EREZ ZADOK, CURRICULUM VITAE
`Erez Zadok
`Phone: +1 631 632 8461 (office)
`Computer Science Department
`Fax: +1 631 632 8243
`349 New Computer Science
`Timezone: US/Eastern
`Stony Brook University
`Email: ezk@cs.stonybrook.edu
`Stony Brook, NY 11794-2424
`Web: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/˜ezk
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`RESEARCH INTERESTS
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`Operating systems with a special focus on file systems, storage, clouds, big data, hard-
`ware/architecture, encryption, security, benchmarking, performance analysis and optimization,
`energy efficiency, and system administration.
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`EDUCATION
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`May 2001
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`Ph.D., Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY,
`FiST: A System for Stackable File-System Code Generation.
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`Sep 1997 M.Phil., Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY
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`Oct 1994 M.S., Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY
`Discovery and Hot Replacement of Replicated Read-Only File Systems, with Application to
`Mobile Computing
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`May 1991 B.S., Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY
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`May 1982 Certified Technician, Electrical Engineering, Holtz College, Israel
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`PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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`Aug 2017–present Graduate Academic Adviser, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University
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`Jan 2016–present
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`Professor, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University
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`Jan 2007–2015
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`Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University
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`Jan 2001–Jan 2007 Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Stony Brook University
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`2013–present
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`Director, Smart Energy Technologies (SET) Faculty Cluster, Stony Brook University
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`2022–present
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`Technical Expert; Latham & Watkins, LLP
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`2021–present
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`Technical Expert; King & Spalding LLP.
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`2021–2022
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`Technical Expert; Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) LLP.
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`2021–present
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`Technical Expert; Perkins Coie LLP
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`2021–present
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`Technical Expert; Morrison & Forester, LLP.
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`2021–2022
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`Technical Expert; Jones Day, LLP.
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`2021–present
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`Technical Expert; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP.
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`2021
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`2020
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`2020
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`Technical Expert; Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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`Technical Expert; United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York
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`Technical Expert; Latham & Watkins, LLP
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`EX-1004
`US Patent 9,892,287
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`2020
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`Technical Expert; Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
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`2020–2021
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`Technical Expert; Covington & Burling, LLP
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`2019–2020
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`Technical Expert; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
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`2019
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`Technical Expert; Hogan Lovells LLP.
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`2018–2020
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`Technical Expert; King & Spalding LLP.
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`2018–2019
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`Technical Expert; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP.
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`2017–2018
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`Technical Expert; Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
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`2017–2019
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`Technical Expert; Keker, Van Nest, & Peters LLP.
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`2016–2018
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`Technical Expert; Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C.
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`2015–2018
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`Technical Expert; Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. (WilmerHale)
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`2015–2017
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`Technical Expert; Ropes & Gray, LLP.
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`2014–2015
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`Technical Expert; Foley & Lardner, LLP.
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`2014–2016
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`Technical Expert; Latham & Watkins, LLP.
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`2014–2016
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`Technical Expert; Keker & Van Nest, LLP.
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`2013–present
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`Managing Member; Zadoks Consulting, LLC.
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`2013–2014
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`Technical Expert; Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C.
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`2013
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`Technical Expert; Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.
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`2012–2015
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`Technical Expert; Susman Godfrey, LLP.
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`2012–2013
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`Technical Expert; Fish Richardson, LLP.
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`2010–2011
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`Technical Expert; Sughrue Mion, LLP.
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`2010
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`Technical Expert; One LLP.
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`2009–2010
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`Consultant; CTERA Networks, Inc.
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`2009–present
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`Consultant; Packet General Networks, Inc.
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`2006–2007
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`Technical Expert; Hennigan, Bennett, and Dorman, LLP.
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`1991–2000
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`Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, Columbia University
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`1999–2000
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`Director of Software Development, HydraWEB Technologies, Inc.
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`1994–1998
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`Project Leader, HydraWEB Technologies, Inc.
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`1990–1998
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`Consultant, SOS Corporation
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`1997
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`Manager of Computing Facilities, Computer Science Department, Columbia Univer-
`sity
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`1991–1998
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`Technical Staff Member, Computer Science Department, Columbia University
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`1989–1991
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`Assistant Lab Manager, Academic Information Systems, Columbia University
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`1987–1989
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`Student Consultant, Academic Information Systems, Columbia University
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`1984–1986
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`National Army Service, Israeli Air Force, Israel
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`1982–1984
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`Programmer, Commodore Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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`1981–1984
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`Computer Lab Manager, Holtz College, Tel-Aviv, Israel
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`PERSONAL
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`Born December 4, 1964, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
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`Married, one child.
