Joel Tony

Joel Tony

Research Fellow

Microsoft Research

About Me

I’m a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research, India in the Systems group, where I work with Ramachandran Ramjee, Nipun Kwatra and Saurabh Goyal.

My research interests lie in computer systems, particularly MLSys, storage & data systems, distributed systems, and high-performance computing.

Previously, I was a Computer Science undergraduate at Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani. During my undergraduate thesis, I worked with Manish Parashar at the SCI Institute, University of Utah, on DataSpaces, an extreme-scale data management framework. I also worked on cluster-aware file striping frameworks for distributed file systems, under the guidance of Arnab K. Paul.

As a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) contributor with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), I worked with Suren Byna and Jean Luca Bez on extending the Drishti framework for I/O bottleneck analysis in distributed AI/ML workloads.

In my free time, I read (follow me on Goodreads), run (find me on Strava), and binge shows (at 2x) (check out my Trakt)!

To read about my other work, please check out my CV here.

Interests
  • Distributed Systems
  • MLSys
  • Storage Systems
  • High Performance Computing
Education
  • B.E. in Computer Science, 2025

    Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani

Publications

(2023). Does Varying BeeGFS Configuration Affect the I/O Performance of HPC Workloads?. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing Workshops (CLUSTER Workshops).

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