Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau

Summary

Andrea Carol Arpaci-Dusseau (also published as Andrea Dusseau) is an American computer scientist interested in operating systems, file systems, data storage, distributed computing, and computer science education. She is a professor of computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau
NationalityAmerican
Other namesAndrea Dusseau
EducationPh.D. computer science, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
B.S. computer engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1991
Known fordata storage and computer systems
SpouseRemzi Arpaci-Dusseau
AwardsSIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, ACM Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Stanford University
Thesis Implicit Coscheduling: Coordinated Scheduling with Implicit Information in Distributed Systems  (1998)
Doctoral advisorDavid Culler

Education and career edit

Arpaci-Dusseau majored in computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, graduating in 1991.[1] She completed a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998; her dissertation, Implicit Coscheduling: Coordinated Scheduling with Implicit Information in Distributed Systems, was supervised by David Culler.[1][2]

After postdoctoral research at Stanford University, she joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty as an assistant professor in 2000, and became a full professor there in 2009.[1]

Personal life edit

Arpaci-Dusseau is married to Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, also a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an expert on data storage; they are frequent collaborators.[3]

Book edit

With Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Arpaci-Dusseau is the co-author of the free 2018 book Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces.

Recognition edit

In 2018, Arpaci-Dusseau and her husband were the winners of the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, "for outstanding leadership, innovation, and impact in storage and computer systems research".[4] Arpaci-Dusseau was named a 2020 ACM Fellow "for contributions to storage and computer systems".[5]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2021-03-18
  2. ^ Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau's Biography, retrieved 2021-03-18
  4. ^ Johansen, Håvard (9 October 2018), The Mark Weiser Award 2018, ACM SIGOPS, retrieved 2021-03-18
  5. ^ 2020 ACM Fellows Recognized for Work that Underpins Today's Computing Innovations, Association for Computing Machinery, 13 January 2021, retrieved 2021-03-18

External links edit

  • Home page
  • Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau publications indexed by Google Scholar