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October 27
NetApp founder Dave Hitz to speak at Baskin Engineering on November 4th.
October 12
The first Industrial Advisory Board meeting for the Center for Intelligent Storage Research (CRIS) will be held Jan. 21–22.
September 17
Weekly SSRC meetings for Fall 2009 will be on Wednesdays at noon in E2-599 starting on September 30th.
September 16
Profs. Miller and Long have been awarded an NSF grant for $553,000 to explore Scalable Data Management Using Metadata and Provenance.

Events

CRIS Industrial Advisory Board meeting
Thu, Jan. 21 at 8:00 AM
Silicon Valley Center

Alumni

Ahmed Amer Ahmed Amer received his Ph.D. working with Prof. Darrell Long. His doctoral research included work on the automated grouping of data for placement and mobile applications. Dr. Amer remains a research associate with the SSRC, and serves on the faculty of Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University. Full contact information and publication list
Sasha Ames Sasha Ames completed his M.S. degree working with Prof. Ethan Miller on the design and implementation of the Linking File System, as part of the Storage Class Memories project. He later created the QUASAR file systems query language. He is now working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and pursuing his Ph.D. Full contact information and publication list
Ismail Ari Ismail Ari is an Assistant Professor at Ozyegin University in Turkey. He spent 5 years as a senior research scientist at Hewlett Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto. He received his Ph.D. from University of California Santa Cruz in 2004 working with Prof. Ethan Miller. He earned his M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Maryland Baltimore County. His research interests include performance improvement and automation of networked storage systems, web services and service-oriented architectures, data mining, and event stream processing. Full contact information and publication list
Scott Banachowski Scott Banachowski received a Ph.D. working with Prof. Brandt on integrated schedulers for mixed workloads of real-time and best-effort processes. He now searches the web at Yahoo! Full contact information and publication list
Timothy Bisson Tim Bisson received his Ph.D working with Prof. Scott Brandt on using flash to improve hard disk power consumption, performance, and reliability. He now works in the Advanced Technology Group at NetApp. Full contact information and publication list
Nikhil Bobb Nikhil Bobb studied filesystem metadata under Scott Brandt with guidance from Carlos Maltzahn and Ethan Miller. Since getting his M.Sc. he has worked on the filesystem for OS X and internal Yahoo web services. He is now at Facebook working on productivity tools. Full contact information and publication list
Karl Brandt Karl Brandt received a masters in Computer Science, working on prediction in file systems with Prof. Long. He received a BS in Information Systems Management from UCSC and an AS in Electronics Technology from Foothill College. His research interests include security and file systems. Full contact information and publication list
Ian Brown Ian Brown received an M.S. working with Prof. Darrell Long. His interests include kernel internals, storage and file systems, and non-hierarchical storage (including relational databases, and semi-structured data storage). He is now working for ONStor. Full contact information and publication list
Randal Burns Randal Burns completed his Ph.D. working with Prof. Long researching delta compression and storage system performance. Dr. Burns is an Associate Professor at The Johns Hopkins University where he directs the Hopkins Storage Systems Laboratory. Full contact information and publication list
Avik Chaudhuri Avik Chaudhuri received his Ph.D. working on security analysis of file systems, operating systems, and distributed systems. In collaboration with his advisor, Prof. Martín Abadi, and other researchers at Microsoft Research India and École Normale Supérieure Paris, he has developed and applied formal techniques and tools for specifying and verifying security in state-of-the-art computer systems, including storage systems with distributed access control (such as NASD/OSD), file systems for untrusted storage (such as Plutus), and operating systems with multi-level security (such as Windows Vista and Asbestos). This research has often resulted in finding attacks and other security bugs in such systems, and provably correcting them. In 2009, he joined the Programming Languages group at the University of Maryland as a postdoctoral fellow. Full contact information and publication list
Ivan Dramaliev Ivan Dramaliev completed his Master's degree in Computer Science in 2003. His research was on the development of MEMS-based storage technologies. Full contact information and publication list
Mrunal Gawade Mrunal completed his M.S. degree with Prof. Ethan Miller. His primary interests include de-duplication in file systems and performance management in storage systems. Full contact information and publication list
Richard Golding Dr. Richard Golding is currently a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Previously he was Software Architect with Panasas, developing distributed storage solutions, and a Member of the Technical Staff at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He is also a Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests-in the odd spare moment-include fault tolerance and scalability in distributed systems, along with storage systems. Full contact information and publication list
Kevin Greenan Kevin Greenan completed his Ph.D. working on storage reliability with Prof. Ethan Miller. He was a member of the POTSHARDS, Pergamum and storage class memory projects. His interests include data reliability, coding theory, security, long-term archival storage and distributed systems. He is now a member of the technical staff at Parascale. Full contact information and publication list
Jeff Hagen Jeff Hagen completed his M.S. thesis with Prof. Miller. His research project involved a peer-to-peer model of distributed storage backup. He is now working at Oracle. Full contact information and publication list
Theodore Haining Theodore Haining recently completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science. He worked with Prof. Darrell Long on improving I/O system performance, and was a key contributor to the REINAS project. Dr. Haining is now at Oracle Corporation in Redwood City, California. Full contact information and publication list
Bo Hong Bo Hong wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the use of MEMS storage in constructing faster file systems. His co-advisors were Prof. Long and Prof. Brandt. He is now at Symantec. Full contact information and publication list
R. J. Honicky R.J. Honicky worked with Prof. Miller on algorithms to place, locate and reorganize replicated data. He is now working on his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. Full contact information and publication list
