Advisor(s): David Lilja (lilja@umn.edu)

Degree Plan & Expected Graduation Date

PhD, Fall 2009

Research Interests

Intelligence Storage Systems, Database Systems, Database Performance Tuning

Projects Involved:

1. New Caching Mechanism for Solid State Disk (SSD): The goal of this project is improve the lifetime and performance of SSD using a new caching mechanism in flash translation layer characteristics.
2. Object based Storage (OSD) for DBMS: The goal of this project is to leverage OSD for efficient database storage management.
3. Database Storage Manager for SSD: The goal of this project is to design a storage manager for database to take advantage of SSD's fast read and slow write properties.
4. Selection of Tuning Parameters of a Database Management System: The goal of this project is to identify database performance bottleneck parameters using design of experiments-based Plackett & Burman methodology.

Contact Info

debna004@umn.edu, bkdebnath@gmail.com

Advisor(s): Mohamed Mokbel (mokbel@cs.umn.edu)

Degree Plan & Expected Graduation Date

PhD, Fall 2011

Research Interests

System-oriented research, Database systems, Object oriented storage. Non-traditional query processing, Skyline queries, Adaptive query processing.

Contact Info

khalefa@cs.umn.edu

Advisor: David Du (du@cs.umn.edu)

Degree Plan & Expected Graduation Date

Ph.D.

Research Interests

data management, especially efficient & scalable data de-duplication, data storage system, key management system design & evaluation

Contact Info

lv@cs.umn.edu

Advisor(s): David Du (du@cs.umn.edu)

Degree Plan & Expected Graduation Date

PhD, Fall 2008

Research Interests

I am currently involved in the following Projects:

• Improving Energy Efficiency of Storage Subsystem (MAID)
• Parallel Archiving — Intelligent Data Migration
• Simulation and Modeling of Storage Networks — SIMON

Contact Info

npramod@cs.umn.edu

Advisor(s): David Lilja (lilja@umn.edu)

Degree Plan & Expected Graduation Date

PhD, Spring 2010

Research Interests

I am currently working on long-term key management project. I am also interested in wide area data replications/security, block level p2p and hierarchical storage management using object based storage.

Contact Info

parkx408@umn.edu
parkx408@gmail.com

Advisor(s):Andrew Odlyzko (odlyzko@math.umn.edu)

Degree Plan & Expected Graduation Date

PhD, May 2009

Research Interests

I am interested in cryptography and information security, algorithm design and analysis, and computational complexity. I am also interested on network security, storage security (especially long term) and protocol security (finding weakness of an existing protocol and enhancing the protocol).

I am currently working on long term key management for for a huge quantity of sensitive data and large number of dynamic users.

Contact Info

vishal@math.umn.edu
http://www.math.umn.edu/~vishal/

Advisor(s): David Du (du@cs.umn.edu)

Degree Plan & Expected Graduation Date

PhD

Research Interests

I am interested in the design of Meta data server. For many applications we need a distributed metadata management in the context of petabyte-scale. My research interest is focused on designing a scalable architecture for Meta data servers so that location tracking, access control, migration, replication etc … can be performed efficiently in large volumes.

Contact Info

ssharaf@cs.umn.edu
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~ssharaf/

Advisor: David Du (du@cs.umn.edu)

Degree Plan & Expected Graduation Date

MS, Spring 2008

Research Interests

I am currently involved in two projects:
–Providing File System in USEr space (FUSE) functionality on Open Solaris.
–Improving Caching and buffering Schemes for Flash based SSD and Hybrid Disks.

Contact Info

subram@cs.umn.edu