Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau

ABOUT ME

Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau is the Grace Wahba Professor and Chair of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison. He co-leads a research group with Professor Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau. Together, they have graduated 26 Ph.D. students and won numerous best-paper awards; many of their innovations are used by commercial systems. For their work, Remzi and Andrea received the 2018 ACM-SIGOPS Mark Weiser award for "outstanding leadership, innovation, and impact in storage and computer systems research." Remzi is also a devoted educator. He has won the SACM Student Choice Professor of the Year award six times, the Carolyn Rosner "Excellent Educator" award, and the UW-Madison Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award. Remzi and Andrea developed Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (OSTEP) book while teaching CS 537, the undergraduate Operating Systems course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The book has been used at hundreds of institutions worldwide.