I'm a fourth-year PhD student in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley. I work with the AMPLab research group. My advisor is Randy Katz. Please email me if you would like a copy of my curriculum vitae.


RESEARCH


Towards a Data Analysis Recommendation System.
S. Alspaugh and A. Ganapathi.
Workshop on Managing Systems Automatically and Dynamically (MAD). October 2012. (pdf)

SYSTEMS FOR MIXED BATCH AND INTERACTIVE WORKLOADS

Cake: Enabling High-level SLOs on Shared Storage Systems.
A. Wang, S. Venkataraman, S. Alspaugh, R. Katz, and I. Stoica.
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC). October 2012. (camera-ready pending)

Interactive Query Processing in Big Data Systems: A Cross-Industry Study of MapReduce Workloads.
Y. Chen, S. Alspaugh, and R. Katz.
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB). August 2012. (pdf)

Sweet Storage SLOs with Frosting.
A. Wang, S. Venkataraman, S. Alspaugh, R. Katz, and I. Stoica.
USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud). June 2012. (pdf)

POWER-PROPORTIONAL CLUSTERS

Reducing Cluster Energy Consumption through Workload Management.
S. Alspaugh.
Master's Thesis. May 2012. (link)

Energy Efficiency for Large-Scale MapReduce Workloads with Significant Interactive Analysis.
Y. Chen, S. Alspaugh, D. Borthakur, and R. Katz.
European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys). April 2012. (pdf)

Design and Evaluation of an Energy Agile Computing Cluster.
A. Krioukov, S. Alspaugh, P. Mohan, S. Dawson-Haggerty, D. Culler and R. Katz.
UC Berkeley EECS Tech Report. January 2012. (link)

Integrating Renewable Energy Using Data Analytics Systems: Challenges and Opportunities.
A. Krioukov, C. Goebel, S. Alspaugh, Y. Chen, D. Culler, and R. Katz.
Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering. March 2011. (pdf)

An Information-Centric Energy Infrastructure: The Berkeley View.
R. Katz, D. Culler, S. Sanders, S. Alspaugh, Y. Chen, S. Dawson-Haggerty, P. Dutta, M. He, X. Jifang, L. Keys, A. Krioukov, K. Lutz, J. Ortiz, P. Mohan, E. Reutzel, J. Taneja, J. Hsu, and S. Shankar.
Journal of Sustainable Computing. January 2011. (pdf)

NapSAC: Design and Implementation of a Power-Proportional Web Cluster.
A. Krioukov, P. Mohan, S. Alspaugh, L. Keys, D. Culler, and R. Katz. Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Green Networking. August 2010. (pdf)

UNDERGRADUATE

Policy-Driven Data Management for Distributed Scientific Collaborations Using a Rule Engine.
S. Alspaugh, A. Chervenak and E. Deelman.
ACM Student Research Competition Best Undergraduate Student Poster in the proceedings of The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. November 2008. (summary: pdf) (poster: pdf)

Policy-Driven Data Management for Distributed Scientific Collaborations Using a Rule Engine.
S. Alspaugh and A. Chervenak.
CRA-W Distributed Mentor Project Final Report. September 2008. (pdf)

Efficient Time-Aware Prioritization with Knapsack Solvers.
S. Alspaugh, K. Walcott, M. Belanich, G. Kapfhammer, and M. Soffa.
In the Proceedings of the ASE 2007 Workshop on Empirical Assessment of Software Engineering Languages and Technologies. (WEASELTech) November 2007. (pdf) (ppt)



TEACHING

University of California, Berkeley

University of Virginia



MISCELLANEOUS

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Some things I like a lot besides computer science are learning new skills, listening to This American Life, and reading books about math. When I have free time I like to explore the San Francisco Bay area. Kevin Starr has written several excellent books about California that I highly recommend.