I am a first year PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working with the Storage Systems Research Center and advised by Darrell Long. I am broadly interested in systems, storage performance, and data encoding.

I completed my MS from the University of California, San Diego, thesis: "Improving Disk Array Reliability and Performance", under Walt Burkhard in the Systems and Networking group. I earned a BS in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of S. Florida. I have spent the last several summers working on storage performance and analysis at Google and previous summers on storage characterization and virtualization at Teradata Labs.

Current resume.

Publications

• D.Kephart, J.LeFevre, "CodeGen: The generation and testing of DNA code words", IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Portland, OR 2004. pdf

• TA for CMPS 111 Operating Systems Fall 2008.