Suman Nath

Partner Research Manager

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- WebXSkill: Skill Learning for Autonomous Web Agents
  
  Zhaoyang Wang, Qianhui Wu, Xuchao Zhang, Chaoyun Zhang, Wenlin Yao, Fazle Faisal, Baolin Peng, Si Qin, Suman Nath, Qingwei Lin, Chetan Bansal, Dongmei Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan, Jianfeng Gao, Huaxiu Yao
  
  April 2026
  
  Publication
- The Tool Illusion: Rethinking Tool Use in Web Agents
  
  Renze Lou, Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Qianhui Wu, Hao Cheng, Suman Nath, Wenpeng Yin, Jianfeng Gao
  
  April 2026
  
  Publication
- AgentRx: Diagnosing AI Agent Failures from Execution Trajectories
  
  Shraddha Barke, Arnav Goyal, Alind Khare, Avaljot Singh, Suman Nath, Chetan Bansal
  
  February 2026
  
  Preprint
- Generative Caching for Structurally Similar Prompts and Responses
  
  Sarthak Chakraborty, Suman Nath, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Indranil Gupta
  
  NeurIPS 2025 | November 2025
  
  Preprint
- Software Managed Networks via Coarsening
  
  Pradeep Dogga, Rachee Singh, Suman Nath, Ravi Netravali, Jens Palsberg, George Varghese
  
  ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets) | November 2025
  
  Publication
- Dyna-Mind: Learning to Simulate from Experience for Better AI Agents
  
  Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Hao Cheng, Qianhui Wu, Janardhan Kulkarni, Suman Nath, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Under review as a conference paper at ICLR 2026
  
  Publication
- Deriving Semantic Checkers from Tests to Detect Silent Failures in Production Distributed Systems
  
  Chang Lou, Dimas Shidqi Parikesit, Yujin Huang, Zhewen Yang, Senapati Diwangkara, Yuzhuo Jing, Achmad Imam Kistijantoro, Ding Yuan, Suman Nath, Peng Huang
  
  OSDI'25: 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation | July 2025
  
  Publication
- ReproCopilot: LLM-Driven Failure Reproduction with Dynamic Refinement
  
  Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Fazle Faisal, Suman Nath
  
  FSE'25: International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering | June 2025
  
  Publication
- WABER: Evaluating Reliability and Efficiency of Web Agents with Existing Benchmarks
  
  Su Kara, Fazle Faisal, Suman Nath
  
  ICLR 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild | April 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- Fidelity of Cloud Emulators: The Imitation Game of Testing Cloud-based Software
  
  Anna Mazhar , Saad Sher Alam , William Zheng , Yinfang Chen , Suman Nath, Tianyin Xu
  
  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | April 2025
  
  Publication
- Building AI Agents for Autonomous Clouds: Challenges and Design Principles
  
  Manisha M Shetty, Yinfang Chen, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma, Yogesh L. Simmhan, Xuchao Zhang, Jonathan Mace, Pedro Las-Casas, Shachee Mishra Gupta, Suman Nath, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan
  
  2024 Symposium on Cloud Computing | November 2024
  
  Publication
- Efficient Reproduction of Fault-Induced Failures in Distributed Systems with Feedback-Driven Fault Injection
  
  Jia Pan, Haoze Wu , Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Suman Nath, Peng Huang
  
  ACM SOSP 2024 | November 2024
  
  Publication Project
- If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try, Again…? Insights and LLM-informed Tooling for Detecting Retry Bugs in Software Systems
  
  Bogdan Alexandru Stoica, Utsav Sethi , Yiming Su , Cyrus Zhou, Shan Lu, Jonathan Mace, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  ACM SOSP 2024 | November 2024
  
  Publication
- ExChain: Exception Dependency Analysis for Root Cause Diagnosis
  
  Ao Li, Shan Lu, Suman Nath, Rohan Padhye, Vyas Sekar
  
  USENIX NSDI | April 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Detection Is Better Than Cure: A Cloud Incidents Perspective
  
  A. Parayil, Supriyo GHOSH, Yu Kang, Minghua Ma, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Jonathan Mace, Vaibhav Ganatra
  
  ESEC/FSE 2023: Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2023
  
  Publication
- AutoARTS: Taxonomy, Insights and Tools for Root Cause Labelling of Incidents in Microsoft Azure
  
  Pradeep Dogga, Chetan Bansal, Richard Costleigh, Gopinath Jayagopal, Suman Nath, Xuchao Zhang
  
  2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference | July 2023
  
  Publication Project
- HotGPT: How to Make Software Documentation More Useful with a Large Language Model?
  
  Yiming Su, Chengcheng Wan, Utsav Sethi, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | June 2023
  
  Publication
- Generating Test Databases for Database-Backed Applications
  
  Cong Yan, Suman Nath, Shan Lu
  
  ICSE'23 | May 2023
  
  Publication Project
- WAFFLE: Exposing Memory Ordering Bugs Efficiently with Active Delay Injection
  
  Bogdan Alexandru Stoica, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  EuroSys'23 | May 2023
  
  Publication Project
- Push-Button Reliability Testing for Cloud-Backed Applications with Rainmaker
  
  Yinfang Chen, Xudong Sun, Suman Nath, Ze Yang, Tianyin Xu
  
  NSDI'23 | April 2023
  
  Publication Project
- FlakeRepro: Automated and Efficient Reproduction of Concurrency-Related Flaky Tests
  
  Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Xiang Ren , Suman Nath
  
  ESEC/FSE | November 2022
  
  Publication Project
- How to Fight Production Incidents? An Empirical Study on a Large-scale Cloud Service
  
  Supriyo GHOSH, Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath
  
  SoCC 2022 | November 2022
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Cancellation in Systems: An Empirical Study of Task Cancellation Patterns and Failures
  
  Utsav Sethi, Haochen Pan, Shan Lu, Suman Nath, Madan Musuvathi
  
  OSDI | June 2022
  
  Publication Project
- DeepAnalyze: Learning to Localize Crashes at Scale
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Sean Bowles, Henry Wang, Ozgur Arman, Siamak Ahari
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Project
- SherLock: Unsupervised Synchronization-Operation Inference
  
  Guangpu Li, Dongjie Chen, Shan Lu, Madanlal Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | April 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Causality-Guided Adaptive Interventional Debugging
  
  Anna Fariha, Suman Nath, Alexandra Meliou
  
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data | June 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Local trend discovery on real-time microblogs with uncertain locations in tight memory environments
  
  Abdulaziz Almaslukh, Amr Magdy, Ahmed M. Aly, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, Suman Nath, Walid G. Aref
  
  GeoInformatica | February 2020, Vol 24(2)
  
  Publication
- Efficient and Scalable Thread-Safety Violation Detection —- Finding thousands of concurrency bugs during testing
  
  Guangpu Li, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath, Rohan Padhye
  
  ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) | October 2019
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Project
- Root Causing Flaky Tests in a Large-Scale Industrial Setting
  
  Wing Lam, Patrice Godefroid (pg), Suman Nath, Anirudh Santhiar, Suresh Thummalapenta
  
  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) | July 2019
  
  Publication Project
- Elix: Path-selective taint analysis for extracting mobile app links
  
  Yongjian Hu, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, Iulian Neamtiu
  
  17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '19) | June 2019
  
  Publication Project
- What bugs cause production cloud incidents?
  
  Haopeng Liu, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | May 2019
  
  Publication Project
- Troubleshooting Transiently-Recurring Errors in Production Systems with Blame-Proportional Logging
  
  Liang Luo, Suman Nath, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Madan Musuvathi, Luis Ceze
  
  USENIX Annual Technical Conference | July 2018
  
  Publication Project
- Gnome: A Practical Approach to NLOS Mitigation for GPS Positioning in Smartphones
  
  Xiaochen Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan
  
  ACM MobiSys | June 2018
  
  Publication
- FlashBlox: Achieving Both Performance Isolation and Uniform Lifetime for Virtualized SSDs
  
  Jian Huang, Anirudh Badam, Laura Caulfield, Suman Nath, Sudipta Sengupta, Bikash Sharma, Moinuddin K. Qureshi
  
  Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'17) | February 2017
  
  Publication Publication Project
- GeoTrend: Spatial Trending Queries on Real-time Microblogs
  
  Amr Magdy, Ahmed M. Aly, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, Suman Nath, Walid G. Aref
  
  ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | October 2016
  
  Publication
- uLink: User-defined Deep Links in Mobile Apps
  
  Tanzirul Azim, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath
  
  GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications | October 2016, Vol 20(4): pp. 34-38
  
  Publication Publication Publication Project
- Appstract: On-The-Fly App Content Semantics With Better Privacy
  
  Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath
  
  ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'16) | July 2016
  
  Publication
- MASHaBLE: Mobile Applications of Secret Handshakes over Bluetooth LE
  
  Yan Michalevsky, Suman Nath, Jie Liu
  
  ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'16) | July 2016
  
  Publication
- ALPS: Accurate Landmark Positioning at City Scales
  
  Yitao Hu, Xiaochen Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan
  
  ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016) | July 2016
  
  Publication Publication
- WebPerf: Evaluating “What-If” Scenarios for Cloud-hosted Web Applications
  
  Yurong Jiang, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan
  
  ACM SIGCOMM 2016 | July 2016
  
  Publication Project
- uLink: Enabling user-defined deep linking to app content
  
  Tanzirul Azim, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath
  
  14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '16) | June 2016
  
  Publication Project
- Domino: Understanding Wide-Area, Asynchronous Event Causality in Web Applications
  
  Ding Li, James Mickens, Suman Nath, Lenin Ravindranath
  
  ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing conference (SOCC) | August 2015
  
  Publication
- MAdScope: Characterizing Mobile In-App Targeted Ads
  
  Suman Nath
  
  International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'15) | May 2015
  
  Publication Publication
- My OS ought to know me better: In-app behavioural analytics as an OS service
  
  Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath
  
  Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | May 2015
  
  Publication
- Bloom Cookies: Web Search Personalization without User Tracking
  
  Nitesh Mor, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, John Kubiatowicz
  
  Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '15) | February 2015
  
  Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '15)
  
  Publication
- How to Smash the Next Billion Mobile App Bugs?
  
  Ranveer Chandra, Börje F. Karlsson, Nicholas D. Lane, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Suman Nath, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Feng Zhao
  
  ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications | January 2015, Vol 19(1)
  
  Publication Project
- Per-App Profiles with AppFork: The Security of Two Phones with the Convenience of One
  
  Temitope Oluwafemi, Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Franziska Roesner, Suman Nath, Tadayoshi Kohno
  
  MSR-TR-2014-153 | December 2014
  
  Publication
- Brahmastra: Driving Apps to Test the Security of Third-Party Components
  
  Ravi Bhoraskar, Seungyeop Han, Jinseong Jeon, Tanzirul Azim, Shuo Chen, Suman Nath, Rui Wang, David Wetherall, Jaeyeon Jung
  
  USENIX Security Symposium | August 2014
  
  Publication
- Supporting Distributed Feed-Following Apps over Edge Devices
  
  Badrish Chandramouli, Suman Nath, Wenchao Zhou
  
  International Conference on Very Large Databases | August 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Automatic and Scalable Fault Detection for Mobile Applications
  
  Suman Nath, Jitu Padhye, Hari Balakrishnan, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam
  
  The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) | June 2014
  
  Publication Project Project
- PUMA: Programmable UI-Automation for Large Scale Dynamic Analysis of Mobile Apps
  
  Shuai Hao, Bin Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan, William G.J. Halfond
  
  The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) | June 2014
  
  Publication
- DECAF: Detecting and Characterizing Ad Fraud in Mobile Apps
  
  Bin Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan, Jie Liu
  
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) | January 2014
  
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
  
  Publication
- ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing
  
  Suman Nath
  
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing | August 2013, pp. 16
  
  Volume 12, Issue 8
  
  Publication
- PACMan: Performance Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation
  
  Alan Roytman, Aman Kansal, Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Suman Nath
  
  10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) | June 2013
  
  Publication
- Prefetching Mobile Ads: Can advertising systems afford it?
  
