Arif Merchant

Biography

Arif is a researcher in the Storage and Information Management Platforms Lab, focused on researching and building platforms and services that will create, host, manage and provide the next generation of storage and information sources and services for enterprise and user-controlled information.

Arif holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay. Prior to HP, he worked at IBM's Watson Research Center and at the NEC Computer and Communications Research Lab. He holds 20 US Patents and has co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers.

Research interests

Arif's main area of expertise is performance modeling and measurement, particularly related to storage systems. His research spans many areas in storage systems, from QoS enforcement and autonomic performance management to the design of distributed storage systems and dependable storage systems. His most recent work is in the area of storage QoS management -- how to enable multiple applications with different workload demands, performance requirements, and importance to share a common pool of storage resources while meeting the requirements of each.

Awards

• Distinguished Engineer, ACM, 2008.
• Best paper award, ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2007.
• Best paper  award, USENIX File and Storage Technologies Conference (FAST), 2003.

Professional activities

Arif is a member of the IEEE and the ACM. He served as a Program co-chair for the Joint SIGMETRICS/Performance conference in 2004. He  currently serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGMETRICS.