Mehul A. Shah Research Scientist Storage Systems Department HP Laboratories

My research interests include energy-efficiency of computer systems, database systems, distributed systems, and long-term digital preservation.

Selected Papers

2009

Tracking the Power in an Enterprise Decision Support System.
Justin Meza, Mehul A. Shah, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Mike Fitzner, and Judson Veazey.
International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), August 2009.
This is not available elsewhere on the ISLPED site, so feel free to link here.

Query Processing Techniques for Solid State Drives.
Dimitris Tsirogiannis, Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul A. Shah, Janet L. Wiener, and Goetz Graefe.
ACM SIGMOD, July 2009.

Energy Efficiency: The New Holy Grail of Data Management Systems Research.
Stavros Harizopoulos, Mehul A. Shah, Justin Meza, Parthasarathy Ranganathan.
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), January 2009.

2008

A Pratical Scalable Distributed B-Tree.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Wojciech Golab, and Mehul A. Shah.
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), August 2008.

2007

Sinfonia: A New Paradigm for Building Scalable Distributed Systems.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Arif Merchant, Mehul A. Shah, Alistair Veitch, and Christos Karamanolis.
ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 2007. Best paper.

JouleSort: A Balanced Energy-Efficiency Benchmark.
Suzanne Rivoire, Mehul A. Shah, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, and Christos Kozyrakis.
ACM SIGMOD, June 2007.

Auditing to Keep Online Storage Services Honest.
Mehul A. Shah, Mary Baker, Jeffrey C. Mogul, and Ram Swaminathan.
HotOS XI, May 2007.

2006

Pip: Detecting the Unexpected in Distributed Systems.
Patrick Reynolds Charles Killian, Janet L. Wiener, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Mehul A. Shah, and Amin Vahdat.
Symp. on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), , May 2006.

A Fresh Look at the Reliability of Long-term Digital Storage.
Mary Baker, Mehul A. Shah, David S. H. Rosenthal, Mema Roussopoulos, Petros Maniatis, TJ Giuli, and Prashanth Bungale.
EuroSys, April 2006.

IT Infrastructure in Emerging Markets: Arguing for an End-to-End Perspective.
Ajay Gupta, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Prashant Sarin, Mehul Shah
IEEE Pervasive Computing, April-June 2006.

Please see my DBLP entry for a more complete list of my pre-2005 publications.

2004

Flux: A Mechanism for Building Robust, Scalable Dataflows.
Mehul A. Shah.
U.C. Berkeley --- PhD Thesis, Fall 2004.
Advisor: Joseph M. Hellerstein .

1997

ReferralWeb: A Resource Location System Guided by Personal Relations.
Mehul A. Shah.
MIT --- MEng Thesis, May 1997.
This was the first work that presented techniques for automatically extracting social networks from the web. Although I am the sole author (as required for all theses), this work was done jointly with Henry Kautz and Bart Selman while I was at AT&T Bell Labs. My thesis advisor (and collaborator) at MIT was David Karger .

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You can reach me at:
Email:	firstname.lastname@hp.com
Phone:	+1-650-857-2320
Fax:	+1-650-857-7029
Address:	HP Labs 1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1183 Palo Alto, CA 94304

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