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`Citizenships: U.S.A and Israel
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`Fluent in English and Hebrew
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`Member: ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, USENIX
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`Affiliate: Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC), Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of
`California, Santa Cruz, California.
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`Member: The I/O Traces, Tools and Analysis (IOTTA) Technical Work Group (TWG), part of the the
`Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
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`FUNDING
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`Oct 2022–present
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`2022
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`2022
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`Oct 2021–present
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`Oct 2021–present
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`2021–2022
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`2020–2021
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`Oct 2020–present
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`CNS Core: Large: Systems and Verifiable Metrics for Sustainable Data Centers.
`NSF. $1,500,000 (SBU share $928,403, 4 years. Co-PI with four other SBU fac-
`ulty, collaborative with Binghamton University and Penn State University.
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`CNS Core: Medium: Optimizing Storage Caches via Adaptive and Reconfig-
`urable Tiering. NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) supple-
`ment. $16,000. Lead-PI with one other SBU faculty, collaborative with Emory
`University.
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`CNS Core: III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Optimizing and Understand-
`ing Large Parameter Spaces in Storage Systems. NSF Research Experiences for
`Undergraduates (REU) supplement. $16,000. Lead PI with one other.
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`CNS Core: Medium: Optimizing Storage Caches via Adaptive and Reconfigurable
`Tiering. NSF. $800,000 (SBU share $533,333, 3 years. Lead-PI with one other
`SBU faculty, collaborative with Emory University.
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`CNS Core: Medium: Secure, Reliable, and Efficient Long-Term Storage. NSF.
`$1,198,842 (SBU share $717,303, 4 years. Lead-PI with one other SBU faculty,
`collaborative with UC Santa Cruz.
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`Kubernetes/Containerizations on GPU Clusters for AI. SUNY-IBM AI Collabora-
`tive Research Alliance. $100,000. Co-PI with two others.
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`Automated Cross-Validation of TLS 1.3 Implementations. Facebook Faculty Re-
`search Award. $50,000. Lead PI with two others.
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`SCC-IRG Track 1: Smart Aging: Connecting Communities Using Low-Cost
`and Secure Sensing Technologies. NSF Smart and Connected Communities.
`$1,700,126, 4 years. Co-PI with five other SBU faculty.
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`2020
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`2020
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`Oct 2019–present
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`FMitF: Track I: NLP-Assisted Formal Verification of the NFS Distributed File Sys-
`tem Protocol. NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) supplement.
`$16,000. Lead PI with two others.
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`CNS Core: III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Optimizing and Understand-
`ing Large Parameter Spaces in Storage Systems. NSF Research Experiences for
`Undergraduates (REU) supplement. $8,000. Lead PI with one other.
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`CNS Core: III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Optimizing and Understand-
`ing Large Parameter Spaces in Storage Systems NSF. $1,088,017 (SBU share
`$823,142), 4 years. Lead-PI with one other SBU faculty, collaborative with Har-
`vey Mudd College.
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`Oct 2019–present
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`FMitF: Track I: NLP-Assisted Formal Verification of the NFS Distributed File Sys-
`tem Protocol NSF. $748,300, 3 years. Lead-PI with two other SBU faculty.
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`2019
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`2019
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`2019
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`2018
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`CI-SUSTAIN: National File System Trace Repository. NSF Research Experiences
`for Undergraduates (REU) supplement. $8,000. Sole PI.
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`Study of a Novel Non-Wearable Respiration and Heart Rate Sensor in Cardiopul-
`monary Exercise Testing. Stony Brook College of Engineering and Applied Sci-
`ences, SEED grant. $15,000, Co-PI with five others.
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`Realizing the Full Performance and Parallelization Potential of Modern Stor-
`age Architectures for Big Data Applications. Stony Brook Research Foundation,
`SEED grant. $60,000, Co-PI with Anshul Gandhi.
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`Storage/Deduplication research. Dell-EMC Corporation. $25,000, Single PI.
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`Jun 2017–present
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`CI-SUSTAIN: National File System Trace Repository. NSF. $129,867 (SBU
`share), 3 years. Co-PI with lead institution Harvey Mudd College.
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`2017–2022
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`2017
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`2016–2021
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`2016–2019
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`Jun 2016–2019
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`2016
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`2015
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`Feb 2015
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`I/UCRC Phase II: Center for Visual and Decision Informatics (CVDI) Site at
`SUNY Stony Brook. NSF. $400,000, 4 years. Co-PI with A. Kaufman, K. Mueller,
`H. Schwartz, and D. Samaras.
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`Dell-EMC Corporation. Storage/Deduplication research, $25,000, Single PI.
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`NRT-DESE: Interdisciplinary Graduate Training to Understand and Inform Deci-
`sion Processes Using Advanced Spatial Data Analysis and Visualization (STRIDE).
