Erez Zadok's Curriculum Vitae Summary and Highlights

Introduction:

I believe in highly practical research projects that address real issues faced by society and industry, a free dissemination of open-source software, and producing high quality code prior to publications. My projects often include the release of data sets and traces as well as source code. My students and I conduct extensive hardening of software using regression suites, formal code reviews, then followed by extensive performance benchmarking and analysis—all prior to publication.

I train my students intensely. Junior students meet with me for several hours each week to learn about a wide range of topics, from technical writing, to benchmarking, to debugging race conditions and slow memory leaks. As students mature, I believe in a more hands-off approach, allowing the students to become excellent independent researchers. I trains my senior students on a variety of leadership skills, including supervising junior students, budgeting, and team management—key to becoming future leaders. I continues to advise my students in depth during the job-search process, and even post graduation on career matters. I believe strongly in "once an adviser, always and adviser."

Education:

• Ph.D. from Columbia University, 2001.
• M.Sc., M.Phil, and B.SC, from Columbia University, 1991–1997.

Professional Experience:

• Aug. 2017–present: Graduate Program/Academic Adviser, Stony Brook University, Computer Department.
• 2016-present: Professor, Stony Brook University, Computer Science Department.
• 2007–2015: Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, Computer Science Department.
• 2001–2007: Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University, Computer Science Department.
• 2001–present: Director, File systems and Storage Laboratory (FSL), Stony Brook University, Computer Science Department.
• 2013–present: Director, Smart Energy Technologies (SET) Faculty Cluster, Stony Brook University.
• 2013–present: Managing Member, Zadoks Consulting, LLC.
• 1990–2000: Consultant, Project Leader, then Director of Software Development: SOS Corporation and HydraWEB Technologies, Inc.
• 1984–1986: military service (Israeli Defense Forces)

Awards:

• 2022 Elected as ACM Distinguished Member for "Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing."
• NSF CAREER award (2002–2007).
• Two IBM Faculty awards; two NetApp Faculty awards.
• Six best paper awards.
• The SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2008 (this award can be given only once in a lifetime).
• The SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2022 (this award can be given only once in a lifetime).
• Elected IEEE Senior member.
• LISTnet's "Top 20 techies of Long Island" award.
• Three separate CS department's awards for service, research excellence, and graduate teaching.
• Promising Inventor's award from the SUNY Research Foundation.
• Stony Brook College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean's "Million Miler" award, given to lead PIs who secured more than $1M in new funding (twice, in 2019 and 2021).
• Provost's Excellent Mentor award, Stony Brook University (2022).

Funding:

• Over USD$25,000,000 in funding since 2001, across over 60 awards/gifts.
  • My funding share more than 35%.
• Funding spans many federal agencies, New York State, and industry worldwide.
• Lead or Sole-PI on 37 of 59 awards (63%).
• Modest royalty income from two licensed technologies.

Research and Publications:

• I am a sole-author of one book, "Linux NFS and Automounter Administration" (Sybex, 2001).
• I published over 25 journal and magazine articles, including 9 in ACM's prestigious Transactions on Storage (TOS).
• I published over 120 refereed conference/workshop publications, spanning ACM, IEEE, USENIX, and more.
• In addition to five best-paper awards, my publications include such selective venues as USENIX OSDI, USENIX Security Symposium, IEEE/USENIX HotOS, IEEE Security and Privacy, and USENIX FAST.
• My 15 USENIX FAST publications make me the 4th most published author (out of over 120 authors) in the history of this selective conference. (My rank is 3rd when grouped by team.) See my USENIX FAST Hall of Fame ranking.
• I am co-inventor on four issued patents.
• As of this writing, Google Scholar records over 10,000 citations for my publications, an h-index of 53, and an i10-index of 107.
• My top cited paper has over 1,400 citations; the next one has over 450 citations; the next one has over 300 citations; the next three have over 200 citations; a total of 25 of my publications have at least 100 citations each.
• My ORCID ID is 0000-0001-5248-9184.

