Randal Burns

Storage and Database Systems for Science and Engineering

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Randal Burns

www.cs.jhu.edu/~randal, randal(at)cs.jhu.edu, 410.516.7708

Randal Burns is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the Whiting School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University.  He directs the Hopkins Storage Systems Lab.  His research focuses on the management, performance, and security of large data sets, particularly for scientific and archival applications.  His recent results address query processing for data-intensive science applications, remote data checking for outsourced storage services, and adaptive performance management for network data protocols.

Randal was formerly a Research Staff Member in Storage Systems at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose.  He earned his Ph.D. in 2000 and M.S. in 1997 from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California at Santa Cruz.  He earned his B.S. degree from the Department of Geophysics at Stanford University. Randal is on the Editorial Board of ACM Transactions on Storage and the Academic Advisory Board of StorageNetworking.org.


 

Senior Member

Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:04
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Randal Burns has been elected to the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM Senior Member.  I hope that this will bring me senior discounts at movie theatres and National parks.
 

SNIA Podcast for CA-NFS

Thursday, 30 April 2009 16:26
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Our author group for the CA-NFS paper that won the best paper award was interviewed by SNIA for their Podcast series, available at http://www.snia.org/podcasts/.  Here's a link to us:

TC Podcast - Interview with the Best of FAST 09 paper authors (CA-NFS).  

It's kinda like being on TV, just with a factor of 10-6 fewer people watching.  And the paper:  "A. Batsakis, R. Burns, A. Kanevsky, J. Lentini, and T. Talpey. A Congestion-Aware Network File System. Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), USENIX, 2009."

Last Updated on Thursday, 30 April 2009 17:03
 

FAST PC Chair 2009

Saturday, 28 February 2009 05:50
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Along with Kim Keeton, Randal will be the Co-Chair of the USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology on February 23-26, 2010.  Thanks to the Organizing Committee and to Ellie Young (the core of all things USENIX) who are going to help us pull this off.  Send your best work, this is my favorite conference.
 

Dean's Leadership Award

Saturday, 28 February 2009 05:56
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Randal received a Dean's Leadership Award from the Whiting School of Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University.  The award will help further Randal's research agenda on the management of large scientific data sets and should be used on something different.  This should be fun.
Last Updated on Saturday, 28 February 2009 05:59