`NSF. $2,993,930, 5 years. Senior personnel.
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`Early Detection of User-impersonating Attackers using Multilayer Tripwires, U.S.
`Office of Naval Research (ONR). $586,215, 3 years. Co-PI with Nick Nikiforakis.
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`EAGER: Elastic Multi-layer Memcached Tiers NSF. $257,165, 2 years. Co-PI
`with Anshul Gandhi.
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`EMC Corporation. Storage/Deduplication research, $25,000, Single PI.
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`EMC Corporation. Storage/Deduplication research, $25,000, Single PI.
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`Student Travel Support for the 13th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Tech-
`nologies (FAST 2015). NSF. $20,000, 1 year. Sole PI.
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`Sep 2014–2017
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`Adaptive Runtime Verification and Recovery for Mission-Critical Software. U.S.
`Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). $620,861, 3 years. Co-PI with
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`Scott A. Smolka and Scott D. Stoller. (Collaboration with NASA JPL.)
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`Jan 2014–2016
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`Smarter Electric Grid Research, Innovation, Development, Demonstration, De-
`ployment Center (SGRID3). Brookhaven Science Associates LLC (BNL), $236,397,
`1 year. Lead-PI with one other Stony Brook Co-PI.
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`2014
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`EMC Corporation. Storage/Deduplication research, $25,000, Sole PI.
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`Jun 2013–2017
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`Jan 2013–2017
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`Sep 2013–2017
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`CSR: Medium: Collaborative Research: Workload-Aware Storage Architectures
`for Optimal Performance and Energy Efficiency. NSF. $513,900 (SBU share, total
`budget $1,000,000), 3 years. Lead-PI with one other Stony Brook Co-PI, and two
`more institutions (Harvard U. and Harvey Mudd College).
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`BIGDATA: Small: DCM: Collaborative Research: An efficient, versatile, scalable,
`and portable storage system for scientific data containers. NSF. $444,267 (SBU
`share, total budget $746,290), 3 years. Lead-PI with two other Stony Brook Co-
`PIs, and two more institutions (Brandeis U. and Louisiana State U.).
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`CRI-CI-ADDO-EN: National File System Trace Repository. NSF. $37,018 (SBU
`share, total budget $167,817), 3 years. Co-PI with lead institution Harvey Mudd
`College.
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`2013
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`Western Digital Research award. Shingled Magnetic Recording Disks Benchmark-
`ing, $50,000, Single PI.
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`Sep 2012 – 2016
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`NFS4Sec: An Extensible Security Layer for Network Storage. NSF. $486,783, 3
`years. Lead-PI with one other Co-PI.
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`2012-2013
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`2011
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`2010
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`Nov 2010 – 2016
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`Server-Class Performance vs. Energy Optimizations. Government of Israel (GoI),
`Mission to the USA. $47,152, 1 year. Lead PI with one other Co-PI.
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`NetApp Research award. Dedup Workload Modeling, Synthetic Datasets, and
`Scalable Benchmarking, $40,000, Single PI.
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`NetApp Research award. A Study of Network Storage Benefits using FLASH Hard-
`ware with Indexing Workloads, $40,000, Single PI.
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`Long Island Smart Energy Corridor. Department of Energy (DOE), LIPA, and
`New York State. Collaboration between Stony Brook University, SUNY Farming-
`dale, and LIPA. $2,822,638, Co-PI.
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`Sep 2009 – Aug 2013
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`Collaborative Research: Performance- and Energy-Aware HEC Storage Stacks.
`NSF. $652,000, 3 years. Co-PI with Geoff Kuenning (Harvey Mudd College)
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`Sep 2009 – Aug 2013
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`Collaborative Research: Secure Provenance in High End Computing Systems.
`NSF. $564,972, 3 years. Co-PI with Radu Sion. Collaborative project with Patrick
`McDaniel (Penn State U.) and Marianne Winslett (UIUC).
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`Apr 2009 – Nov 2012
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`Survivable Software. U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).
`$881,691, 39 months. Co-PI with Scott A. Smolka, Radu Grosu, Scott D. Stoller,
`and Klaus Havelund (NASA JPL).
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`Feb 2010
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`2009
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`Student Travel Support for the First USENIX Workshop on Sustainable Informa-
`tion Technology (SustainIT 2010). NSF. $10,000, 1 year. Lead PI.
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`Network Appliance Research award. Power use in Storage Servers. $30,000 Sin-
`gle PI.
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`2008
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`2008
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`The Impact of Storage Software and Aging on Power Consumption, IBM Faculty
`award (IBM T.J. Watson Labs). $20,000, one year. Single PI.
