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publications
Home Automation Using Wi-Fi and Sensor Networks
Published in DJSCE Technofocus, 2017
This paper is a part of an undergraduate Academic project on Internet of Things.
Recommended citation: Bhatt Parth, Desai Omkar. (2017). "Home Automation Using Wi-Fi and Sensor Networks" DJSCE Technofocus. ISSN:2321-0532. http://swiftomkar.github.io/files/HomeAutomation.pdf
A principled approach for selecting block I/O traces
Published in 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, 2022
Recommended citation: Omkar Desai, Seungmin Shin, Eunji Lee, and Bryan S. Kim. 2022. A principled approach for selecting block I/O traces. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 52–58. https://doi.org/10.1145/3538643.3539754 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3538643.3539754
Leveraging keys in key-value SSD for production workloads
Published in 32nd International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC '23), 2023
Download paper here Recommended citation: Manoj Pravakar Saha, Omkar Desai, Bryan S. Kim, and Janki Bhimani. 2023. Leveraging Keys In Key-Value SSD for Production Workloads. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC ‘23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 327-328. https://doi.org/10.1145/3588195.3595949
Recommended citation: Manoj Pravakar Saha, Omkar Desai, Bryan S. Kim, and Janki Bhimani. 2023. Leveraging Keys In Key-Value SSD for Production Workloads. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 327-328. https://doi.org/10.1145/3588195.3595949 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3588195.3595949
Two-level indexing for key-value persistent storage device
Published in United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), 2024
View patent here Recommended citation: Omkar Desai, Changho Choi, and Yangwook Kang. 2024. Two-level indexing for key-value persistent storage device. U.S. Patent 11,954,345, filed February 9, 2022, granted April 9, 2024. Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Recommended citation: Omkar Desai, Changho Choi, and Yangwook Kang. 2024. Two-level indexing for key-value persistent storage device. U.S. Patent 11,954,345, filed February 9, 2022, granted April 9, 2024. Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. https://patents.google.com/patent/US11954345B2/en
System and method for managing tasks in a storage device
Published in United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), 2025
View patent here Recommended citation: Omkar Desai, Shuyi Pei, Jing Yang, and Rekha Pitchumani. 2025. System and method for managing tasks in a storage device. U.S. Patent 12,411,630, filed July 17, 2023, granted September 9, 2025. Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Recommended citation: Omkar Desai, Shuyi Pei, Jing Yang, and Rekha Pitchumani. 2025. System and method for managing tasks in a storage device. U.S. Patent 12,411,630, filed July 17, 2023, granted September 9, 2025. Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. https://patents.google.com/patent/US12411630B2/en
Preparation meets opportunity: enhancing data preprocessing for ML training with Seneca
Published in 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '26), 2026
Download paper here Recommended citation: Omkar Desai, Ziyang Jiao, Shuyi Pei, Janki Bhimani, and Bryan S. Kim. 2026. Preparation Meets Opportunity: Enhancing Data Preprocessing for ML Training With Seneca. In 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ‘26), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 221-238.
Recommended citation: Omkar Desai, Ziyang Jiao, Shuyi Pei, Janki Bhimani, and Bryan S. Kim. 2026. Preparation Meets Opportunity: Enhancing Data Preprocessing for ML Training With Seneca. In 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '26), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 221-238. https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast26/presentation/desai
Cost-efficient training and checkpointing for large models on preemptible cloud VMs
Published in 6th Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys '26), 2026
Download paper here Recommended citation: Omkar Desai, Shuyi Pei, Janki Bhimani, and Bryan S. Kim. 2026. Cost-Efficient Training and Checkpointing for Large Models on Preemptible Cloud VMs. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys ‘26).
Recommended citation: Omkar Desai, Shuyi Pei, Janki Bhimani, and Bryan S. Kim. 2026. Cost-Efficient Training and Checkpointing for Large Models on Preemptible Cloud VMs. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems (EuroMLSys '26). https://doi.org/10.1145/3805621.3807617
talks
ALEX: An Updatable Adaptive Learned Index
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I spoke about the work done by Prof. Tim Kraska from the DSAIL lab at MIT on using Machine Learning to dramatically improve query performance of Databases. Slides
A Study of SSD Reliability in Large Scale Enterprise Storage Deployments
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I spoke about the work done by Prof. Bianca Schroder’s group in collaboration with NetApp at the University of Toronto. Slides
DeuceDB: Smarter categorizing and scheduling to amortize background IO costs in LevelDB
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I spoke about the work done by our group on improving background I/O performance and smarter workload characterization to reduce background costs in LevelDB Slides
teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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