Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Grace Wahba Professor of Computer Sciences at UW-Madison. He currently is serving both as the Director of the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences and as a special advisor to the Provost on computing.
He co-leads a research group with Professor Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau. Together, they have advised 30 Ph.D. students and won numerous best-paper and test-of-time awards; many of their innovations are used by commercial systems. Remzi received the ACM-SIGOPS Weiser award for “outstanding leadership, innovation, and impact in storage and computer systems research”, was named an ACM Fellow for “contributions to storage and computer systems”, and a Fellow of the AAAS for “distinguished contributions to computer systems research and development of computing systems with concomitant devotion to computing education for everyone”.
Remzi has won the SACM Professor-of-the-Year award seven times, the Rosner “Excellent Educator” award, and the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Their operating systems book (www.ostep.org) is downloaded millions of times yearly and used at numerous institutions worldwide; it is usually the top-selling textbook on Amazon on operating systems.