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`Network Appliance Equipment gift. A Study of User File Access Patterns. $91,083
`Single PI.
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`Sep 2007 – 2015
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`Center for Information Protection: A Multi-University Industry/University Col-
`laborative Research Center. NSF. $250,147, 5 years. Co-PI with R. Sekar (PI),
`Tzi-Cker Chiueh, Scott Stoller, and Radu Sion.
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`Sep 2006 – Aug 2009
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`CT-ISG: N3S: Networked Secure Searchable Storage with Privacy and Correct-
`ness Assurances. NSF. $300,000, 3 years. Co-PI with Radu Sion.
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`Aug 2006 – Aug 2010
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`File System Tracing, Replaying, Profiling, and Analysis on HEC Systems. NSF.
`$760,252, 3 years. Lead PI with Klaus Mueller (Stony Brook) and Ethan Miller
`(UC Santa Cruz).
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`Jul 2006
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`End-to-End File Server Security, IBM Faculty award (IBM Haifa Research
`Labs). $20,000, one year. Single PI.
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`Jun 2006 – Aug 2010
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`CSR—PDOS: Support for Atomic Sequences of File System Operations. NSF.
`$561,727, 3 years. Lead PI with Margo Seltzer (Harvard University).
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`Jan 2006 – Dec 2006
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`Secure File Systems, NY State “Millennium” award, $204,528, one year. Co-PI
`with R. Sekar (PI), Tzi-Cker Chiueh, CR Ramakrishnan, Radu Sion, and Scott D.
`Stoller.
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`Jul 2005 – Aug 2010
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`CSR—AES: Runtime-Monitoring and Model Checking for High-Confidence Sys-
`tems Software. NSF. $830,000, 4 years. Lead PI with Radu Grosu, Y. Annie Liu,
`Scott Smolka, and Scott D. Stoller.
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`Sep 2005 – Aug 2004
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`I/UCRC: A Plan for Developing a Multi-University Industry/University Collabo-
`rative Research Center on Cyber Security. NSF. $9,987, one year. Co-PI with R.
`Sekar, Radu Sion Scott D. Stoller, and Tzi-Cker Chiueh.
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`Sep 2004 – Aug 2009
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`Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS). NSF. $2,459,061, 4 years.
`Co-PI with R. Sekar, Scott D. Stoller, I. V. Ramakrishnan, and Tzi-Cker Chiueh.
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`Sep 2003 – Aug 2008
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`A Layered Approach to Securing Network File Systems. NSF Trusted Computing
`Program (TC). $400,000, 3 years. Single PI.
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`Sep 2003 – Aug 2005
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`Collaborative Research: Capacity Expansion in Information Assurance. NSF Col-
`laborative Research Proposal (CAP). $199,883, 2 years. Co-PI with R. Sekar, Scott
`D. Stoller, and I. V. Ramakrishnan.
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`Sep 2002 – Aug 2007
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`CAREER: An In-Kernel Runtime Execution Environment for User-Level Pro-
`grams. NSF Next Generation Software Program (NGS). $400,000, 5 years. Single
`PI.
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`Jan 2003 – Dec 2003
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`Assessing the Technological Basis for Enterprise Protection, NIJ (CyberScience
`Lab) CSL. $90,563, one year. Co-PI with R. Sekar, Tzi-cker Chiueh, and Scott D.
`Stoller.
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`Sep 2002 – May 2003
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`New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR), with
`Packet General Networks. S3: Secure Shared Storage. $94,581. Single PI.
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`May 2002 – Aug 2002 New York State Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR), with
`Packet General Networks. A Secure and Scalable Network Appliance. $55,676.
`Single PI.
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`Apr 2003
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`Microsoft Tablet PC Seed Award. $4,169. Single PI.
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`2002
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`2001
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`2001
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`HP/Intel IA-64/IPF Second Generation Equipment gift. Linux Application Perfor-
`mance and File System Security. $131,529. Single PI.
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`HP/Intel IA-64/IPF Equipment gift. Linux Network Scalability and File System
`Reliability. $22,490. Single PI.
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`Red Hat University software award.
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`AWARDS AND HONORS
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`2021–2022 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, State University of
`New York (SUNY).
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`2022
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`2021
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`2021
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`2020
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`2020
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`Provost’s Excellent Mentor award, Stony Brook University.
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`Elected as ACM Distinguished Member for “Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Comput-
`ing.”
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`Dean’s “Million Miler” award (given lead PIs who secure more than one-million dollars of new
`funding in a given year), College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook University.
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`Inducted as member of the Stony Brook University Chapter of the National Academic of Inven-
`tors (NAI).
