Systems Research Lab (SRL) Faculty

Scott Brandt
Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies
Professor, Computer Science

Scott Brandt is Professor of Computer Science, the UCSC Director of the ISSDM and Director of the UCSC Systems Research Laboratory. He is also co- founder of the UCSC Storage Systems Research Center. Scott's research is in the area of Computer Systems. He specializes in both storage systems and real-time systems. His current storage system research focuses on high-performance peta-scale distributed object-based storage, while his real-time research focuses on integrating real-time and non-real-time processing into a uniform processing environment. His most recent research intregrates the two, researching novel solutions for robust guaranteeable management of varied system resources, including CPU, disk, memory, and network.

Carlos Maltzahn
Associate Director of SRL
Associate Director of ISSDM
Associate Adjunct Professor, Computer Science

Carlos Maltzahn is Director of the UCSC Systems Research Lab, Associate Director of the UCSC/Los Alamos Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management, and Associate Adjunct Professor of Computer Science.

He joined UCSC in January 2005 after five years at Network Appliance. His current research interests include scalable file system data and metadata management, storage QoS, data management games, network intermediaries, information retrieval, and cooperation dynamics..

Neoklis Polyzotis
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Neoklis Polyzotis is currently an associate professor at UC Santa Cruz. His research focuses on online index tuning, scientific data management, and declarative crowdsourcing. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2004 and of an IBM Faculty Award in 2005 and 2006. He has also received the runner-up for best paper in VLDB 2007 and the best newcomer paper award in ACM PODS 2008. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2003.

Wang-Chiew Tan
Associate Professor, Computer Science