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`CURRICULUM VITAE OF ANDREW HOSPODOR
`Andrew David Hospodor, Ph.D.
`Santa Cruz, CA 95062-5359, USA
` 408.921.5099 andy.hospodor@ieee.org
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`Education
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`An accomplished executive, engineer-scientist experienced in both startups and
`Fortune 500 companies having extensive background
`in distributed systems,
`applications and storage. Strengths include industrial-academic relationship building,
`intellectual property development, Inter Parte Review, Source Code Inspection, data
`forensics, industrial espionage, strategic planning and technical leadership,
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` Ph.D. Computer Engineering , Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. 1994
` Emphasis on storage architecture and embedded systems. Minor in business administration.
` Dissertation: A Study of Prefetch in Caching SCSI Disk Drive Buffers.
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` M.S. Computer Science, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. 1986
` Concentrated studies in networking, communications, data storage, memory hierarchies,
`interfaces, computer architecture, performance measurement, and error correction coding.
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` B.S. Computer Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA. 1981
` Emphasis on core engineering, computer programming, architecture, physics, mathematics.
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`Experience
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`Center for Research in Storage Systems, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. 2009 – 2017
`Executive Director and, Project Scientist
`Engaged in research and funding related activities. Worked with faculty to develop funding strategies
`and manage industrial sponsors. Participated in NSF and UC led events designed to attract research
`funding into the data storage space. Built relationships with industrial and academic contacts.
`Advised graduate and undergraduate students and reviewed their results pre-publication. Created a
`new area of research in Genomic Data Storage and incorporated into CRSS. Under NSF guidance,
`organized a group of similar centers in Data Analytics and Data Visualization to propose a new
`Engineering Research Center in Data Science for Health.
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`BookRenter, San Jose, CA.
`CTO
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`2006 – 2008
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`Led the team that created the first nationwide book rental service. Defined the architecture of a new
`web 2.0 platform for e-business that combines distributed computing with Ruby on Rails (RoR),
`mySQL, and web services of partners like Amazon, Barnes&Noble and UPS. Formed capitalization
`strategy, managed fund raising activities and created partnerships to maximize equity leverage.
`Responsible for all technical aspects of www.bookrenter.com from hiring to operations.
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`GridPlan, Santa Clara, CA.
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`Architect
`Introduced the first open source capacity planning tool for Grid Computing that enabled both
`Enterprise, e-business and Scientific environments to accurately access the value of computational
`grids, cloud computing, large-scale Linux clusters, blade servers and distributed compute farms.
`Provided the crucial ability to assess cost-performance of interconnection strategies (such as Infini-
`Band, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Myrinet), processors (such as XEON, Opteron), storage, switches and
`middleware. Established partnerships with Grid Global Forum (GGF), hardware vendors, independent
`software vendors and open source providers to provide best-of-breed planning technology toIT shops.
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`2001 - 2003
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`Corosoft, Inc., Cupertino, CA.
`CTO, Founder
`Developed a novel approach to managing enterprise e-business applications (databases, appservers,
`webservers, file services, network services). Introduced Corosoft virtualization software that
`aggregates resources (servers, networks, storage) behind application services. Built team, raised
`$3.8M funding, delivered product to market. Established partnerships in enterprise management
`(BMC, HP), grid computing (Platform, IBM), network content management (F5) and software
`(Oracle, Microsoft). Extended strategy to include power management (ACPI) middleware, streaming,
`clustering file systems, volume management and flexible storage architectures.
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`Western Digital Corp., San Jose, CA.
`Vice President, Systems Architecture
`Responsible for all aspects of technology in the formation of new business units. Reported to the
`Chief Technical Officer and VP of Business Development. Identified new technologies for Enterprise
`Storage Area Networking (SAN) and Audio/Video streaming storage networking systems, most
`notably isochronous switched fabrics based upon PCI Express and Infiniband. Drove strategic
`relationships with well-established software companies such as Microsoft and Veritas for existing
`technology. Identified and structured relationships with partners and performed due diligence on
`emerging key technology startups that led to capital investment of $2-5M. Created detailed business
`plans including capitalization, development and staffing requirements.
