Sam Kumar

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

University of California, Los Angeles

Office: 496B Engineering VI

E-mail: samkumar [at] cs [dot] ucla [dot] edu

Service

Program committee member, OSDI 2026
Program committee member, IEEE S&P 2026
Program committee member, NSDI 2026
External review committee member, ASPLOS 2026
MS admissions committee member, UCLA Computer Science (2024-2025)
Program committee member, NSDI 2025
Co-author of the revised UC Berkeley EECS Operating Systems Preliminary Exam Syllabus (2023)
- Organized an effort, among PhD students, to revise the syllabus. It had last been revised in 2005 (18 years prior).
Co-organizer of the Systems Reading Group, UC Berkeley EECS (2021-2022)
Creator and organizer of the DARE Research Workshop, UC Berkeley EECS (2021)
Graduate admissions reader, UC Berkeley EECS (2018-2019)
Subreviewer for SOSP 2023, SOSP 2021, S&P 2020, SOSP 2019, NSDI 2019, and OSDI 2018