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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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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Neoklis Polyzotis

Neoklis Polyzotis is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. His research interests include data management in structured P2P systems, on-line tuning for the physical design of a database, efficient evaluation of ranking queries, and approximate query answering over semi-structured data.

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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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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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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.