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.

Publications

2001

• Thomas Kroeger, Darrell D. E. Long, Design and implementation of a predictive file prefetching algorithm, Proceedings of the 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, January 2001, pages 105–118. [Prediction and Grouping]

1999

• Thomas Kroeger, Darrell D. E. Long, The case for efficient file access pattern modeling, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VII), March 1999, pages 14–19. [Prediction and Grouping]

1997

• Thomas Kroeger, Darrell D. E. Long, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Exploring the bounds of web latency reduction from caching and prefetching, Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '97), December 1997, pages 13–22. [Prediction and Grouping]

1996

• Thomas Kroeger, Darrell D. E. Long, Predicting file-system actions from prior events, Proceedings of the Winter 1996 USENIX Technical Conference, January 1996, pages 319–328. [Prediction and Grouping]