- Prof. Shayan Garani received the Prof. Satish Dhawan state award for the year 2018 in the engineering sciences category, with citations to work done in physical data storage.
- Presentation at the prestigious FAST Conference: M. Vajha, V. Ramkumar, B. Puranik, G. Kini, E. Lobo, B. Sasidharan, P. V. Kumar, A. Barg, M. Ye, S. Narayanamurthy, S. Hussain, and Siddhartha Nandi, ``Clay Codes: Moulding MDS Codes to Yield an MSR Code,'' presented at the 16th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), Feb. 12-15, 2018, Oakland, CA.
- Presentation on “Storage Systems and Block chains,” at SDC 2018 by Professor K. Gopinath