Teachers

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• Amit Shukla
  OH: Wednesday, 5pm, 329 Soda
  amitshukla AT eecs DOT berkeley DOT edu

  Amit is a Director of engineering at Docker, working on the Docker Swarm container orchestration system. He has held leadership roles at Twitter, leading the data infrastructure team, and at Microsoft's SQL Server database engine. During his time in the industry he has worked on various data storage systems, from transactions and recovery to query processing, object relational mapping, and loosely coupled distributed storage, caching and processing systems. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin with a focus on databases.

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• Karthik Ramasamy
  OH: Wednesday, 5pm, 329 Soda
  kramasamy AT eecs DOT berkeley DOT edu

  Karthik is the engineering manager and technical lead for Real Time Analytics at Twitter. He is the co-creator of Heron and has more than two decades of experience working in parallel databases, big data infrastructure and networking. He cofounded Locomatix, a company that specializes in real time streaming processing on Hadoop and Cassandra using SQL that was acquired by Twitter. At the University of Wisconsin, he worked extensively in parallel database systems, query processing, storage engine and online analytical systems. This research was spun as a company later acquired by Teradata. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UW Madison with a focus on databases.

Teaching Assistants

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  Amruta Yelamanchili

  OH: Monday 10-11am, 651 Soda; Thursday 11am-12pm,

  amrutayel AT berkeley DOT edu

  I'm a senior double majoring in CS and Applied Math. I spend my time dancing, watching way too many TV shows, and crying about puppies.

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  Anurag Baddam

  OH: Thursday, 4-6pm, 341A Soda

  baddamanu AT berkeley DOT edu

  Junior in EECS. Like to code (duh), teach, and play tennis.

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  Larry Xu

  OH: Wednesday, 3-5pm, 611 Soda

  larry DOT xu AT berkeley DOT edu

  I'm a 5th year EECS MS student advised by Prof. Joe Hellerstein. My primary research focuses on data visualization. Ask me about research or study abroad, both things that I really enjoyed during my time as an undergrad!

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  Sammy Sidhu

  OH: Tuesday 3-5PM 341A Soda

  sammy+cs186 AT eecs DOT berkeley DOT edu

  This is my final semester in EECS at Berkeley. I primarily work on machine learning research here at Cal but I’ve also worked at Apple’s Applied Machine Learning team as well as doing high frequency trading on Wall Street at Two Sigma. Feel free to email me if you’re interested in Quant Finance, Deep Learning, high performance computing (GPUs are bae) or Cars (self-driving or not)!

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  Selena Shang

  OH: Thursdays, 2:30-4:30pm, 341B Soda

  selena AT berkeley DOT edu

  I'm a senior in EECS. Big fan of donuts, data, and the Kardashians.

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  Vikram Sreekanti

  OH: Tuesday, 2-3pm, 651 Soda; Friday, 2-3pm, 283E Soda

  vikrams+cs186 AT berkeley DOT edu

  I'm is a first year grad student advised by Joe Hellerstein. I TA'd for CS 186 twice as an undergrad while at Berkeley. In my free time, I like to read, watch sports, and play video games.

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  Warren Shen

  OH: Monday, 2-4pm, 341A Soda

  warrenshen AT berkeley DOT edu

  I'm a junior studying computer science; I enjoy going to the gym weekdays and playing with my doge weekends. If you like databases, ask me about the Ruby on Rails Decal.