  Prashanth Mohan, Suman Nath, Oriana Riva
  
  Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '13) | April 2013
  
  Publication
- Publicly Verifiable Grouped Aggregation Queries on Outsourced Data Streams
  
  Suman Nath, Ramarathnam Venkatesan
  
  ICDE'13: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering | April 2013
  
  Publication Publication
- Algorithm Design for Performance Aware VM Consolidation
  
  Alan Roytman, Aman Kansal, Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Suman Nath
  
  MSR-TR-2013-28 | March 2013
  
  Publication
- Generic and efficient framework for search trees on flash memory storage systems
  
  Xun Zhou, Suman Nath
  
  GeoInformatica | January 2013, Vol 17: pp. 417-448
  
  Publication
- SmartAds: Bringing Contextual Ads to Mobile Apps
  
  Suman Nath, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Jitu Padhye
  
  The 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems (MobiSys'13) | January 2013
  
  Publication Publication Project
- SPADE: Scalable App Digging with Binary Instrumentation and Automated Execution
  
  Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Suman Nath, Jie Liu
  
  MSR-TR-2013-126 | January 2013
  
  Publication
- Privacy-Aware Personalization for Mobile Advertising
  
  Michaela Hardt, Suman Nath
  
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) | October 2012
  
  Publication
- ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing
  
  Suman Nath
  
  MobiSys'12: The 10th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Best Paper Award) | June 2012
  
  Best Paper Award.
  
  Publication Publication
- MASKIT: Privately Releasing User Context Streams for Personalized Mobile Applications
  
  Michaela Goetz, Suman Nath, Johannes Gehrke
  
  SIGMOD'12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | May 2012
  
  Publication
- RACE: Real-time Applications over Cloud-Edge
  
  Badrish Chandramouli, Joris Claessens, Suman Nath, Ivo Santos, Wenchao Zhou
  
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2012) | May 2012
  
  Publication Project
- FAST: A Generic Framework for Flash-Aware Spatial Trees
  
  Xun Zhou, Suman Nath
  
  SSTD'11: 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases | August 2011
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- ThermoCast: A Cyber-Physical Forecasting Model for Data Centers
  
  Lei Li, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Andreas Terzis, Christos Faloutsos
  
  KDD (ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) | August 2011
  
  Publication
- Group-by Query Verification by Untrusted Clients on Outsourced Data Streams
  
  Suman Nath, Ramarathnam Venkatesan
  
  MSR-TR-2011-104 | July 2011
  
  Publication
- Fuzzy Prophet: Parameter exploration in uncertain enterprise scenarios
  
  Oliver Kennedy, Steve Lee, Charles Loboz, Slawek Smyl, Suman Nath
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data | January 2011
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data
  
  Publication
- Jigsaw: Efficient optimization over uncertain enterprise data
  
  Oliver Kennedy, Suman Nath
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2011
  
  Publication
- Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory
  
  Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  CIDR'11: 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research | January 2011
  
  Publication Publication
- Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality
  
  Alexandra Meliou, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Suman Nath, Dan Suciu
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2011
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  
  Publication
- Privacy-aware Regression Modelling of Participatory Sensing Data
  
  Hossein Ahmadi, Nam Pham, Tarek Abdelzaher, Suman Nath, Jiawei Han, Raghu Ganti
  
  SenSys'10: The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems | November 2010
  
  Publication Project
- Subjective Sensing: Mission Statement and A Research Agenda
  
  Jie Liu, Michel Goraczko, Aman Kansal, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Suman Nath, Bodhi Priyantha
  
  MSR-TR-2010-108 | July 2010
  
  Publication
- On-line Sensing Task Optimization for Shared Sensors
  
  Arsalan Tavakoli, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath
  
  IPSN 2010 | April 2010
  
  Publication
- DataGarage: Warehousing Massive Performance Data on Commodity Servers
  
  Charles Loboz, Slawek Smyl, Suman Nath
  
  VLDB'10: The 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases | January 2010
  
  VLDB'10: The 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
  
  Publication Publication
- Fast Approximate Correlation for Massive Time-series Data
  
  Abdullah Mueen, Suman Nath, Jie Liu
  
  SIGMOD '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2010
  
  Publication Publication
- Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage
  
  Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons
  
  VLDB Journal, vol. 19, issue 1 | January 2010, Vol 19(1)
  
  Special Issue for VLDB 2008 Best Papers
  
  Publication
- PR-Join: A Non-Blocking Join Achieving Higher Early Result Rate with Statistical Guarantees
  
  Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  SIGMOD '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2010
  
  Publication
- Privacy-Preserving Reconstruction of Multidimensional Data Maps in Vehicular Participatory Sensing
  
  Nam Pham Duc, Raghu Kiran Ganti, Md. Yusuf S Uddin, Suman Nath, Tarek Abdelzaher
  
  EWSN '2010: 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks | January 2010
  
  Publication Project
- SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing
  
  Suman Nath
  
  US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC) | January 2010
  
  Publication
- Differentially Private Aggregation of Distributed Time-Series with Transformation and Encryption
  
  Vibhor Rastogi, Suman Nath
  
  MSR-TR-2009-186 | November 2009
  
  Publication
- Instrumenting the Earth: Next-Generation Sensor Networks and Environmental Science
  
  Michael Lehning, Nicholas Dawes, Mathias Bavay, Marc Parlange, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery | Published by Microsoft Research | 2009 | The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery edition
  
  Publication Project
- Managing Massive Time Series Streams with Multi-Scale Compressed Trickles
  
  Galen Reeves, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  VLDB '2009: Proceedings of 35th Conference on Very Large Data Bases | August 2009
  
  VLDB '2009: Proceedings of 35th Conference on Very Large Data Bases
  
  Publication
- Cypress: Managing Massive Time Series Streams with MultiScale Compressed Trickles
  
  Galen Reeves, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  MSR-TR-2009-79 | June 2009
  
  Publication
- Energy Efficient Sensor Data Logging with Amnesic Flash Storage
  
  Suman Nath
  
  IPSN'09: Information Processing in Sensor Networks | January 2009
  
  IPSN'09: Information Processing in Sensor Networks
  
  Publication
- Environmental Monitoring 2.0 (Demonstration)
  
  K. Ashwin Kumar, Suman Nath, Marc Parlange, Stewart Tansley, Sebastian Michel, Ali Salehi, Liqian Luo, Nicholas Dawes, Karl Aberer, Guillermo Barrenetxea, Mathias Bavay, Aman Kansal, Catharine van Ingen, Feng Zhao, Yongluan Zhou
  
  25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) | January 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Evaluation of Range Nearest-Neighbor Queries with Quality Guarantee
  
  Chi-Yin Chow, Joe Nap, Suman Nath
  
  The 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) | January 2009
  
  Publication Project
- GAMPS: Compressing Multi Sensor Data by Grouping and Amplitude Scaling
  
  Sorabh Gandhi, Suman Nath, Subhash Suri, Jie Liu
  
  ACM SIGMOD | January 2009
  
  ACM SIGMOD
  
  Publication Publication
- Secure Outsourced Aggregation via One-way Chains
  
  Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Haowen Chan
  
  ACM SIGMOD | January 2009
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Unleash Stranded Power in Data Centers with Rack Packing
  
  Lakshmi Ganesh, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Galen Reeves, Feng Zhao
  
  MSR-TR-2009-21 | January 2009
  
  Publication
- Unleash Stranded Power in Data Centers with RackPacker
  
  Lakshmi Ganesh, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (in conjunction with ISCA) | January 2009
  
  Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (in conjunction with ISCA)
  
  Publication
- SenseWeb: Sharing and Browsing Environmental Changes in Real Time
  
  Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  December 2008
  
  Microsoft eScience Workshop
  
  Publication Project
- Sharing and Exploring Sensor Streams over Geocentric Interfaces
  
  Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS) | November 2008
  
  Publication Project
- COLR-Tree: Communication Efficient Spatio-Temporal Index for a Sensor Data Web Portal
  
  Yanif Ahmad, Suman Nath
  
  ICDE'08: 24th International Conference on Data Engineering | January 2008
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Project
- Energy-Aware Server Provisioning and Load Dispatching For Connection-Intensive Internet Services
  
  Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas Rigas, Lin Xiao, Feng Zhao
  
  NSDI'08: Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation | January 2008
  
  NSDI'08: Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
  
  ISBN: 111-999-5555-22-1
  
  Publication
- SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing
  
  Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao
  
  IEEE MultiMedia | October 2007, Vol 14: pp. 8–13
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Communicating via Fireflies: Geographic Routing on Duty-Cycled Sensors
  
  Suman Nath
  
  MSR-TR-2007-21 | February 2007
  
  Publication
- On the Work Function Algorithm for two state task
  
  Yossi Azar, Uriel Feige, Suman Nath
  
  MSR-TR-2007-20 | February 2007
  
  Publication
- Data Management in the Worldwide Sensor Web
  
  Magdalena Balazinska, Amol Deshpande, Michael J. Franklin, Phillip B. Gibbons, Jim Gray, Suman Nath, Mark Hansen, Michael Liebhold, Alexander Szalay, Vincent Tao
  
  IEEE Pervasive Computing | January 2007, Vol 6: pp. 30-40
  
  Publication
- FlashDB: dynamic self-tuning database for NAND flash
  
  Suman Nath, Aman Kansal
  
  IPSN '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks | January 2007
  
  IPSN '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
  
  ISBN: 978-1-59593-638-X
  
  Publication
- SensorMap for Wide-Area Sensor Webs
  
  Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao
  
  IEEE Computer | January 2007, Vol 40: pp. 90-93
  
  Publication Project
- FlashDB: Dynamic Self-tuning Database for NAND Flash
  
  Suman Nath, Aman Kansal
  
  MSR-TR-2006-168 | November 2006
  
  Publication
- Availability of multi-object operations
  
  Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  NSDI'06: Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation | January 2006
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- Challenges in Building a Portal for Sensors World-Wide
  
  Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao
  
  First Workshop on World-Sensor-Web (co-located with SenSys) | January 2006
  
  First Workshop on World-Sensor-Web (co-located with SenSys)
  
  Publication
- SenseWeb: Browsing the Physical World in Real Time (Demo Abstract)
  
  Andre Santanche, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, Feng Zhao
  
  IPSN'06: ACM/IEEE Information Processing in Sensor Networks | January 2006
  
  Publication
- Subtleties in Tolerating Correlated Failures in Wide-area Storage Systems
  
  Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  NSDI'06: Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation | January 2006
  
  Publication
- Adaptive data placement for wide-area sensing services
  
  Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  FAST'05: Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies | January 2005
  
  FAST'05: Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
  
  Publication
- Database-centric Programming for Wide-area Sensor Systems
  
  Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  DCOSS'05: First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems | January 2005
  
  DCOSS'05: First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
  
  Publication
- Exploiting redundancy for robust sensing
  
  Suman Nath
  
  January 2005
  
  PhD Thesis: Carnegie Mellon University | January 2005
  
  ISBN: 0-542-54153-X
  
  Adviser-Srinivasan Seshan
  
  Publication
- IrisNet: an internet-scale architecture for multimedia sensors
  
  Jason Campbell, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath, Padmanabhan Pillai, Srinivasan Seshan, Rahul Sukthankar
  
  MULTIMEDIA '05: Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia | January 2005
  
  ISBN: 1-59593-044-2
  
  Publication
- Tributaries and deltas: efficient and robust aggregation in sensor network streams
  
  Amit Manjhi, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons
  
  SIGMOD '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2005
  
  ISBN: 1-59593-060-4
  
  Publication
- A Distributed Filtering Architecture for Multimedia Sensors
  
  Suman Nath, Yan Ke, Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  BaseNets'04: First Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks | January 2004
  
  Awarded Best Paper!
  