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`Best paper award. M. Wajahat, A. Yele, T. Estro, A. Gandhi, and E. Zadok. Distribution fitting
`and performance modeling for storage traces. In 27th IEEE International Symposium on the
`Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS
`2019).
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`2019
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`Dean’s “Million Miler” award (given lead PIs who secure more than one-million dollars of new
`funding in a given year), College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Stony Brook University.
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`Sep 2011 Best Paper Award. S. D. Stoller and E. Bartocci and J. Seyster and R. Grosu and K. Havelund
`and S. A. Smolka and E. Zadok. Runtime verification with state estimation. In proceedings of
`the 2nd International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV’11).
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`Dec 2009 LISTnet’s “Top 20 techies of Long Island” award.
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`Aug 2008 Service Award (for 2006–2008), Stony Brook University, Computer Science Department
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`2008
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`IBM Faculty award (IBM T.J. Watson Labs)
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`2007–2008 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, State University of New York (SUNY).
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`2007–2008 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stony Brook University.
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`Aug 2006 Research Excellence Award (for 2005–2006), Stony Brook University, Computer Science De-
`partment
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`Jul 2006
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`IBM Faculty award (IBM Haifa Research Labs)
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`Nov 2005 Best Short Paper Award. N. Joukov, A. Kashyap, G. Sivathanu, E. Zadok. Kefence: An Electric
`Fence for Kernel Buffers. In proceedings of the first ACM International Workshop on Storage
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`Security and Survivability (StorageSS 2005), “The Paradigm Shift to Info-Centric Protection,”
`held in conjunction with the 12th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
`(CCS 2005).
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`May 2005 Best Paper Award. N. Joukov, A. Rai, and E. Zadok. Increasing Distributed Storage Survivabil-
`ity with a Stackable RAID-like File System. In proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/ACM Workshop
`on Cluster Security, in conjunction with the Fifth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Clus-
`ter Computing and the Grid (CCGrid).
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`Aug 2004 Graduate Teaching and Research Award (for 2003–2004), Stony Brook University, Computer
`Science Department
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`May 2003 Promising Inventor Award, The State University of New York, Research Foundation
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`Sep 2002 NSF CAREER award, National Science Foundation
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`Jun 2001
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`Best Student Paper. M. G. Schultz, E. Eskin, E. Zadok, M. Bhattacharyya, and S. J. Stolfo. MEF:
`Malicious Email Filter — A UNIX Mail Filter that Detects Malicious Windows Executables.
`In Proceedings of the Annual USENIX Technical Conference, FreeNIX Track, pages 245–252,
`JUNE 2001.
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`Jun 2000 Usenix Student Stipend award
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`Jun 1999 Usenix Student Stipend award
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`1991
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`1991
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`Dean’s List
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`NCR Best Undergraduate Research Award
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`1989–1990 Gussman Scholar
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`1988–1989 National Dean’s List
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`1988–1989 Scheuer Foundation Presidential Scholar
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`1988
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`Dean’s List
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`PUBLICATIONS
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`Books
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`E. Zadok. Linux NFS and Automounter Administration. Sybex, Inc., May 2001.
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`Journal and Magazine Articles
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`Erez Zadok and Ada Gavrilovska. Running virtual pc (cpc) meetings. ;login: The USENIX Magazine,
`45(2):54–56, July 2020.
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`Muhammad Wajahat, Aditya Yele, Tyler Estro, Anshul Gandhi, and Erez Zadok. Analyzing the
`distribution fit for storage workload and internet traffic traces. Performance Evaluation, pages 102–
`121, 2020.
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`George Amvrosiadis, Ali R. Butt, Vasily Tarasov, Erez Zadok, and Ming Zhao. Selected results of
`the workshop on data storage research 2025. ;login: The USENIX Magazine, 44(4):24–28, December
`2019.
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`Bharath Kumar Reddy Vangoor, Prafful Agarwal, Manu Mathew, Arun Ramachandran, Swaminathan
`Sivaraman, Vasily Tarasov, and Erez Zadok. Performance and resource utilization of FUSE user-space
`file systems. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 15(2), May 2019.
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`Zhen “Jason” Sun, Geoff Kuenning, Sonam Mandal, Philip Shilane, Vasily Tarasov, Nong Xiao, and
`Erez Zadok. Cluster and single-node analysis of long-term deduplication patterns. ACM Transactions
`on Storage (TOS), 14(2), May 2018.
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`Ming Chen, Geetika Bangera, Dean Hildebrand Farhaan Jalia, Geoff Kuenning, Henry Nelson, and
`Erez Zadok. vNFS: Maximizing NFS performance with compounds and vectorized I/O. ACM Trans-
`actions on Storage (TOS), 13(7), September 2017.