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`Quantum Corp., Milpitas, CA.
`Storage Architect, Director, Network Storage Architecture Group
`Manager, Advanced Storage Applications Group
`Led team that developed the first low-cost Network Attached Storage (NAS) disk and tape products.
`Coordinated company wide technology direction for storage management, file systems, device
`drivers, BIOs, and APIs for FibreChannel (FC), Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), InfiniBand (IB), Redundant
`Arrays of Independent Disks, etc. Responsible for technical relationships with strategic partners, such
`as Microsoft, Legato, Veritas, Oracle. Supported business units with cross connects to Compatibility
`Lab, Design Engineering, Sales and Marketing. Participated in customer investigations of new
`storage applications and developed requirements for new storage markets. Managed architecture and
`performance labs to provide real data for product planning. Created and managed storage simulator
`team that laid groundwork for delivery of SCSI, IDE, ATA-33, to 133 interfaces, ultimately resulting
`in net savings of $50M+. Participated in architecting, planning and specification of Self-Monitoring,
`Automatic Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) for intelligent storage devices.
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`1999 - 2001
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`1993 - 1999
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`Institute for Information Storage Technology, Santa Clara University.
`1990 - 1993
`IIST Research Fellow and Instructor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
`(Adjunct Faculty)
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`1990
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`Investigated performance of magnetic disk, optical disk, magnetic tape, and buffering in relation to
`computer system performance. Researched data storage interfaces and architectures and interacted
`with local data storage industry. Developed relationships with companies such as Quantum, Conner,
`Seagate, IBM, Iomega and Maxtor. Generated research proposals including budget and staffing
`requirements and followed proposals through federal government approval. Represented IIST as part
`of the $24.5M NSIC Ultra-High Density Storage project. Responsible for teaching graduate and
`undergradute courses.
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`IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA.
`Visiting Scientist
`Spent a summer at IBM Almaden Research Center as part of my doctoral studies. Investigated the
`performance of IBM’s new 5.25” enterprise data storage devices (codename Sutter and Sawmill) and
`3.5” devices using the Intelligent Peripheral Interface (IPI). Developed analysis tools and
`benchmarked the performance of IBM storage devices against competitive products. Provided input
`to executive management on competitive aspects of hard disk drive design, specifically interfaces and
`buffering, as well as emerging interfaces, such as FibreChannel, SCSI and ATA.
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`1986 - 1989
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`I/O XEL Incorporated, Santa Clara, CA.
`Director of Engineering
`Developed and delivered performance analysis tools for the data storage industry including The SCSI
`Benchmark® tester. Clients included Quantum, Priam, Maxtor, Iomega.
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`Scientific Micro Systems, Mountain View, CA.
`Design Engineer
`Designed disk controller firmware for IEEE 796, LSI-11, and SCSI based disk controllers with
`embedded microprocessors and microcontrollers. Participated in successful IPO.
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`National Semiconductor, Santa Clara CA.
`System Engineer
`Designed and delivered the hardware and firmware of a Winchester Disk Controller for IEEE 796
`bus.
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`1982 - 1986
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`1981 - 1982
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`Digital Equipment Corporation, Tewksbury MA.
