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Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau

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Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau
NationalityAmerican
Other namesAndrea Dusseau
EducationPh.D. computer science, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
B.S. computer engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1991
Known fordata storage and computer systems
SpouseRemzi Arpaci-Dusseau
AwardsSIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, ACM Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Stanford University
Thesis Implicit Coscheduling: Coordinated Scheduling with Implicit Information in Distributed Systems  (1998)
Doctoral advisorDavid Culler

Andrea Carol Arpaci-Dusseau (also published as Andrea Dusseau) is an American computer scientist interested in operating systems, file systems, data storage, distributed computing, and computer science education. She is a professor of computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau have co-written a textbook on operating systems, "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" (OSTEP), that is downloaded millions of times yearly and used at hundreds of institutions worldwide.[1]

Education and career

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Arpaci-Dusseau majored in computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, graduating in 1991.[2] She completed a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998; her dissertation, Implicit Coscheduling: Coordinated Scheduling with Implicit Information in Distributed Systems, was supervised by David Culler.[2][3]

After postdoctoral research at Stanford University, she joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty as an assistant professor in 2000, and became a full professor there in 2009.[2]

Personal life

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Arpaci-Dusseau is married to Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, also a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an expert on data storage; they are frequent collaborators.[4]

Book

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With Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Arpaci-Dusseau is the co-author of the free 2018 book Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces.

Recognition

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In 2018, Arpaci-Dusseau and her husband were the winners of the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, "for outstanding leadership, innovation, and impact in storage and computer systems research".[5] Arpaci-Dusseau was named a 2020 ACM Fellow "for contributions to storage and computer systems".[6]

References

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  1. ^ Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. September 2018. ISBN 978-1-9850-8659-3.
  2. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2021-03-18
  3. ^ Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau's Biography, retrieved 2021-03-18
  5. ^ Johansen, Håvard (9 October 2018), The Mark Weiser Award 2018, ACM SIGOPS, retrieved 2021-03-18
  6. ^ 2020 ACM Fellows Recognized for Work that Underpins Today's Computing Innovations, Association for Computing Machinery, 13 January 2021, retrieved 2021-03-18
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