Ian Adams

Ian Adams is a second year grad student who joined the SSRC in the summer of 2008. His interests include archival storage and automatic management of distributed and peer-to-peer systems.

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Deepavali Bhagwat

Deepavali Bhagwat is a PhD candidate working with Prof. Darrell Long in the Archival Storage project. Her research focuses on scalability issues with respect to data de-duplication, indexing and retrieval for archival and backup storage systems. She is also interesting in developing solutions that apply the right level of redundancy to de-duplicated data for high availability. Along with her advisor she also works with researchers at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto.

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Neerja Bhatnagar

Neerja Bhatnagar is a Ph.D. candidate working with Prof. Ethan L. Miller on investigating energy-security/reliability trade-offs in storage-based sensor networks. Neerja's research interests are computer security, reliability, and sensor networks.

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Damian Eads

Damian Eads is a Ph.D. student studying the application of machine learning to tackle remote sensing, imagery, time series, and systems problems. He collaborates with Professor Ethan Miller on the use of machine learning for storage problems. As a Staff Research Assistant for the ISR Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he develops data analysis algorithms for remote sensing data under the direction of Dr. James Theiler. He graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Computer Science in 2004 (w/ High Honors), and minored in Mathematics and Psychology.

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Mrunal Gawade

Mrunal is a second year graduate student working with Prof. Ethan Miller. His primary interests include de-duplication in file systems and performance management in storage systems.

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Karen Glocer

Karen Glocer is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science doing thesis research at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Kevin Greenan

Kevin Greenan is a Ph.D. candidate working on storage reliability with Prof. Ethan Miller. He is a member of the POTSHARDS, Pergamum and storage class memory projects. His interests include data reliability, coding theory, security, long-term archival storage and distributed systems.

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Keren Jin

Keren Jin joined the SSRC in 2008. His interests involve data deduplication and virtual machines. He is working on applications of virtual machine deduplication with Prof. Miller.

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Stephanie Jones

Stephanie Jones is a second year Ph.D. student currently working with Prof. Long on data de-duplication. She has done previous work on view-based file systems and security in petabyte scale storage systems. Her research interests are file systems, computer security, and data reliability.

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Jonathan Koren

Jonathan Koren is a PhD student working with Dr. Yi Zhang on the Scalable Metadata Management project. His research interests include faceted search, context-aware computing and adaptive interfaces, content and collaborative filtering, personalization, and machine learning.

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Jeff LeFevre

Jeff LeFevre is a first year PhD student at the SSRC working with Professor Darrell Long. He is broadly interested in systems, storage, and data encoding. He has spent summer 2007 and 2008 at Google and previous summers at Teradata working on storage characterization, performance analysis, and virtualization. His current work is on improving disk array performance and reliability.

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Andrew Leung

Andrew Leung is a 4th year PhD student working on search and indexing in storage systems with Prof. Ethan Miller. His current focus is on design and integration of scalable, distributed indices for file and storage systems. Andrew has also worked on the Ceph file system, particularly aspects regarding security and cluster design, as well as, file system tracing and benchmarking.

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Alex Nelson

Alex Nelson has been a graduate student and member of the SSRC since Fall of 2008. His interests include archival storage, computer security, long-term data management, and secure and shared storage.

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Aleatha Parker-Wood

Aleatha Parker-Wood is a first year Ph.D. student studying information retrieval under Professor Ethan Miller. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2008 with a B.S. in Computer Science. Her research interests include information retrieval, natural language processing, search personalization, and distributed file systems.

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Avani Wildani

Avani Wildani is a second year graduate student currently working with Prof. Ethan Miller. Her research interests include reliability, reputation systems, computer security, and peer-to-peer networks.

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Tim Kaldewey

Tim Kaldewey joined the SSRC in 2005 and worked with Prof. Scott Brandt. His research interests include real-time systems, storage QoS, storage performance management, and parallel systems.

Anna Povzner

Anna Povzner worked on performance management in storage systems with Prof. Scott Brandt. She did previous work on supporting soft real-time processing in an integrated real-time CPU scheduler. Her research was on resource management algorithms for providing guaranteed performance to mixed workloads executing concurrently in a shared storage system and on virtualizing disk performance.