About Me

I am currently a 2nd year PhD student in computer science (CMPS) at UC Santa Cruz. My advisor is Peter Alvaro and I am primarily working with Peter Alvaro, Carlos Maltzahn, and Jeff LeFevre on declarative programmable storage, but I am also interested in bioinformatics, distributed systems, and data management systems.

Here, I am hoping to publish my thoughts and research, as well as keep track of readings. I mostly failed to write the content I wanted to last year, but will hopefully be able to commit more time this year.

TA Information

This quarter, Fall 2019, I am TAing for CSE 138 - Distributed Systems. Below is information for contacting me and where my physical office is located. I have had professors that offered online office hours and were available via instant message as well, so I’d like to provide the same. I can be contacted anytime online and I should be able to respond within 24 hours in most cases. Please use my ucsc google account for all forms of messaging (IM or email). For now, I am only doing ad-hoc office hours (when requested), but if regular office hours would be preferred, please let me know.

Office Hours       : Tuesdays - 2pm to 3pm
Office Location    : Nook near Peter's office (next to E2 - 353)


Office Hours       : Thursdays - 2pm to 3pm
Office Location    : LSD Lab (E2 - 398; near the staircase of Engineering 2)

Online Office Hours: Saturdays - Please see calendar
Office Location    : Google hangouts/meet/chat or Zoom (see below)

Contact Info       :
    E-mail         : akmontan@ucsc.edu
    Hangouts (IM)  : akmontan@ucsc.edu
    Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=YWttb250YW5AdWNzYy5lZHU
    Zoom           : See office hour events on calendar

Research

Theorycrafting

I always thought theorycrafting was a fun word for a fun idea. This section indexes blog posts, or series of blog posts, for something research-y or project-based where I am ultimately “theorycrafting” (assuming life is a game and/or simulation). Some of the series below may also include short and sweet (or not sweet) side projects.

This will be the least complete of all the sections on this website as I have found it is hard for me to take various thoughts to completion in a blog format. I tend to keep these thoughts in notes or just in my head, though I am trying to improve on this.

Type	Name
Blog	Mixing Consistency over programmable storage
Blog	Diversifying Consistency in Ceph
Series	Series - Programmable Storage
Series	Series - Perspectives on Bioinformatics
Series	Series - LDFI for Life
Series	Series - Domain-Specific Solver-Aided Languages
Series	Sidecar working group - Envoyage

Readings

This section will include paper reviews, paper presentation materials, and anything else that seems relatively similar in spirit. I will try to eventually organize the reading sections below in a way that it can be easy to tell what I have read, what I thought about it, and maybe gather some fun statistics on my reading progress.

· Reading Queue

I think it would be nice to keep a public reading queue. Maybe others can make recommendations, or at least get a sense of what papers I think should be read for anyone in my field.

Readings by Research Group

Principal Investigators (PIs)	Group
Peter Alvaro	Disorderly Labs
Peter Alvaro and Carlos Maltzahn	Declarative Programmable Storage

Readings by Course

Quarter	Course
Fall 2018	CMPS 278 reviews
Fall 2018	CMPS 290S reviews
Winter 2019	CMPS 280L
Spring 2019	CMPS 229
Spring 2019	CMPS 232
Spring 2019	CMPS 280O
Fall 2019	CSE 220

Readings by Date

To see reviews by date, simply go to this index: reviews by date. This will be updated periodically, when I need to procrastinate important work or when I feel like it should be updated.

· Aldrin Montana