Armando Fox

Professor in Residence

Research Areas

• Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)
• Programming Systems (PS)

Research Centers

• Algorithms, Machines, and People Laboratory (AMP)
• Parallel Computing Laboratory (ParLab)
• Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed systems Laboratory (RAD Lab)

Teaching Schedule (Fall 2013)

• CS 169. Software Engineering, MW 2:30-4:00P, 306 Soda
• CS 294-94. Autograding for Online Education, W 9:00-11:00A, 320 Soda

Biography

Armando Fox (fox@cs.berkeley.edu) is a Professor-in-Residence in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley and a co-founder of the UC Berkeley RAD Lab. As of Fall 2012, he has been named half-time Academic Director of the Berkeley Resource Center for Online Education, helping UC Berkeley to build an infrastructure that will support the campus`s many online education initiatives. Prior to his work at UC Berkeley, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. He received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees at Berkeley, Illinois and MIT, respectively. His current research interests include applied statistical machine learning and cloud computing; he is a co-author of the recently released position paper "Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing" and has frequently lectured on this topic. He has published several papers in collaboration with top machine learning researchers on the application of machine learning to diagnosing, characterizing and identifying operational problems in datacenter-scale and cloud computing installations. His 2003 collaboration with Professor David Patterson on Recovery-Oriented Computing earned him the distinction of being included in the "Scientific American 50" top researchers. In previous lives he helped design the Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor and founded a company to commercialize his UC Berkeley dissertation research on mobile computing.