Ram Alagappan
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UIUC
Email: ramn@illinois.edu
Office: 3122 Siebel Center, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
DASSL Research Group
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Email: ramn@illinois.edu
Office: 3122 Siebel Center, 201 N Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
DASSL Research Group
CV | Google Scholar | DBLP
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I am a computer systems researcher. My work spans storage, memory, and distributed systems. I am often interested in improving the reliability and performance of these systems.
I co-lead the Distributed And Storage Systems Laboratory (DASSL) at UIUC CS.
I am always looking for self-motivated, hardworking, and creative PhD students. If you are interested in systems (OS, memory, storage, distributed systems), please apply to the UIUC CS PhD program and mention my name in the application.
Awards
Research
Best Paper SOSP '24 - LazyLogNSF CAREER Award
Best Paper FAST '20 - CAD
UW CS Graduate Student Research (Best Dissertation Research) Award - Honorable Mention - 2019
Best Paper FAST '18 - PAR/CTRL
Best Paper FAST '17 - CCFS
Best Paper Nominee FAST '17- Redundancy Does Not Imply Fault Tolerance
Teaching
List of Teachers Ranked as Outstanding at UIUC (for CS598 - Storage Systems Fall 2023)List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent at UIUC (for CS598 - Storage Systems Spring 2023)
List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent at UIUC (for CS598 - Storage Systems Fall 2022)
CS 739 ranked 1st among all Spring 20 courses in student evaluations
Nominated for SACM CoW Teaching Award for CS 739
Service
Distinguished Reviewer HotStorage - 2021Best Shadow PC Reviewer Eurosys '19
Grants and Scholarships
IBM-IL Discovery Accelerator Institute (IIDAI) grant 2024MS Azure Credits Research Award for $50,000 - 2019
Facebook Distributed Systems Research Award for $50,000 - 2019
Alumni Scholarship, UW Madison - 2013