Jeff Rasley

Email: jeffra / cs brown edu
Twitter: @jeffra45
Office: 339 CIT

115 Waterman Street
Computer Science Department
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912

Update 2018-05: I have accepted a Research SDE position at Microsoft.

I am a Ph.D. candidate advised by Rodrigo Fonseca, primarily interested in distributed systems, networks, and security. I am supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

I completed my undergrad at the University of Washington where I studied computer science. During my time at UW I primarily worked with Justin Cappos on topics related to sandbox security and API Write-Once-Run-Anywhere verification.

I also worked on the GENI supported peer-to-peer testbed called Seattle.

More details can be found in my CV.

News

2017-08: Our work with MSR on ''application-aware'' resource scheduling in the context of hyperparameter exploration in deep learning systems was accepted to Middleware 2017!
2017-03: I will (again) be spending the summer at Microsoft Research in Redmond working with Yuxiong He, Minjia Zhang, and Wenhan Wang in the Deep Learning Optimizations team continuing our work on ''application-aware'' resource scheduling.
2016-02: I will be spending the summer at Microsoft Research in Redmond working with Yuxiong He, Olatunji Ruwase, and Trishul Chilimbi on topics related to building an ''application-aware'' resource scheduler for distributed deep neural network frameworks.
2016-02: Presenting a poster on queue manangement for cluster schedulers at NSDI '16.
2016-01: Our work with Microsoft CISL and MSR on queue management for cluster schedulers was accepted to EuroSys 2016!
2015-10: Giving a talk on queue management in cluster schedulers at the 2nd annual New England Networking and Systems Day.
2015-10: Thanks to the generosity of the NSF and SwitchOn I will be attending the SwitchOn Workshop in São Paulo which aims to foster collaborations between the U.S. and Brazil.
2015-09: I was elected as Faculty-Graduate Liaison (FGL) in my department!

2015-02: Thanks to ACM SIGCOMM and others for a travel grant to attend the 5th PhD School on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis in Barcelona.
2015-01: I will be spending the summer as a Microsoft Research Intern at the Cloud and Information Services Lab (CISL) in Mountain View, CA. I will be working with Konstantinos Karanasos, Sriram Rao, and Srikanth Kandula on some interesting topics related to scheduling in large shared compute clusters.
2015-02: Thanks to ACM SIGCOMM and others for a travel grant to attend the 5th PhD School on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis in Barcelona.
2015-01: I will be spending the summer as a Microsoft Research Intern at the Cloud and Information Services Lab (CISL) in Mountain View, CA. I will be working with Konstantinos Karanasos, Sriram Rao, and Srikanth Kandula on some interesting topics related to scheduling in large shared compute clusters.
2014-12: As part of CS Education Week, I will be again visiting Nathan Bishop Middle School to help students with an "Hour of Code".
2014-11: I will be a graduate TA for Distributed Computer Systems taught by Tom Doeppner and Rodrigo Fonseca in the Spring '15 semester.
2014-11: Giving an invited talk at UBC about our low-latency network monitoring work. Plus attending IMC '14 via a generous travel grant.
2014-10: Presenting a poster on low-latency network monitoring at the first annual New England Networking and Systems Day at the Hariri Institute at Boston University.
2014-04: Our work on low-latency network monitoring will be appearing at SIGCOMM '14!
2014-04: Presenting a poster on low-latency network monitoring at NSDI '14 via a generous travel grant from USENIX.
2014-03: Poster judge at NEUCS '14.
2014-03: I will be spending the summer at VMware in the NSX (i.e., Nicira) group.
2014-02: I will be presenting our paper "Low-latency Network Monitoring via Oversubscribed Port Mirroring" at the Open Networking Summit's Research Track.
2013-12: Visiting Nathan Bishop Middle School to help students with an Hour of Code.
2013-09: Attending IMC '13 via a generous travel grant by the NSF.
2013-06: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Awardee (2013), Brown blog post
2013-04: Poster judge at NEUCS '13 . Sadly, the event was canceled.
2013-03: I will be at IBM Research in Austin working with Colin Dixon and Eric Rozner this summer.

Publications, Posters, etc.

Accelerating Large Scale Deep Learning Inference through DeepCPU at Microsoft Minjia Zhang, Samyam Rajbandari, Wenhan Wang, Elton Zheng, Olatunji Ruwase, Jeff Rasley, Jason Li, Junhua Wang, and Yuxiong He. To appear at the 2019 USENIX Conference on Operational Machine Learning (OpML '19). Santa Clara, CA, 2019
HyperDrive: Exploring Hyperparameters with POP Scheduling Jeff Rasley, Yuxiong He, Feng Yan, Olatunji Ruwase, Rodrigo Fonseca. In proceedings of the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2017. Las Vegas, NV, 2017 [pdf]

Efficient Queue Management for Cluster Scheduling Jeff Rasley, Konstantinos Karanasos, Srikanth Kandula, Rodrigo Fonseca, Milan Vojnovic, Sriram Rao. In proceedings of the 2016 European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '16). London, UK, 2016 [pdf]
- Poster at the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2016). Santa Clara, CA, 2016
Detecting Latent Cross-Platform API Violations Jeff Rasley, Eleni Gessiou, Tony Ohmann, Yuriy Brun, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Justin Cappos. In proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2015 [pdf]
- Runtime Verification of Portable Programming Interfaces Jeff Rasley. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, June 2011
Crowdsourcing from Scratch: A Pragmatic Experiment in Data Collection by Novice Requesters Alexandra Papoutsaki, Hua Guo, Danae Metaxa-Kakavouli, Connor C. Gramazio, Jeff Rasley, Wenting Xie, Guan Wang, Jeff Huang. In proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2015. Best Paper Award Runner Up [site, pdf]
Planck: Millisecond-scale Monitoring and Control for Commodity Networks Jeff Rasley, Brent Stephens, Colin Dixon, Eric Rozner, Wes Felter, Kanak Agarwal, John Carter, Rodrigo Fonseca. In proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on SIGCOMM. Chicago, IL, 2014 [pdf] [slides]
- Poster at the 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation ( NSDI 2014). Seattle, WA, 2014 [poster]
- Talk at the 2014 Open Networking Summit (Research Track). Santa Clara, CA, March 2014 [ pdf] [slides]
- Talk at the 2015 Open Networking User Group (Research Track). Columbia University, New York, NY, May 2015
Seattle: The Internet as a Testbed. Jeff Rasley, Monzur Muhammad, Alex Hanson, Sebastian Morgan, Alan Loh, Justin Cappos. Poster at the 8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2011). Boston, MA, 2011
Retaining Sandbox Containment Despite Bugs in Privileged Memory-Safe Code Justin Cappos, Armon Dadgar, Jeff Rasley, Justin Samuel, Ivan Beschastnikh, Cosmin Barsan, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Thomas Anderson. The 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2010). Chicago, IL, 2010 [pdf]