Nate Edel
Former graduate student, Dept. of Computer Science, University of California Santa Cruz
Email: nathan.k.edel.98 AT alum dartmouth.org
Original version of this page: http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~nate/

This is no longer a precise mirror of my page at UCSC; at some point, the original version will be deactivated, while this page will continue to be updated.

Current News:
• I left my position at University of San Francisco in February. I am starting a new software engineering position at Guidewire in a few days.
• I was on leave of absence for the 2004-2005 academic year, and am at present withdrawn from the university; I hope to either complete my degree by transferring in my last course and/or applying for readmission once my wife is done with nursing school (expected Dec 2007).

About My Time at UCSC:
I was at UCSC from Sept. 2002 to June 2004, working with the Storage Systems Research Center. During my leave of absence, I worked at a Panta Systems, HPC-related startup company before moving to USF.

My primary area of interest is file systems design, although I have broad interests in both operating systems and software engineering. My advisor is Prof. Ethan L. Miller. I have been working with the group in research on filesystems for Magnetic RAM (MRAM) and am generally interested file and storage system applications for nonvolatile memories.

This page is intended as an academic introduction; for those interestested in a more personal introduction, I recently started keeping a blog ("Cubicle Hermit") and I have a personal page ("nkedel.com") for those interested, and a slightly more up-to-date photo.

Publications
Nathan K. Edel, Ethan L. Miller, Karl S. Brandt, Scott A. Brandt, "Measuring the Compressibility of Metadata and Small Files for Disk/NVRAM Hybrid Storage Systems," Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'04), San Jose, CA, July 2004. (PDF)

Nathan K. Edel, Deepa Tuteja, Ethan L. Miller, and Scott A. Brandt, "MRAMFS: A Compressing File System for Non-Volatile RAM," Proceedings of the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), Volendam, Netherlands, October 2004, to appear. (PDF)

Presentations and Technical Reports
An earlier version of my MRAMFS work was presented as a Work in Progress (WIP) report at the 3rd USENIX Conference on File Systems and Storage Technologies, San Francisco, CA, April 2004 (PDF Slides)

An earlier version of the compression measurement work presented at SPECTS is available as a technical report (UCSC-CRL-03-04). (PDF)

Schedule (Winter 2006)
I am not on campus with any regularity, but can be reached via email.

I also have a list of past graduate classes available.