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`Vasily Tarasov, Erez Zadok, and Spencer Shepler. Filebench: A flexible framework for file system
`benchmarking. ;login: The USENIX Magazine, 41(1):6–12, March 2016.
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`Z. Li, M. Chen, A. Mukker, and E. Zadok. On the trade-offs among performance, energy, and en-
`durance in a versatile hybrid drive. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 11(3), July 2015.
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`Ming Chen, Dean Hildebrand, Geoff Kuenning, Soujanya Shankaranarayana, Bharat Singh, and Erez
`Zadok. Is NFSv4.1 ready for prime time? ;login: The USENIX Magazine, 40(3):6–12, June 2015.
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`Zhiyuan Zhang, Kevin T. McDonnell, Erez Zadok, and Klaus Mueller. Visual correlation analysis
`of numerical and categorical data on the correlation map. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
`Computer Graphics (TVCG), 21(2), February 2015.
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`Michael A. Bender, Martin Farach-Colton, Rob Johnson, Russell Kraner, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Dze-
`jla Medjedovic, Pablo Montes, Pradeep Shetty, Richard P. Spillane, and Erez Zadok. Don’t thrash:
`How to cache your hash on flash. PVLDB, 5(11):1627–1637, August 2012.
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`J. Seyster, K. Dixit, X. Huang, R. Grosu, K. Havelund, S. A. Smolka, S. D. Stoller, and E. Zadok.
`InterAspect: Aspect-oriented instrumentation with GCC. Formal Methods in System Design, August
`2012.
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`X. Huang, J. Seyster, S. Callanan, K. Dixit, R. Grosu, S. A. Smolka, S. D. Stoller, and E. Zadok. Soft-
`ware monitoring with controllable overhead. International Journal on Software Tools for Technology
`Transfer (STTT), 14(3):327–347, 2012.
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`Priya Sehgal, Vasily Tarasov, and Erez Zadok. Optimizing energy and performance for server-class
`file system workloads. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 6(3), September 2010.
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`E. Zadok, V. Tarasov, and P. Sehgal. The case for specialized file systems, or, fighting file system
`obesity. ;login: The USENIX Magazine, 35(1):38–40, February 2010.
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`M. T. Dougherty, M. J. Folk, E. Zadok, H. J. Bernstein, F. C. Bernstein, K. W. Eliceiri, W. Benger,
`and C. Best. Unifying biological image formats with hdf5. Communications of the ACM (CACM),
`52(10):42–47, October 2009.
`
`A. Traeger and E. Zadok. Notes on a nine year study of file system and storage benchmarking. Byte
`and Switch, July 2009. www.byteandswitch.com/storage/storage-management/notes-on-a-nine-year-
`study-of-file-system-and-storage-benchmarking.php.
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`A. Traeger, E. Zadok, E. L. Miller, and D. D. E. Long. Findings from the first annual storage and file
`systems benchmarking workshop. ;login: The USENIX Magazine, 33(5):113–117, October 2008.
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`Avishay Traeger, Erez Zadok, Nikolai Joukov, and Charles P. Wright. A nine year study of file system
`and storage benchmarking. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 4(2):25–80, May 2008.
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`C. P. Wright, R. Spillane, G. Sivathanu, and E. Zadok. Extending ACID semantics to the file system.
`ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 3(2):1–42, June 2007.
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`Erez Zadok, Rakesh Iyer, Nikolai Joukov, Gopalan Sivathanu, and Charles P. Wright. On incremental
`file system development. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2(2):161–196, 2006.
`
`C. P. Wright, J. Dave, P. Gupta, H. Krishnan, D. P. Quigley, E. Zadok, and M. N. Zubair. Versatility and
`unix semantics in namespace unification. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2(1):1–32, February
`2006.
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`C. P. Wright and E. Zadok. Unionfs: Bringing file systems together. Linux Journal, 2004(128):24–29,
`December 2004.
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`E. Zadok. Using the Amd automounter. Linux Journal, 10(114):52–55, October 2003.
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`E. Zadok. Writing stackable file systems. Linux Journal, 05(109):22–25, May 2003.
`
`W. Lee, W. Fan, M. Miller, S. Stolfo, and E. Zadok. Toward cost-sensitive modeling for intrusion
`detection and response. Journal of Computer Security, 10(1–2):5–22, January 2002.
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`Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers
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`Anjul Tyagi, Tyler Estro, Geoff Kuenning, Erez Zadok, and Klaus Mueller. PC-Expo: A metrics-
`based interactive axes reordering method for parallel coordinate displays.
`IEEE Transactions on
`Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2022. To appear.
