Email: dhruv@umn.edu
Research Motto: In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
I am currently a Post-Doc Researcher at Microsoft Research. Prior to this, I completed my PhD under Prof. Abhishek Chandra in the Computer Science Department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. During my PhD, I also collaborated with Prof. Ramesh Sitaraman at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Broadly, I am interested in Distributed Systems and its application in Data Analytics and Machine Learning. Currently, I am working on problems related to Geo-distributed Analytics and also looking to apply data-driven techniques to optimize systems.
I graduated in 2014 with a Bachelors in Computer Science from BITS-Pilani, India. At BITS-Pilani, I was a part of Advanced Data Analytics and Parallel Technologies Lab, where I worked on parallel and distributed algorithms for data mining.
Joel Wolfrath, Nikhil Sreekumar, Dhruv Kumar, Yuanli Wang, Abhishek Chandra
Dhruv Kumar, Joel Wolfrath, Abhishek Chandra, Ramesh Sitaraman
Dhruv Kumar, Sohaib Ahmad, Abhishek Chandra, Ramesh Sitaraman
Yuanli Wang, Joel Wolfrath, Nikhil Sreekumar, Dhruv Kumar, Abhishek Chandra
Yuanli Wang, Dhruv Kumar, Abhishek Chandra
Dhruv Kumar, Aravind Alagiri Ramkumar, Rohit Sindhu, Abhishek Chandra
Dhruv Kumar, Jian Li, Abhishek Chandra and Ramesh Sitaraman
Dhruv Kumar, Jian Li, Abhishek Chandra and Ramesh Sitaraman
Poster at USENIX OSDI 2018
PhD in Computer Science (September 2017 - Current)
CGPA: 4.0/4.0
3M Science and Technology Fellowship.
B.E.(Hons.) in Computer Science (August 2010 - May 2014)
CGPA: 9.92/10
Rank 1 in Class of 2014 of Computer Science, comprising 120 students.
Rank 3 in Class of 2014 of BITS-Pilani, comprising 800 students.
PhD Intern (June 2019 - August 2019)
Project: Learning to prefetch data for disk servers
Quantitative Analyst and Software Engineer (November 2014 - April 2016)
Rallapalli Srinivas, Matt Drewitz, Joe Magner, Ajit Pratap Singh, Dhruv Kumar, Yashwant Bhaskar Katpatal
In Advances in Computational Modeling and Simulation. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. 2022
Srinivas Rallapalli, Ananya Jain,Dhruv Kumar
Under submission in Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier, 2021.
Poonam Goyal, Jagat Sesh Challa,Dhruv Kumar, Anuvind Bhat, Navneet Goyal, Sundar Balasubramaniam
In International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA), Springer, 2020.
Dhruv Kumar, Poonam Goyal, Navneet Goyal.
Poonam Goyal, Sonal Kumari, Ankit Sood, Dhruv Kumar, Sundar Balasubramaniam, Navneet Goyal
In International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 2017
Poonam Goyal, Sonal Kumari, Sumit Sharma, Dhruv Kumar, Vivek Kishore, Sundar Balasubramaniam, Navneet Goyal.
In IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2016.
Poonam Goyal, Sonal Kumari, Dhruv Kumar, Sundar Balasubramaniam, Navneet Goyal, Saiyedul Islam, Jagat Sesh Challa.
In International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 2015.
Poonam Goyal, Sonal Kumari, Dhruv Kumar, Sundar Balasubramaniam, Navneet Goyal.
In ACM India Computing Conference (ACM COMPUTE), 2014.