Michael Conley

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science working with the Systems and Networking Group at UC San Diego advised by Professor Amin Vahdat. I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Caltech in 2009. My research interests include distributed systems and parallel computing, cluster computing, and data center networks.

Current Work

I am investigating balanced systems within the mapreduce framework of Hadoop. Goals consist of analyzing cluster resources during a mapreduce job, identifying bottlenecks, and classifying various types of jobs according to these bottlenecks with the hope of being able to utilize cluster resources more efficiently.