 and Berkeley Cloud Seminar, Feb 2011.
  
• Scarlett: Coping with Skewed Popularity Content in MapReduce Clusters [pptx] [pdf]
  ACM EuroSys, Apr 2011, Hortonworks Inc., Jul 2011, Cloudera Inc., Apr 2011, and Facebook Inc., Nov 2010.
  
• Reining in the Outliers in MapReduce Clusters using Mantri [pptx] [pdf]
  Yahoo! Research, Nov 2010.
  
• Blue-Fi: Enhancing Wi-Fi Prediction using Bluetooth Signals [pptx] [pdf]
  ACM MobiSys, Jun 2009.
  

A copy of my resume.