I am a Ph.D. candidate, working with Prof. Priya Narasimhan.

I am interested in fault-tolerant distributed systems. I equally enjoy building dependable systems firsthand and studying empirically the behavior of systems large and small.

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Research Interests

I have worked on improving the dependability of embedded systems (addressing soft errors in networks-on-chip), of enterprise systems (addressing the predictability of fault-tolerant middleware) and of large-scale distributed systems (addressing operator errors during software upgrades). My doctoral dissertation identifies the leading causes of both planned and unplanned downtime due to upgrades in large distributed systems. I propose novel solutions for mitigating this downtime, and I define a methodology for evaluating the dependability of upgrading approaches.
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About Me

I am part of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University. I am also affiliated with the Parallel Data Lab and with Cylab. I have been an intern at Siemens Corporate Research, IBM Research, VMware and Oracle. Previously, I have received undergraduate degrees from the École Polytechnique in Paris and the "Politehnica" University in Bucharest.

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