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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Bhuvan Urgaonkar is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with a significant number of publications in the subfields of computer networks and communications, information systems, software, hardware, and architecture.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Software System Performance and Reliability
  • Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Software Engineering Research
  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Urgaonkar are:

  • Viveck R. Cadambe
  • Hamidreza Zare
  • Nader Alfares
  • Praneet Soni
  • Arif Merchant

Their recent publications include:

  • "Splice: An Automated Framework for Cost-and Performance-Aware Blending of Cloud Services", 2022, presented at the 2022 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid)
  • "LEGOStore", 2022, published in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "Building an Accessible, Usable, Scalable, and Sustainable Service for Scholarly Big Data", 2021, presented at the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
  • "Resource Management in Aurora Serverless", 2024, published in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "PBench: Workload Synthesizer with Real Statistics for Cloud Analytics Benchmarking", 2025, published in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

The venues where Urgaonkar frequently publishes are:

  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2022 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid)
  • 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)

In recognition of their professional standing, Urgaonkar was awarded the title of ACM Senior Member in 2011.

Best Publications

  • DFTL: a flash translation layer employing demand-based selective caching of page-level address mappings

    Aayush Gupta;Youngjae Kim;Bhuvan Urgaonkar

  • An analytical model for multi-tier internet services and its applications

    Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Giovanni Pacifici;Prashant Shenoy;Mike Spreitzer

  • Agile dynamic provisioning of multi-tier Internet applications

    Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Prashant Shenoy;Abhishek Chandra;Pawan Goyal

  • Resource overbooking and application profiling in shared hosting platforms

    Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Prashant Shenoy;Timothy Roscoe

  • Optimal power cost management using stored energy in data centers

    Rahul Urgaonkar;Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Michael J. Neely;Anand Sivasubramaniam

  • Dynamic Provisioning of Multi-tier Internet Applications

    B. Urgaonkar;P. Shenoy;A. Chandra;P. Goyal

  • FlashSim: A Simulator for NAND Flash-Based Solid-State Drives

    Youngjae Kim;Brendan Tauras;Aayush Gupta;Bhuvan Urgaonkar

  • Xen and co.: communication-aware CPU scheduling for consolidated xen-based hosting platforms

    Sriram Govindan;Arjun R. Nath;Amitayu Das;Bhuvan Urgaonkar

  • Energy storage in datacenters: what, where, and how much?

    Di Wang;Chuangang Ren;Anand Sivasubramaniam;Bhuvan Urgaonkar

  • Benefits and limitations of tapping into stored energy for datacenters

    Sriram Govindan;Anand Sivasubramaniam;Bhuvan Urgaonkar

  • Towards event source unobservability with minimum network traffic in sensor networks

    Yi Yang;Min Shao;Sencun Zhu;Bhuvan Urgaonkar

  • Carbon-Aware Energy Capacity Planning for Datacenters

    Chuangang Ren;Di Wang;Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Anand Sivasubramaniam

  • Leveraging value locality in optimizing NAND flash-based SSDs

    Aayush Gupta;Raghav Pisolkar;Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Anand Sivasubramaniam

  • Statistical profiling-based techniques for effective power provisioning in data centers

    Sriram Govindan;Jeonghwan Choi;Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Anand Sivasubramaniam

  • Leveraging stored energy for handling power emergencies in aggressively provisioned datacenters

    Sriram Govindan;Di Wang;Anand Sivasubramaniam;Bhuvan Urgaonkar

  • Analytic modeling of multitier Internet applications

    Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Giovanni Pacifici;Prashant Shenoy;Mike Spreitzer

  • HybridStore: A Cost-Efficient, High-Performance Storage System Combining SSDs and HDDs

    Youngjae Kim;Aayush Gupta;Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Piotr Berman

  • To move or not to move: the economics of cloud computing

    Byung Chul Tak;Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Anand Sivasubramaniam

  • Sharc: managing CPU and network bandwidth in shared clusters

    Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Prashant Shenoy

  • APPLICATION PLACEMENT ON A CLUSTER OF SERVERS

    Bhuvan Urgaonkar;Arnold L. Rosenberg;Prashant J. Shenoy

Frequent Co-Authors

George Kesidis
George Kesidis Pennsylvania State University
Anand Sivasubramaniam
Anand Sivasubramaniam Pennsylvania State University
Prashant Shenoy
Prashant Shenoy University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ioannis Lambadaris
Ioannis Lambadaris Carleton University
Piotr Berman
Piotr Berman Boston University
Mahmut Kandemir
Mahmut Kandemir Pennsylvania State University
Aman Kansal
Aman Kansal Microsoft (United States)
Arnold L. Rosenberg
Arnold L. Rosenberg University of Massachusetts Amherst
Don Towsley
Don Towsley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michael J. Neely
Michael J. Neely University of Southern California

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