Matei Zaharia

I'm a first year PhD student at UC Berkeley, working in the RAD Lab. My advisor is Professor Scott Shenker. I am interested in computer systems and networking.

My current research project is on monitoring parallel applications written using Hadoop and using statistical learning techniques to automatically detect software and hardware errors. As part of this work, I'm a contributor to the X-Trace path-based tracing framework.

I got my Bachelor's degree from the University of Waterloo, in Canada. During undergrad, I worked with Srinivasan Keshav on peer-to-peer systems, opportunistic wireless communication, and low-cost, disconnection-tolerant networking for rural areas. I contributed to the KioskNet and OCMP projects.

Contact

matei@berkeley.edu

493B Soda Hall,
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

Publications

2007

S. Guo, M.H. Falaki, E.A. Oliver, S. Ur Rahman, A. Seth, M.A. Zaharia, U. Ismail, and S. Keshav, Design and Implementation of the KioskNet System, International Conference on Information Technologies and Development, December 2007.
S. Guo, M.H. Falaki, E.A. Oliver, S. Ur Rahman, A. Seth, M.A. Zaharia, and S. Keshav, Very Low-Cost Internet Access Using KioskNet, ACM Computer Communication Review, October 2007.
M.A. Zaharia and S. Keshav, Gossip-based Search Selection in Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Networks, J. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2007.
M.A. Zaharia, A. Chandel, S. Saroiu, and S. Keshav, Finding Content in File-Sharing Networks When You Can't Even Spell, Proc. IPTPS, February 2007.

2006

A. Seth, D. Kroeker, M. Zaharia, S. Guo, S. Keshav, Low-cost Communication for Rural Internet Kiosks Using Mechanical Backhaul, Proc. MOBICOM 2006, September 2006.
M.A. Zaharia and S. Keshav, Gossip-Based Search Selection in Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Networks, Proc. IPTPS, February 2006.

Technical Reports

S. Guo, M.H. Falaki, U. Ismail, E.A. Oliver, S. Ur Rahman, A. Seth, M.A. Zaharia, and S. Keshav, Design and Implementation of the KioskNet System (Extended Version), University of Waterloo Technical Report CS-2007-40, November 2007.
M.A. Zaharia and S. Keshav, Fast and Optimal Scheduling Over Multiple Network Interfaces, University of Waterloo Technical Report CS-2007-36, October 2007.
M.A. Zaharia and S. Keshav, Adaptive Peer-to-Peer Search, University of Waterloo Technical Report 2004-55, November 2004.

Other Activities

I've participated a number of programming contests. My team placed 4^th in the world and 1^st in North America in the 2005 ACM Programming Contest. Individually, I placed 15^th in the world in the 2005 Google Code Jam. Since finishing undergrad, I've stopped doing contests but still love nice algorithmic problems.

I'm also a developer on the freeware realtime strategy game 0 A.D. My contributions include much of the gameplay logic, unit AI, random map generation, water rendering, and some multiplayer networking.

I enjoy reading, nature, and food that is either good or free.