PETER CHEN

Education

• Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of California at Berkeley, 1992
  
• M.S. (Computer Science), University of California at Berkeley, 1989
  
• B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Pennsylvania State University, 1987

Employment

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Assistant Professor, 1993-

Honors and Awards

• 1998-99 College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award
• 1997-98 EECS Departmental Teaching Excellence Award
• Best Paper Award, VLDB 1997
• 1996-97 Tau Beta Pi College of Engineering Teacher of the Year
• 1996-97 College of Engineering 1938E Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring
• 1995-96 Eta Kappa Nu EECS Professor of the Year
• Best Paper Award, ACM SIGMETRICS 1993
• Best Student Paper Award, Winter USENIX 1990

Research Interests

Operating systems, distributed systems, databases

Recent Publications

• David E. Lowell and Peter M. Chen, "Persistent Messages in Local Transactions", Proceedings of the 1998 Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), June 1998.

• Subhachandra Chandra and Peter M. Chen, "How Fail-Stop are Faulty Programs?", Proceedings of the 1998 Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS), June 1998.

• David E. Lowell and Peter M. Chen, "Free Transactions with Rio Vista", Proceedings of the 1997 Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 1997.

• Wee Teck Ng, Peter M. Chen, "Integrating Reliable Memory in Databases", Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), August 1997.

• Peter M. Chen, Wee Teck Ng, Subhachandra Chandra, Christopher Aycock, Gurushankar Rajamani, and David Lowell, "The Rio File Cache: Surviving Operating System Crashes", Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), October 1996.

• Wee Teck Ng, Christopher M. Aycock, Gurushankar Rajamani, and Peter M. Chen, "Comparing Disk and Memory's Resistance to Operating System Crashes", Proceedings of the 1996 International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, October 1996.

• Bruce L. Jacob, Peter M. Chen, Seth R. Silverman, and Trevor N. Mudge, "An Analytical Model for Designing Memory Hierarchies", IEEE Transactions on Computers, October 1996.

• Peter M. Chen and Edward K. Lee, "Striping in a RAID Level 5 Disk Array", Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, May 1995.

• Peter M. Chen and David A. Patterson, "A New Approach to I/O Performance Evaluation--Self-Scaling I/O Benchmarks, Predicted I/O Performance", ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, November 1994.

• Peter M. Chen, Edward K. Lee, Garth A. Gibson, Randy H. Katz, and David A. Patterson, "RAID: High-Performance, Reliable Secondary Storage", ACM Computing Surveys, June 1994.

• Ann L. Drapeau, Ken Shirriff, Edward K. Lee, Peter M. Chen, Garth A. Gibson, John H. Hartman, Ethan L. Miller, Srinivasan Seshan, Randy H. Katz, Ken Lutz, and David A. Patterson, "RAID-II: A High-Bandwidth Network File Server", Proceedings of the 1994 International Symposium on Computer Architecture, April 1994.