  Publication
- Beyond Availability: Towards a Deeper Understanding of Machine Failure Characteristics in Large Distributed Systems
  
  Praveen Yalagandula, Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  WORLDS'04: First Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems | January 2004
  
  Publication
- Choosing beacon periods to improve response times for wireless HTTP clients
  
  Suman Nath, Zachary Anderson, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  MobiWac '04: Proceedings of the second international workshop on Mobility management & wireless access protocols | January 2004
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-920-9
  
  Publication Publication
- Synopsis diffusion for robust aggregation in sensor networks
  
  Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan, Zachary R. Anderson
  
  SenSys '04: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems | January 2004
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-879-2
  
  Publication Publication
- Cache-and-query for wide area sensor databases
  
  Amol Deshpande, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  SIGMOD '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | June 2003
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-634-X
  
  Publication Publication
- IrisNet: An Architecture for a Worldwide Sensor Web
  
  Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, Yan Ke, Suman Nath, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  IEEE Pervasive Computing | January 2003, Vol 2: pp. 22-33
  
  Publication
- IrisNet: Internet-scale resource-intensive sensor services (Demo Abstract)
  
  Amol Deshpande, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  SIGMOD '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2003
  
  SIGMOD '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-634-X
  
  Publication
- IrisNet: An Architecture for Compute-Intensive Wide-Area Sensor Network Services
  
  Suman Nath, Amol Deshpande, Yan Ke, Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  IRP-TR-02-10 | December 2002
  
  Intel Research Pittsburgh Technical Report
  
  Publication
- RSVP-SQoS : A Secure RSVP Protocol
  
  Vanish Talwar, Klara Nahrstedt, Suman Nath
  
  ICME'01: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo | August 2001
  
  Publication
- Configuration Caching and Swapping
  
  Suraj Sudhir, Suman Nath, Seth Copen Goldstein
  
  FPL '01: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications | January 2001
  
  ISBN: 3-540-42499-7
  
  Publication

- WebXSkill: Skill Learning for Autonomous Web Agents
  
  Zhaoyang Wang, Qianhui Wu, Xuchao Zhang, Chaoyun Zhang, Wenlin Yao, Fazle Faisal, Baolin Peng, Si Qin, Suman Nath, Qingwei Lin, Chetan Bansal, Dongmei Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan, Jianfeng Gao, Huaxiu Yao
  
  April 2026
  
  Publication
- Algorithm Design for Performance Aware VM Consolidation
  
  Alan Roytman, Aman Kansal, Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Suman Nath
  
  MSR-TR-2013-28 | March 2013
  
  Publication
- Differentially Private Aggregation of Distributed Time-Series with Transformation and Encryption
  
  Vibhor Rastogi, Suman Nath
  
  MSR-TR-2009-186 | November 2009
  
  Publication
- Sharing and Exploring Sensor Streams over Geocentric Interfaces
  
  Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS) | November 2008
  
  Publication Project
- On the Work Function Algorithm for two state task
  
  Yossi Azar, Uriel Feige, Suman Nath
  
  MSR-TR-2007-20 | February 2007
  
  Publication
- Synopsis diffusion for robust aggregation in sensor networks
  
  Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan, Zachary R. Anderson
  
  SenSys '04: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems | January 2004
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-879-2
  
  Publication Publication
- Cache-and-query for wide area sensor databases
  
  Amol Deshpande, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  SIGMOD '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | June 2003
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-634-X
  
  Publication Publication
- WebXSkill: Skill Learning for Autonomous Web Agents
  
  Zhaoyang Wang, Qianhui Wu, Xuchao Zhang, Chaoyun Zhang, Wenlin Yao, Fazle Faisal, Baolin Peng, Si Qin, Suman Nath, Qingwei Lin, Chetan Bansal, Dongmei Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan, Jianfeng Gao, Huaxiu Yao
  
  April 2026
  
  Publication
- The Tool Illusion: Rethinking Tool Use in Web Agents
  
  Renze Lou, Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Qianhui Wu, Hao Cheng, Suman Nath, Wenpeng Yin, Jianfeng Gao
  
  April 2026
  
  Publication
- AgentRx: Diagnosing AI Agent Failures from Execution Trajectories
  
  Shraddha Barke, Arnav Goyal, Alind Khare, Avaljot Singh, Suman Nath, Chetan Bansal
  
  February 2026
  
  Preprint
- Generative Caching for Structurally Similar Prompts and Responses
  
  Sarthak Chakraborty, Suman Nath, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Indranil Gupta
  
  NeurIPS 2025 | November 2025
  
  Preprint
- Dyna-Mind: Learning to Simulate from Experience for Better AI Agents
  
  Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Hao Cheng, Qianhui Wu, Janardhan Kulkarni, Suman Nath, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Under review as a conference paper at ICLR 2026
  
  Publication
- Building AI Agents for Autonomous Clouds: Challenges and Design Principles
  
  Manisha M Shetty, Yinfang Chen, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma, Yogesh L. Simmhan, Xuchao Zhang, Jonathan Mace, Pedro Las-Casas, Shachee Mishra Gupta, Suman Nath, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan
  
  2024 Symposium on Cloud Computing | November 2024
  
  Publication
- Detection Is Better Than Cure: A Cloud Incidents Perspective
  
  A. Parayil, Supriyo GHOSH, Yu Kang, Minghua Ma, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Jonathan Mace, Vaibhav Ganatra
  
  ESEC/FSE 2023: Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2023
  
  Publication
- DeepAnalyze: Learning to Localize Crashes at Scale
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Sean Bowles, Henry Wang, Ozgur Arman, Siamak Ahari
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Project
- The Tool Illusion: Rethinking Tool Use in Web Agents
  
  Renze Lou, Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Qianhui Wu, Hao Cheng, Suman Nath, Wenpeng Yin, Jianfeng Gao
  
  April 2026
  
  Publication
- AgentRx: Diagnosing AI Agent Failures from Execution Trajectories
  
  Shraddha Barke, Arnav Goyal, Alind Khare, Avaljot Singh, Suman Nath, Chetan Bansal
  
  February 2026
  
  Preprint
- Fidelity of Cloud Emulators: The Imitation Game of Testing Cloud-based Software
  
  Anna Mazhar , Saad Sher Alam , William Zheng , Yinfang Chen , Suman Nath, Tianyin Xu
  
  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | April 2025
  
  Publication
- Building AI Agents for Autonomous Clouds: Challenges and Design Principles
  
  Manisha M Shetty, Yinfang Chen, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma, Yogesh L. Simmhan, Xuchao Zhang, Jonathan Mace, Pedro Las-Casas, Shachee Mishra Gupta, Suman Nath, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan
  
  2024 Symposium on Cloud Computing | November 2024
  
  Publication
- Detection Is Better Than Cure: A Cloud Incidents Perspective
  
  A. Parayil, Supriyo GHOSH, Yu Kang, Minghua Ma, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Jonathan Mace, Vaibhav Ganatra
  
  ESEC/FSE 2023: Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2023
  
  Publication
- FlakeRepro: Automated and Efficient Reproduction of Concurrency-Related Flaky Tests
  
  Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Xiang Ren , Suman Nath
  
  ESEC/FSE | November 2022
  
  Publication Project
- How to Fight Production Incidents? An Empirical Study on a Large-scale Cloud Service
  
  Supriyo GHOSH, Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath
  
  SoCC 2022 | November 2022
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication PDF Project
- DeepAnalyze: Learning to Localize Crashes at Scale
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Sean Bowles, Henry Wang, Ozgur Arman, Siamak Ahari
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Project
- SherLock: Unsupervised Synchronization-Operation Inference
  
  Guangpu Li, Dongjie Chen, Shan Lu, Madanlal Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | April 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Causality-Guided Adaptive Interventional Debugging
  
  Anna Fariha, Suman Nath, Alexandra Meliou
  
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data | June 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Efficient and Scalable Thread-Safety Violation Detection —- Finding thousands of concurrency bugs during testing
  
  Guangpu Li, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath, Rohan Padhye
  
  ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) | October 2019
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Project
- Root Causing Flaky Tests in a Large-Scale Industrial Setting
  
  Wing Lam, Patrice Godefroid (pg), Suman Nath, Anirudh Santhiar, Suresh Thummalapenta
  
  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) | July 2019
  
  Publication Project
- Elix: Path-selective taint analysis for extracting mobile app links
  
  Yongjian Hu, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, Iulian Neamtiu
  
  17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '19) | June 2019
  
  Publication Project
- Prefetching Mobile Ads: Can advertising systems afford it?
  
