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.

Publications

2008

• Sasha Ames, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, QUASAR: Interaction with File Systems Using a Query and Naming Language, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-08-03, September 2008. [Distributed Metadata Management]

2007

• Jonathan Koren, Yi Zhang, Sasha Ames, Andrew Leung, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Searching and Navigating Petabyte Scale File Systems Based on Facets, Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW 07), November 2007. [Distributed Metadata Management]
• Sasha Ames, LiFSBrowse: A Visual, User Environment for the Linking File System, Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-07-08, August 2007. [Storage Class Memories]

2006

• Sasha Ames, Nikhil Bobb, Kevin Greenan, Owen Hofmann, Mark W. Storer, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Brandt, LiFS: An attribute-rich file system for storage class memories, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE / 14th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, May 2006. [Storage Class Memories]

2005

• Sasha Ames, Nikhil Bobb, Scott A. Brandt, Adam Hiatt, Carlos Maltzahn, Ethan L. Miller, Alisa Neeman, Deepa Tuteja, Richer file system metadata using links and attributes, Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE / 13th NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April 2005. [Storage Class Memories]