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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 interested in computer systems, especially operating systems, memory management, storage systems, and eBPF. I have also done work in compilers, linkers, and runtime systems. I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Columbia University.

Education

Columbia University
2023 - Present
M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
M.S. awarded in Feb. 2024
Advisor: Asaf Cidon
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
AllianceBernstein
Summer 2020
Software Engineering Intern, Multi-Asset Investment Research Technologies

News

  • 2025-10-03 cache_ext accepted to Linux Plumbers Conference ‘25!
  • 2025-07-11 cache_ext accepted to SOSP ‘25!

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 slides
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 poster

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

AArch64 Thunk Cost: Analysis and Mitigations
Google, December 2024
Custom Page Fault Handling with eBPF
2nd eBPF Workshop (SIGCOMM 2024), August 2024
slides
cache_ext: Customizing the Page Cache with eBPF
Linux Plumbers Conference 2025, December 2025
ACM SOSP 2025, October 2025
IBM Research Sustainable Computing Group, July 2024
slides
BPF-oF: Storage Function Pushdown Over the Network
IBM Research Sustainable Computing Group, January 2024
COMS 4118 Operating Systems I, Columbia University, May 2023
Aptos Labs, August 2022
River and Basin Profiler
AGU Fall Meeting 2021, December 2021
Los Alamos National Laboratory, August 2021
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