Knowledge and Service Science, Machine Learning, Business Management

Prof. Scott Brandt is Associate Professor of Computer Science, the UCSC Director of the ISSDM and the Director of Graduate Studies for the Computer Science Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is also Director of the UCSC Real-Time Systems Laboratory, Associate Director and co- founder of the UCSC Storage Systems Research Center, and co-founder UCSC/Los Alamos Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management. Scott's research is in the area of Computer Systems. He specializes in both storage systems and real-time systems. His current storage system research focuses on high-performance peta-scale distributed object-based storage, while his real-time research focuses on integrating real-time and non-real-time processing into a uniform processing environment. His most recent research intregrates the two, researching novel solutions for robust guaranteeable management of varied system resources, including CPU, disk, memory, and network.

Dr. Luca de Alfaro works in the areas of Reputation systems, collaboration on the web and beyond, e-commerce, Embedded software design, formal methods for system design, Discrete, real-time, embedded, probabilistic systems Game theory, concurrency theory, and automata theory.

Dr. Andrea DiBlas is exploring collaboration on advanced architectures with IAT-2.

Dr. David Helmbold's current research centers around machine learning and computational learning theory. In addition, to theoretical work, he has applied learning algorithms to practical problems such as determining when to spin down a disk drive in a portable computer to save power.

Andree teaches the ISTI/IAS-NMC Cluster and Network Summer school.

Dr. Karplus is teaching a class to LANL students in Bio-Informatics

Dr. Kolaitis is teaching a class for ISSDM and his research interests include logic in computer science, database theory, and computational complexity.

Dr. Herbie Lee works in the field of Bayesian statistics, with current primary emphases on computer models (e.g., spatial inverse problems) and connections between statistics and machine learning.

Prof. Darrell Long is the Director of the Storage Systems Research Center. He also serves as an advisor to various government agencies. His research interests include high performance storage systems, high-dependability computing, video-on-demand systems and mobile computing.

Dr. Carlos Maltzahn joined the SSRC in January 2005 after five years at Network Appliance. His current research interests include scalable file system data and metadata management, very long-term preservation, network intermediaries, machine learning, information retrieval, and cooperation dynamics.

Prof. Ethan Miller is the lead administrator for the ISSDM at UCSC. He joined the UC Santa Cruz faculty in Fall 2000 after six years on the faculty at UMBC. His research interests include scale and security in file systems, next generation file system design, metadata management, long-term archival storage, and other areas in operating systems and distributed systems.

 John Musacchio is an assistant professor with the new Technology and Information Management Program at the University of California Santa Cruz. Professor Musacchio’s research interests include network economics, game theory, stochastic modeling and control of queuing networks with applications in communications networks.

Katia Obraczka is an Associate Professor at UC Santa Cruz's Jack Baskin School of Engineering. Her research and teaching interests include computer networks, distributed systems, Internet information systems, and operating systems.

Dr. Alex Pang is interested in tensor, scientific, and uncertainty visualization. He is also interested in collaboration software.

Prof. Neoklis Polyzotis does research in databases. His interests include scalable meta-data management, content-based querying in large data stores, and XML query processing.

Grace Rathe is the lead administrator for the ISSDM at UCSC.

Dr. Bruno Sanso works on activity focused on problems on robust Bayesian inference. He has worked in problems related to model selection, meta-analysis and spatio-temporal modelling for rainfall and other environmental variables, always from a Bayesian viewpoint. His most recent work is focused on statistical analysis of computer model output, with particular emphasis on climate models.

Josh Stuart's research group develops computational approaches for predicting gene function and discovering how gene activity is regulated and modulated in response to cellular events and processes. Their methods combine genome-wide functional data across multiple organisms to identify conserved genetic mechanisms. The group has three broad aims: 1) to develop computational models to predict gene function, 2) to integrate datasets across multiple organisms to identify core molecular pathways, and 3) to develop algorithms and resources for biological discovery. Stuart also collaborates with numerous colleagues at UCSC and elsewhere to predict molecular targets of drugs, causal networks in disease, and pathways involved in stem cell differentiation.

