Students

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 peer-to-peer storage systems.

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Sasha Ames

Sasha Ames is working on interfaces for large-scale file systems and distributed metadata indices. As part of this project, he has created the QUASAR file systems query language. He has previously worked on the design and implementation of the Linking File System, as part of the Storage Class Memories project. Sasha is advised by Carlos Maltzahn. He works concurrently as an employee of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a Lawrence Scholar Program award, where he is supervised by Dr. Maya Gokhale. His research interests include file system interfaces, name-spaces, and distributed 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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Avik Chaudhuri

Avik Chaudhuri is a Ph.D. candidate working on security analysis of file systems, operating systems, and distributed systems. In collaboration with his advisor, Prof. Martín Abadi, and other researchers at Microsoft Research India and École Normale Supérieure Paris, he has developed and applied formal techniques and tools for specifying and verifying security in state-of-the-art computer systems, including storage systems with distributed access control (such as NASD/OSD), file systems for untrusted storage (such as Plutus), and operating systems with multi-level security (such as Windows Vista and Asbestos). This research has often resulted in finding attacks and other security bugs in such systems, and provably correcting them.

Beyond computer security, Avik's research interests also lie in programming languages and logic. He expects to graduate in Fall 2008, and is actively looking for industrial and academic research positions starting 2009.

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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 first year graduate student. His research interests include archival storage, file systems and QOS 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. He is working on applications of file 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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Tim Kaldewey

Tim Kaldewey joined the SSRC in 2005 and is working with Prof. Scott Brandt. His research interests include real-time systems, storage QoS, storage performance management, and parallel systems. Together with researchers at Oracle he is currently working on parallel database systems with a focus on outsourcing core system functionality to video cards, which by themselves are highly parallel architectures.

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Jonathan Koren

Jonathan Koren is a PhD student working with Dr. Yi Zhang on the Distributed Metadata 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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Andrew Leung

Andrew Leung is a 3rd 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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Aleatha Parker-Wood

Aleatha Parker-Wood will be starting as a first year graduate student in Fall 2008. Her primary research interest is information retrieval. She is working with Prof. Miller. Her prior experience has been in industry, working on web content management and publication systems.

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David Pease

David Pease is a Ph.D. student and a senior member of the technical staff and manager in the Storage Software division at the IBM Almaden Research Center where he is in charge of the Storage Tank project. His research interests are in the areas of operating systems and storage systems.

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Anna Povzner

Anna Povzner is a third year Ph.D. student working on performance management in storage systems with Professor Scott Brandt. She has done previous work on supporting soft real-time processing in an integrated real-time CPU scheduler. She is working on resource management algorithms for providing guaranteed performance to mixed workloads executing concurrently in a shared storage system. Her current focus is on virtualizing disk performance.

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Mark W. Storer

Mark Walter Storer is a fourth year Ph.D. student studying security and cost efficiency in archival storage. His advisor is Professor Ethan L. Miller. To study long-term security, he helped create POTSHARDS. To explore cost efficiency, he helped create Pergamum. He is currently working on ways to automate archival storage management.

The path Mark has taken to computer science has been circuitous. He received his B.A. in Film Theory in 1997. After returning to school in 2004, he received his M.S. in computer science in 2006. He completed his advancement to candidacy in December of 2007.

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Rosie Wacha

Rosie Wacha is a Ph.D. student working with Prof. Long on self managing storage arrays. Her research interests include data reliability and archival storage. Previously she worked on parallel I/O workload modeling with Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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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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