FAST '21

19th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

February 23–25, 2021
Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS

Thanks to those who joined us for the 19th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '21). We hope you enjoyed the event.

FAST will bring together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.

As part of our commitment to open access to research, the full proceedings and presentation slides are free and open to the public on the technical sessions page. Videos are posted within a few weeks of the end of the event.

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Conference Organizers

Marcos K. Aguilera
VMware Research
Program Co-Chair
Gala Yadgar
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
Program Co-Chair

Program Co-Chairs

Marcos K. Aguilera, VMware Research
Gala Yadgar, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology

Program Committee

Nitin Agrawal, ThoughtSpot
Marcos K. Aguilera, VMware Research
Woongki Baek, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Facebook
Suparna Bhattacharya, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Janki Bhimani, Florida International University
Angelos Bilas, University of Crete and FORTH
Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University
Feng Chen, Louisiana State University
Vijay Chidambaram, The University of Texas at Austin and VMware Research
Natacha Crooks, University of California, Berkeley
Daniel Ellard, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Danny Harnik, IBM Research—Haifa
Dean Hildebrand, Google
Cheng Huang, Microsoft
William Jannen, Williams College
Song Jiang, The University of Texas at Arlington
Rob Johnson, VMware Research
Kimberly Keeton
Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU
Peter Macko, NetApp
Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Pure Storage
Dalit Naor, The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo
Don Porter, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory
Ken Salem, University of Waterloo and Amazon
Jiri Schindler, Tranquil Data
Russell Sears, Apple
Mehul A. Shah, Amazon AWS
Keith A. Smith, MongoDB
Amy Tai, VMware Research
Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research
Carl Waldspurger, Carl Waldspurger Consulting
Youjip Won, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Gala Yadgar, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology

Test of Time Awards Committee

Jiri Schindler, Tranquil Data
Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto

Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs) Co-Chairs

Peter Macko, NetApp
Amy Tai, VMware Research

USENIX ;login: Editorial Committee Conference Representatives

Vijay Chidambaram, The University of Texas at Austin and VMware Research
William Jannen, Williams College

Steering Committee

Nitin Agrawal, ThoughtSpot
Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto
Casey Henderson, USENIX Association
Kimberly Keeton
Geoff Kuenning, Harvey Mudd College
Arif Merchant, Google
Sam H. Noh, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University
Erik Riedel
Jiri Schindler, Tranquil Data
Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
Keith A. Smith, MongoDB
Eno Thereska, Amazon
Carl Waldspurger, Carl Waldspurger Consulting
Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University
Brent Welch, Google
Ric Wheeler, Facebook
Erez Zadok, Stony Brook University

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