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.

Randal’s research focuses on the management, performance, and security of large data sets, particularly for scientific and archival applications.  His recent results address query processing on distributed databases, remote data checking and data protection, 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.  Randal 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.