Vanamala (Vana) Venkataswamy

Ph.D Candidate, Computer Science

Office: #534, Rice Hall

Email: vana-at-virginia-dot-edu

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, advised by Dr. Andrew Grimshaw. My research interests include Cloud Computing, Resource Management and Reinforcement Learning. My research focuses on efficient job scheduling in power-modulated (green) datacenters using online and offline reinforcement learning methods.

My CV is here, google scholar page here.


News

  • Successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation.
  • Serving as Technical Program Committee member (System Software Track), IPDPS-2023.
  • Our paper 'RARE: Renewable Energy Aware Resource Management in Datacenters' accepted at JSSPP-2022.

  • Poster Session Judge, CAPWIC 2022.

  • Judge for the Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair (VSSEF) - System Software Track, 2021.

  • Research short presentation at CAPWIC on March 27th, 2021.

  • Research poster selected to be presented at the UVERS on April 7th, 2021.

  • Selected to participate in NYU Faculty First-Look fellowship program on March 12th, 2021.

  • Invited Panelist "Use of Machine Learning in the Computing Systems Domain" at MLCS workshop hosted at SC'20.

  • Paper accepted at MLCS-2020 workshop hosted at SC'20.

  • PhD Proposal - approved.

  • Software Intern @ Lancium.

  • Passed PhD Qualifying examination.

  • Thanks to NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) for inviting me to give a talk at VICO (Virginia Initiative on Cosmic Origins).


Papers and Publications

  • Vanamala Venkataswamy, Jake Grigsby, Andrew Grimshaw, Yanjun Qi. RARE: Renewable Energy Aware Resource Management in Datacenters. JSSPP 2022.
  • Vanamala Venkataswamy, Andrew Grimshaw. Scheduling in Data Centers Running on Renewable Energy with Deep Reinforcement Learning. MLCS20 workshop hosted at Super Computing 2020.
  • Vanamala Venkataswamy, Andrew Grimshaw, Swaroopa Dola. Pratikriti: A Data Replication Service in the GFFS. University of Virginia, 2019-11-04. Technical Report.
  • Grimshaw Andrew, Venkataswamy Vanamala, Performance of the Global Federated File System (GFFS), University of Virginia Dataverse, 2018. Technical Report.
  • Ian T. Foster , Josh Boverhof , Ann Chervenak , Lisa Childers , Annette Deschoen , Gabriele Garzoglio , Dan Gunter , Burt Holzman , Gopi K , Raj Kettimuthu , Jack Kordas , Miron Livny , Stuart Martin , Parag Mhashilkar , Zachary Miller , Taghrid Samak , Mei-hui Su , Steven Tuecke , Vanamala Venkataswamy , Craig Ward , Cathrin Weiss. Reliable high-performance data transfer via Globus Online Accomplishments of the Center for Enabling Distributed Petascale Science.
  • B., Bresnahan, J., Childers, L., Foster, I., Kandaswamy, G., Kettimuthu, R., Kordas, J., Link, M., Martin, S., Pickett, K. and Tuecke, S. Globus Online: Radical Simplification of Data Movement via SaaS. Communications of the ACM, Feb 2012. (Acknowledged contributor)
  • Bryce Allen, John Bresnahan, Lisa Childers, Ian Foster, Gopi Kandaswamy, Raj Kettimuthu, Jack Kordas, Mike Link, Stuart Martin, Karl Pickett, and Steven Tuecke Software as a Service for Data Scientists. Communications of the ACM, Feb 2012. (Acknowledged contributor)
  • Prabu D., Andrew Aaron James, Vanamala V. , Vineeth Simon, Sanjeeb Kumar Deka, Sridharan R., Prahlada Rao B.B., and Mohanram N. An Efficient Run Time Interface for Heterogeneous Architecture of Large Scale Supercomputing System. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering Vol:2, No:12, 2008.
  • D. Prabu, V. Vanamala , Sanjeeb Kumar Deka, R. Sridharan, Rao BB Prahlada, N Mohanram. Design and Implementation of a High Performance MPI for Large Scale Computing System. ITNG07, Las Vegas, USA.

  • Professional Service

  • IPDPS-2023. Technical Program Committee (System Software Track).
  • Poster Session Judge for CAPWIC-2022.
  • Mentoring an incoming Ph.D student for one year 2021-2022.
  • Invited Panelist "Use of Machine Learning in the Computing Systems Domain" at MLCS hosted at Supercomputing, 2020.
  • Participated in UVa Engineering Dean search committee meeting to provide input to the committee leading the search for the next UVA Engineering dean . 2020.
  • GradSWE (Society of Women Engineers), CS representatives, 2017.
  • Presenter at Super Computing (SC) conference. 2013-2015.
  • Presenter at Open Grid Forum (OGF) conference. 2013.
  • Participated in USC Viterbi School of Engineering Dean's Office Focus Group to provide insight on meeting educational needs of Engineering curriculum, projects and internships to prepare students for industry. 2009.
  • Conducted workshops and tutorials on Parallel Programming, MPI and Grid Computing at CDAC. 2008.
  • Volunteering

  • Judge for the Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair (VSSEF) - System Software Track, 2021.
  • Volunteered at the Charlottesville Girls GeekDay@UVa. 2016
  • Volunteered at the UVa Open House program. 2015