Dr. Allen Van Gelder research interests include development of algorithms for propositional satisfiability, methods for verifiable software, theorem proving, analysis of algorithms, parallel algorithms, computer graphics, and scientific visualization. He received a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989 to investigate the use of logic programming for problems in database and artificial intelligence systems.

Dr. Manfred Warmuth works in the areas of Machine Learning and Recognition.

Statistic machine learning, Bayesian probabilistic models, Gaussian Processes, Collaborative filtering, user modeling,   Learning from relations,  Multi-task learning, Text and web mining, data mining, and information retrieval

Dr. Yi Zhang research interests include large scale information retrieval and knowledge management, natural language processing, and applied machine learning.

Dr. Brandwajn teaches graduate courses for ISSDM.

Dr. Flanagan teaches graduate courses for ISSDM.

Dr. Garcia-Luna-Aceves teaches graduate classes for ISSDM.

Dr. Mackey teaches graduate courses for ISSDM.

Dr. Renau teaches graduate courses for ISSDM.

Dr. Tao teaches graduate courses for ISSDM.

Dr. Varma teaches graduate courses for ISSDM.

B. Thomas Adler (commonly referred to as "Bo") is a computer scientist studying user behavior in Wikipedia and building trust systems for wikis.^[1] He is a graduate student at the University of California in Santa Cruz, where he has received a master's degree for research on timed games.^[

Sasha works on Search-Oriented Interfaces for Distributed Metadata Indices Institute with Prof. Ethan Miller.

Eddy Chandra is working with Dr. Alex Pang on Uncertainty Visualization with CCS-1.

Tatiana Djidjeva is a LANL TSM enrolled in the UCSC graduate program working towards a Ph.D. in CS from CCS-3.

Damian Eads is a Ph.D. student studying the application of machine learning to tackle remote sensing, imagery, time series, and systems problems. He collaborates with Professor Ethan Miller on the use of machine learning for storage problems. As a Staff Research Assistant for the ISR Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he develops data analysis algorithms for remote sensing data under the direction of Dr. James Theiler. He graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Computer Science in 2004 (w/ High Honors), and minored in Mathematics and Psychology.
Damian's LANL Mentor is James Theiler.

Karen Glocer is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science doing thesis research in machine learning at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  Karen's UCSC Mentor is Manfred Warmuth.  Her LANL mentor is James Theiler.

Jessica is working with Dr. Yi Zhang on Database technology with the LANL Technical Library

Tim Kaldewey is working with Prof. Scott Brandt on Storage QoS.

Esteban Molina-Estolano is a second year Ph.D. Student working with Professors Scott Brandt and Carlos Maltzahn on load balancing in object storage.  Esteban's LANL mentors are John Bent, James Nunez, and Gary Grider.

Ian Pye is working with Luca De Alfaro working on Information Trust collaborating with HPC-1 and the Research Library.

Steve Scher is working with James Davis on Shape and Motion with CCS-2.

Karl Schnaitter is a fourth year Ph.D. student.  He is working on COLT (Continuous On-Line Tuning): a framework to automatically optimize the physical design of a database by selecting secondary access structures. His faculty mentor is Dr. Alkis Polyzotis.  Karl's LANL mentors are Gary Grider and John Bent.

Andrew Shewmaker is a LANL TSM enrolled in the UCSC graduate program finishing his Masters Degree in CS in June 2008 in HPC-5.

Rosie Wacha is a Ph.D. student working with Prof. Long on parallel workload characterization.  Rosie's LANL mentor is James Nunez.

Eric is working on a Tool for Data Management Across Heterogeneous Platforms.

Andrew is working on Scalable Security for Petascale, High Performance Storage.

Mark is studying security and cost efficiency in archival storage with Prof. Ethan Miller.

Joel works on Providing Quality of Service Support in Object-Based File Systems with Prof. Scott Brandt.