Santa Maria Shithil

I am Santa Maria Shithil, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, New York. Currently, I am working on Sustainability Aware Software Systems (SASSY) design project with Professor Shuai Mu. Specifically, my project goal is to reduce the energy consumption of the distributed systems. I am also co-advised by Professor Anshul Gandhi, and Erez Zadok. My research interests lie in the intersection of distributed systems, and computer networks, and I plan to do some works in these areas.

Apart from reading system research papers :), I really love reading books — both fiction and non-fiction. Although work kept me away from books for a while, I have committed to reading regularly again—even on the busiest days. You can check my GoodReads profile to see what I read, what’s next on my list, and my reviews.

Email: sshithil@cs.stonybrook.edu

Links: LinkedIn | Google Scholar | Github | GoodReads

Education

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2022-Present

Advisor: Shuai Mu

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

M.Sc. (Eng.) in Computer Science and Engineering, 2022

Advisor: Muhammad Abdullah Adnan

Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

B.Sc. (Eng.) in Computer Science and Engineering, 2016

Advisor: Tushar Kanti Saha

Awards

ICT Fellowship, 2018

ICT Innovation Fund, ICT Division, Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, People’s Republic of Bangladesh

Graduate Gold Medal Award, 2017

Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

Prime Minister Gold Medal Award, 2016

People’s Republic of Bangladesh

Kazi Sobbosachi Scholarship, 2016

Institute of Nazrul Studies, Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

Professional Experiences

Stony Brook University, Department of Computer Science

2024/01 - Present Research Assistant

2023/08 - 2023/12 Teaching Assistant

2022/08 - 2023/08 Research Assistant

Stony Brook, NY, USA

Stamford University Bangladesh, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

2020/01 - 2022/08 Lecturer

Dhaka, Bangladesh

ICT Division, Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, People’s Republic of Bangladesh

2018/10 - 2019/09 Research Fellow

Dhaka, Bangladesh

University of Dhaka, Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering

2019/01 - 2019/07 Research Assistant

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Victoria University Bangladesh, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

2017/09 - 2018/09 Part-time Lecturer

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Victoria University Bangladesh, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

2016/02 - 2017/10 Lecturer

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Publications

Santa Maria Shithil, Muhammad Abdullah Adnan, "A Prediction Based Replica Selection Strategy for Reducing Tail Latency in Geo-Distributed Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCC.2023.3244203.
Santa Maria Shithil, Muhammad Abdullah Adnan, "A Prediction Based Replica Selection Strategy for Reducing Tail Latency in Distributed Systems," 2020 IEEE 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2020, pp. 522-526, doi: 10.1109/CLOUD49709.2020.00078.
Santa Maria Shithil, Tushar Kanti Saha, Tanusree Sharma, “A Dynamic Data Placement Policy for Heterogeneous Hadoop Cluster”, IEEE-2017 4th International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE), 2017, doi: 10.1109/ICAEE.2017.8255371.