Rate My Professor Darrell Long

Darrell Long is a distinguished Computer Science professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, serving as Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Distinguished Research Professor of Engineering in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering. He holds the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems Research and was the founding Director Emeritus of the Storage Systems Research Center, which trained more than forty Ph.D. students and gained international recognition for advancements in storage architecture, reliability, and secure systems. Long received his B.S. in Computer Science from San Diego State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego. His career at UCSC exceeds three decades, including positions as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering. He has held visiting professorships at Université Paris–Dauphine, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Université Paris–Descartes, Sorbonne Université, University of Technology Sydney, and Universidad Católica del Uruguay, and serves as an Associate Member of CERN. Long has contributed to national advisory roles, including the UC President’s Council on the National Laboratories, National Research Council committees, and the JASON advisory group since 2002.