Haryadi Gunawi

Haryadi S. Gunawi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago where he leads the UCARE research group focusing on Availability, Reliability, and Efficiency in computing systems. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2009 and was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. His research improves dependability of storage and cloud computing systems in three contexts: performance stability, reliability/scalability, and ML-systems interactions.

Education:

• Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009)
• B.S. Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research focuses on building dependable systems that are robust to hardware variability ('limping hardware'), combating concurrency/scalability bugs in distributed systems, and exploring ML-storage system interactions. Current projects investigate latency tail tolerance, fail-slow hardware detection, and ML-enhanced storage systems.

Publication trends show consistent work in systems reliability with recent expansion into ML-enhanced systems. The 15 most recent publications demonstrate progression from hardware failure analysis to ML-optimized storage systems, with consistent focus on real-world cloud system challenges.

Awards and Honors:

• Provost's Global Faculty Award (2022, 2024)
• Best Paper Awards (SYSTOR 2022, FAST 2018)
• Facebook/Google/NetApp Faculty Awards
• NSF CAREER Award (2014)
• ACM Dissertation Honorable Mention (2009)

Advising and Grants: Leads the UCARE research group with 15+ PhD students. PI on multiple NSF grants including the $5M ScaleStuds project for massive computation foundations. Manages collaborations with Chameleon testbed and CERES Center for Unstoppable Computing.

Labs and Groups:

• UCARE Lab: Focuses on cloud/storage dependability
• Chameleon Project: Configurable cloud/edge research environment
• Systems Group: Collaborative systems research community
• CERES Center: Reducing computing system fragility