Research Director for Storage Systems

The Digital Technology Center's - Intelligent Storage Consortium (DISC) has been created to provide leadership in the research and development of Intelligent Storage Systems. Systems that include storage, networking, management and security and that support applications in new ways.

DISC brings together University of Minnesota researchers and graduate students, representatives of the storage / networking industry and public sector agencies – all of whom share an interest in the future of storage and many unknown and unresolved R&D questions.

The goal of the consortium program is to provide focused technology research opportunities for members and affiliates, to train outstanding new graduate students, and to push the state of the art in selected research programs. DISC emphasizes the application of advanced storage technologies to real problems with real requirements driven by the consortium members.

Recent programs have addressed Object-based Storage Devices, Long-Term Archives and Key Management, Metadata Server Architectures, Exhaustive Search, MAID and GreenStor and scientific query processing in very large scientific databases. These programs have been supported at differing levels by LSI, Sun, Symantec, IBM, Seagate, Brocade, Unisys, ITRI, ETRI and government agencies such as DOE (LANL), ONR and NSF.

Required Qualifications

Ph.D in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or related field.
Expertise is system design and implementation, such as file, storage, and database systems.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Ability to work well with faculty, postdoctoral, and graduate student researchers.

Preferred qualifications

Experience writing successful proposals for external research funding.
Experience publishing technical papers in journals and conferences.

Duties/Responsibilities

The Digital Technology Center Intelligent Storage Consortium (DISC) seeks to hire a Research Director to join a dynamic research group in high-performance storage systems. The Research Director will:

Assist the faculty and graduate students with research in long-term key management and archival systems.
Work closely with the DISC faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers to ensure the success of funded projects.
Work closely with the DISC faculty to define new research directions.
Perform independent research in storage systems.
Assist with writing proposals for sponsored research funding.
Manage the day-to-day operational aspects of the research activities.
Prepare technical reports for project sponsors.
Assist with writing technical research papers for publication.
Provide technical interactions with the Consortium's member companies.
Assist in the preparation of research presentations.
Perform other duties as assigned.

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