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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`2020-present
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`Technical Expert; Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
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`2020-present
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`Technical Expert; Covington & Burling, LLP
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`2019-present
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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–present
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`Technical Expert; King & Spalding LLP.
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`2018–2019
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`2017–2018
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`2017–2019
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`2016–2018
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`2015–2018
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`Technical Expert; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP.
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`Technical Expert; Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
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`Technical Expert; Keker, Van Nest, & Peters LLP.
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`Technical Expert; Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C.
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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 2019–present
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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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`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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`Mar 2016–present
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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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`Jun 2016–2019
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`EAGER: Elastic Multi-layer Memcached Tiers NSF. $257,165, 2 years. Co-PI
`with Anshul Gandhi.
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`2016
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`2015
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`Feb 2015
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`Sep 2014–2017
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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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`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
`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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`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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`Nov 2010 – 2016
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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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`AWARDS
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`2019
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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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`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
`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.
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`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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`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.
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`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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`E. Zadok, R. Iyer, N. Joukov, G. Sivathanu, and C. P. Wright. On incremental file system development.
`ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2(2):161–196, May 2006.
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`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.
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`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 Papers
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`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. To appear.
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`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.
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`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),
`Santa Clara, CA, February 2020. USENIX Association.
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`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).
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`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.
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`Zhen Cao, Geoff Kuenning, Klaus Mueller, Anjul Tyagi, and Erez Zadok. Graphs are not enough:
`Using interactive visual analytics in storage research.
`In HotStorage ’19: Proceedings of the 11th
`USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage, Renton, WA, July 2019. USENIX.
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`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.
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`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.
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`Erez Zadok, Dean Hildebrand, Geoff Kuenning, and Keith Smith. POSIX is dead! Long live... errr...
`what exactly? In HotStorage ’17: Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage,
`Santa Clara, CA, July 2017. USENIX. WACI track.
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`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), pages 301–314, Santa Clara, CA,
`February-March 2017. USENIX Association. (Nominated for best paper award).
`
`Bharath Kumar Reddy Vangoor, Vasily Tarasov, and Erez Zadok. To FUSE or not to FUSE: Perfor-
`mance of user-space file systems. In Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Conference on File and Storage
`Technologies (FAST), pages 59–72, Santa Clara, CA, February-March 2017. USENIX Association.
`
`Zhen Cao, Vasily Tarasov, Hari Raman, Dean Hildebrand, and Erez Zadok. On the performance vari-
`ation in modern storage stacks. In Proceedings of the 15th USENIX Conference on File and Storage
`Technologies (FAST), 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.
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`S. Archak, S. Dixit, R.P. Spillane, and E. Zadok. Multi-tier caching, May 2016. US Patent 9,355,109.
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`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.
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`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), 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.
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`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.
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`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 target for data deduplication.
`In
`Proceedings of the Linux Symposium, pages 83–95, Ottawa, Canada, July 2014.
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`Z. Li, A. Mukker, and E. Zadok. On the importance of evaluating storage systems’ $costs. In Pro-
`ceedings of the 6th USENIX Conference on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, HotStorage’14,
`2014.
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`Vasily Tarasov, Deepak Jain, Dean Hildebrand, Renu Tewari, Geoff Kuenning, and Erez Zadok. Im-
`proving I/O performance using virtual disk introspection. In Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop
`on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), June 2013.
`
`Vasily Tarasov, Dean Hildebrand, Geoff Kuenning, and Erez Zadok. Virtual machine workloads: The
`case for new benchmarks for NAS. In Proceedings of the USENIX Conference on File and Storage
`Technologies (FAST), San Jose, CA, February 2013. USENIX Association.
`
`Pradeep J. Shetty, Richard P. Spillane, Ravikant R. Malpani, Binesh Andrews, Justin Seyster, and
`Erez Zadok. Building workload-independent storage with VT-trees. In Proceedings of the USENIX
`Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), San Jose, CA, February 2013. USENIX Asso-
`ciation.
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`Z. Li, A. Desai, C. Bhatt, and E. Zadok. vATM: vSphere adaptive task management. In In Proceedings
`of the Seventh International Workshop on Feedback Computing (FC’12), September 2012.
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`David S. H. Rosenthal, Daniel C. Rosenthal, Ethan L. Miller, Ian F. Adams, Mark W. Storer, and
`Erez Zadok. The economics of long-term digital storage. In The Memory of the World in the Digital
`age: Digitization and Preservation. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
`(UNESCO), September 2012.
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`E. Bartocci, R. Grosu, A. Karmarkar, S. A. Smolka, S. D. Stoller, E. Zadok, and J. Seyster. Adaptive
`runtime verification. In Proc. 3rd International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV’12), Istanbul,
`Turkey, September 2012.