  Prashanth Mohan, Suman Nath, Oriana Riva
  
  Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '13) | April 2013
  
  Publication
- Availability of multi-object operations
  
  Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  NSDI'06: Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation | January 2006
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- Challenges in Building a Portal for Sensors World-Wide
  
  Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao
  
  First Workshop on World-Sensor-Web (co-located with SenSys) | January 2006
  
  First Workshop on World-Sensor-Web (co-located with SenSys)
  
  Publication
- RSVP-SQoS : A Secure RSVP Protocol
  
  Vanish Talwar, Klara Nahrstedt, Suman Nath
  
  ICME'01: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo | August 2001
  
  Publication
- Configuration Caching and Swapping
  
  Suraj Sudhir, Suman Nath, Seth Copen Goldstein
  
  FPL '01: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications | January 2001
  
  ISBN: 3-540-42499-7
  
  Publication
- Software Managed Networks via Coarsening
  
  Pradeep Dogga, Rachee Singh, Suman Nath, Ravi Netravali, Jens Palsberg, George Varghese
  
  ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets) | November 2025
  
  Publication
- Generative Caching for Structurally Similar Prompts and Responses
  
  Sarthak Chakraborty, Suman Nath, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Indranil Gupta
  
  NeurIPS 2025 | November 2025
  
  Preprint
- Deriving Semantic Checkers from Tests to Detect Silent Failures in Production Distributed Systems
  
  Chang Lou, Dimas Shidqi Parikesit, Yujin Huang, Zhewen Yang, Senapati Diwangkara, Yuzhuo Jing, Achmad Imam Kistijantoro, Ding Yuan, Suman Nath, Peng Huang
  
  OSDI'25: 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation | July 2025
  
  Publication
- ReproCopilot: LLM-Driven Failure Reproduction with Dynamic Refinement
  
  Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Fazle Faisal, Suman Nath
  
  FSE'25: International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering | June 2025
  
  Publication
- WABER: Evaluating Reliability and Efficiency of Web Agents with Existing Benchmarks
  
  Su Kara, Fazle Faisal, Suman Nath
  
  ICLR 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild | April 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- Fidelity of Cloud Emulators: The Imitation Game of Testing Cloud-based Software
  
  Anna Mazhar , Saad Sher Alam , William Zheng , Yinfang Chen , Suman Nath, Tianyin Xu
  
  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | April 2025
  
  Publication
- Building AI Agents for Autonomous Clouds: Challenges and Design Principles
  
  Manisha M Shetty, Yinfang Chen, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma, Yogesh L. Simmhan, Xuchao Zhang, Jonathan Mace, Pedro Las-Casas, Shachee Mishra Gupta, Suman Nath, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan
  
  2024 Symposium on Cloud Computing | November 2024
  
  Publication
- If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try, Again…? Insights and LLM-informed Tooling for Detecting Retry Bugs in Software Systems
  
  Bogdan Alexandru Stoica, Utsav Sethi , Yiming Su , Cyrus Zhou, Shan Lu, Jonathan Mace, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  ACM SOSP 2024 | November 2024
  
  Publication
- Efficient Reproduction of Fault-Induced Failures in Distributed Systems with Feedback-Driven Fault Injection
  
  Jia Pan, Haoze Wu , Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Suman Nath, Peng Huang
  
  ACM SOSP 2024 | November 2024
  
  Publication Project
- ExChain: Exception Dependency Analysis for Root Cause Diagnosis
  
  Ao Li, Shan Lu, Suman Nath, Rohan Padhye, Vyas Sekar
  
  USENIX NSDI | April 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Detection Is Better Than Cure: A Cloud Incidents Perspective
  
  A. Parayil, Supriyo GHOSH, Yu Kang, Minghua Ma, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Jonathan Mace, Vaibhav Ganatra
  
  ESEC/FSE 2023: Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2023
  
  Publication
- AutoARTS: Taxonomy, Insights and Tools for Root Cause Labelling of Incidents in Microsoft Azure
  
  Pradeep Dogga, Chetan Bansal, Richard Costleigh, Gopinath Jayagopal, Suman Nath, Xuchao Zhang
  
  2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference | July 2023
  
  Publication Project
- HotGPT: How to Make Software Documentation More Useful with a Large Language Model?
  
  Yiming Su, Chengcheng Wan, Utsav Sethi, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | June 2023
  
  Publication
- Generating Test Databases for Database-Backed Applications
  
  Cong Yan, Suman Nath, Shan Lu
  
  ICSE'23 | May 2023
  
  Publication Project
- WAFFLE: Exposing Memory Ordering Bugs Efficiently with Active Delay Injection
  
  Bogdan Alexandru Stoica, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  EuroSys'23 | May 2023
  
  Publication Project
- Push-Button Reliability Testing for Cloud-Backed Applications with Rainmaker
  
  Yinfang Chen, Xudong Sun, Suman Nath, Ze Yang, Tianyin Xu
  
  NSDI'23 | April 2023
  
  Publication Project
- How to Fight Production Incidents? An Empirical Study on a Large-scale Cloud Service
  
  Supriyo GHOSH, Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath
  
  SoCC 2022 | November 2022
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Cancellation in Systems: An Empirical Study of Task Cancellation Patterns and Failures
  
  Utsav Sethi, Haochen Pan, Shan Lu, Suman Nath, Madan Musuvathi
  
  OSDI | June 2022
  
  Publication Project
- DeepAnalyze: Learning to Localize Crashes at Scale
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Sean Bowles, Henry Wang, Ozgur Arman, Siamak Ahari
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Project
- Efficient and Scalable Thread-Safety Violation Detection —- Finding thousands of concurrency bugs during testing
  
  Guangpu Li, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath, Rohan Padhye
  
  ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) | October 2019
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Project
- Root Causing Flaky Tests in a Large-Scale Industrial Setting
  
  Wing Lam, Patrice Godefroid (pg), Suman Nath, Anirudh Santhiar, Suresh Thummalapenta
  
  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) | July 2019
  
  Publication Project
- Elix: Path-selective taint analysis for extracting mobile app links
  
  Yongjian Hu, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, Iulian Neamtiu
  
  17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '19) | June 2019
  
  Publication Project
- What bugs cause production cloud incidents?
  
  Haopeng Liu, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | May 2019
  
  Publication Project
- Troubleshooting Transiently-Recurring Errors in Production Systems with Blame-Proportional Logging
  
  Liang Luo, Suman Nath, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Madan Musuvathi, Luis Ceze
  
  USENIX Annual Technical Conference | July 2018
  
  Publication Project
- Gnome: A Practical Approach to NLOS Mitigation for GPS Positioning in Smartphones
  
  Xiaochen Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan
  
  ACM MobiSys | June 2018
  
  Publication
- FlashBlox: Achieving Both Performance Isolation and Uniform Lifetime for Virtualized SSDs
  
  Jian Huang, Anirudh Badam, Laura Caulfield, Suman Nath, Sudipta Sengupta, Bikash Sharma, Moinuddin K. Qureshi
  
  Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'17) | February 2017
  
  Publication Publication Project
- GeoTrend: Spatial Trending Queries on Real-time Microblogs
  
  Amr Magdy, Ahmed M. Aly, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, Suman Nath, Walid G. Aref
  
  ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | October 2016
  
  Publication
- uLink: User-defined Deep Links in Mobile Apps
  
  Tanzirul Azim, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath
  
  GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications | October 2016, Vol 20(4): pp. 34-38
  
  Publication Publication Publication Project
- Appstract: On-The-Fly App Content Semantics With Better Privacy
  
  Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath
  
  ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'16) | July 2016
  
  Publication
- MASHaBLE: Mobile Applications of Secret Handshakes over Bluetooth LE
  
  Yan Michalevsky, Suman Nath, Jie Liu
  
  ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'16) | July 2016
  
  Publication
- ALPS: Accurate Landmark Positioning at City Scales
  
  Yitao Hu, Xiaochen Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan
  
  ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016) | July 2016
  
  Publication Publication
- WebPerf: Evaluating “What-If” Scenarios for Cloud-hosted Web Applications
  
  Yurong Jiang, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan
  
  ACM SIGCOMM 2016 | July 2016
  
  Publication Project
- uLink: Enabling user-defined deep linking to app content
  
  Tanzirul Azim, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath
  
  14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '16) | June 2016
  
  Publication Project
- Domino: Understanding Wide-Area, Asynchronous Event Causality in Web Applications
  
  Ding Li, James Mickens, Suman Nath, Lenin Ravindranath
  
  ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing conference (SOCC) | August 2015
  
  Publication
- MAdScope: Characterizing Mobile In-App Targeted Ads
  
  Suman Nath
  
  International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'15) | May 2015
  
  Publication Publication
- My OS ought to know me better: In-app behavioural analytics as an OS service
  
  Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath
  
  Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | May 2015
  
  Publication
- Bloom Cookies: Web Search Personalization without User Tracking
  
  Nitesh Mor, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, John Kubiatowicz
  
  Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '15) | February 2015
  
  Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '15)
  
  Publication
- How to Smash the Next Billion Mobile App Bugs?
  
  Ranveer Chandra, Börje F. Karlsson, Nicholas D. Lane, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Suman Nath, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Feng Zhao
  
  ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications | January 2015, Vol 19(1)
  
  Publication Project
- Brahmastra: Driving Apps to Test the Security of Third-Party Components
  
  Ravi Bhoraskar, Seungyeop Han, Jinseong Jeon, Tanzirul Azim, Shuo Chen, Suman Nath, Rui Wang, David Wetherall, Jaeyeon Jung
  
  USENIX Security Symposium | August 2014
  
  Publication
- PUMA: Programmable UI-Automation for Large Scale Dynamic Analysis of Mobile Apps
  
  Shuai Hao, Bin Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan, William G.J. Halfond
  
  The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) | June 2014
  
  Publication
- Automatic and Scalable Fault Detection for Mobile Applications
  
  Suman Nath, Jitu Padhye, Hari Balakrishnan, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam
  
  The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) | June 2014
  
  Publication Project Project
- DECAF: Detecting and Characterizing Ad Fraud in Mobile Apps
  
  Bin Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan, Jie Liu
  
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) | January 2014
  
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
  
  Publication
- ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing
  
  Suman Nath
  
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing | August 2013, pp. 16
  
  Volume 12, Issue 8
  
  Publication
- PACMan: Performance Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation
  
  Alan Roytman, Aman Kansal, Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Suman Nath
  
  10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) | June 2013
  
  Publication
- SmartAds: Bringing Contextual Ads to Mobile Apps
  
  Suman Nath, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Jitu Padhye
  
  The 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems (MobiSys'13) | January 2013
  
  Publication Publication Project
- SPADE: Scalable App Digging with Binary Instrumentation and Automated Execution
  
  Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Suman Nath, Jie Liu
  
  MSR-TR-2013-126 | January 2013
  
  Publication
- Privacy-Aware Personalization for Mobile Advertising
  
  Michaela Hardt, Suman Nath
  
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) | October 2012
  
  Publication
- ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing
  
  Suman Nath
  
  MobiSys'12: The 10th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Best Paper Award) | June 2012
  
  Best Paper Award.
  
  Publication Publication
- RACE: Real-time Applications over Cloud-Edge
  
  Badrish Chandramouli, Joris Claessens, Suman Nath, Ivo Santos, Wenchao Zhou
  
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2012) | May 2012
  
  Publication Project
- MASKIT: Privately Releasing User Context Streams for Personalized Mobile Applications
  
  Michaela Goetz, Suman Nath, Johannes Gehrke
  
  SIGMOD'12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | May 2012
  
  Publication
- FAST: A Generic Framework for Flash-Aware Spatial Trees
  
  Xun Zhou, Suman Nath
  
  SSTD'11: 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases | August 2011
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- ThermoCast: A Cyber-Physical Forecasting Model for Data Centers
  
  Lei Li, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Andreas Terzis, Christos Faloutsos
  
  KDD (ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) | August 2011
  
  Publication
- Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory
  
  Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  CIDR'11: 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research | January 2011
  
  Publication Publication
- Fuzzy Prophet: Parameter exploration in uncertain enterprise scenarios
  
  Oliver Kennedy, Steve Lee, Charles Loboz, Slawek Smyl, Suman Nath
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data | January 2011
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data
  
  Publication
- Jigsaw: Efficient optimization over uncertain enterprise data
  
  Oliver Kennedy, Suman Nath
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2011
  
  Publication
- Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality
  
  Alexandra Meliou, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Suman Nath, Dan Suciu
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2011
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  
  Publication
- Privacy-aware Regression Modelling of Participatory Sensing Data
  
  Hossein Ahmadi, Nam Pham, Tarek Abdelzaher, Suman Nath, Jiawei Han, Raghu Ganti
  
  SenSys'10: The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems | November 2010
  
  Publication Project
- Subjective Sensing: Mission Statement and A Research Agenda
  
  Jie Liu, Michel Goraczko, Aman Kansal, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Suman Nath, Bodhi Priyantha
  
