Viraj Thakkar
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Mail code: 8809Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentComputer Science
Ira A Fulton Engineering
[SIGMOD'25] Viraj Thakkar, Dongha Kim, Yingchun Lai, Hoekun Kim, Zhichao Cao. "SHIELD: Encrypting Persistent Data of LSM-KVS from Monolithic to Disaggregated Storage." Proceedings of ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Research Track Full Paper, 2025. To Appear.
[HotStorage’24] Viraj Thakkar, Madhumitha Sukumar, Jiaxin Dai, Kaushiki Singh, Zhichao Cao. “Can Modern LLMs Tune and Configure LSM-based Key-Value Stores?” 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2024. Best Paper Award!
[SIGMOD'24] Qiaolin Yu, Chang Guo, Jay Zhuang, Viraj Thakkar, Jianguo Wang, Zhichao Cao. "CaaS-LSM: Compaction-as-a-Service for LSM-based Key-Value Stores in Storage-Disaggregated Infrastructure." Proceedings of ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Research Track Full Paper, 2024.
Poster and Working-in-Progress
[FAST’25] Yibo Zhao, Viraj Thakkar, Zhichao Cao, Zaoxing Liu. “NetLSM: Enabling an In-Network Approach for Scheduling LSM-KVS Operations.” 23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2025.
[FAST’24] Madhumitha Sukumar, Jiaxin Dai, Kaushiki Singh, Vikriti Lokegaonkar, Viraj Thakkar, Zhichao Cao. “LLM-assisted Automatic-Configuration and Tuning Framework for LSM-based Key-Value Stores.” 22nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2024.
- HotStorage 2024 Best Paper Award, 2024
Grants and Awards
- OpenAI Researcher Access Program Credit Award 2025
- ACM SIGMOD 2025 Travel Grant (2025)
- ASU SCAI, Graduate College, and GSG Travel Grant (2025)
- USENIX FAST Travel Grant (2024, 2025)
- ASU Fulton Fellowship (2023 - 2027)
- Shadow Program Committee Member, EuroSys 2025
- Artifact Evaluation Committee, FAST 2025
- Artifact Evaluation Committee, SIGMOD 2025
Open Source:
- CGroup-Manager, A Python library to start and monitor a Linux process using groups.
- Memories, A Python library for Image Segmentation
- Stack Overflow, 1000+ reputation