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I am a
professor of computer science
and holder of the
J. Robert Beyster
Chair in Engineering
at the
University of California, San Diego,
where I have been on the faculty since 1987.
I teach operating systems at the graduate and undergraduate levels,
and my
research
interests are
in operating systems, distributed systems and networks,
focusing on performance, reliability and security
of Internet-scale systems
with highly decentralized control (as in peer-to-peer systems).
I
received my
Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of California, Berkeley
(with dissertation on
fundamental problems of decentralized control in
large-scale distributed systems,
advised by
Domenico Ferrari),
and
my bachelor's and master's degrees
from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(with dissertation on
the design and implementation of
computer-synthesized musical performance systems,
advised by
Marvin Minsky
and mentored by
Hal Alles
and
Max Mathews
at Bell Laboratories).
I am a recipient of the UCSD Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award in Undergraduate Teaching (2007), the UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2003), the IBM Faculty Award (1991), the TRW Young Investigator Award (1991), the NCR faculty award (1991), and the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989). I was a member of the IDA/DARPA Defense Science Study Group V (1996-97). I have served on numerous ACM and IEEE technical program conference committees, including those for SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, ICDCS, INFOCOM, Multimedia, NOSSDAV, CSCW, and ISADS. I also served on and chaired the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award committee (1993-97) and numerous NSF award and review committees. More recently, I have been actively involved in outreach programs to interest high school students in computer science. In particular, for the past three summers I have led UCSD's computer science program for COSMOS, a summer school for top high school students.