About me

I am a Senior Software Engineer at Google, working on GSLB, Google’s Global Software Load Balancer.

I completed my Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2019, having been advised by Dr.Taesoo Kim.

My research interests include Distributed Systems, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, and Graph Processing.

News

• [07/24/2020] ecoTLB got accepted at TACO’20!
• [04/01/2019] I defended my Ph.D. thesis!
• [02/06/2018] Mosaic won the best contribution award at OBD’18!
• [11/14/2017] LATR got accepted at ASPLOS’18!
• [06/02/2017] The source code of Mosaic is available on Github
• [05/30/2017] A nice summary of Mosaic was featured in The Morning Paper
• [04/24/2017] News coverage for Mosaic: TheNextPlatform, Hacker News, Georgia Tech News
• [04/24/2017] Mosaic won the best student paper award at EuroSys’17!
• [01/23/2017] Mosaic got accepted at EuroSys’17!

Publications

ecoTLB: Eventually Consistent TLBs (to appear)
Steffen Maass*, Mohan Kumar*, Taesoo Kim, Tushar Krishna, and Abhishek Bhattacharjee.
TACO’20, July 2020.
* marks joint first authors

SOLROS: A Data-Centric Operating System Architecture for Heterogeneous Computing
Changwoo Min, Woon-Hak Kang, Mohan Kumar, Sanidhya Kashyap, Steffen Maass, Heeseung Jo, and Taesoo Kim.
EuroSys’18, Porto, Portugal. April 2018.
Acceptance rate 16.4%
[Paper]

LATR: Lazy Translation Coherence
Mohan Kumar*, Steffen Maass*, Sanidhya Kashyap, Jan Vesely, Zi Yan, Taesoo Kim, Abhishek Bhattacharjee, and Tushar Krishna.
ASPLOS’18, Williamsburg, VA, USA. March 2018.
Acceptance rate 17.6%
* marks joint first authors
[Paper] [Slides] [Lightning Slides]

Mosaic: Processing a Trillion-Edge Graph on a Single Machine
Steffen Maass, Changwoo Min, Sanidhya Kashyap, Woonhak Kang, Mohan Kumar, and Taesoo Kim.
EuroSys’17, Belgrade, Serbia. April 2017.
Acceptance rate 20.5%
Awarded the best student paper award!
[Paper] [Slides] [Extended Slides] [Code]
Coverage: TheNextPlatform, Hacker News, HN II, Georgia Tech News I, GT News II, The Morning Paper

Understanding Manycore Scalability of File Systems
Changwoo Min, Sanidhya Kashyap, Steffen Maass, Woonhak Kang, and Taesoo Kim
ATC’16, Denver, CO. June 2016 (Acceptance rate 19.0%)
[Paper] [Code]

Workshop Papers

Kaleidoscope: Graph Analytics on Evolving Graphs
Steffen Maass, Taesoo Kim.
EuroDW’18 (co-located with EuroSys’18), Porto, Portugal, April 2018
[Paper] [Talk]

Posters

Mosaic: Processing a Trillion-Edge Graph on a Single Machine
Steffen Maass, Changwoo Min, Sanidhya Kashyap, Woonhak Kang, Mohan Kumar, and Taesoo Kim
Workshop on Optimization & Big Data (OBD’18), KAUST, Saudi Arabia. February 2018
Awarded the best contribution award!

DistCoz: Tell Me What to Optimize in My Distributed Application
Steffen Maass, Mohan Kumar, and Taesoo Kim
Poster @ NDSI’17, Boston, MA. USA. March 2017

Network Function Fault Isolation in a Single Address Space
Mohan Kumar, Steffen Maass, and Taesoo Kim
Poster @ NDSI’17, Boston, MA. USA. March 2017

Special greetings to my friend Uwe!