`
`Anshul Gandhi, Kanad Ghose, Kartik Gopalan, Syed Hussain, Dongyoon Lee, David Liu, Zhenhua
`Liu, Patrick McDaniel, Shuai Mu, and Erez Zadok. Metrics for sustainability in data centers.
`In
`Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems Design and Implementation (Hot-
`Carbon’22), San Diego, CA, USA, July 2022. USENIX. To appear.
`
`Sayontan Ghosh, Amanpreet Singh, Meyer “Alex” Merenstein, Wei Su, Scott A. Smolka, Erez Zadok,
`and Niranjan Balasubramanian. SpecNFS: A challenge dataset towards extracting formal models
`from natural language specifications. In Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation
`Conference (LREC’22), Marseille, France, July 2022. To appear.
`
`Wei Su, Yifei Liu, Gomathi Ganesan, Gerard Holzmann, Scott Smolka, Erez Zadok, and Geoff Kuen-
`ning. Model-checking support for file system development. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop
`on Hot Topics in Storage (HotStorage ’21), Virtual, July 2021. ACM.
`
`Ibrahim ’Umit’ Akgun, Ali Selman Aydin, Aadil Shaikh, Lukas Velikov, and Erez Zadok. A ma-
`chine learning framework to improve storage system performance. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM
`Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage (HotStorage ’21), Virtual, July 2021. ACM.
`
`Alex Merenstein, Vasily Tarasov, Ali Anwar, Deepavali Bhagwat, Julie Lee, Lukas Rupprecht, Dim-
`itris Skourtis, Yang Yang, and Erez Zadok. CNSBench: A cloud native storage benchmark native
`storage.
`In Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST
`’21), Virtual, February 2021. USENIX Association.
`
`Alex Merenstein, Vasily Tarasov, Ali Anwar, Deepavali Bhagwat, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitris Skourtis,
`and Erez Zadok. The case for benchmarking control operations in cloud native storage. In Proceedings
`of the 12th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage (HotStorage ’20), Boston, MA, July 2020.
`USENIX.
`
`Tyler Estro, Pranav Bhandari, Avani Wildani, and Erez Zadok. Desperately seeking ... optimal multi-
`tier cache configurations.
`In Proceedings of the 12th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage
`(HotStorage ’20), Boston, MA, July 2020. USENIX.
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`Wei Su, Akshay Aurora, Ming Chen, and Erez Zadok. Supporting transactions for bulk NFSv4 com-
`pounds. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR
`’20), Haifa, Israel, June 2020. ACM.
`
`Ibrahim Umit Akgun, Geoff Kuenning, and Erez Zadok. Re-animator: Versatile high-fidelity storage-
`system tracing and replaying.
`In Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Systems and Storage
`Conference (SYSTOR ’20), Haifa, Israel, June 2020. ACM.
`
`Elinor Schoenfeld, Fan Ye, Bing Zhou, Zongxing Xie, Erez Zadok, Xi Cheng, Jacqueline B. Mondros,
`Patricia Bruckenthal, and Jignesh Patel. Smart aging: Utilizing low-cost, non-wearable and secure
`sensing technologies to support the health and wellbeing of community dwelling older adults.
`In
`Proceedings of the HIMSS 20 Preconference Session on Aging and Tech Forum: Addressing the Silver
`Tsunami, Orlando, FL, March 2020.
`
`Ibrahim Umit Akgun, Ali Selman Aydin, and Erez Zadok. KMLib: Towards machine learning for
`operating systems. In Proceedings of the 2020 On-Device Intelligence Workshop, co-located with the
`MLSys Conference, February 2020. Refereed abstract+poster.
`
`Zhen Cao, Geoff Kuenning, and Erez Zadok. Carver: Finding important parameters for storage system
`tuning. In Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’20),
`Santa Clara, CA, February 2020. USENIX Association.
`
`Muhammad Wajahat, Aditya Yele, Tyler Estro, Anshul Gandhi, and Erez Zadok. Distribution fitting
`and performance modeling for storage traces. In 27th IEEE International Symposium on the Modeling,
`Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2019), Rennes,
`France, October 2019. IEEE Computer Society. (Won best student paper award).
`
`Anjul Tyagi, Zhen Cao, Tyler Estro, Klaus Mueller, and Erez Zadok. ICE: Interactive configuration
`explorer for high dimensional categorical parameter spaces. In IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics
`Science and Technology (VAST 2019), October 2019.
`
`Zhen Cao, Geoff Kuenning, Klaus Mueller, Anjul Tyagi, and Erez Zadok. Graphs are not enough:
`Using interactive visual analytics in storage research. In Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Workshop
`on Hot Topics in Storage (HotStorage ’19), Renton, WA, July 2019. USENIX.
