Liana Valdes

Liana Valdes

Ph.D. Candidate

Florida International University

Biography

I am a graduate student in Computer Science at the Systems Research Laboratory (Sylab) supervised by Prof. Raju Rangaswami. My research interests include storage systems, distributed systems, operating systems, and the intersection between systems and machine learning. My previous research projects involved designing new caching algorithms for storage caches to improve performance. Currently, I am working on designing and improving distributed systems solutions for today’s cloud data centers.

Earlier in 2020, I was a research intern at Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK, and I also worked as a research intern at Seagate in 2021. Before joining the Ph.D. program at FIU, I graduated with a degree in Telecommunication and Electronics Engineering from Havana, Cuba.

Teaching & Awards

  • Grace Hooper Celebration of Women in Computing FIU Schorlarship GHC'22
  • CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing 2022
  • GAANN Fellowship from U.S. Department of Education 2022
  • Grace Hooper Celebration of Women in Computing Schorlarship GHC'19
  • USENIX Student award 2019
  • USENIX Student award 2018
  • Operating Systems, Undergraduate Course, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019
  • Transmission Systems I and II, Undergraduate course, 2011-2012
  • Analog Electronics I and II, Undergraduate course, 2010-2011

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