About
Postdoctoral Researcher, Carbon- and Power-aware Cloud Infrastructure
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington working with Thomas Anderson and Simon Peter on the Treehouse and Future of Cloud Infrastructure (FOCI) projects.
At a high level, my postdoctoral research focuses on how to build cloud systems that are power-adaptive. Such systems should be able to increase or decrease power demand in response to changing power supply. Data center power adaptivity is increasingly urgent as renewables make up a growing share of cloud systems' power supplies; data centers consume a growing share of grid electricity; and power disruptions become more common due to climate change-induced natural disasters. To learn more, please read our white paper on why we need a power control plane for cloud systems.
I earned my PhD from Princeton in May 2023. I worked with Professors Wyatt Lloyd (Princeton University) and Ethan Katz-Bassett (Columbia University) on distributed systems. I was previously part of the Networked Systems Lab at the University of Southern California.
I earned a Master's degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 2016. While there, I worked with Professor Miodrag Potkonjak on energy-efficient wireless sensor networks. I also worked with visiting researcher Bastian Bloessl (then at University of Paderborn) on evaluating a software-defined radio implementation of 802.11p for vehicular ad-hoc networks. I earned a Bachelor's degree in Linguistics from the University of Chicago in 2009.
Outside of work, I am very fortunate to sail with the Washington Yacht Club, UW's student-run sailing club. We are regulars at Duck Dodge and Goosebumps; come say hi!
Publications
Lim K, Giordano M, Stavrinos T, Nelson J, Zhang I, Kasikci B, Anderson T. "Beehive: A Flexible Network Stack for Direct-Attached Accelerators." To appear in MICRO 2024.Park J, Stavrinos T, Peter S, Anderson T. "EMPower: The Case for a Cloud Power Control Plane." In HotCarbon 2024 (pdf).
Xie D, Stavrinos T, Zhu K, Peter S, Kasikci B, Anderson T. "Can Storage Devices be Power Adaptive?" In HotStorage 2024 (pdf).
Mwotil A, Anderson T, Kanagwa B, Stavrinos T, Bainomugisha E. "LowPaxos: State Machine Replication for Low Resource Settings." In IEEE Access 2024 (pdf).
Stavrinos T. "Nabu: Unlocking Better Cache Performance at Lower Cost With Expiration Time-Based Flash Caching." PhD Thesis 2023 (pdf).
Hodsdon C, Stavrinos T, Katz-Bassett E, Lloyd W. "MASON: Scalable, Contiguous Sequencing for Building Consistent Services." In Journal of Systems Research (JSys) 2023 (pdf).
Stavrinos T, Berger D, Katz-Bassett E, Lloyd W. "Don't Be a Blockhead: Zoned Namespaces Make Work on Conventional SSDs Obsolete." In HotOS 2021 (pdf, talk).
Pan S, Stavrinos T, Zhang Y, Sikaria A, Zakharov P, Sharma A, Shankar P S, Shuey M, Wareing R, Gangapuram M, Cao G, Preseau C, Singh P, Patiejunas K, Tipton JR, Katz-Bassett E, Lloyd W. "Facebookâs Tectonic Filesystem: Efficiency from Exascale." In FAST 2021 (pdf).
Guo J, Xu T, Stavrinos T, and Potkonjak M. "Enabling environmentally-powered indoor sensor networks with dynamic routing and operation." In Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS) 2016.
Pannetier N, Stavrinos T, Ng P, Herbst M, Zaitsev M, Young K, Matson G, and Schuff N. "Quantitative framework for prospective motion correction evaluation." In Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 75, no. 2 (2016).
Academic Service
USENIX ATC 2024 ReviewerNSDI 2024 Reviewer and Scribe
OSDI 2023 External Reviewer
Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2022 External Reviewer
OSDI 2021 External Reviewer
OSDI 2018 Topic Preview Sessions Organizer
OSDI 2018 External Reviewer
Princeton Systems Seminars Co-Organizer, 2017-2018
NSDI 2018 External Reviewer
Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2017 Shadow PC Member
Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2017 Scribe
SIGCOMM 2017 Topic Preview Sessions Co-Organizer
NSDI 2017 External Reviewer
Curriculum Vitae
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Contact
Email: thst at uw dot edu