Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Fig. 1: Figure 7 from " Sprinter: Speeding Up High-Fidelity Crawling of the Modern Web " Introduction      Dr. Ayush Goel is a recent Ph.D graduate from the University of Michigan’s Systems Lab , studying under Dr. Harsha V. Madhyastha and Dr. Ravi Netravali , now working at Hewlett-Packard Labs as a Research Scientist. While the UMich Systems Lab does not necessarily work on Web archiving, much of their work has overlap with our own here at the Web Science and Digital Libraries group. I first became aware of Dr. Goel’s work through his previous work and publication, “ Jawa: Web Archival in the Era of JavaScript ”, which was mentioned by former WS-DL alumnus Emily Escamilla in her 2022 IIPC Web Archiving Conference trip report , and again in her 2023 IIPC WAC trip report . The Jawa project is an impressive accomplishment on its own but it is only a piece of Dr. Goel’s contributed body of work. With impacts on my own research work and long-lasting impacts for the We...