Reiner Kraft Reiner Kraft received his Ph.D. working with Prof. Stata. His research interests are in the areas of Internet information systems, Web information retrieval, hypertext, and security. He is now at Yahoo!. Full contact information and publication list
Thomas Kroeger Thomas M. Kroeger completed his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering with with Prof. Long. His research was on improving file systems through predictive caching techniques. He is currently with Validus Medical Systems and is also a Research Fellow here in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering. Full contact information and publication list
Eric Lalonde Eric Lalonde received his M.S. in 2007, working with Prof. Brandt on the management of metadata. He also worked with Prof. Ethan Miller on performance monitoring for scalable storage systems. He is now working at Sun Microsystems. Full contact information and publication list
Caixue Lin Dr. Caixue Lin worked with Prof. Brandt on resource allocation and soft real-time systems. His other interest includes storage and file systems. He is now at VMware. Full contact information and publication list
Ying Lin Ying (Lena) Lin received her M.S. working with Prof. Darrell Long on modeling power consumption of MEMS-based storage. She is now working for Symantec Corporation. Full contact information and publication list
Casey Marshall Casey Marshall completed his M.S. project with Prof. Miller on efficient data backup using deduplicated chunks and per-file chunk lists. By including error correction information with each chunk, the system can correct latent sector errors and other types of errors, improving the reliability of backed-up data. He currently worked as a software engineer at Pacific Biosciences in Menlo Park, developing a next-generation gene sequencing platform. Full contact information and publication list
Max Mehech Max Mehech did his MS with Prof. Miller on failures in interconnection networks for petascale storage systems. He completed his MS in Summer 2007, and is continuing to work on computer network systems at Woven Systems. Full contact information and publication list
Christopher Olson Christopher Olson worked with Prof. Ethan Miller on security in storage systems. His other interests include language and system support for distributed programming. He is now working at Google. Full contact information and publication list
David Pease David Pease is a senior member of the technical staff and manager in the Storage Software division at the IBM Almaden Research Center where he is in charge of the Storage Tank project. His research interests are in the areas of operating systems and storage systems. He completed his Ph.D. in 2008. Full contact information and publication list
Zachary Peterson Zachary Peterson finished his M.Sc. with Prof. Darrell Long on a data allocation policy for file systems that implement snap-shot with copy-on-write. Dr. Peterson recently completed his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University in the HSSL, where he worked under the direction of Prof. Randal Burns. Full contact information and publication list
Kristal Pollack Kristal Pollack completed her MS with Prof. Long on quotas for petascale storage systems. Full contact information and publication list
Benjamin C. Reed Benjamin Reed completed his Ph.D. with Prof. Long on SCARED/BRAVE secure network disks. He now works at Yahoo!, after spending several years as a staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Full contact information and publication list
Jeff Rybczynski Jeff Rybczynski graduated in 2005 with a M.S. in Computer Engineering. He worked with Prof. Patrick Mantey and Prof. Darrell Long on adaptive prefetching to conserve disk energy usage. He is currently working in the Network Software and Systems Technology Group within Cisco Systems on access protocols and subscriber based sessions for Intellegent Service Gateways (ISG). Full contact information and publication list
Miriam Sivan-Zimet Miriam Sivan-Zimet completed her Master's degree in Computer Science in 2001. Her research was on the development of probe-based storage. She is now with IBM Almaden. Full contact information and publication list
Mark W. Storer Mark Walter Storer recently completed his Ph.D. studying security and cost efficiency in archival storage. His advisor is Professor Ethan L. Miller. To study long-term security, he helped create POTSHARDS. To explore cost efficiency, he helped create Pergamum. He is currently working on ways to automate archival storage management. The path Mark has taken to computer science has been circuitous. He received his B.A. in Film Theory in 1997. After returning to school in 2004, he received his M.S. in computer science in 2006. He completed his advancement to candidacy in December of 2007, and defended his Ph.D. thesis in February of 2009. Full contact information and publication list
Alicja Szczurowska Alicja Szczurowska is a recent M.Sc. graduate who worked with Prof. Brandt on the potential uses of magnetic RAM (MRAM) in a file system. Full contact information and publication list
Deepa Tuteja Deepa Tuteja worked with Professor Brandt on the development of the linking file system. Full contact information and publication list
Rosie Wacha Rosie Wacha completed her M.S. working with Prof. Long on self managing storage arrays. Her research interests include data reliability and archival storage. Previously she worked on parallel I/O workload modeling with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Full contact information and publication list
Feng Wang Feng Wang completed his Ph.D with his advisor Prof. Scott Brandt in 2006. He is working at Symantec Corp. now. Full contact information and publication list
Sage Weil Sage Weil completed his Ph.D. working with Prof. Brandt on consistency protocols, data distribution (CRUSH), and the metadata manager in the Ceph distributed file system. Full contact information and publication list
Joel Wu Joel Wu received his Ph.D. working with Prof. Brandt on quality-of-service issues in storage systems. Full contact information and publication list
Qin Xin Dr. Chris Xin worked with Prof. Miller on the reliability of large-scale distributed storage systems. She is now working at Data Domain. Full contact information and publication list
Lan Xue Lan Xue is an M.S. graduate who worked with Prof. Brandt. Her M.S. project was on metadata management for object-based storage systems. Full contact information and publication list
Katherine Pu Yang Katherine Pu Yang completed her M.S. Degree in Computer Science in 1999. She is now with Cisco Systems doing embedded programming in IOS. Full contact information and publication list
Tsozen Yeh Tsozen (Frank) Yeh received his Ph.D. working with Prof. Darrell Long. His research was on using program-based information to predict file system behavior. Dr. Yeh is an assistant professor at Fu Jen University in Taiwan, where he directs the Computer Systems Laboratory. Full contact information and publication list
Lawrence You Lawrence You received his Ph.D. in 2006 after working with Prof. Long on a highly efficient archival storage system. Full contact information and publication list