Gregory Ganger
Jatras Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Courtesy Appointment, Computer Science Department
Gregory Ganger is the Jatras Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His group explores new ways of structuring computer systems to address technology changes and enable new functionalities. They have ongoing projects in such areas as cloud computing, system support for big data analytics, resource scheduling, and distributed storage systems. Ganger's Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering is from The University of Michigan, and he spent two-and-a-half years in postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education
1995 Ph.D., University of Michigan
1993 MS, University of Michigan
1991 BS, University of Michigan
Affiliations
Research Interests
- big data
- cloud computing
- cloud security
- computer/storage systems
- cyberphysical systems (CPS)
- data storage systems
- data/network science systems
- distributed systems
- intrusion-tolerant systems
- network security
- operating systems
- secure systems
- storage access control management
- storage systems
- systems security
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Niraj Tolia receives 2023 Parallel Data Lab Distinguished Alumni Award
Carnegie Mellon University’s Parallel Data Lab (PDL) has recognized Niraj Tolia (BS '02, MS '03, Ph.D. '07), CEO and Co-Founder of Alcion, as the recipient of its 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award.
CMU Engineering
One framework to rule them all
George Amvrosiadis is part of a team from CMU’s PDL and Los Alamos National Lab designing a record-breaking file system framework for the next era of supercomputing.
Wired
PDL team tests new file system on Trinity supercomputer
A team from the Carnegie Mellon Parallel Data Lab (PDL) recently completed work with Los Alamos National Lab using a novel file system to simulate physical phenomena involving as many as a trillion individual particles.