Bio

Founder and director of the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research in Open Source Software (cross.ucsc.edu). Co-founded the Systems Research Lab, known for its cutting-edge work on programmable storage systems, big data storage & processing, scalable data management, distributed system performance management, and practical reproducible evaluation of computer systems. Co-founded and became key mentor of Sage Weil’s Ceph project (ceph.io). Graduated 9 Ph.D. students and 12 M.S. students since 2008. His work is funded by nonprofits, government, and industry, including Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and industry members of the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS).