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Dr. Janki Bhimani is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Data Management Research Lab (DaMRL) at Florida International University (FIU). Prior to joining FIU in 2019, she worked with Samsung Semiconductors. She obtained her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston. Dr. Bhimani’s expertise spans the areas of system design, storage systems, memory management, computer architecture, electronic design automation (EDA), cloud computing, big data, modeling and simulation, resource management, capacity planning, machine learning (ML), and high-performance computing (HPC). She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, FIU Top Scholar Award, KFSCIS Excellence in Research Award, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) Faculty Scholarship, and Distinguished Reviewer and Best Paper Awards from flagship conferences. Her research has been supported by $4.9 million in funding from prestigious federal and state agencies such as NSF and Cyber Florida, as well as industries like Samsung Semiconductors, out of which $1.8 million are her PI funds. Her research has led to publications in high-impact journals such as IEEE TCC, IEEE TVT, ACM TOS, IEEE TC, ACM TOMACS, IEEE TBDATA, and IEEE TMSCS, and publications in highly selective conferences and workshops such as DAC, HPCA, DATE, CLOUD, HPDC, and HotStorage, earning an h-index of 16 and about 1000 citations, as well as 10 top-graded patent awards. Dr. Bhimani’s graduated student alumni have gone on to successful research careers in academia and industry. As an educator, Dr. Bhimani is passionate to demonstrate excellence in her teaching and service roles. She has taught various core and effort intensive graduate and undergraduate level courses such as Storage Systems and Data Structures. She has taken on various leadership roles of general chair, program committee chair, track chair, publicity chair, session chair, etc. in organizing conferences such as CCGRID, ACM HotStorage, and HPDC. Within FIU, she has experience serving on the Faculty Hiring Committee, Awards Committee, CEC Faculty Council, Subject Area Coordinator, Graduate Committee, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, and Seminar Series Coordinator. Beyond her professional pursuits, in her free time, she is a creative visual artist who paints with oils on canvas.
My Expertise
Research:
- Grants: Secured $4.9 million in research funding from NSF, Cyber Florida, and Samsung Semiconductors with $1.8 million as PI. I recieved NSF CAREER award and Sole PI NSF Core proposal funding recently, other five proposals are under review, including two as PI. My future plans include applying for large grants from DOE, NSF, and AFOSR.
- Awards, Publications, and Patents: Contributed significantly with 10 high-impact journal articles, 35 peer-reviewed conference papers, 10 patents as the lead inventor, and about 1000 citations. Recognized with Awards including NSF CAREER, FIU Top Scholar, KFSCIS Excellence in Research, Distinguished Reviewer, and Best Paper Awards.
- Student Advising/Mentoring: Graduated one Ph.D. student, who is now tenure track Assistant Professor at Missouri State University, mentored eight Hispanics, one Asian American, and three women in the past five years.
- Collaborations: Established collaborations with institutions like the University of Maryland, University of Chicago, Argonne National Lab, Syracuse University, and industry leaders Samsung Semiconductors and IBM Research.
Teaching:
- Designed and taught three core courses, achieving an average student feedback rating of 4.13/5.
- Secured Quality Matters (QM) certification for courses.
- Led curriculum update efforts to integrate a Data Structures course taught in multiple programming languages.
- Implemented module-based content distribution, live feedback incorporation stategy, and class projects on Chameleon cloud platform.
Service:
- Contributed to FIU's growth, serving on the Faculty Hiring Committee, Awards Committee, CEC Faculty Council, Subject area coordinator, Graduate Committee, DEI Committee, and as Seminar Series Coordinator.
- Led roles such as General Chair, Publicity Chair for ACM HotStorage, Program Committee Track Chair for CCGRID, Session Chair for USENIX FAST, and Poster Chair for HPDC. Extensive service as a TPC member for conferences like USENIX FAST, IPDPS, CLOUD.
- Volunteering at the Center for Women and Gender Studies.
- Received Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) Faculty Scholarship for two years and Certificate of Completion from ASEE DELTA Junior Faculty Institute. Participated in STRIDE workshop for hiring, tenure, and promotion, Diversity Advocate workshop, and Bystander Leadership workshop.
- I am passionate to drive innovations and lead a system design solution team to improve performance, total cost ofownership, and reliability with my problem-solving attitude and technical expertise.
- I desire to develop next generation end-to-end stack memory management solutions that effectively utilize emerging disaggregated, distributed, heterogeneous memory/storage resources to address the needs of evolving applications including ML/AI, and also explore the power of ML/AI as well as its limits and overheads in improving many aspects of the storage stack, such as performance and management complexity.
- An approachable, accountable, and genuine leader, I lead talented cross-functional teams committed to excellence in alignment with best practices and quality standards.
- As a true forward-thinker, I innately interpret and capitalize on early trends, personally guiding the entry of research on emerging technologies and pioneering “firsts” by successfully acquiring multimillion-dollar federal competitive grants as a lead Principal Investigator.
- As a quick learner, I can assimilate new ideas efficiently with my strategic thinking capabilities to come up with several solutions to solve a problem and analyze them quickly to determine the best course of action.