  MSR-TR-2010-108 | July 2010
  
  Publication
- On-line Sensing Task Optimization for Shared Sensors
  
  Arsalan Tavakoli, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath
  
  IPSN 2010 | April 2010
  
  Publication
- Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage
  
  Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons
  
  VLDB Journal, vol. 19, issue 1 | January 2010, Vol 19(1)
  
  Special Issue for VLDB 2008 Best Papers
  
  Publication
- Privacy-Preserving Reconstruction of Multidimensional Data Maps in Vehicular Participatory Sensing
  
  Nam Pham Duc, Raghu Kiran Ganti, Md. Yusuf S Uddin, Suman Nath, Tarek Abdelzaher
  
  EWSN '2010: 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks | January 2010
  
  Publication Project
- Fast Approximate Correlation for Massive Time-series Data
  
  Abdullah Mueen, Suman Nath, Jie Liu
  
  SIGMOD '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2010
  
  Publication Publication
- PR-Join: A Non-Blocking Join Achieving Higher Early Result Rate with Statistical Guarantees
  
  Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  SIGMOD '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2010
  
  Publication
- DataGarage: Warehousing Massive Performance Data on Commodity Servers
  
  Charles Loboz, Slawek Smyl, Suman Nath
  
  VLDB'10: The 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases | January 2010
  
  VLDB'10: The 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
  
  Publication Publication
- Instrumenting the Earth: Next-Generation Sensor Networks and Environmental Science
  
  Michael Lehning, Nicholas Dawes, Mathias Bavay, Marc Parlange, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery | Published by Microsoft Research | 2009 | The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery edition
  
  Publication Project
- Managing Massive Time Series Streams with Multi-Scale Compressed Trickles
  
  Galen Reeves, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  VLDB '2009: Proceedings of 35th Conference on Very Large Data Bases | August 2009
  
  VLDB '2009: Proceedings of 35th Conference on Very Large Data Bases
  
  Publication
- Cypress: Managing Massive Time Series Streams with MultiScale Compressed Trickles
  
  Galen Reeves, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  MSR-TR-2009-79 | June 2009
  
  Publication
- Energy Efficient Sensor Data Logging with Amnesic Flash Storage
  
  Suman Nath
  
  IPSN'09: Information Processing in Sensor Networks | January 2009
  
  IPSN'09: Information Processing in Sensor Networks
  
  Publication
- GAMPS: Compressing Multi Sensor Data by Grouping and Amplitude Scaling
  
  Sorabh Gandhi, Suman Nath, Subhash Suri, Jie Liu
  
  ACM SIGMOD | January 2009
  
  ACM SIGMOD
  
  Publication Publication
- Secure Outsourced Aggregation via One-way Chains
  
  Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Haowen Chan
  
  ACM SIGMOD | January 2009
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Evaluation of Range Nearest-Neighbor Queries with Quality Guarantee
  
  Chi-Yin Chow, Joe Nap, Suman Nath
  
  The 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) | January 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Unleash Stranded Power in Data Centers with RackPacker
  
  Lakshmi Ganesh, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (in conjunction with ISCA) | January 2009
  
  Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (in conjunction with ISCA)
  
  Publication
- SenseWeb: Sharing and Browsing Environmental Changes in Real Time
  
  Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  December 2008
  
  Microsoft eScience Workshop
  
  Publication Project
- COLR-Tree: Communication Efficient Spatio-Temporal Index for a Sensor Data Web Portal
  
  Yanif Ahmad, Suman Nath
  
  ICDE'08: 24th International Conference on Data Engineering | January 2008
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Project
- Energy-Aware Server Provisioning and Load Dispatching For Connection-Intensive Internet Services
  
  Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas Rigas, Lin Xiao, Feng Zhao
  
  NSDI'08: Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation | January 2008
  
  NSDI'08: Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
  
  ISBN: 111-999-5555-22-1
  
  Publication
- SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing
  
  Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao
  
  IEEE MultiMedia | October 2007, Vol 14: pp. 8–13
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Communicating via Fireflies: Geographic Routing on Duty-Cycled Sensors
  
  Suman Nath
  
  MSR-TR-2007-21 | February 2007
  
  Publication
- FlashDB: dynamic self-tuning database for NAND flash
  
  Suman Nath, Aman Kansal
  
  IPSN '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks | January 2007
  
  IPSN '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
  
  ISBN: 978-1-59593-638-X
  
  Publication
- FlashDB: Dynamic Self-tuning Database for NAND Flash
  
  Suman Nath, Aman Kansal
  
  MSR-TR-2006-168 | November 2006
  
  Publication
- Subtleties in Tolerating Correlated Failures in Wide-area Storage Systems
  
  Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  NSDI'06: Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation | January 2006
  
  Publication
- SenseWeb: Browsing the Physical World in Real Time (Demo Abstract)
  
  Andre Santanche, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, Feng Zhao
  
  IPSN'06: ACM/IEEE Information Processing in Sensor Networks | January 2006
  
  Publication
- Challenges in Building a Portal for Sensors World-Wide
  
  Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao
  
  First Workshop on World-Sensor-Web (co-located with SenSys) | January 2006
  
  First Workshop on World-Sensor-Web (co-located with SenSys)
  
  Publication
- IrisNet: an internet-scale architecture for multimedia sensors
  
  Jason Campbell, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath, Padmanabhan Pillai, Srinivasan Seshan, Rahul Sukthankar
  
  MULTIMEDIA '05: Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia | January 2005
  
  ISBN: 1-59593-044-2
  
  Publication
- Database-centric Programming for Wide-area Sensor Systems
  
  Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  DCOSS'05: First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems | January 2005
  
  DCOSS'05: First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
  
  Publication
- Exploiting redundancy for robust sensing
  
  Suman Nath
  
  January 2005
  
  PhD Thesis: Carnegie Mellon University | January 2005
  
  ISBN: 0-542-54153-X
  
  Adviser-Srinivasan Seshan
  
  Publication
- Adaptive data placement for wide-area sensing services
  
  Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  FAST'05: Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies | January 2005
  
  FAST'05: Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
  
  Publication
- Choosing beacon periods to improve response times for wireless HTTP clients
  
  Suman Nath, Zachary Anderson, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  MobiWac '04: Proceedings of the second international workshop on Mobility management & wireless access protocols | January 2004
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-920-9
  
  Publication Publication
- Synopsis diffusion for robust aggregation in sensor networks
  
  Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan, Zachary R. Anderson
  
  SenSys '04: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems | January 2004
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-879-2
  
  Publication Publication
- Beyond Availability: Towards a Deeper Understanding of Machine Failure Characteristics in Large Distributed Systems
  
  Praveen Yalagandula, Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  WORLDS'04: First Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems | January 2004
  
  Publication
- IrisNet: Internet-scale resource-intensive sensor services (Demo Abstract)
  
  Amol Deshpande, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  SIGMOD '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2003
  
  SIGMOD '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-634-X
  
  Publication
- IrisNet: An Architecture for a Worldwide Sensor Web
  
  Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, Yan Ke, Suman Nath, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  IEEE Pervasive Computing | January 2003, Vol 2: pp. 22-33
  
  Publication
- IrisNet: An Architecture for Compute-Intensive Wide-Area Sensor Network Services
  
  Suman Nath, Amol Deshpande, Yan Ke, Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  IRP-TR-02-10 | December 2002
  
  Intel Research Pittsburgh Technical Report
  
  Publication
- Generating Test Databases for Database-Backed Applications
  
  Cong Yan, Suman Nath, Shan Lu
  
  ICSE'23 | May 2023
  
  Publication Project
- Causality-Guided Adaptive Interventional Debugging
  
  Anna Fariha, Suman Nath, Alexandra Meliou
  
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data | June 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Local trend discovery on real-time microblogs with uncertain locations in tight memory environments
  
  Abdulaziz Almaslukh, Amr Magdy, Ahmed M. Aly, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, Suman Nath, Walid G. Aref
  
  GeoInformatica | February 2020, Vol 24(2)
  
  Publication
- GeoTrend: Spatial Trending Queries on Real-time Microblogs
  
  Amr Magdy, Ahmed M. Aly, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, Suman Nath, Walid G. Aref
  
  ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | October 2016
  
  Publication
- Supporting Distributed Feed-Following Apps over Edge Devices
  
  Badrish Chandramouli, Suman Nath, Wenchao Zhou
  
  International Conference on Very Large Databases | August 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Publicly Verifiable Grouped Aggregation Queries on Outsourced Data Streams
  
  Suman Nath, Ramarathnam Venkatesan
  
  ICDE'13: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering | April 2013
  
  Publication Publication
- Generic and efficient framework for search trees on flash memory storage systems
  
  Xun Zhou, Suman Nath
  
  GeoInformatica | January 2013, Vol 17: pp. 417-448
  
  Publication
- Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory
  
  Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  CIDR'11: 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research | January 2011
  
  Publication Publication
- Data Management in the Worldwide Sensor Web
  
  Magdalena Balazinska, Amol Deshpande, Michael J. Franklin, Phillip B. Gibbons, Jim Gray, Suman Nath, Mark Hansen, Michael Liebhold, Alexander Szalay, Vincent Tao
  
  IEEE Pervasive Computing | January 2007, Vol 6: pp. 30-40
  
  Publication
- SensorMap for Wide-Area Sensor Webs
  
  Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao
  
  IEEE Computer | January 2007, Vol 40: pp. 90-93
  
  Publication Project
- SenseWeb: Browsing the Physical World in Real Time (Demo Abstract)
  
  Andre Santanche, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, Feng Zhao
  
  IPSN'06: ACM/IEEE Information Processing in Sensor Networks | January 2006
  
  Publication
- Tributaries and deltas: efficient and robust aggregation in sensor network streams
  
  Amit Manjhi, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons
  
  SIGMOD '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2005
  
  ISBN: 1-59593-060-4
  
  Publication
- IrisNet: An Architecture for Compute-Intensive Wide-Area Sensor Network Services
  
  Suman Nath, Amol Deshpande, Yan Ke, Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  IRP-TR-02-10 | December 2002
  
  Intel Research Pittsburgh Technical Report
  
  Publication
- Bloom Cookies: Web Search Personalization without User Tracking
  
  Nitesh Mor, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, John Kubiatowicz
  
  Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '15) | February 2015
  
  Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '15)
  
  Publication
- Per-App Profiles with AppFork: The Security of Two Phones with the Convenience of One
  
  Temitope Oluwafemi, Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Franziska Roesner, Suman Nath, Tadayoshi Kohno
  
  MSR-TR-2014-153 | December 2014
  
  Publication
- Brahmastra: Driving Apps to Test the Security of Third-Party Components
  
  Ravi Bhoraskar, Seungyeop Han, Jinseong Jeon, Tanzirul Azim, Shuo Chen, Suman Nath, Rui Wang, David Wetherall, Jaeyeon Jung
  
  USENIX Security Symposium | August 2014
  
  Publication
- MASKIT: Privately Releasing User Context Streams for Personalized Mobile Applications
  
  Michaela Goetz, Suman Nath, Johannes Gehrke
  
  SIGMOD'12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | May 2012
  
  Publication
- Group-by Query Verification by Untrusted Clients on Outsourced Data Streams
  
  Suman Nath, Ramarathnam Venkatesan
  
  MSR-TR-2011-104 | July 2011
  
  Publication
- Supporting Distributed Feed-Following Apps over Edge Devices
  
  Badrish Chandramouli, Suman Nath, Wenchao Zhou
  
  International Conference on Very Large Databases | August 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Fast Approximate Correlation for Massive Time-series Data
  
  Abdullah Mueen, Suman Nath, Jie Liu
  
  SIGMOD '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2010
  
  Publication Publication
- PR-Join: A Non-Blocking Join Achieving Higher Early Result Rate with Statistical Guarantees
  
  Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  SIGMOD '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2010
  
  Publication
- Environmental Monitoring 2.0 (Demonstration)
  
  K. Ashwin Kumar, Suman Nath, Marc Parlange, Stewart Tansley, Sebastian Michel, Ali Salehi, Liqian Luo, Nicholas Dawes, Karl Aberer, Guillermo Barrenetxea, Mathias Bavay, Aman Kansal, Catharine van Ingen, Feng Zhao, Yongluan Zhou
  
  25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) | January 2009
  
  Publication Project
- SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing
  
  Suman Nath
  
  US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC) | January 2010
  
  Publication
- Unleash Stranded Power in Data Centers with Rack Packing
  
  Lakshmi Ganesh, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Galen Reeves, Feng Zhao
  
  MSR-TR-2009-21 | January 2009
  
  Publication
- A Distributed Filtering Architecture for Multimedia Sensors
  
  Suman Nath, Yan Ke, Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  BaseNets'04: First Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks | January 2004
  
  Awarded Best Paper!
  
