Alumni

Sasha Ames

Sasha Ames completed his M.S. degree working with Prof. Ethan Miller on the design and implementation of the Linking File System, as part of the Storage Class Memories project. He later created the QUASAR file systems query language. He is now working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and pursuing his Ph.D.

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Kevin Greenan

Kevin Greenan completed his Ph.D. working on storage reliability with Prof. Ethan Miller. He was 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. He is now a member of the technical staff at Parascale.

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Eric Lalonde

Eric Lalonde received his M.S. in 2007, working with Prof. Brandt on the management of metadata. He also worked with Prof. Ethan Miller on performance monitoring for scalable storage systems. He is now working at Sun Microsystems.

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Christopher Olson

Christopher Olson worked with Prof. Ethan Miller on security in storage systems. His other interests include language and system support for distributed programming. He is now working at Google.

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Kristal Pollack

Kristal Pollack completed her MS with Prof. Long on quotas for petascale storage systems.

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Mark W. Storer

Mark Walter Storer recently completed his Ph.D. 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, and defended his Ph.D. thesis in February of 2009.

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Sage Weil

Sage Weil completed his Ph.D. working with Prof. Brandt on consistency protocols, data distribution (CRUSH), and the metadata manager in the Ceph distributed file system.

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