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).

Arpaci-Dusseau has earned major awards including the 2020 ACM Fellowship for contributions to storage and computer systems, the 2018 ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, twelve best-paper awards across top conferences, the 2022 UC Berkeley Computer Science Distinguished Alumni Award, the 2017 UW-Madison Van Hise Outreach Teaching Award, and named professorships such as Susan Beth Horwitz WARF Professor (2021) and Catherine A. Erickson Professor (2023). She has co-advised 28 Ph.D. students at UW-Madison and chaired conferences including OSDI 2018, SOSP 2024, FAST 2007, and USENIX ATC 2004. Her teaching covers CS 739 Distributed Systems and CS 537 Operating Systems, while outreach initiatives through CS clubs have engaged hundreds of UW students with thousands of local children, earning her the 2017 Van Hise award. Her innovations influence systems at Intel, IBM, Pure Storage, and open-source projects like Linux ext4 and ZFS.

Professional Email: dusseau@cs.wisc.edu