- PhD Student
I am a fourth year PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Evangelia Kalyvianaki and Dr. Anil Madhavapeddy in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. I work in the Systems Research Group (SRG) group. I am a member of Gonville and Caius College. My research focus is on improving the performance of schedulers in highly utilised datacentres. I devise algorithms which achieve this goal for modern workloads.
Themes
Teaching
- Co-Supervisor Part-2 Project (along with Prof. Evangelia Kalyvianaki) - Communication between distributed schedulers in Kubernetes, University of Cambridge 2022-23
- Co-Supervisor Part-2 Project (along with Prof. Evangelia Kalyvianaki) - Scoring of nodes in Kubernetes based on node resource availability and task resource requirements, University of Cambridge, 2022 - 23
- Supervisor - Principle of Communication (Michaelmas 2020), Operating Systems (Lent 2021), Computer Networks (Lent 2022)
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, College of Engineering, OSU - Fall’09, Winter’10 and Spring’10
- Mentor, Women in Engineering, Ohio State University (2008-2010)
Professional Activities
- Scheduling for Reduced Tail Task Latencies in Highly Utilized Datacenters - Huawei Scholars, MSN 2023
- Reducing Tail Latencies for Datacenters with High Workload Arrival Rates – Huawei Scholars, 2022
- How To Simulate Standard Workload Traces on Kubernetes Cluster – Women@CL, 2022
- Packing Compute Resources using Decentralized Schedulers – Huawei Scholars, Computer Lab 2021
- Centralized Scheduling Using Decentralized Schedulers – ACM EuroDW and Women@CL, 2020
- Fault Tolerant Scheduling using Decentralized Schedulers – Huawei Scholars, ACSOS DW 2020
- Distributed Global Scheduling in Datacenters - MSR Cambridge PhD Research Workshop, 2019
- Redsync Algorithm - Distributed Lock Management using Redis – WomenWhoGo, Bangalore, 2017
- Go Build Context Aware System - GopherCon 2016
Publications
- Scheduling for Reduced Tail Task Latencies in Highly Utilized Datacenters, Smita Vijayakumar, Anil Madhavapeddy and Evangelia Kalyvianaki, ACM SoCC, 2024
- PhD Thesis, Smita Vijayakumar, University of Cambridge
- Automated and dynamic application accuracy management and resource provisioning in a cloud environment, Smita Vijayakumar, Qian Zhu and Gagan Agrawal, IEEE GRID, 2010
- Dynamic Resource Provisioning for Data Streaming Applications in a Cloud Environment, Smita Vijayakumar, Qian Zhu and Gagan Agrawal, IEEE CloudCom 2010
Authored Book
Resource and Accuracy Management in Cloud Environments – Smita Vijayakumar, 2012