  Publication

- WebXSkill: Skill Learning for Autonomous Web Agents
  
  Zhaoyang Wang, Qianhui Wu, Xuchao Zhang, Chaoyun Zhang, Wenlin Yao, Fazle Faisal, Baolin Peng, Si Qin, Suman Nath, Qingwei Lin, Chetan Bansal, Dongmei Zhang, Saravan Rajmohan, Jianfeng Gao, Huaxiu Yao
  
  April 2026
  
  Publication
- The Tool Illusion: Rethinking Tool Use in Web Agents
  
  Renze Lou, Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Qianhui Wu, Hao Cheng, Suman Nath, Wenpeng Yin, Jianfeng Gao
  
  April 2026
  
  Publication
- SenseWeb: Sharing and Browsing Environmental Changes in Real Time
  
  Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  December 2008
  
  Microsoft eScience Workshop
  
  Publication Project
- AgentRx: Diagnosing AI Agent Failures from Execution Trajectories
  
  Shraddha Barke, Arnav Goyal, Alind Khare, Avaljot Singh, Suman Nath, Chetan Bansal
  
  February 2026
  
  Preprint
- RSVP-SQoS : A Secure RSVP Protocol
  
  Vanish Talwar, Klara Nahrstedt, Suman Nath
  
  ICME'01: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo | August 2001
  
  Publication
- Configuration Caching and Swapping
  
  Suraj Sudhir, Suman Nath, Seth Copen Goldstein
  
  FPL '01: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications | January 2001
  
  ISBN: 3-540-42499-7
  
  Publication
- Software Managed Networks via Coarsening
  
  Pradeep Dogga, Rachee Singh, Suman Nath, Ravi Netravali, Jens Palsberg, George Varghese
  
  ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets) | November 2025
  
  Publication
- Generative Caching for Structurally Similar Prompts and Responses
  
  Sarthak Chakraborty, Suman Nath, Xuchao Zhang, Chetan Bansal, Indranil Gupta
  
  NeurIPS 2025 | November 2025
  
  Preprint
- Dyna-Mind: Learning to Simulate from Experience for Better AI Agents
  
  Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Michel Galley, Hao Cheng, Qianhui Wu, Janardhan Kulkarni, Suman Nath, Zhou Yu, Jianfeng Gao
  
  ICLR 2026 | October 2025
  
  Under review as a conference paper at ICLR 2026
  
  Publication
- Deriving Semantic Checkers from Tests to Detect Silent Failures in Production Distributed Systems
  
  Chang Lou, Dimas Shidqi Parikesit, Yujin Huang, Zhewen Yang, Senapati Diwangkara, Yuzhuo Jing, Achmad Imam Kistijantoro, Ding Yuan, Suman Nath, Peng Huang
  
  OSDI'25: 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation | July 2025
  
  Publication
- ReproCopilot: LLM-Driven Failure Reproduction with Dynamic Refinement
  
  Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Fazle Faisal, Suman Nath
  
  FSE'25: International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering | June 2025
  
  Publication
- WABER: Evaluating Reliability and Efficiency of Web Agents with Existing Benchmarks
  
  Su Kara, Fazle Faisal, Suman Nath
  
  ICLR 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild | April 2025
  
  Publication PDF
- Fidelity of Cloud Emulators: The Imitation Game of Testing Cloud-based Software
  
  Anna Mazhar , Saad Sher Alam , William Zheng , Yinfang Chen , Suman Nath, Tianyin Xu
  
  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) | April 2025
  
  Publication
- Building AI Agents for Autonomous Clouds: Challenges and Design Principles
  
  Manisha M Shetty, Yinfang Chen, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma, Yogesh L. Simmhan, Xuchao Zhang, Jonathan Mace, Pedro Las-Casas, Shachee Mishra Gupta, Suman Nath, Chetan Bansal, Saravan Rajmohan
  
  2024 Symposium on Cloud Computing | November 2024
  
  Publication
- If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try, Again…? Insights and LLM-informed Tooling for Detecting Retry Bugs in Software Systems
  
  Bogdan Alexandru Stoica, Utsav Sethi , Yiming Su , Cyrus Zhou, Shan Lu, Jonathan Mace, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  ACM SOSP 2024 | November 2024
  
  Publication
- Efficient Reproduction of Fault-Induced Failures in Distributed Systems with Feedback-Driven Fault Injection
  
  Jia Pan, Haoze Wu , Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Suman Nath, Peng Huang
  
  ACM SOSP 2024 | November 2024
  
  Publication Project
- ExChain: Exception Dependency Analysis for Root Cause Diagnosis
  
  Ao Li, Shan Lu, Suman Nath, Rohan Padhye, Vyas Sekar
  
  USENIX NSDI | April 2024
  
  Publication Project
- Detection Is Better Than Cure: A Cloud Incidents Perspective
  
  A. Parayil, Supriyo GHOSH, Yu Kang, Minghua Ma, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Jonathan Mace, Vaibhav Ganatra
  
  ESEC/FSE 2023: Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering | November 2023
  
  Publication
- AutoARTS: Taxonomy, Insights and Tools for Root Cause Labelling of Incidents in Microsoft Azure
  
  Pradeep Dogga, Chetan Bansal, Richard Costleigh, Gopinath Jayagopal, Suman Nath, Xuchao Zhang
  
  2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference | July 2023
  
  Publication Project
- HotGPT: How to Make Software Documentation More Useful with a Large Language Model?
  
  Yiming Su, Chengcheng Wan, Utsav Sethi, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | June 2023
  
  Publication
- Generating Test Databases for Database-Backed Applications
  
  Cong Yan, Suman Nath, Shan Lu
  
  ICSE'23 | May 2023
  
  Publication Project
- WAFFLE: Exposing Memory Ordering Bugs Efficiently with Active Delay Injection
  
  Bogdan Alexandru Stoica, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  EuroSys'23 | May 2023
  
  Publication Project
- Push-Button Reliability Testing for Cloud-Backed Applications with Rainmaker
  
  Yinfang Chen, Xudong Sun, Suman Nath, Ze Yang, Tianyin Xu
  
  NSDI'23 | April 2023
  
  Publication Project
- FlakeRepro: Automated and Efficient Reproduction of Concurrency-Related Flaky Tests
  
  Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa, Xiang Ren , Suman Nath
  
  ESEC/FSE | November 2022
  
  Publication Project
- How to Fight Production Incidents? An Empirical Study on a Large-scale Cloud Service
  
  Supriyo GHOSH, Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath
  
  SoCC 2022 | November 2022
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication PDF Project
- Cancellation in Systems: An Empirical Study of Task Cancellation Patterns and Failures
  
  Utsav Sethi, Haochen Pan, Shan Lu, Suman Nath, Madan Musuvathi
  
  OSDI | June 2022
  
  Publication Project
- DeepAnalyze: Learning to Localize Crashes at Scale
  
  Manish Shetty, Chetan Bansal, Suman Nath, Sean Bowles, Henry Wang, Ozgur Arman, Siamak Ahari
  
  ICSE 2022 | May 2022
  
  Publication Project
- SherLock: Unsupervised Synchronization-Operation Inference
  
  Guangpu Li, Dongjie Chen, Shan Lu, Madanlal Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) | April 2021
  
  Publication Project
- Causality-Guided Adaptive Interventional Debugging
  
  Anna Fariha, Suman Nath, Alexandra Meliou
  
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data | June 2020
  
  Publication Project
- Efficient and Scalable Thread-Safety Violation Detection —- Finding thousands of concurrency bugs during testing
  
  Guangpu Li, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath, Rohan Padhye
  
  ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) | October 2019
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Project
- Root Causing Flaky Tests in a Large-Scale Industrial Setting
  
  Wing Lam, Patrice Godefroid (pg), Suman Nath, Anirudh Santhiar, Suresh Thummalapenta
  
  International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) | July 2019
  
  Publication Project
- Elix: Path-selective taint analysis for extracting mobile app links
  
  Yongjian Hu, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, Iulian Neamtiu
  
  17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '19) | June 2019
  
  Publication Project
- What bugs cause production cloud incidents?
  
  Haopeng Liu, Shan Lu, Madan Musuvathi, Suman Nath
  
  Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | May 2019
  
  Publication Project
- Troubleshooting Transiently-Recurring Errors in Production Systems with Blame-Proportional Logging
  
  Liang Luo, Suman Nath, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Madan Musuvathi, Luis Ceze
  
  USENIX Annual Technical Conference | July 2018
  
  Publication Project
- Gnome: A Practical Approach to NLOS Mitigation for GPS Positioning in Smartphones
  
  Xiaochen Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan
  
  ACM MobiSys | June 2018
  
  Publication
- FlashBlox: Achieving Both Performance Isolation and Uniform Lifetime for Virtualized SSDs
  
  Jian Huang, Anirudh Badam, Laura Caulfield, Suman Nath, Sudipta Sengupta, Bikash Sharma, Moinuddin K. Qureshi
  
  Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'17) | February 2017
  
  Publication Publication Project
- GeoTrend: Spatial Trending Queries on Real-time Microblogs
  
  Amr Magdy, Ahmed M. Aly, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, Suman Nath, Walid G. Aref
  
  ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) | October 2016
  
  Publication
- Appstract: On-The-Fly App Content Semantics With Better Privacy
  
  Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath
  
  ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'16) | July 2016
  
  Publication
- MASHaBLE: Mobile Applications of Secret Handshakes over Bluetooth LE
  
  Yan Michalevsky, Suman Nath, Jie Liu
  
  ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'16) | July 2016
  
  Publication
- ALPS: Accurate Landmark Positioning at City Scales
  
  Yitao Hu, Xiaochen Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan
  
  ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016) | July 2016
  
  Publication Publication
- WebPerf: Evaluating “What-If” Scenarios for Cloud-hosted Web Applications
  