`Software Engineer
`Designed conformance tests for compilers and test packages for the VAX 11/780 VMS debugger
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`Languages
`Java, XML, HTML, UML, c, c++, 8086 assembler, 2900 bit slice, FORTRAN
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`Operating Systems
`Windows, NT, XP, ME, Linux, Ultrix, AIX, MS-DOS, VMS, CPM
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`Interfaces
`SCSI, IDE, ATA, FibreChannel, Gigabit Ethernet and TCP/IP, 10 GbE, InfiniBand, ISA, PCI
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`1978 - 1979
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`Patents
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`U.S. Patent 9,998,390, “Providing streaming media data” Issued June 12, 2018
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`U.S. patent 9,987,319, “Essential Element Management” Issued June 05, 2018
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`U.S. Patent 9,886,561, “Efficient encoding and storage and retrieval of genomic data” Issued
`February 6, 2018
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`U.S. Patent 9,358,259, “Recycling cannabinoid extractor” Issued June 7, 2016
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`U.S. Patent 9,155,767, “Essential element management” Issued October 13, 2015
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`U.S. Patent 8,980,941, “Controlled Cannabis decarboxylation” Issued March 17, 2015
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`U.S. Patent 8,343,553, “Essential element extractor “ Issued January 01, 2013
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`U.S. Patent 7,274,659, “Providing streaming media data” Issued September 25, 2007
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`U.S. Patent 7,002,926, “Isochronous Switched Fabric Network” Issued February 21, 2006
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`U.S. Patent 6,965,563, “Resource reservation system in a computer network to support end-to-
`end quality-of-service constraints” Issued November 15, 2005
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`U.S. Patent 6,888,831 “Distributed resource reservation system for establishing a path through a
`multi-dimensional computer network to support isochronous data” Issued May 3, 2005
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`U.S. Patent 6,744,772 “Converting asynchronous packets into isochronous packets for
`transmission through a multi-dimensional switched fabric network” Issued June 1, 2004
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`U.S. Patent 6,697,914 “Switched node comprising a disk controller with integrated multi-port
`switching circuitry” Issued February 24, 2004
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`U.S. Patent 6,615,312 “Method for processing file system service to reproduce stream data”
`Issued September 2, 2003
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`U.S. Patent 6,603,625 “Spindle synchronizing in a multi-dimensional network”
`Issued August 5, 2003
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`U.S. Patent 6,470,420 “Method for designating one of a plurality of addressable storage”
`Issued October 22, 2002
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`U.S. Patent 6,012,839 “Method and apparatus to protect data within a disk drive buffer”
`Issued January 11, 2000
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`U.S. Patent 5,771,397 “SCSI Disconnect/Reconnect timing algorithm for optimal performance”
`Issued June 23, 1998
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`U.S. Patent 4,851,998 “Method to Analyze Performance of Computer Peripherals”
`Issued July 25, 1989
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`As of June 2018, the above 19 patents were cited 373 times as prior art in patents granted by the
`US Patent and Trademark Office.
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`Peer Reviewed Publications
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`Preeti Gupta, Avani Wildani, Daniel Rosenthal, Ethan L. Miller, Ian Adams, Christina Strong,
`Andy Hospodor, "An Economic Perspective of Disk vs. Flash Media in Archival Storage,"
`Proceedings of the 22th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
`of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2014), September 2014. [Archival
`Storage]
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`Rekha Pitchumani, Andy Hospodor, Ahmed Amer, Yangwook Kang, Ethan L. Miller, Darrell D.
`E. Long, "Emulating a Shingled Write Disk," Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International
`Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication
`Systems (MASCOTS 2012), August 2012. [Shingled Disk]
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`Ziqian Wan, Alex Nelson, Tao Li, Darrell D. E. Long, Andy Hospodor, "Computer Hard Drive
`Geolocation by HTTP Feature Extraction," Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-12-04, May 2012.
`Technical Report UCSC-SSRC-12-04 [Digital Forensics]
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`Philippe Huibonhoa, Chris Williams, JoAnne Holliday, Andy Hospodor, Thomas Schwarz,
`“Redundancy Management for P2P Storage,” CCGrid 2007 CCGrid 2007, the 7th IEEE
`International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Rio De Jeniero, Brazil, May 2007.
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`Thomas J. E. Schwarz, Qin Xin, Ethan L. Miller , Darrell D. E. Long, Andy Hospodor, “Spencer
`Ng, Disk Scrubbing in Large Archival Storage Systems,” Proceedings of the IEEE / ACM
`International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and
`Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Volendam, The Netherlands, October 2004.
`Awarded Best Paper.
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`A.D. Hospodor, E.L. Miller, “Interconnection Architectures for Petabyte-Scale High-
`Performance Storage Systems”, Proceedings of the NASA/IEEE Conference on Mass Storage
`Systems and Technologies (MSST2004), College Park, Maryland, USA, April, 2004.
