Darrell D. E. Long

Darrell D. E. Long, Fellow IEEE, Fellow AAAS is the Director of the Storage Systems Research Center. He is Professor of Computer Science and holds the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair. His current research interests in the storage systems area include high performance storage systems, archival storage systems and view-based file systems. His research also includes computer system reliability, video-on-demand, applied machine learning, mobile computing and computer security.

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Ethan L. Miller

Ethan L. Miller is a Professor of Computer Science in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, and is the Associate Director of the Storage Systems Research Center. He was a member of the RAID project at UC Berkeley, where he did his PhD on a decentralized parallel file system for high-end scientific computing. His current research interests include petabyte-scale file systems, archival storage systems and file systems and scalable view-based metadata management for storage-class memories. He is particularly interested in issues in file and storage system reliability, scalability, and security, both for short-term and archival storage.

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Martín Abadi

Martín Abadi is a Professor of Computer Science. He works on algorithms and mechanisms for improving file system and storage security.

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Jonathan Katz

Jonathan I. Katz received his Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University. He was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy and the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics at UCLA, and then Associate Professor and Professor in the Department of Physics and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences at Washington University, St. Louis. His research began in plasma physics and high energy astrophysics, and broadened to a variety of subjects in pure and applied physics, including materials, geophysics, hydrodynamics, biophysics and national security studies. He has consulted for a variety of organizations, including private sector corporations, FFRDC and National Laboratories. At present he consults for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and has been a member of JASON since 1975.

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Thomas Kroeger

Thomas M. Kroeger is currently on the technical staff at the Sandia National Laboratories and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering.

He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering with with Prof. Long in 2000. His Ph.D. research was on improving file systems through predictive caching techniques.

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Sri Kurniawan

Sri Kurniawan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering whose main research focuses on user-centered design of interactive systems, accessibility and usability, and using psychosocial theories to inform design of user interaction with technology. Her work in SSRC involves understanding how user behavior, strategy and performance should be translated into storage system design.

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Patrick Mantey

Prof. Patrick Mantey was the founding Dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering and holds the Jack Baskin Chair in Computer Engineering. He is the Director of the Information Technology Institute and a member of the Storage Systems Research Center. His interests include sensor networks, data acquisition, and multimedia systems.

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Katia Obraczka

Katia Obraczka is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering whose main research focus is in computer networking. She is working with other SSRC faculty on ways to deploy large-scale storage systems using commodity networks.

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Ken Pedrotti

Kenneth Pedrotti is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. His interests include devices and circuits for optical data storage, optical communication networks, VLSI clock distribution and imaging. Dr. Pedrotti has served on the board of governors of the IEEE Solid State Circuit Society and has authored over 50 papers and holds 8 patents.

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Hamid Sadjapour

Hamid Sadjapour is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research interests include coding theory, particularly Turbo, LDPC, and Space-time codes, equalization techniques, and communication theory. He is working with the SSRC to develop better ways to ensure storage system reliability and availability by efficient equalization and coding techniques suitable for data storage systems.

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Holger Schmidt

Prof. Schmidt is a member of the California Institiute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) and the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE). His research interests include single particle optics, integrated optofluidics, integrated optics for biomedical applications, nano-magneto-optics, nano-magnetism, time-resolved spectroscopy of molecules, semiconductors and nanostructures, quantum interference, electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), nonlinear optics, quantum optics, and all-optical semiconductor devices.

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Thomas Schwarz

Dr. Thomas Schwarz, S.J. is Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science here at the University of California and Professor and head of the Departamento de Informática y Ciencias de la Computación at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. Previously he was on the faculty at Santa Clara University. His interests include distributed data structures and error detection and correction codes.

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Wang-Chiew Tan

Wang-Chiew Tan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science. Her research interests include data provenance, annotations, and archiving as well as scientific databases. She is working with the SSRC on new file system functionality made possible by high-speed byte-addressable non-volatile storage.

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Yi Zhang

Yi Zhang is an Assistant Professor at University of California Santa Cruz. Her research interests include information retrieval, text mining, statistical machine learning, and natural language processing. She has collaborated with start-ups, large corporations and government agencies on related topics. Dr. Zhang received her Ph.D. and M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University. She is working with SSRC on the Distributed Metadata Management project, focusing on how to use rich key-value metadata to allow users to interactively navigate and search distributed file systems.

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Jincai Chen

Dr. Jincai Chen is a visiting scholar in the Storage Systems Research Center working with Professor Darrell D. E. Long. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST) in China. His research interests include magnetic storage, solid state memory, networking storage technology and system performance evaluation. He is a member of the IEEE, the ACM, and a Senior Member of China Computer Federation.

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Andy Hospodor
Post-Doctoral Fellow

Dr. Andy Hospodor has worked for IBM, Quantum (now Maxtor), and Western Digital, among other companies, since receiving his Ph.D. from Santa Clara University. His research interests include interconnection network architectures for storage systems and scalable storage for computational grids.

In addition to researching Shingled Write Disks within the SSRC, Dr. Hospodor is the Executive Director of the SSRC, and is helping to deepen the connections between the SSRC and industry.

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Arifa Nisar
Post-Doctoral Fellow

Dr. Arifa Nisar is a postdoctoral scholar in the SSRC working with Prof. Ethan Miller on issues in scalable storage systems for high performance computing. Her postdoctoral work is funded in part by the Computing Innovation Fellows Project.

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Yasuhiro Ohara
Post-Doctoral Fellow

Yasuhiro Ohara joined SSRC as a postdoctoral research scholar in 2011/10. He is working on Non-Hierarchical File System.

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Brad Smith

Brad Smith is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests are in distributed systems and computer communications. His current work is in the areas of policy-based routing, formalizing trust in the context of a routing computation, object routing, and the application of these technologies to the improvement of the security and robustness of Internet-based systems.

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Scott A. Brandt

Prof. Scott A. Brandt's research is in the area of Computer Systems. He specializes in both real-time systems and storage systems. His current research focuses on integrating real-time and non-real-time processing into a uniform processing environment and exploring novel solutions for robust guaranteeable management of system resources.

Carlos Maltzahn

Dr. Carlos Maltzahn is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science. He joined the SSRC in January 2005 after five years at Netapp where he worked in the performance engineering group.