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Joseph Pasquale
is a
professor of computer science
and holder of the
J. Robert Beyster
Chair in Engineering
at the
University of California, San Diego,
where
he has
been on the faculty since 1987.
He teaches
operating systems at the graduate and undergraduate levels,
and
his
research
interests are
in operating systems, distributed systems and networks,
focusing on performance, reliability and security
of Internet-scale systems
with highly decentralized control (as in peer-to-peer systems).
He
received
a
Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of California, Berkeley
(with dissertation on
fundamental problems of decentralized control in
large-scale distributed systems,
advised by
Domenico Ferrari),
and
bachelor's and master's degrees
from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(with dissertation on
the design and implementation of
computer-synthesized musical performance systems,
advised by
Marvin Minsky
and mentored by
Hal Alles
and
Max Mathews
at Bell Laboratories).
He is a recipient of the UCSD Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award in Undergraduate Teaching (2007), the UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2003), the IBM Faculty Award (1991), the TRW Young Investigator Award (1991), the NCR faculty award (1991), and the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989). He was a member of the IDA/DARPA Defense Science Study Group V (1996-97). He served on numerous ACM and IEEE technical program conference committees, including those for SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, ICDCS, INFOCOM, Multimedia, NOSSDAV, CSCW, and ISADS. He also served on and chaired the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award committee (1993-97) and numerous NSF award and review committees. More recently, he has been actively involved in outreach programs to interest high school students in computer science. In particular, for the past three summers he led UCSD's computer science program for COSMOS, a summer school for top high school students.