Rate My Professor Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau

Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau is the Susan Beth Horwitz WARF Professor of Computer Sciences and Catherine A. Erickson Professor in the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she joined as an assistant professor in 2000 and was promoted to full professor in 2009. She earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 1998 with a dissertation on Implicit Coscheduling. Following her doctorate, she served as an instructor and postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University from 1998 to 1999. Her research specializations in computer science include file and storage systems as her primary focus, along with operating systems, distributed systems, virtualization, and scheduling. Co-leading the Arpaci-Dusseau Systems Lab, she has produced the fourth-most publications in SOSP and OSDI and the most in FAST per csrankings.org, with key works such as the textbook Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (2018, co-authored with Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau), WiscKey: Separating Keys from Values in SSD-conscious Storage (FAST 2016), and An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack (FAST 2008).