Students

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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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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Stephanie Jones

Stephanie Jones is a first year graduate 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 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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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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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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