<div dir="ltr"><p>Dear Prof. Choi and Prof. Kim,</p><p>I hope you are doing well. I wanted to briefly follow up on my note below regarding possible external reviewer opportunities for HotStorage ’26.</p><p>Since I wrote, I have also been invited to serve on the Program Committee for <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.systor.org%2f2026%2fprogram-committee%2f&c=E,1,tjQ68ZD8DxBjmWTW3iu0x0nVnccrDkIHOTpJPRkFF2se96o0DH8FahzZJkgCh9AT0uzGJCcL1XFkkLFI5m86gIOXrEYIJq4z8GkDSE_wBbhFA9xJpQ,,&typo=1">ACM SYSTOR 2026</a>, which closely aligns with HotStorage’s storage and systems focus. Given this additional context, I wanted to reiterate my interest in helping if HotStorage ’26 needs any external or ad hoc reviewers for submissions involving cloud storage, distributed or disaggregated storage systems, storage virtualization, QoS/performance, storage systems for ML, or resource-management and scheduling issues in modern cloud infrastructure.</p><p>I completely understand if the reviewer pool is already finalized, but I would be grateful to be considered if a suitable need arises. Thank you again for your consideration. Best regards.</p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 12:39 AM Pranshu Jain <<a href="mailto:pranshujain28@gmail.com" target="_blank">pranshujain28@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><p>Dear Professors Choi and Kim,</p><p>I hope you are doing well. I am writing to request whether HotStorage ’26 may still be using external reviewers for submissions, particularly in areas related to distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, storage virtualization, QoS, and systems for ML.</p><p>I am a Senior Principal Architect at VMware by Broadcom, where I lead the architecture and roadmap for resource-management and scheduling systems in VMware Cloud Foundation and vSphere, supporting infrastructure used for more than 70 million virtualized workloads globally. My work aligns well with HotStorage topics at the intersection of distributed systems and modern infrastructure, including virtualization-aware orchestration, application QoS, multi-resource management, and scheduling across Kubernetes and hypervisor layers for cloud and AI workloads.</p><p>On the research side, I am a senior author of an <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.usenix.org%2fconference%2fosdi20%2fpresentation%2fsuresh&c=E,1,ybWT_Ol72drSMWkEFP5U8ivg69PpYPg3r3WNuvppixxzEqS3et8X_memvTJb5EGThOCaA1zmZSsCcWFoqt9BC9wODnijGmQ7XAJ7kWAYY9z1qoErNpw_iGKZ-41T&typo=1" target="_blank">OSDI ’20 paper on declarative cluster management</a>, and I have authored several <a href="https://patents.google.com/?q=(-Temperature)&inventor=Pranshu+JAIN&country=US&status=APPLICATION&type=PATENT" target="_blank">patents in workload scheduling and orchestration</a>. I have also served as a Technical Program Committee member and reviewer for Broadcom’s global R&D conference for eight years through a highly selective process, and I was invited to present original research at VMworld to over 100 global customers.</p><p>I have attached my CV and included my Google Scholar profile below for reference. Please let me know if there is still an opportunity to contribute.</p><p>Best regards,<br></p></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Pranshu Jain</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Senior Principal Architect, VMware by Broadcom<br></span>(Previously a graduate student at Georgia Tech)<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=1l29Y0MAAAAJ" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=1l29Y0MAAAAJ</a></div></div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Pranshu Jain</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Senior Principal Architect, VMware by Broadcom<br></span>(Previously a graduate student at Georgia Tech)<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=1l29Y0MAAAAJ" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=1l29Y0MAAAAJ</a></div></div></div></div>