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Tal Zussman | טל זוסמן
Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
tz2294@columbia.edu

Hello! I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Columbia University advised by Asaf Cidon. I am broadly interested in computer systems, especially resource pooling, CXL, memory tiering, storage systems, and eBPF. I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Columbia University.

Education

Columbia University
2023 - Present
Ph.D. in Computer Science
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Advisor: Asaf Cidon
Columbia University
2023 - 2024
M.S. in Computer Science
Columbia University
2019 - 2023
B.S. in Computer Science, minors in Political Science and Applied Mathematics
C.P. Davis Scholar

Industry Experience

Google
Fall 2024
Student Researcher, Compiler Optimization Team
Microsoft
Summer 2022
Applied Scientist Intern, AI for Sales Research Group
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Summer 2021
Research Intern, EES-14

News

  • 2025-07-11 Oasis accepted to SOSP ‘25!
  • 2025-03-28 PCIe pooling with CXL accepted to HotOS ‘25!
  • 2024-03-21 Memstrata accepted to OSDI ‘24!
  • 2023-09-05 Super excited 😆 to start as a research intern in Azure Research - Systems with Daniel Berger as my mentor!
  • 2023-05-17 Gave a talk about the limitations of PEBS for tracking main memory requests
  • 2023-03-28 Memtrade accepted to SIGMETRICS ‘23!
  • 2022-07-11 XRP wins Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award at OSDI ‘22!

Publications

cache_ext: Customizing the Page Cache with eBPF, SOSP'25
Tal Zussman* , Ioannis Zarkadas* , Jeremy Carin , Andrew Cheng , Hubertus Franke , Jonas Pfefferle , Asaf Cidon (* equal contribution)
code pdf poster
Custom Page Fault Handling With eBPF, 2nd eBPF Workshop (SIGCOMM'24)
Tal Zussman* , Teng Jiang* , Asaf Cidon (* equal contribution)
pdf slides
rabpro: global watershed boundaries, river elevation profiles, and catchment statistics, Journal of Open Source Software
Jon Schwenk , Tal Zussman , Jemma Stachelek , Joel C. Rowland
abstract code pdf slides
Veins of the Earth: a Flexible Framework for Mapping, Modeling, and Monitoring the Earths River Networks, AGU Fall Meeting 2021
Jon Schwenk , Jemma Stachelek , Katrina Bennett , Elizabeth Prior , Tal Zussman , Joel C. Rowland
abstract code poster slides

Preprints

BPF-oF: Storage Function Pushdown Over the Network, Arxiv
Ioannis Zarkadas* , Tal Zussman* , Jeremy Carin , Sheng Jiang , Yuhong Zhong , Jonas Pfefferle , Hubertus Franke , Junfeng Yang , Kostis Kaffes , Ryan Stutsman , Asaf Cidon (* equal contribution)
code pdf

Talks

Oasis: Pooling PCIe Devices Over CXL to Boost Utilization
AI and Systems Co-Design, Meta, July 2025
ACM HotOS 2025, May 2024
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Managing Memory Tiers with CXL in Virtualized Environments
Open Compute Project (OCP), Composable Memory System (CMS), August 2024
USENIX OSDI 2024, July 2024
Azure Research - Systems, Microsoft, February 2024
Xeon Memory Tiering Working Group, Intel, January 2024
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Limitations of PEBS for Tracking Main Memory Requests
Open Compute Project (OCP), Composable Memory System (CMS), May 2023
Azure Research - Systems, Microsoft, March 2023
slides video
XRP: In-Kernel Storage Functions with eBPF
Brown University Systems Seminar, April 2024
Northeastern University Systems Seminar, April 2024
Harvard University Systems Seminar, March 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison Systems Reading Group, March 2024
University of Washington Systems Seminar, February 2024
UCSD Big Arch Seminar, February 2024
Cornell University Systems Seminar, September 2023
Microsoft Research Asia ACE Talk Series, March 2023
Non-Volatile Memory Workshop (NVMW) 2023, March 2023
Meta Systems Talk, October 2022
eBPF Summit 2022, September 2022
USENIX OSDI 2022, July 2022
slides video
BPF for Storage: An Exokernel-Inspired Approach
ACM HotOS 2021, June 2021
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