Students:

• Since 2001, I directly advised over 220 students.
• I graduated 13 Ph.D. students, 25 undergraduates, one high-school student, and over 100 MS students—13+ of whom completed with an MS Thesis.
• My Ph.D. students went on to work at IBM Research, Apple, VMware, Google, and startups.
• My MS students went to work primarily all over Silicon Valley's high-tech companies (large and small/startups).

Teaching:

• Taught the core graduate Operating Systems class (CSE-506) over a dozen times.
• Created and then taught an undergraduate "Advanced Systems Programming in Unix/C" over ten times.
• Taught courses on System Administration, undergraduate Operating Systems, and several special topics courses.
• Long teaching career: taught LOGO programming to K-12 students in mid 1980s; taught a full programming and data-structures course to undergraduates while a Ph.D. student at Columbia University.
• Earned several teaching awards throughout the years, including the SUNY Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching award—a State University of New York-wide award that can be given to a person only once in a lifetime.
• My teaching evaluations have been consistently well above the university, school, and department averages.
• Students often praise my courses for being difficult yet fair, challenging yet highly educational. Paraphrased, many comments provided by students on my courses are "best instructor I ever had," "although I didn't get an A in this course, I learn a lot," and "this course was very helpful in my first job after college."

Service:

• I have been Associate Editor for ACM's Transactions on Storage (TOS) journal from 2009 to 2012. I am now the Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS) journal.
• I served on many program committees, grant review panels, and other committees at all levels from departmental, school, university, and the wider research community.
• I served on every departmental committee of Stony Brook's Computer Science, often for years.
• This was instrumental in understanding many aspects of the operation of a CS department.
• Co-chaired USENIX ATC 2020 (during the pandemic).
• I was the co-chair of USENIX FAST 2015. I co-chaired ACM SYSTOR in 2012, the First USENIX Workshop on Sustainable Information Technology in 2010, the First File-systems and Storage Benchmarking workshop in 2008, USENIX's Annual Conference Invited Talks track in 2005, and the USENIX FreeNIX Annual Conference in 2003.
• I have been a member of the ACM SYSTOR Steering Committee since 2012, a member of the USENIX FAST Steering Committee since 2015, and a member of the ACM HotStorage Steering Committee since 2021.
• I served (or continues to serve) on several Stony Brook University's committees: the President's "one campus IT" committee (as co-chair), the Provost's campus-wide faculty mentoring committee, the Provost's Outstanding Lecturer Selection Committee, the Provost's Interdisciplinary Faculty Cluster Selection Committee, the Provost's Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS) Task Force, the President's Information Technology Steering Committee on Email and Collaboration, and the President's Teaching Excellence Award Selection Committee.
• After winning a campus-wide provostial competition for interdisciplinary faculty hiring clusters, I now lead a faculty cluster titled Smart Energy Technologies (SET), overseeing a team of 4–5 faculty spanning four departments.
• I served (or continue to serve) on numerous Computer Science departmental committees spanning academic matters for graduates and undergraduates, hiring/promotion/tenure, Web and PR, faculty recruiting, IT recruiting and supervision, executive committee, buildings/centers committee, thesis/dissertation committees, thesis proposal and research-proficiency committees, and more. Many of these committees are permanent committees on which I served for years.
• In the past 30 years, I served on three "building programming" committees that helped design new buildings and transition into them over the course of several years each (one building at Columbia University and two at Stony Brook University).
• I chaired the departmental IT Operations committee, after having directly supervised the IT staff between 2006–2018.
• I have also been the informal and then formal mentor for many of our junior faculty for over a dozen years.

Other:

• I released, maintained, and continue to maintain several popular software packages including:
  1. Re-Animator, a system for efficient and standard system-call tracing and replaying.
  2. DM-Dedup, a Linux device mapper for inline block deduplication.
  3. Unionfs, a unioning file system for Linux used by thousands world-wide.
  4. The FiST stackable file system templates, used by hundreds worldwide.
  5. Am-Utils, the Berkeley Automounter (amd), used by countless sites worldwide.
  6. Auto-pilot benchmarking suite of tools.
• We have released over 5TB of deduplication data-sets, collected between 2011–2016.