Biography:Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau

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

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

Education and career

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

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

Personal life

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

Book

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

Recognition

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

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