Kristal Curtis
Photo by Steve Hanna
PhD Student, EECS
AMP Lab at UC Berkeley
kcurtis at eecs dot berkeley dot edu
CV
I am a graduate student in the AMP Lab at UC Berkeley, working with David Patterson and Armando Fox. I'm currently working on cancer genomics. I also worked on latency modeling for the Performance-Insightful Query Language (PIQL). More generally, my research interests include machine learning applied to systems problems and large-scale data analysis of any kind.
Research
- Genomics at the AMP Lab. Invited talk at UC Santa Cruz, 12.16.11. Slides
- Durga Kandasamy, Kristal Curtis, Armando Fox, & David Patterson. Using Diversity within the Crowd. Poster at CrowdConf '11 and poster/extended abstract at CSCW '12.
- Matei Zaharia, William J. Bolosky (MSR), Kristal Curtis, Armando Fox, David Patterson, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Richard Karp, & Taylor Sittler (UCSF). Faster and More Accurate Sequence Alignment with SNAP. ArXiv Technical Report 1111.5572v1, Nov. 2011.
- Michael Armbrust, Kristal Curtis, Tim Kraska, Armando Fox, Michael J. Franklin, & David A. Patterson. PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2011.
- Kristal Curtis. Determining SLO Violations at Compile Time. MS Thesis, UC Berkeley, December '10.
- Kristal Curtis, Peter Bodik, Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, Michael Franklin, Michael Jordan, & David Patterson. Determining SLO Violations at Compile Time. WIP talk and poster at FAST '10. Slides
- Kristal Curtis, Peter Bodik, Archana Ganapathi, Armando Fox, Michael Jordan, & David Patterson. Combining Queueing-theoretic and Statistical Techniques for Modeling the Impact of Dynamic Workload Mixes on Web 2.0 Service Times" Poster at SOSP '09. Poster
- Automatic Workload Evaluation (AWE): Characterizing Web 2.0 Workload Behavior. Invited Talk at MSR Redmond, 5.4.09. Slides
Teaching & Mentorship
- Fall 2010: GSI for Software Engineering
- Summer 2010 - Present: Supervising undergraduate research assistants
- Spring 2010: GSI for Software Engineering
Internships
- Summer 2008: Software Engineering Internship, Google.
Awards
- Facebook Grace Hopper Women in Computing Scholarship, 2011
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2008-2011
- UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellowship, 2007-2008 and 2011-2012
- Runner-up, 2007 CRA Undergraduate Research Award
Activities
