Dev is a PhD candidate in the Computer Science department at University of California Santa Cruz. He joined the SSRC in Spring 2017. His research interests lie in storage systems, operating systems and distributed systems, and programming languages.

He is working on better ways to work with low cost low reliability QLC flash. This includes study of reliability, usage cases, and better methods for reducing reads/writes, better error detection and correction. Dev is advised by Dr. Ethan L. Miller.

Dev has been an Engineering Intern at Riverbed Networks (2017), and an Architecture Enabling Intern at SK Hynix America Ltd. (2019)