I am a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center , working with the Storage Systems Group. I lead the Autonomic Storage Management project called SMART.

My PhD was in the domain of specification and reasoning frameworks for self-managing systems. My PhD committee consists of: Gul Agha (UIUC), Jai Menon(IBM) , Dan Roth (UIUC), Carolyn Talcott (SRI), and Yuanyuan Zhou (UIUC).

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Yin, Li, Sandeep Uttamchandani, John Palmer, Randy Katz, Gul Agha. "AutoLoop: Automated Action Selection in the ," 6th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY'05), , 2005. [bib]
Uttamchandani, Sandeep, Li Yin, Guillermo Alvarez, John Palmer, Gul Agha. "Chameleon: a self-evolving, fully-adaptive resource arbitrator for storage systems," To Appear in the Proceedings of the 2005 USENIX Technical Conference, Anaheim, CA, April , 2005. [pdf] [bib]
Uttamchandani, Sandeep, Li Yin, John Palmer, Randy Katz, Gul Agha. "Model-based Automation of the Observe-Analyze-Act Loop: Will it become a reality?," position paper submitted for review, 2005. [bib]
Uttamchandani, Sandeep, Xiaoxin Yin, John Palmer, Gul Agha. "MonitorMining: Creating Domain Knowledge for System Automation Using a Gray-box Approach," To Appear in Proceedings of the Ninth IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Nice, France, May, 2005. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
Uttamchandani, Sandeep, Guillermo Alvarez, Gul Agha. "DecisionQoS: an adaptive, self-evolving QoS arbitration module for storage systems," 5th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY 2004), pages 67-76, Yorktown, NY, June , 2004. [pdf] [bib]
Uttamchandani, Sandeep. "Polus: A Declarative Self-Refining Approach for Dynamic System Management," PhD Prelims Report (in progress), 2004. [bib]
Uttamchandani, Sandeep, Kaladhar Voruganti, Sudarshan M. Srinivasan, John Palmer, David Pease. "Polus: Growing Storage QoS Management beyond a ," 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04) , 2004. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
Uttamchandani, Sandeep, Carolyn Talcott, David Pease. "Eos: An Approach of Using Behavior Implications for Policy-based Self-management," 14th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (To appear in LNCS), 2003. [pdf] [bib]
Sarkar, Prasenjit, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Kaladhar Voruganti. "Storage Over IP: When Does Hardware Support Help? ," 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '03) , 2003. [pdf] [bib]
Uttamchandani, Sandeep. "StorageAgent: An Agent-based approach for dynamic resource sharing in a Storage Service," 1st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '02) (Work-In-Progress), 2002. [pdf] [bib]
Uttamchandani, Sandeep, Gul Agha. "WAPSec: A Personalized Security Architecture for WAP," 2nd Asian International Mobile Computing Conference 2002 (AMOC 2002), 2002. [bib]
Uttamchandani, Sandeep. "Customizable Security Architectures ," Masters thesis (Advisor: Gul Agha), 2001. [bib]