Karthik Kambatla

As a grad student at Purdue CS, I work with Prof. Ananth Grama on improving the applicability and performance of MapReduce. Earler, I did my Bachelors in Computer Science and Masters in Mathematics at BITS, Pilani.

Resume

E-mail: kkambatl at cs.purdue.edu

Conferences/Workshops

• TransMR: Data-Centric Programming Beyond Data Parallelism [PDF]
  Naresh Rapolu, Karthik Kambatla, Suresh Jagannathan, Ananth Grama
  3^rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing [HotCloud '11]

• Asynchronous Algorithms in MapReduce [PAPER] [SLIDES]
  Karthik Kambatla, Naresh Rapolu, Suresh Jagannathan, Ananth Grama
  IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing 2010 [CLUSTER '10]

• Revisiting I/O Middleware for the Cloud [PDF] (Work-in-Progress Report)
  Karthik Kambatla, Naresh Rapolu, Jalaja Padma, Patrick Eugster, Ananth Grama
  8^th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies [FAST '10]

• Towards Optimizing Hadoop Provisioning for the Cloud [PDF]
  Karthik Kambatla, Abhinav Pathak, Himabindu Pucha
  1^st Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing [HotCloud '09]

Technical Reports

• Efficient Large-Scale Graph Analysis in MapReduce [PDF]
  Karthik Kambatla, Giorgos Kollias, Ananth Grama
  Purdue University Technical Report CSD TR #11-003

• Clusterken: A Reliable Object-Based Messaging Framework to Support Data Center Processing [PDF]
  Marc Stiegler, Jun Li, Karthik Kambatla, Alan Karp
  HP Labs Technical Report, HPL-2011-44

• Transactional Support in MapReduce for Speculative Parallelism [PDF]
  Naresh Rapolu, Karthik Kambatla, Suresh Jagannathan, Ananth Grama
  Purdue University Technical Report CSD TR #10-001

• Relaxed Synchronization and Eager Scheduling in MapReduce [PDF]
  Karthik Kambatla, Naresh Rapolu, Suresh Jagannathan, Ananth Grama
  Purdue University Technical Report CSD TR #09-010

Professional Experience

• Graduate Assistant, Purdue University [Aug 07 - Present]
• Research Associate, HP Labs [June 10 - Aug 10]
• Software Engineering Intern, Google Inc., Mountain View [May 08 - Aug 08]
• Research Intern, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore [July 06 - June 07]
• Research Assistant, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki [May 06 - July 06]
• Student Instructor, Practice School (Intern) Program, BITS-Pilani [May 05 - July 05]
• Intern, Hindustan Shipyard Ltd., Visakhapatnam [May 04 - July 04]