Biography
Michael Kaminsky is the Chief Scientist at Enriched Ag (formerly BrdgAI) and an adjunct faculty member of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
Previously, Michael was a senior research scientist at Intel Labs. He worked most recently as part of two Intel Science and Technology Centers based in Pittsburgh, PA at Carnegie Mellon University: Visual Cloud Systems (ISTC-VCS) and Cloud Computing (ISTC-CC). Before that, Michael was part of the Intel University Lablet at CMU. Michael received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT in Summer 2004, a S.M. (Masters) from MIT in Spring 2000, and a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley in Spring 1998. Michael is generally interested in computer science systems research, including distributed systems, networking, and operating systems. His recent research efforts have examined systems support for machine learning, memory efficiency, low-latency networking, key-value stores, energy-efficiency, low-power servers, and cross-data center consistency. Michael's program committee service includes SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, HotOS, SoCC, and SYSTOR. He was the General Chair for SOSP'13 and the Guest Editor for the January 2011 Special Topics issue of ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (OSR).
Research
I am generally interested in computer science systems research. More specifically, I enjoy working on distributed systems, networking, operating systems and network/systems security. I am working on a handful of projects under the broad umbrella of Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (FAWN), including systems challenges in machine learning, memory-efficient algorithms and data structures (e.g., Cuckoo hashing, SuRF), key-value storage, low-latency networking (e.g., eRPC), and cross-data center consistency. Much of the code from these projects is available in our group's GitHub repositories. Previous projects include software building blocks for non-volatile RAM, Neighborhood-Aware Networking (NaN), CloudConnect, Reliable Email (Re:) and Data-Oriented Transfer (DOT).
Most of my graduate work involved a secure, decentralized network filesystem called SFS. See these papers for more details: SOSP'99, SOSP'03, USENIX ATC'04. In Summer 1998, I did some really interesting and fun work related to the Interactive Barney doll from Actimates—check out this page for more info.
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