David Essary is a doctoral student with the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Computer Science, where he was advised by Prof. Ahmed Amer and worked on intelligent grouping for the purposes of improved caching, disk management, data layout, and power and latency reduction.

Publications

2009

• David Essary, Ahmed Amer, Avoiding State-Space Explosion of Predictive Metadata with SESH, Proceedings of the IEEE International Performance, Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), December 2009. [Prediction and Grouping]
• David Essary, Ahmed Amer, Space-Efficient Predictive Block Management, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS'09), Grenoble, France, October 2009. [Prediction and Grouping]