`Conference rated among top 15% by Citeseer.
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`Andy Hospodor, "Design Alternatives to Improve Access Time Performance Under DOS and
`UNIX", ASME Journal of Information Storage Systems, vol. 6, 1995.
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`Andy Hospodor, " Mechanical Access Time, Measurement and Calculation ", ASME Journal of
`Information Storage Systems, vol. 6, 1995.
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`Andrew David Hospodor, “The Effect of Prefetch in SCSI Disk Drive Cache Buffers”, Doctoral
`Dissertation, Institute for Information Storage Technology and Computer Engineering
`Department, Santa Clara University, 1994.
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`Andrew D. Hospodor, Albert S. Hoagland, "The Changing Nature of Storage Controllers,"
`Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Data Storage, vol. 81. no. 4, April 1993.
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`A.S. Hoagland, A.D. Hospodor, "The Information Storage Technology Program at SCU," IEEE
`Transactions on Education, vol. 36, no. 1, February, 1993
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`Conference Proceedings, Seminars and Presentations
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` “The Data Storage Industry: Trends and Performance” invited seminar, Electrical and Computer
`Engineering Graduate Seminar, Santa Clara University, January 22, 1998
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`Andy Hospodor, “Video On the Desktop: High Demands on Disk Drive Performance and
`Capacity”, Computer Technology Review, vol. 16, no. 5, May 1996.
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`Andy D. Hospodor, “Storage as the Backbone of Video Server Performance,” Proceedings of the
`Annual Broadcast Engineering Conference, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas,
`NV. April 1996.
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`"Performance alternatives under DOS and UNIX" and "Mechanical Access Time, Measurement
`and Calculation", ASME Info. Storage Conf, New Orleans, LA, November 1994.
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`Andy Hospodor, “Storage Interfaces & Architectures” and “RAID Technology,” seminars for
`Quantum Corp., Milpitas, CA, October 1994.
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`A. Hospodor, “Magnetic Disk Performance from Optical Disk,” Proceedings of the IEEE Laser
`Electro-Optics conference, Maui, HI, May, 1993
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`A. Hospodor, “Hit Ratio of Caching Disk Buffers,” Proceedings of the IEEE CompCon
`conference, San Francisco CA, Februrary, 1992
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`Andy Hospodor, “Measuring and Modeling Storage Access Times”, seminar for UC Berkeley
`Computer Science Department, January 1992.
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`A. Hospodor, “Storage Interfaces and Architectures”, an invited tutorial, presented IEEE Systems
`Design and Networks Conference, Santa Clara, CA, June, 1990.
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`Andy Hospodor, “SCSI Throughput, How it Affects Performance”, DiskTest Conference, San
`Jose CA, July, 1989.
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`Andy Hospodor, “Survival SCSI”, an invited tutorial, IEEE Systems Design and Networks
`Conference, Santa Clara, CA, May 1989.
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`Andy Hospodor, “Performance Analysis of Computer Peripherals”, proceedings of the IEEE
`Systems Design and Networks Conference, Santa Clara, CA, May 1989.
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`Andy Hospodor, “DCS - the Diagnostic Command Set for SCSI and SCSI-2,” ANSI X3B7.1,
`May 1989.
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`A. Hospodor, J. Hospodor, “U.S. Science and Technology Museums – 1”, IEEE Spectrum,
`special issue on science and technology for youth, vol. 32, no. 9, September, 1995.
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`Andy Hospodor, “Input, Output, and Throughput”, Proceedings of the IEEE Systems Design and
`Networks Conference, Santa Clara, CA, May 1989.
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` “The SCSI Disk Drive Performance Evaluation Report”, Dataquest report, November, 1988.
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`Andy Hospodor, “A New Look at Analyzing Peripheral Performance,” Computer Design,
`PennWell Publishing, vol. 27, no. 6, March 15, 1988.
