David P. AndersonEducation
EmploymentOctober 2002 - present: Research Scientist, Space Sciences Lab, U.C. Berkeley I direct BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastruction for Network Computing), a research project that develops middleware for volunteer computing. BOINC is used by SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Einstein@home, and a number of other scientific computing projects. I am Principal Investigator or co-PI on four National Science Foundation grants supporting BOINC. 1997 - present: Director, SETI@home, U.C. Berkeley SETI@home is a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to analyze radio-telescope data in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Since its public launch in May 1999, over 3,000,000 people have contributed 2 million years of computer time, making SETI@home the largest computation ever performed. As project director, I raised funds (about $2M thus far, from a variety of private and public sources), hired and managed a team of 6 programmers and system administrators, handled news media, and managed the web site. I was also the technical lead, designing and managing the implementation of the client-side and server-side software, the database, and the server hardware architecture. 2000 - 2002: Chief Technology Officer, United Devices This company developed a platform for Internet-scale distributed computing and storage, and marketed this platform in a number of application areas such as Bioinformatics and Web load testing. As CTO, I was responsible for the platform architecture, including its API, its cross-platform client software, and its back-end server and database. 1995 - 1999: Chief Technology Officer, Tunes.com, Berkeley CA. I architected and implemented a database-driven, Web-based system for personalized music discovery and marketing. This system involves a number of technology components:
1995 - present: Consultant My consulting contracts have included:
1992 - 1995: Director of Software Architecture, Sonic Solutions, San Rafael CA. I was the technical leader in developing SonicSystem, a distributed digital audio editing system based on FDDI, Macintosh, and proprietary DSP and I/O boards. I designed and implemented a high-performance filesystem, a custom transport protocol, and a system for reserving device bandwidth so that multiple users can share resources without performance conflicts. SonicSystem's core technology was reused in MediaNet, a high-speed network file system for I/O-intensive Macintosh applications, able to deliver 4 Megabytes per second from a remote disk to an application. I designed and implemented the entire software data path (client cache and readahead mechanism, NuBus DMA system, Macintosh OS hooks). I was responsible for the system-level software of SonicSystem and MediaNet. My role included cross-platform software design, software architecture for Sonic's next generation of audio and video products, and the design of software interfaces for OEM partners. 1985 - 1992: Assistant Professor, CS Division, EECS Department, University of California at Berkeley. While at Berkeley I taught undergraduate courses in operating systems and introductory programming, and graduate courses in operating systems, distributed systems and networks, and multimedia systems. I advised eight Masters and two Ph.D theses. I organized and led several research projects at UC Berkeley, including:
In 1986 and 1987 respectively I received an IBM Faculty Development grant and the NSF Presidential Young Investigator award. Publications and PatentsI have authored or co-authored a number of papers in Computer Science, with 17 papers in refereed journals (including Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Graphics, ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, IEEE Computer, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering), 28 conference papers, and 13 unpublished technical reports. I am an inventor on two patents for technology related to MediaNet, several patents related to distributed computing, and a patent for an invention involving 3-D interactive television. Professional ActivitiesProgram committees:
I have given numerous invited talks on my research, including (2008) UCB GIIF laboratory; (2007) Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Leiden University, MSRI, eMentor IT Workshop (Oslo), University of Houston, panel at AAAS meeting in SF, workshop at IEEE IPDPS conference (keynote speaker), University of Extremadura (Merida), HispaLinux conference (Caceres); (2006) UCB Neurobiology Dept., Sony, Singapore University, Condor Week (Univ. of Wisconsin), (2005) MIT Internet Application Design workshop, UC Berkeley Computer Science Distinguished Lecture, Google, Amazon.com seminar series; (2004) Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications (Sydney), CERN, University of Illinois, International Computer Science Institute, Internet2 meeting, Univ. of Hawaii; (2003) Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, University of Paris - Sud; (2002) IPDPS conference, keynote speaker. Pre-2003: talks at Apple, Bell Labs, Bellcore, DEC SRC, HP Labs, IBM Almaden, MIT Media Lab, Stanford, Sun, and Xerox PARC, Europen conference (keynote speaker). |