Ahmad Raza’s manuscript accepted in Future Generation Computer Systems: “Improving Reproducibility of Interactive Notebooks using Application Virtualization”

Welcome Ziyang Jia to the Radiant-Systems Lab at Mizzou as a new PhD student!

The paper ‘Similarity-Based Assessment of Computational Reproducibility in Jupyter Notebooks’ by A S M Shahadat Hossain, Colin Brown, David Koop, and Tanu Malik got accepted at the ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability (ACM REP ’25). Shahadat will present the paper in Vancouver, Canada.

Congratulations to Bhanu Prakash Vangala on graduating with his master’s degree in computer science! He is now continuing on to pursue his PhD in computer science at Mizzou.

Welcome Shankaradithyaa Venkateswaran, an undergraduate student from IISc, joining as a research intern in the lab!

Congratulations to Bhanu Prakash Vangala on receiving the Outstanding Masters Student Award at the Mizzou Engineering Awards Banquet 2025!

‘Differential Analysis for System Provenance’ accepted to the PhD Symposium at the 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). Congratulations Yuta Nakamura!

‘Efficiently Reducing Storage Footprint in Reproducible Containers via I/O Specialization’ accepted to the 24th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid). Congratulations Aniket Modi, Rohan Tikmany, and Moaz Reyad!

‘Kondo: Efficient Provenance-driven Data Debloating’ accepted to the 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). Congratulations Aniket Modi and Rohan Tikmany!

‘Reproducible eScience: The Data Containerization Challenge’ in the Future of eScience track at IEEE eScience’23.

‘Efficient Differencing of System-level Provenance Graphs’ accepted to the ACM International Conference on Knowledge Management (CIKM). Congratulations Yuta Nakamura!

The First ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability (ACM-REP) was a huge success! See a summary here.

‘Towards Shareable and Reproducible Cloud Computing Experiments’ accepted to IEEE CloudSummit! Our vision of how to reproduce cloud-based experiments.

DICE Lab presents several posters and a talk on ‘Reproducible Notebook Containers’ at the 10th Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR).

‘Querying Container Provenance’ accepted to ACM Theory and Practice of Provenance at ProvenanceWeek. Congratulations Aniket Modi and Moaz Reyad!

Our paper ‘IOSPReD: I/O Specialized Packaging of Reduced Datasets and Data-Intensive Applications for Efficient Reproducibility’ accepted to IEEE Access.

Yuta Nakamura presents ‘Provenance-based Workflow Diagnostics Using Program Specification’ at the 29th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics.

The first ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability. Please consider contributing!

COV882: Resource Virtualization With Containers was well received at IIT Delhi. Thanks to the IIT Delhi students for a wonderful experience!

‘Reproducible Notebook Containers using Application Virtualization’ wins nominated as the Best Student Paper at eScience’22! Congrats Raza Ahmad and Nithin Manne.

‘Provenance-based Workflow Diagnostics Using Program Specification’ accepted to the 29th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. Congrats Yuta Nakamura!

Nithin presents ‘CHEX: Multiversion Replay with Ordered Checkpoints’ at VLDB’22.

‘Reproducible Notebook Containers using Application Virtualization’ nominated as the Best Student Paper at eScience’22!

‘Reproducible Notebook Containers using Application Virtualization’ accepted to eScience’22. Congrats Raza and Nithin.

DICE Lab is funded by the NASA AIST program for advancing reproducible containers to collaborative analytics! Elated to extend Sciunit to NASA workflows!

‘Expanding the Scope of Artifact Evaluation at HPC Conferences: Experience of SC21’ accepted to the PRECS workshop at HPDC. Thanks to Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner for collaborating on this.

Tanu Malik presents Reproducibility and Transparency Practices in HPC at the 2022 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing.

‘CHEX: Multiversion Replay with Ordered Checkpoints’ accepted to VLDB. Congrats Nithin and Shilvi.

Dai Hai Ton That presents ‘Learned Distribution Index for Column Stores’ at IEEE Big Data 2021.

Tanu Malik is organizing Theory and Practice of Provenance. Please consider submitting.

Tanu Malik participates in the SC21 Panel on computational reproducibility. Check out ‘Reproducibility in HPC: Passing Fad or a Work in Progress?’.

Project on Multiversion Execution launched. Nithin and Shilvi demonstrate it to scientists.

Tanu Malik and Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner successfully complete the SC21 Reproducibility Initiative Artifact Description and Artifact Evaluation. Our report is here. Artifacts are published here and here.

The survey paper on ‘Reproducibility Practice in High-Performance Computing: Community Survey Results’, in collaboration with Beth Plale and Line Pouchard, is published!

Several mentions of DICE group members at ProvenanceWeek’21:

• Tanu Malik successfully organizes Theory and Practice of Provenance.
• Raza Ahmad presents Practical Provenance Privacy Protection.
• Yuta Nakamura presents the TaPP 2020 paper on ‘Efficient Provenance Alignment in Reproduced Executions’. Slides are here.

Two new interns, Shilvi Satpati and Shravan RaviShankar, join DICE Lab!

Dai Hai Ton That has a short paper at the ACM Conference on Scientific and Statistical Databases (SSDBM), 2021. The paper is ‘On Lowering Merge Costs of an LSM Tree.’

Nithin Manne leaves to join a job at Argonne National Lab. Congrats, Nithin!

Yuta Nakamura presents ‘Content-defined Merkel Trees’ at the 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC), 2020. Slides are here.

Our paper on ‘Content-defined Merkel Trees’ is accepted at the 27th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC), 2020. Congrats to Yuta on his first paper!

James Wagner, a PhD student at DePaul, advised by our collaborator Alex Rasin and co-advised by Tanu Malik, successfully defends his PhD thesis! We wish Jay a successful career in his new position as Assistant Professor at the University of New Orleans. Jay also publishes two short papers:

• ‘DF-Toolkit: Interacting with Low-Level Database Storage’ at VLDB, and
• ‘ODSA: Open Database Storage Access’ at EDBT.

Several accolades for DICE members at ProvenanceWeek’20:

• Raza Ahmad demonstrates ‘PROV-CRT: Provenance Support for Container Runtimes’. Watch the demo here.
• Yuta Nakamura presents the paper on ‘Efficient Provenance Alignment in Reproduced Executions’.
• Raza Ahmad also presents his past work at SRI on discrepancy detection in whole network provenance.

Raza Ahmad joins the DICE Lab. Welcome, Raza!

Yuta Nakamura joins the lab as its first PhD student. Welcome, Yuta!

Dai Hai Ton That leaves DICE to join as a Research Scientist at the University of Alabama, Huntsville!