This is a repository for my research, paper reading summaries/reviews, and relevant blog-like posts in markdown.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Principal Investigators (PIs) | Group |
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Peter Alvaro | Disorderly Labs |
Peter Alvaro and Carlos Maltzahn | Declarative Programmable Storage |
Quarter | Course |
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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 |
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.