  Yurong Jiang, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan
  
  ACM SIGCOMM 2016 | July 2016
  
  Publication Project
- uLink: Enabling user-defined deep linking to app content
  
  Tanzirul Azim, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath
  
  14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '16) | June 2016
  
  Publication Project
- Domino: Understanding Wide-Area, Asynchronous Event Causality in Web Applications
  
  Ding Li, James Mickens, Suman Nath, Lenin Ravindranath
  
  ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing conference (SOCC) | August 2015
  
  Publication
- MAdScope: Characterizing Mobile In-App Targeted Ads
  
  Suman Nath
  
  International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys'15) | May 2015
  
  Publication Publication
- My OS ought to know me better: In-app behavioural analytics as an OS service
  
  Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath
  
  Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS) | May 2015
  
  Publication
- Bloom Cookies: Web Search Personalization without User Tracking
  
  Nitesh Mor, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath, John Kubiatowicz
  
  Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '15) | February 2015
  
  Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '15)
  
  Publication
- Supporting Distributed Feed-Following Apps over Edge Devices
  
  Badrish Chandramouli, Suman Nath, Wenchao Zhou
  
  International Conference on Very Large Databases | August 2014
  
  Publication Project
- Brahmastra: Driving Apps to Test the Security of Third-Party Components
  
  Ravi Bhoraskar, Seungyeop Han, Jinseong Jeon, Tanzirul Azim, Shuo Chen, Suman Nath, Rui Wang, David Wetherall, Jaeyeon Jung
  
  USENIX Security Symposium | August 2014
  
  Publication
- PUMA: Programmable UI-Automation for Large Scale Dynamic Analysis of Mobile Apps
  
  Shuai Hao, Bin Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan, William G.J. Halfond
  
  The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) | June 2014
  
  Publication
- Automatic and Scalable Fault Detection for Mobile Applications
  
  Suman Nath, Jitu Padhye, Hari Balakrishnan, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam
  
  The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys) | June 2014
  
  Publication Project Project
- DECAF: Detecting and Characterizing Ad Fraud in Mobile Apps
  
  Bin Liu, Suman Nath, Ramesh Govindan, Jie Liu
  
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) | January 2014
  
  USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)
  
  Publication
- PACMan: Performance Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation
  
  Alan Roytman, Aman Kansal, Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Suman Nath
  
  10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) | June 2013
  
  Publication
- Prefetching Mobile Ads: Can advertising systems afford it?
  
  Prashanth Mohan, Suman Nath, Oriana Riva
  
  Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '13) | April 2013
  
  Publication
- Publicly Verifiable Grouped Aggregation Queries on Outsourced Data Streams
  
  Suman Nath, Ramarathnam Venkatesan
  
  ICDE'13: 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering | April 2013
  
  Publication Publication
- SmartAds: Bringing Contextual Ads to Mobile Apps
  
  Suman Nath, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Jitu Padhye
  
  The 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems (MobiSys'13) | January 2013
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Privacy-Aware Personalization for Mobile Advertising
  
  Michaela Hardt, Suman Nath
  
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) | October 2012
  
  Publication
- ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing
  
  Suman Nath
  
  MobiSys'12: The 10th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Best Paper Award) | June 2012
  
  Best Paper Award.
  
  Publication Publication
- RACE: Real-time Applications over Cloud-Edge
  
  Badrish Chandramouli, Joris Claessens, Suman Nath, Ivo Santos, Wenchao Zhou
  
  ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2012) | May 2012
  
  Publication Project
- MASKIT: Privately Releasing User Context Streams for Personalized Mobile Applications
  
  Michaela Goetz, Suman Nath, Johannes Gehrke
  
  SIGMOD'12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | May 2012
  
  Publication
- FAST: A Generic Framework for Flash-Aware Spatial Trees
  
  Xun Zhou, Suman Nath
  
  SSTD'11: 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases | August 2011
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- ThermoCast: A Cyber-Physical Forecasting Model for Data Centers
  
  Lei Li, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Andreas Terzis, Christos Faloutsos
  
  KDD (ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) | August 2011
  
  Publication
- Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory
  
  Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  CIDR'11: 5th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research | January 2011
  
  Publication Publication
- Fuzzy Prophet: Parameter exploration in uncertain enterprise scenarios
  
  Oliver Kennedy, Steve Lee, Charles Loboz, Slawek Smyl, Suman Nath
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data | January 2011
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data
  
  Publication
- Jigsaw: Efficient optimization over uncertain enterprise data
  
  Oliver Kennedy, Suman Nath
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2011
  
  Publication
- Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality
  
  Alexandra Meliou, Wolfgang Gatterbauer, Suman Nath, Dan Suciu
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2011
  
  SIGMOD'11: Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  
  Publication
- Privacy-aware Regression Modelling of Participatory Sensing Data
  
  Hossein Ahmadi, Nam Pham, Tarek Abdelzaher, Suman Nath, Jiawei Han, Raghu Ganti
  
  SenSys'10: The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems | November 2010
  
  Publication Project
- On-line Sensing Task Optimization for Shared Sensors
  
  Arsalan Tavakoli, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath
  
  IPSN 2010 | April 2010
  
  Publication
- Privacy-Preserving Reconstruction of Multidimensional Data Maps in Vehicular Participatory Sensing
  
  Nam Pham Duc, Raghu Kiran Ganti, Md. Yusuf S Uddin, Suman Nath, Tarek Abdelzaher
  
  EWSN '2010: 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks | January 2010
  
  Publication Project
- Fast Approximate Correlation for Massive Time-series Data
  
  Abdullah Mueen, Suman Nath, Jie Liu
  
  SIGMOD '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2010
  
  Publication Publication
- PR-Join: A Non-Blocking Join Achieving Higher Early Result Rate with Statistical Guarantees
  
  Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  SIGMOD '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2010
  
  Publication
- DataGarage: Warehousing Massive Performance Data on Commodity Servers
  
  Charles Loboz, Slawek Smyl, Suman Nath
  
  VLDB'10: The 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases | January 2010
  
  VLDB'10: The 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
  
  Publication Publication
- SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing
  
  Suman Nath
  
  US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC) | January 2010
  
  Publication
- Managing Massive Time Series Streams with Multi-Scale Compressed Trickles
  
  Galen Reeves, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  VLDB '2009: Proceedings of 35th Conference on Very Large Data Bases | August 2009
  
  VLDB '2009: Proceedings of 35th Conference on Very Large Data Bases
  
  Publication
- Environmental Monitoring 2.0 (Demonstration)
  
  K. Ashwin Kumar, Suman Nath, Marc Parlange, Stewart Tansley, Sebastian Michel, Ali Salehi, Liqian Luo, Nicholas Dawes, Karl Aberer, Guillermo Barrenetxea, Mathias Bavay, Aman Kansal, Catharine van Ingen, Feng Zhao, Yongluan Zhou
  
  25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) | January 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Energy Efficient Sensor Data Logging with Amnesic Flash Storage
  
  Suman Nath
  
  IPSN'09: Information Processing in Sensor Networks | January 2009
  
  IPSN'09: Information Processing in Sensor Networks
  
  Publication
- GAMPS: Compressing Multi Sensor Data by Grouping and Amplitude Scaling
  
  Sorabh Gandhi, Suman Nath, Subhash Suri, Jie Liu
  
  ACM SIGMOD | January 2009
  
  ACM SIGMOD
  
  Publication Publication
- Secure Outsourced Aggregation via One-way Chains
  
  Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Haowen Chan
  
  ACM SIGMOD | January 2009
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Evaluation of Range Nearest-Neighbor Queries with Quality Guarantee
  
  Chi-Yin Chow, Joe Nap, Suman Nath
  
  The 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) | January 2009
  
  Publication Project
- Unleash Stranded Power in Data Centers with RackPacker
  
  Lakshmi Ganesh, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (in conjunction with ISCA) | January 2009
  
  Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (in conjunction with ISCA)
  
  Publication
- Sharing and Exploring Sensor Streams over Geocentric Interfaces
  
  Liqian Luo, Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS) | November 2008
  
  Publication Project
- COLR-Tree: Communication Efficient Spatio-Temporal Index for a Sensor Data Web Portal
  
  Yanif Ahmad, Suman Nath
  
  ICDE'08: 24th International Conference on Data Engineering | January 2008
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication Project
- Energy-Aware Server Provisioning and Load Dispatching For Connection-Intensive Internet Services
  
  Gong Chen, Wenbo He, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Leonidas Rigas, Lin Xiao, Feng Zhao
  
  NSDI'08: Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation | January 2008
  
  NSDI'08: Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
  
  ISBN: 111-999-5555-22-1
  
  Publication
- FlashDB: dynamic self-tuning database for NAND flash
  
  Suman Nath, Aman Kansal
  
  IPSN '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks | January 2007
  
  IPSN '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
  
  ISBN: 978-1-59593-638-X
  
  Publication
- Subtleties in Tolerating Correlated Failures in Wide-area Storage Systems
  
  Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  NSDI'06: Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation | January 2006
  
  Publication
- SenseWeb: Browsing the Physical World in Real Time (Demo Abstract)
  
  Andre Santanche, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Bodhi Priyantha, Feng Zhao
  
  IPSN'06: ACM/IEEE Information Processing in Sensor Networks | January 2006
  
  Publication
- Availability of multi-object operations
  
  Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  NSDI'06: Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation | January 2006
  
  Best Paper Award
  
  Publication
- Challenges in Building a Portal for Sensors World-Wide
  
  Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao
  
  First Workshop on World-Sensor-Web (co-located with SenSys) | January 2006
  
  First Workshop on World-Sensor-Web (co-located with SenSys)
  
  Publication
- IrisNet: an internet-scale architecture for multimedia sensors
  
  Jason Campbell, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath, Padmanabhan Pillai, Srinivasan Seshan, Rahul Sukthankar
  
  MULTIMEDIA '05: Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia | January 2005
  
  ISBN: 1-59593-044-2
  
  Publication
- Database-centric Programming for Wide-area Sensor Systems
  
  Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Suman Nath
  
  DCOSS'05: First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems | January 2005
  
  DCOSS'05: First International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
  
  Publication
- Tributaries and deltas: efficient and robust aggregation in sensor network streams
  
  Amit Manjhi, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons
  
  SIGMOD '05: Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2005
  
  ISBN: 1-59593-060-4
  
  Publication
- Adaptive data placement for wide-area sensing services
  
  Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  FAST'05: Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies | January 2005
  
  FAST'05: Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
  
  Publication
- Choosing beacon periods to improve response times for wireless HTTP clients
  
  Suman Nath, Zachary Anderson, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  MobiWac '04: Proceedings of the second international workshop on Mobility management & wireless access protocols | January 2004
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-920-9
  
  Publication Publication
- Synopsis diffusion for robust aggregation in sensor networks
  
  Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan, Zachary R. Anderson
  
  SenSys '04: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems | January 2004
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-879-2
  
  Publication Publication
- A Distributed Filtering Architecture for Multimedia Sensors
  
  Suman Nath, Yan Ke, Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  BaseNets'04: First Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks | January 2004
  
  Awarded Best Paper!
  
