Andrew Chung

About

I am a senior software engineer at Microsoft Suzhou.
I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, where I was fortunate to be advised by Professor Greg Ganger.

Thesis

Realizing value in shared compute infrastructures
Committee: Gregory R. Ganger (Chair), Phillip B. Gibbons, George Amvrosiadis, Carlo Curino
[Document] [Slides]

Publications

Peer-reviewed conferences

• Towards Building Autonomous Data Services on Azure
  Y. Zhu, Y. Tian, J. Cahoon, S. Krishnan, A. Agarwal, R. Alotaibi, J. Camacho-Rodriguez, B. Chundatt, A. Chung, N. Dutta, A. Fogarty, A. Gruenheid, B. Haynes, M. Interlandi, M. Iyer, N. Jurgens, S. Khushalani, B. Kroth, M. Kumar, J. Leeka, S. Matusevych, M. Mittal, A. Mueller, K. Muthyala, H. Nagulapalli, Y. Park, H. Patel, A. Pavlenko, O. Poppe, S. Ravindran, K. Saur, R. Sen, S. Suh, A. Tarafdar, K. Waghray, D. Wang, C. Curino, R. Ramakrishnan
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2023 (SIGMOD’23)
  [Link] [BibTeX]

• Unearthing inter-job dependencies for better cluster scheduling
  A. Chung, S. Krishnan, K. Karanasos, C. Curino, G. R. Ganger
  USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2020 (OSDI’20)
  [Link] [BibTeX] [Simulator patch]

• Stratus: cost-aware container scheduling in the public cloud
  A. Chung, J. W. Park, G. R. Ganger
  ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2018 (SoCC’18)
  [Best student paper award]
  [Link] [BibTeX]

• Tributary: spot-dancing for elastic services with latency SLOs
  A. Harlap*, A. Chung*, A. Tumanov, G. R. Ganger, P. B. Gibbons (* denotes equal contribution)
  USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 2018 (USENIX ATC’18)
  [Link] [BibTeX]

• Proteus: agile ML elasticity through tiered reliability in dynamic resource markets
  A. Harlap, A. Tumanov, A. Chung, G. R. Ganger, P. B. Gibbons
  ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, 2017 (EuroSys’17)
  [Link] [BibTeX]

• Pado: A Data Processing Engine for Harnessing Transient Resources in Datacenters
  Y. Yang, G. W. Kim, W. W. Song, Y. Lee, A. Chung, Z. Qian, B. Cho, B. G. Chun
  ACM European Conference on Computer Systems, 2017 (EuroSys’17)
  [Link] [BibTeX]

Journals

• Apache REEF: Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework
  B. G. Chun, T. Condie, Y. Chen, B. Cho, A. Chung, C. Curino, C. Douglas, M. Interlandi, B. Jeon, J. S. Jeong, G. W. Lee, Y. Lee, T. Majestro, D. Malkhi, S. Matusevych, B. Myers, M. Mykhailova, S. Narayanamurthy, J. Noor, R. Ramakrishnan, S. Rao, R. Sears, B. Sezgin, T. G. Um, J. Wang, M. Weimer, Y. Yang
  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, Volume 35 Issue 2, 2017
  [Link] [BibTeX]

Posters and demonstrations

• Peering through the Dark: An Owl’s View of Inter-job Dependencies and Jobs’ Impact in Shared Clusters (Demo)
  A. Chung, C. Curino, S. Krishnan, K. Konstantinos, P. Garefalakis, G. R. Ganger
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2019 (SIGMOD’19)
  [Link] [BibTeX]

Patents

• Provenance Driven Job Relevance Assessment
  C. Curino, K. Karanasos, S. Krishnan, C. Douglas, S. Rao, A. Chung
  Patent number: US 10,936,367 B2

Teaching

• TA for Advanced Operating Systems and Distributed Systems (S20) at Carnegie Mellon University
• TA for Advanced Cloud Computing (S18) at Carnegie Mellon University
• TA for Database Applications (S13) at Carnegie Mellon University

Experience

• Senior software engineer working on Microsoft’s Cosmos data platform
• Committer and PMC member of Apache REEF
• Research intern at Microsoft’s Gray Systems Lab (GSL), mentored by Subru Krishnan
• Research intern at Microsoft’s Cloud and Information Services Lab (CISL), mentored by Carlo Curino
• Software engineer working on Azure Stream Analytics and Apache REEF at Microsoft
• Technology intern at Susquehanna International Group
• Application developer intern at JPMorgan Chase & Co.