Sultan Mahmud Sajal

W346 (Computer Systems Lab) · Westgate Building · The Pennsylvania State University · University Park , PA 16802 · +1-814-380-3595 · sxs2561@psu.edu

I am a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. I am advised by Dr. Timothy Zhu and Dr. Bhuvan Urgaonkar. My research interest is in the area of Performance Evaluation, Resource Management and Cloud Computing.

News

  • Our work Kerveros got accepted into OSDI 2023 [ March, 2023 ].
  • Worked as a Research Intern in Cloud Operations Research (CORE) - MSR mentored by Luke Marshall and Beibin Li [ May,2022 - August,2022 ].
  • Passed my comprehensive exam. I am officially a Ph.D. Candidate now! [ December, 2021 ]
  • Worked as a Research Intern in Gray Systems Lab (GSL) mentored by Abhishek Roy and Joyce Cahoon[ May 2021 - August, 2021 ].
  • Our work TraceSplitter got accepted into EuroSys 2021 [ January, 2021 ].
  • Passed my Ph.D. Qualifier Exam. [ February, 2020 ].

Education

The Pennsylvania State University

Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
August 2018 - Present

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Bachelor Of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
February 2013 - September 2017

Experience

Cloud Operations Research(CORE), Microsoft Research

Research Intern
May 2022 - August 2022

Gray Systems Lab(GSL), Microsoft

Research Intern
May 2021 - August 2021

The Pennsylvania State University

Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant
August 2018 - Present

Reve Systems

Junior Software Engineer
October 2017 - July 2018

Publications

TraceSplitter: a new paradigm for downscaling traces

Sultan Mahmud Sajal, Rubaba Hasan, Timothy Zhu, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Siddhartha Sen
In Proceedings of the Sixteenth European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2021) (pp. 606-619)
[PDF] [VIDEO] [CODE]

Awards

  • Registration Grant, SIGMETRICS. [2020]
  • Student Grant, USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). [2020]
  • Student Travel Grant, ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC).[2019, 2018]
  • Technical Scholarship, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology [2013]
  • Higher Secondary Certificate Scholarship, Dhaka Education Board, Bangladesh [2012]
  • Junior Scholarship, Dhaka Education Board, Bangladesh [2008]