Ramesh Govindan

SAL 212

941 Bloom Walk

Los Angeles, CA 90089

brief bio

Ramesh Govindan is the Northrop Grumman Chair in Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Dr. Govindan received the B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining USC he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Communications Research, and a project leader at USC’s Information Sciences Institute and at the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley.

Dr. Govindan’s research has focused on scalable and robust routing infrastructures in large networks such as the Internet, on the structural properties of the Internet, and on the architectures and programming systems for wireless and mobile networks. He is a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE, the recipient of the 2018 IEEE Internet Award, a former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

selected publications

NSDI

CloudCluster: Unearthing the Functional Structure of a Cloud Service

Pang, Weiwu, Panda, Sourav, Amjad, Jehangir, Diot, Christophe, and Govindan, Ramesh

In 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 22) Apr 2022

Bib Link

@inproceedings{Pang21a,
  author = {Pang, Weiwu and Panda, Sourav and Amjad, Jehangir and Diot, Christophe and Govindan, Ramesh},
  title = {{CloudCluster}: Unearthing the Functional Structure of a Cloud Service},
  booktitle = {19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 22)},
  year = {2022},
  isbn = {978-1-939133-27-4},
  address = {Renton, WA},
  pages = {1213--1230},
  url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi22/presentation/pang},
  publisher = {USENIX Association},
  selected = {true},
  topics = {dcn},
  month = apr,
  abbr = {NSDI}
}

SoCC

Scrooge: A Cost-Effective Deep Learning Inference System

Hu, Yitao, Ghosh, Rajrup, and Govindan, Ramesh

In SoCC ’21: ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, Seattle, WA, USA, November 1 - 4, 2021 Apr 2021

Bib Link

@inproceedings{Hu2021b,
  author = {Hu, Yitao and Ghosh, Rajrup and Govindan, Ramesh},
  editor = {Curino, Carlo and Koutrika, Georgia and Netravali, Ravi},
  title = {Scrooge: {A} Cost-Effective Deep Learning Inference System},
  booktitle = {SoCC '21: {ACM} Symposium on Cloud Computing, Seattle, WA, USA, November
                 1 - 4, 2021},
  pages = {624--638},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3472883.3486993},
  doi = {10.1145/3472883.3486993},
  timestamp = {Sun, 31 Oct 2021 10:05:01 +0100},
  abbr = {SoCC},
  selected = {true},
  topics = {sensing,mobile},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/cloud/HuGG21.bib}
}

SIGCOMM

A throughput-centric view of the performance of datacenter topologies

Namyar, Pooria, Supittayapornpong, Sucha, Zhang, Mingyang, Yu, Minlan, and Govindan, Ramesh

In ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference, Virtual Event, USA, August 23-27, 2021 Apr 2021

Bib Link

@inproceedings{Namyar2021,
  author = {Namyar, Pooria and Supittayapornpong, Sucha and Zhang, Mingyang and Yu, Minlan and Govindan, Ramesh},
  editor = {Kuipers, Fernando A. and Caesar, Matthew C.},
  title = {A throughput-centric view of the performance of datacenter topologies},
  booktitle = {{ACM} {SIGCOMM} 2021 Conference, Virtual Event, USA, August 23-27,
                 2021},
  pages = {349--369},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3452296.3472913},
  doi = {10.1145/3452296.3472913},
  timestamp = {Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:56:33 +0200},
  selected = {true},
  topics = {dcn},
  abbr = {SIGCOMM},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/sigcomm/NamyarS0YG21.bib}
}

SIGCOMM

Semi-automated protocol disambiguation and code generation

Yen, Jane, Lévai, Tamás, Ye, Qinyuan, Ren, Xiang, Govindan, Ramesh, and Raghavan, Barath

In ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference, Virtual Event, USA, August 23-27, 2021 Apr 2021

Bib Link

@inproceedings{Yen2021b,
  author = {Yen, Jane and L{\'{e}}vai, Tam{\'{a}}s and Ye, Qinyuan and Ren, Xiang and Govindan, Ramesh and Raghavan, Barath},
  editor = {Kuipers, Fernando A. and Caesar, Matthew C.},
  title = {Semi-automated protocol disambiguation and code generation},
  booktitle = {{ACM} {SIGCOMM} 2021 Conference, Virtual Event, USA, August 23-27,
                 2021},
  pages = {272--286},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3452296.3472910},
  doi = {10.1145/3452296.3472910},
  timestamp = {Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:56:33 +0200},
  selected = {true},
  abbr = {SIGCOMM},
  topics = {measure},
  biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/sigcomm/YenLY0GR21.bib}
}