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`Andy Hospodor, “The Quest for the Best,” Mini-Micro Systems, Cahners Publishing, vol. 22, no.
`11, November, 1988.
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`Andy Hospodor, “Software Puts SCSI to the Test,” Mini-Micro Systems, Cahners Publishing, vol.
`20, no. 2, February, 1987.
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`Professional Activities
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` Member, American Association of Cancer Researchers
` Member, Society of Cannabis Clinicians
` Panelist, National Science Foundation review of Big Data Initiatives 2014, 2015, 2016,
`2017
` Panelist, National Science Foundation review of the National Middleware Initiative
`(NMI) 2004
` Senior Member, IEEE and Computer Society
` Member, IEEE P1285 standards committee
` Member, Infiniband trade association
` Member ACM, Special Interest Group for Performance Evaluation (SIGMETRICS)
` Member, Grid Global Forum (GGF), Globus
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`Invitee, the 2004 International School of Grid Computing, Vico Equense, Italy
` Past program chair of Magnetics Society, Santa Clara Valley chapter
` Past research affiliate of University of California, Santa Cruz, System Storage Research
`Center
` Past research associate and Lecturer of Santa Clara University, Computer Engineering
`Dept.
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`Expert Witness
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`SBC v. InRange
`Brooks, Kushman, Detroit, MI, Northern District of Texas, 3:03-cv-00418
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`Exabyte v. Certance
`Weil, Gotshall and Manges, Redwood Shores, CA, District of Colorado, 1:04-cv-02061
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`EchoStar v. Tivo
`Irell and Manella, Irvine, CA, Eastern District of Texas, 5:05-cv-00081
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`HP v. SBC
`Brooks, Kushman, Detroit, MI, District of Delaware, 1:05-cv-00595
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`Axalto v. Toshiba
`Osha – Liang, Santa Clara, CA, Eastern District of Texas, 5:06-cv-00059
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`Tandberg Data v. Hewlett-Packard
`Bartlitt-Beck, Denver, CO, 01/20/2006, District of Colorado, 1:06-cv-00102
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`Mathworks v. Comsol
`Nixon Peabody, Boston, MA, Eastern District of Texas, 6:06-cv-00334
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`Overland Storage v. IBM
`Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, Investigation No. 337-TA-746, International Trade Commission
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`Round Rock v. Dell
`Farella Braun + Martel LLP, San Francisco, CA, Case: Case 4:11-cv-00332-RC-ALM
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`Overland Storage v. Quantum
`Durie Tangri, San Francisco, CA, Case: 3:12-cv-01599-JLS-BLM
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`Farstone v. Apple,
`Morrison & Foerster, Los Angeles, CA, Case 1:14-cv-01244-LMB-IDD
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`AMD v. LG,
`Fish & Richardson, Washington, DC, Case 8:13-cv-01537-ODW-JEM
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`CrossRoads v. Quantum,
`Durie Tangri, San Francisco, CA; Haynes and Boone, Dallas TX, Case No. 14-CV-00150 SS
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`MicroStrategy v. OpenRisk,
`Gleason & Gleason, Boston, MA, Case 1:14-cv-01244-LMB-IDD
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`EMC v. Pure Storage,
`Choate Hall, Boston, MA, Case 1:13-cv-12789-JGD
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`Allen v. County of Lake,
`Porter Scott, Sacramento, CA, Case 3:14-cv-03934-THE
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`Sony v. Fujifilm,
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`Baker Botts, New York, NY, Investigation No. 337-TA-1036, International Trade Commission
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`2017
`In re Seagate Technology LLC,
`Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, Seattle, WA, and Axler Goldich, Philadelphia, PA No. 3:16-cv-00523-
`JCS
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`Acquis v. EMC,
`Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, New York, NY, Case 6:13-cv-00639-LED
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`E-Numerate Solutions, Inc., E-Numerate, LLC v. Mattress Firm Holding Corp, Merrill
`Communications LLC, Merrill Corporation,
`Fredrickson and Byron, Minneapolis, MN, Case 1:17-cv-00933-RGA
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