Peter Desnoyers

Associate Professor

Peter Desnoyers

Research interests

  • Integration of emerging storage technologies into existing software infrastructures
  • Algorithms for Flash storage
  • Shingled magnetic recording disk drives
  • Operating systems

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biography

Peter Desnoyers is an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.

Desnoyers earned his PhD in 2007 after a fifteen-year engineering career at Apple, Motorola, and smaller startups. He is a founder and committee member of the Massachusetts Open Cloud, a multi-institutional collaboration that develops new models for cloud computing. His research focuses on storage issues in operating systems, namely the integration of emerging storage technologies such as Flash and SMR disks into existing software infrastructures.

Desnoyers is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board for the UMass Boston Department of Computer Science and was a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He has chaired the IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies and the ACM Workshop on Interactions of NVM/Flash with Operating Systems and Workloads. Desnoyers is also an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers and has served on the program committees and editorial boards of acclaimed computer science conferences and journals.

Recent publications

  • Towards Non-Intrusive Software Introspection and Beyond

    Citation: Apoorve Mohan, Shripad Nadgowda, Bhautik Pipaliya, Sona Varma, Sahil Suneja, Canturk Isci, Gene Cooperman, Peter Desnoyers, Orran Krieger, Ata Turk. (2020). Towards Non-Intrusive Software Introspection and Beyond IC2E, 173-184. https://doi.org/10.1109/IC2E48712.2020.00025
  • A Community Cache with Complete Information

    Citation: Mania Abdi, Amin Mosayyebzadeh, Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi, Emine Ugur Kaynar, Ata Turk, Larry Rudolph, Orran Krieger, Peter Desnoyers. (2021). A Community Cache with Complete Information FAST, 323-340. https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast21/presentation/abdi
  • The Open Cloud Testbed (OCT): A Platform for Research into new Cloud Technologies

    Citation: Michael Zink, David E. Irwin , Emmanuel Cecchet, Hakan Saplakoglu, Orran Krieger, Martin C. Herbordt, Michael Daitzman, Peter Desnoyers, Miriam Leeser, Suranga Handagala. (2021). The Open Cloud Testbed (OCT): A Platform for Research into new Cloud Technologies CloudNet, 140-147. https://doi.org/10.1109/CloudNet53349.2021.9657109

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  • Mania Abdi