Rate My Professor Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau

Arpaci-Dusseau's research focuses on storage and computer systems. He co-leads the ADvanced Systems Laboratory (ADSL) with Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, having mentored 32 Ph.D. students. Their work has garnered significant recognition, including the 2018 ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, ACM Fellowship (2020), AAAS Fellowship (2023), Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship (2022), multiple FAST Best Paper Awards (2004–2020), FAST Test-of-Time Award (2022), EuroSys Best Paper (2014), SOSP Best Paper (2011), and USENIX ATC Best Paper (2009). In education, he has received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2016), SACM Professor-of-the-Year (seven times), and Carolyn Rosner Excellent Educator Award (2011). He co-authored the influential textbook Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (OSTEP), freely available and used at hundreds of institutions worldwide with millions of downloads annually. Notable publications include "Symbiosis: The Art of Application and Kernel Cache Cooperation" (FAST 2024), "Revealing the Unstable Foundations of eBPF-Based Kernel Extensions" (EuroSys 2025), and "WiscSort: External Sorting for Byte-Addressable Storage" (VLDB 2023). Many ADSL innovations are incorporated into commercial systems.