`
`Ming Chen and Erez Zadok. Kurma: Secure geo-distributed multi-cloud storage gateways. In Pro-
`ceedings of the 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR ’19), Haifa, Israel,
`June 2019. ACM.
`
`Zhen Cao, Vasily Tarasov, Sachin Tiwari, and Erez Zadok. Towards better understanding of
`black-box auto-tuning: A comparative analysis for storage systems.
`In Proceedings of the An-
`nual USENIX Technical Conference, Boston, MA, July 2018. USENIX Association. Data set at
`http://download.filesystems.org/auto-tune/ATC-2018-auto-tune-data.sql.gz.
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`S. Archak, S. Dixit, R.P. Spillane, and E. Zadok. Multi-tier caching, May 2018. US Patent 9,959,279.
`
`Erez Zadok, Dean Hildebrand, Geoff Kuenning, and Keith Smith. POSIX is dead! Long live... errr...
`what exactly? In Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage (HotStorage
`’17), Santa Clara, CA, July 2017. USENIX. WACI track.
`
`Ming Chen, Dean Hildebrand, Henry Nelson, Jasmit Saluja, Ashok Subramony, and Erez Zadok.
`vNFS: Maximizing NFS performance with compounds and vectorized I/O. In Proceedings of the 15th
`USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’17), pages 301–314, Santa Clara, CA,
`February-March 2017. USENIX Association. (Nominated for best paper award).
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`Bharath Kumar Reddy Vangoor, Vasily Tarasov, and Erez Zadok. To FUSE or not to FUSE: Per-
`formance of user-space file systems.
`In Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Conference on File and
`Storage Technologies (FAST ’17), pages 59–72, Santa Clara, CA, February-March 2017. USENIX
`Association.
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`Zhen Cao, Vasily Tarasov, Hari Raman, Dean Hildebrand, and Erez Zadok. On the performance
`variation in modern storage stacks.
`In Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Conference on File and
`Storage Technologies (FAST ’17), pages 329–343, Santa Clara, CA, February-March 2017. USENIX
`Association.
`
`Ming Chen, Arun Vasudevan, Kelong Wang, and Erez Zadok. SeMiNAS: A secure middleware for
`wide-area network-attached storage. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Systems and Stor-
`age Conference (ACM SYSTOR ’16), Haifa, Israel, June 2016. ACM.
`
`S. Archak, S. Dixit, R.P. Spillane, and E. Zadok. Multi-tier caching, May 2016. US Patent 9,355,109.
`
`Zhen Sun, Geoff Kuenning, Sonam Mandal, Philip Shilane, Vasily Tarasov, Nong Xiao, and Erez
`Zadok. A long-term user-centric analysis of deduplication patterns.
`In Proceedings of the 32nd
`International IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST ’16), Santa Clara,
`California, May 2016. IEEE.
`
`Sonam Mandal, Geoff Kuenning, Dongju Ok, Varun Shastry, Pilip Shilane, Sun Zhen, Vasily Tarasov,
`and Erez Zadok. Using hints to improve inline block-layer deduplication. In Proceedings of the 14th
`USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’16), Santa Clara, CA, February 2016.
`USENIX Association.
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`Erez Zadok, Aashray Arora, Zhen Cao, Akhilesh Chaganti, Arvind Chaudhary, and Sonam Mandal.
`Parametric optimization of storage systems.
`In HotStorage ’15: Proceedings of the 7th USENIX
`Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage, Santa Clara, CA, July 2015. USENIX, USENIX.
`
`Vasily Tarasov, Abhishek Gupta, Kumar Sourav, Sagar Trehan, and Erez Zadok. Terra incognita:
`On the practicality of user-space file systems. In HotStorage ’15: Proceedings of the 7th USENIX
`Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage, Santa Clara, CA, July 2015. USENIX, USENIX.
`
`Ming Chen, Dean Hildebrand, Geoff Kuenning, Soujanya Shankaranarayana, Bharat Singh, and Erez
`Zadok. Newer is sometimes better: An evaluation of NFSv4.1. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM
`International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2015),
`Portland, OR, June 2015. ACM.
`
`M. Chen, D. Hildebrand, G. Kuenning, S. Shankaranarayana, V. Tarasov, A. Vasudevan, E. Zadok,
`and K. Zakirova. Linux NFSv4.1 performance under a microscope. In Proceedings of USENIX LISA.
`USENIX Association, November 2014. Extended Abstract.
`
`Vasily Tarasov, Deepak Jain, Geoff Kuenning, Sonam Mandal, Karthikeyani Palanisami, Philip Shi-
`lane, Sagar Trehan, and Erez Zadok. Dmdedup: Device mapper t