Sam Kumar
	Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
	University of California, Berkeley
	Desk: 465 Soda Hall (RISE Lab)
	E-mail: samkumar [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu
	GitHub: @samkumar

I am a first year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley. I am co-advised by Professor David Culler and Professor Raluca Popa. I work in the Buildings, Energy, and Transportation Systems (BETS) research group in the RISE Lab in the EECS Department. My research interests are in Systems, Networks, and Security.

I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. As an undergraduate student, I worked in the Software-Defined Buildings (SDB) research group, which was the predecessor to BETS.

Publications

2015

• DISTIL: Design and implementation of a scalable synchrophasor data processing system.
  Michael P Andersen, Sam Kumar, Connor Brooks, Alexandra von Meier, David E. Culler.
  2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm 2015).

• Poster Abstract: Well-connected microzones for increased building efficiency and occupant comfort.
  Michael P Andersen, Gabe Fierro, Sam Kumar, Michael Chen, Leonard Truong, Joyce Kim, Edward A. Arens, Hui Zhang, Paul Raftery, David E. Culler.
  2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys 2015).

Projects and Software

• GDPFS: The Global Data Plane File System
  CS 262A Project Report (Spring 2016)
  Relevant GitHub repositories: paulbramsen/gdpfs, samkumar/fig-tree, samkumar/fig-tree-c

• Mr. Plotter: The Multiresolution Plotter (Project Page)
  Project Report (published as Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2018-85)
  Relevant GitHub repositories: BTrDB/mr-plotter, SoftwareDefinedBuildings/mr-plotter-qml, samkumar/mr-plotter-app