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I graduated from CMU in May 2008 – Yes, I did finally get a PhD.
If you are interested in contacting me, see:
I am a PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
department at Carnegie Mellon University. I used to
design and build intrusion tolerant computer systems. My
current focus is on self-* storage (self-managing, self-tuning,
etc.).
My advisor is Greg Ganger.
The projects I have been involved with here at Carnegie Mellon include Self-Securing Storage Systems (S4), and PASIS. Currently, I am working on the management infrastructure for Self-* Storage.
Using utility functions to control a
distributed storage system.
PhD thesis.
CMU-PDL-08-102.
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
May 2008.
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Using utility to provision storage
systems.
USENIX Conference on File and Storage
Technologies
pages 313-328.
USENIX Association,
2008.
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Intelligent system monitoring on large
clusters.
International Workshop on Data Management for
Sensor Networks,
pages 47-52,
2006.
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Early experiences on the journey towards
self-* storage.
IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin,
29(3):55-62.
IEEE Computer Society,
September 2006.
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InteMon: Continuous Mining of Sensor Data in
Large-scale Self-* Infrastructures.
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review,
40(3):38-44.
ACM Press,
July 2006.
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Ursa Minor: versatile cluster-based
storage.
USENIX Conference on File and Storage
Technologies
(San Francisco, CA, December 14-16, 2005),
pages 59-72.
USENIX Association,
2005.
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Comparison-based file server verification.
USENIX Annual Technical Conference
pages 121-133.
USENIX Association,
2005.
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Self-* Storage: brick-based storage with
automated administration.
Technical report CMU-CS-03-178.
Carnegie-Mellon University,
August 2003.
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A human organization analogy for self-*
systems.
Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for
Self-Managing Systems
(San Diego, CA, 11 June, 2003),
pages 1-6.
ACM,
2003.
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[ps]
A human organization analogy for self-*
systems.
Technical report CMU-CS-03-129.
Carnegie-Mellon University,
April 2003.
[superseded by: A human organization... in AASMS 2003]
Metadata efficiency in a comprehensive
versioning file system.
USENIX Conference on File and Storage
Technologies
(San Francisco, CA, 31 March-02 April
2003),
pages 43-57.
USENIX Association,
2003.
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Storage-based intrusion detection: watching storage activity for suspicious behavior. Technical report CMU-CS-02-179. Carnegie-Mellon University, October 2002.
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Metadata efficiency in a comprehensive
versioning file system.
Technical report CMU-CS-02-145.
Carnegie-Mellon University,
May 2002.
[superseded by: Metadata efficiency... in FAST 2003]
Intrusion detection, diagnosis, and
recovery with self-securing storage.
Technical report CMU-CS-02-140.
Carnegie-Mellon University,
May 2002.
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Survivable Storage Systems.
DARPA Information Survivability Conference and
Exposition
(Anaheim, CA, 12-14 June 2001),
pages 184-195 vol 2.
IEEE, 2001.
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Self-securing storage: Protecting data in
compromised systems.
Operating Systems Design and
Implementation
(San Diego, CA, 23-25 October 2000),
pages 165-180.
USENIX Association, 2000.
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Survivable information storage systems.
IEEE Computer,
33(8):61-68,
August 2000.
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Design and implementation of a self-securing
storage device.
Technical report CMU-CS-00-129.
Carnegie-Mellon University,
May 2000.
[superseded by: Self-securing storage: Protecting data in
compromised systems]
Architecture and Interface of a Self-Securing
Object Store.
Masters thesis.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department, Carnegie Mellon University,
May 2000.
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My wife, Corley,
was also a student at Carnegie Mellon.
Some day I may put some more information here...
Last modified: 2009-04-05