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`M. A. Bender, M. Farach-Colton, R. Johnson, R. Kraner, B. C. Kuszmaul, D. Medjedovic, P. Montes,
`P. Shetty, R. P. Spillane, and E. Zadok. Don’t thrash: How to cache your hash on flash. In Proceedings
`of the 38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB ’12), Istanbul, Turkey, August
`2012. Morgan Kaufmann.
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`Vasily Tarasov, Gyumin Sim, Anna Povzner, and Erez Zadok. Efficient I/O scheduling with accurately
`estimated disk drive latencies. In In Proceedings of the 8th Annual Workshop on Operating Systems
`Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT’12), 2012.
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`V. Tarasov, A. Mudrankit, W. Buik, P. Shilane, G. Kuenning, and E. Zadok. Generating realistic
`datasets for deduplication analysis.
`In Proceedings of the Annual USENIX Technical Conference,
`Boston, MA, June 2012. USENIX Association.
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`Z. Li, K. M. Greenan, A. W. Leung, and E. Zadok. Power consumption in enterprise-scale backup
`storage systems. In Proceedings of the Tenth USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
`(FAST ’12), San Jose, CA, February 2012. USENIX Association.
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`V. Tarasov, K. S. Kumar, J. Ma, D. Hildebrand, A. Povzner, G. Kuenning, and E. Zadok. Extracting
`flexible, replayable models from large block traces. In Proceedings of the Tenth USENIX Conference
`on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’12), San Jose, CA, February 2012. USENIX Association.
`
`M.G. Schultz, E. Eskin, E. Zadok, M. Bhattacharyya, and S.S. J. Systems and methods for detection
`of new malicious executables, July 2011. US Patent 7,979,907.
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`R. P. Spillane, P. J. Shetty, E. Zadok, S. Archak, and S. Dixit. An efficient multi-tier tablet server
`storage architecture. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC’11),
`Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.
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`J. Seyster, P. Radhakrishnan, S. Katoch, A. Duggal, S. D. Stoller, and E. Zadok. Redflag: A framework
`for analysis of kernel-level concurrency. In Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Algorithms
`and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP’11), Melbourne, Australia, October 2011.
`
`S. D. Stoller, E. Bartocci, J. Seyster, R. Grosu, K. Havelund, S. A. Smolka, and E. Zadok. Runtime
`verification with state estimation.
`In Proc. 2nd International Conference on Runtime Verification
`(RV’11), San Francisco, CA, September 2011. (Won best paper award).
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`Z. Li, R. Grosu, K. Muppalla, S. A. Smolka, S. D. Stoller, and E. Zadok. Model discovery for energy-
`aware computing systems: An experimental evaluation. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Energy
`Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems (ERSS’11), Orlando, FL, July 2011.
`
`M. A. Bender, M. Farach-Colton, R. Johnson, B. C. Kuszmaul, D. Medjedovic, P. Montes, P. Shetty,
`R. P. Spillane, and E. Zadok. Don’t thrash: How to cache your hash on flash. In HotStorage ’11:
`Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage, June 2011.
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`Z. Li, R. Grosu, P. Sehgal, S. A. Smolka, S. D. Stoller, and E. Zadok. On the energy consumption and
`performance of systems software. In Proceedings of the 4th Israeli Experimental Systems Conference
`(ACM SYSTOR ’11), Haifa, Israel, May/June 2011. ACM.
`
`Vasily Tarasov, Saumitra Bhanage, Erez Zadok, and Margo Seltzer. Benchmarking file system bench-
`marking: It *IS* rocket science. In Proceedings of HotOS XIII:The 13th USENIX Workshop on Hot
`Topics in Operating Systems, Napa, CA, May 2011.
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`J. Seyster, K. Dixit, X. Huang, R. Grosu, K. Havelund, S. A. Smolka, S. D. Stoller, and E. Zadok.
`Aspect-oriented instrumentation with GCC. In Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Runtime
`Verification (RV 2010), Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, November 2010.
`
`R. Spillane, S. Dixit, S. Archak, S. Bhanage, and E. Zadok. Exporting kernel page caching for efficient
`user-level I/O. In Proceedings of the International IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and
`Technologies (MSST), Incline Village, Nevada, May 2010. IEEE.
`
`Priya Sehgal, Vasily Tarasov, and Erez Zadok. Evaluating performance and energy in file system
`server workloads.
`In Proceedings of the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
`(FAST), pages 253–266, San Jose, CA, February 2010. USENIX Association.
`
`Patrick McDaniel, Kevin Butler, Stephen Mclaughlin, Radu Sion, Erez Zadok, and Marianne Winslett.
`Towards a secure and efficient system for end-to-end provenance.
`In Proceedings of the Second
`USENIX workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TAPP ’10), San Jose, CA, February
`2010. USENIX Association.
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`M.G. Schultz, E. Eskin, E. Zadok, M. Bhattacharyya, and S.J. Salvatore. System and methods for
`detection of new maliciou