  Publication
- Beyond Availability: Towards a Deeper Understanding of Machine Failure Characteristics in Large Distributed Systems
  
  Praveen Yalagandula, Suman Nath, Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  WORLDS'04: First Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems | January 2004
  
  Publication
- Cache-and-query for wide area sensor databases
  
  Amol Deshpande, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  SIGMOD '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | June 2003
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-634-X
  
  Publication Publication
- IrisNet: Internet-scale resource-intensive sensor services (Demo Abstract)
  
  Amol Deshpande, Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  SIGMOD '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data | January 2003
  
  SIGMOD '03: Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  
  ISBN: 1-58113-634-X
  
  Publication
- Local trend discovery on real-time microblogs with uncertain locations in tight memory environments
  
  Abdulaziz Almaslukh, Amr Magdy, Ahmed M. Aly, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, Suman Nath, Walid G. Aref
  
  GeoInformatica | February 2020, Vol 24(2)
  
  Publication
- uLink: User-defined Deep Links in Mobile Apps
  
  Tanzirul Azim, Oriana Riva, Suman Nath
  
  GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications | October 2016, Vol 20(4): pp. 34-38
  
  Publication Publication Publication Project
- How to Smash the Next Billion Mobile App Bugs?
  
  Ranveer Chandra, Börje F. Karlsson, Nicholas D. Lane, Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Suman Nath, Jitu Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Feng Zhao
  
  ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications | January 2015, Vol 19(1)
  
  Publication Project
- ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing
  
  Suman Nath
  
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing | August 2013, pp. 16
  
  Volume 12, Issue 8
  
  Publication
- Generic and efficient framework for search trees on flash memory storage systems
  
  Xun Zhou, Suman Nath
  
  GeoInformatica | January 2013, Vol 17: pp. 417-448
  
  Publication
- Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage
  
  Suman Nath, Phillip B. Gibbons
  
  VLDB Journal, vol. 19, issue 1 | January 2010, Vol 19(1)
  
  Special Issue for VLDB 2008 Best Papers
  
  Publication
- SenseWeb: An Infrastructure for Shared Sensing
  
  Aman Kansal, Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao
  
  IEEE MultiMedia | October 2007, Vol 14: pp. 8–13
  
  Publication Publication Project
- Data Management in the Worldwide Sensor Web
  
  Magdalena Balazinska, Amol Deshpande, Michael J. Franklin, Phillip B. Gibbons, Jim Gray, Suman Nath, Mark Hansen, Michael Liebhold, Alexander Szalay, Vincent Tao
  
  IEEE Pervasive Computing | January 2007, Vol 6: pp. 30-40
  
  Publication
- SensorMap for Wide-Area Sensor Webs
  
  Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao
  
  IEEE Computer | January 2007, Vol 40: pp. 90-93
  
  Publication Project
- IrisNet: An Architecture for a Worldwide Sensor Web
  
  Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, Yan Ke, Suman Nath, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  IEEE Pervasive Computing | January 2003, Vol 2: pp. 22-33
  
  Publication
- Per-App Profiles with AppFork: The Security of Two Phones with the Convenience of One
  
  Temitope Oluwafemi, Earlence Fernandes, Oriana Riva, Franziska Roesner, Suman Nath, Tadayoshi Kohno
  
  MSR-TR-2014-153 | December 2014
  
  Publication
- Algorithm Design for Performance Aware VM Consolidation
  
  Alan Roytman, Aman Kansal, Sriram Govindan, Jie Liu, Suman Nath
  
  MSR-TR-2013-28 | March 2013
  
  Publication
- SPADE: Scalable App Digging with Binary Instrumentation and Automated Execution
  
  Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Suman Nath, Jie Liu
  
  MSR-TR-2013-126 | January 2013
  
  Publication
- Group-by Query Verification by Untrusted Clients on Outsourced Data Streams
  
  Suman Nath, Ramarathnam Venkatesan
  
  MSR-TR-2011-104 | July 2011
  
  Publication
- Subjective Sensing: Mission Statement and A Research Agenda
  
  Jie Liu, Michel Goraczko, Aman Kansal, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Suman Nath, Bodhi Priyantha
  
  MSR-TR-2010-108 | July 2010
  
  Publication
- Differentially Private Aggregation of Distributed Time-Series with Transformation and Encryption
  
  Vibhor Rastogi, Suman Nath
  
  MSR-TR-2009-186 | November 2009
  
  Publication
- Cypress: Managing Massive Time Series Streams with MultiScale Compressed Trickles
  
  Galen Reeves, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  MSR-TR-2009-79 | June 2009
  
  Publication
- Unleash Stranded Power in Data Centers with Rack Packing
  
  Lakshmi Ganesh, Jie Liu, Suman Nath, Galen Reeves, Feng Zhao
  
  MSR-TR-2009-21 | January 2009
  
  Publication
- On the Work Function Algorithm for two state task
  
  Yossi Azar, Uriel Feige, Suman Nath
  
  MSR-TR-2007-20 | February 2007
  
  Publication
- Communicating via Fireflies: Geographic Routing on Duty-Cycled Sensors
  
  Suman Nath
  
  MSR-TR-2007-21 | February 2007
  
  Publication
- FlashDB: Dynamic Self-tuning Database for NAND Flash
  
  Suman Nath, Aman Kansal
  
  MSR-TR-2006-168 | November 2006
  
  Publication
- IrisNet: An Architecture for Compute-Intensive Wide-Area Sensor Network Services
  
  Suman Nath, Amol Deshpande, Yan Ke, Phillip B. Gibbons, Brad Karp, Srinivasan Seshan
  
  IRP-TR-02-10 | December 2002
  
  Intel Research Pittsburgh Technical Report
  
  Publication
- Instrumenting the Earth: Next-Generation Sensor Networks and Environmental Science
  
  Michael Lehning, Nicholas Dawes, Mathias Bavay, Marc Parlange, Suman Nath, Feng Zhao
  
  The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery | Published by Microsoft Research | 2009 | The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery edition
  
  Publication Project
- Exploiting redundancy for robust sensing
  
  Suman Nath
  
  January 2005
  
  PhD Thesis: Carnegie Mellon University | January 2005
  
  ISBN: 0-542-54153-X
  
  Adviser-Srinivasan Seshan
  
  Publication

Suman Nath

Publications

WebXSkill: Skill Learning for Autonomous Web Agents

The Tool Illusion: Rethinking Tool Use in Web Agents

AgentRx: Diagnosing AI Agent Failures from Execution Trajectories

Generative Caching for Structurally Similar Prompts and Responses

Software Managed Networks via Coarsening

Dyna-Mind: Learning to Simulate from Experience for Better AI Agents

Deriving Semantic Checkers from Tests to Detect Silent Failures in Production Distributed Systems

ReproCopilot: LLM-Driven Failure Reproduction with Dynamic Refinement

WABER: Evaluating Reliability and Efficiency of Web Agents with Existing Benchmarks

Fidelity of Cloud Emulators: The Imitation Game of Testing Cloud-based Software

Building AI Agents for Autonomous Clouds: Challenges and Design Principles

Efficient Reproduction of Fault-Induced Failures in Distributed Systems with Feedback-Driven Fault Injection

If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try, Again…? Insights and LLM-informed Tooling for Detecting Retry Bugs in Software Systems

ExChain: Exception Dependency Analysis for Root Cause Diagnosis

Detection Is Better Than Cure: A Cloud Incidents Perspective

AutoARTS: Taxonomy, Insights and Tools for Root Cause Labelling of Incidents in Microsoft Azure

HotGPT: How to Make Software Documentation More Useful with a Large Language Model?

Generating Test Databases for Database-Backed Applications

WAFFLE: Exposing Memory Ordering Bugs Efficiently with Active Delay Injection

Push-Button Reliability Testing for Cloud-Backed Applications with Rainmaker

FlakeRepro: Automated and Efficient Reproduction of Concurrency-Related Flaky Tests

How to Fight Production Incidents? An Empirical Study on a Large-scale Cloud Service

Cancellation in Systems: An Empirical Study of Task Cancellation Patterns and Failures

DeepAnalyze: Learning to Localize Crashes at Scale

SherLock: Unsupervised Synchronization-Operation Inference

Causality-Guided Adaptive Interventional Debugging

Local trend discovery on real-time microblogs with uncertain locations in tight memory environments

Efficient and Scalable Thread-Safety Violation Detection —- Finding thousands of concurrency bugs during testing

Root Causing Flaky Tests in a Large-Scale Industrial Setting

Elix: Path-selective taint analysis for extracting mobile app links

What bugs cause production cloud incidents?

Troubleshooting Transiently-Recurring Errors in Production Systems with Blame-Proportional Logging

Gnome: A Practical Approach to NLOS Mitigation for GPS Positioning in Smartphones

FlashBlox: Achieving Both Performance Isolation and Uniform Lifetime for Virtualized SSDs

GeoTrend: Spatial Trending Queries on Real-time Microblogs

uLink: User-defined Deep Links in Mobile Apps

Appstract: On-The-Fly App Content Semantics With Better Privacy

MASHaBLE: Mobile Applications of Secret Handshakes over Bluetooth LE

ALPS: Accurate Landmark Positioning at City Scales

WebPerf: Evaluating “What-If” Scenarios for Cloud-hosted Web Applications

uLink: Enabling user-defined deep linking to app content

Domino: Understanding Wide-Area, Asynchronous Event Causality in Web Applications

MAdScope: Characterizing Mobile In-App Targeted Ads

My OS ought to know me better: In-app behavioural analytics as an OS service

Bloom Cookies: Web Search Personalization without User Tracking

How to Smash the Next Billion Mobile App Bugs?

Per-App Profiles with AppFork: The Security of Two Phones with the Convenience of One

Brahmastra: Driving Apps to Test the Security of Third-Party Components

Supporting Distributed Feed-Following Apps over Edge Devices

Automatic and Scalable Fault Detection for Mobile Applications

PUMA: Programmable UI-Automation for Large Scale Dynamic Analysis of Mobile Apps

DECAF: Detecting and Characterizing Ad Fraud in Mobile Apps

ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing

PACMan: Performance Aware Virtual Machine Consolidation

Prefetching Mobile Ads: Can advertising systems afford it?

Publicly Verifiable Grouped Aggregation Queries on Outsourced Data Streams

Algorithm Design for Performance Aware VM Consolidation

Generic and efficient framework for search trees on flash memory storage systems

SmartAds: Bringing Contextual Ads to Mobile Apps

SPADE: Scalable App Digging with Binary Instrumentation and Automated Execution

Privacy-Aware Personalization for Mobile Advertising

ACE: Exploiting Correlation for Energy-Efficient and Continuous Context Sensing

MASKIT: Privately Releasing User Context Streams for Personalized Mobile Applications

RACE: Real-time Applications over Cloud-Edge

FAST: A Generic Framework for Flash-Aware Spatial Trees

ThermoCast: A Cyber-Physical Forecasting Model for Data Centers

Group-by Query Verification by Untrusted Clients on Outsourced Data Streams

Fuzzy Prophet: Parameter exploration in uncertain enterprise scenarios

Jigsaw: Efficient optimization over uncertain enterprise data

Rethinking Database Algorithms for Phase Change Memory

Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality

Privacy-aware Regression Modelling of Participatory Sensing Data

Subjective Sensing: Mission Statement and A Research Agenda

On-line Sensing Task Optimization for Shared Sensors

DataGarage: Warehousing Massive Performance Data on Commodity Servers

Fast Approximate Correlation for Massive Time-series Data

Online Maintenance of Very Large Random Samples on Flash Storage

PR-Join: A Non-Blocking Join Achieving Higher Early Result Rate with Statistical Guarantees