Professor Eric A. Brewer 623 Soda Hall University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 (510) 642-8143 FAX: (510) 642-5775 brewer@cs.berkeley.edu

Office Hours for Spring 2009: Tu 5-6pm, Th 10-11am and also by appointment

Classes

Research

Current Projects:

• TIER: Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions
  Video of my BEARS talk (a good introduction to TIER, about 25 minutes)

• Ivy: An extension for C with better safety properties that works with legacy C code

Past Projects

• NEST: Network Embedded Systems Technology
• The Ninja Project on Internet-Scale Services
• Internet security: ISAAC , which led to the PhDs of David Wagner, Ian Goldberg and Nikita Borisov.
• Mobile Computing: Daedalus  and Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN)
• Cluster Computing: The Berkeley NOW Project
• InfoPad

Graduate Students:

• Zach Anderson
• Ilya Bagrak
• Bowei Du
• Kurtis Heimerl
• RJ Honicky
• Bill McCloskey
• Rabin Patra
• Barret Rhoden
• Rusty Sears
• Sonesh Surana
• David Zhu
  

Former PhD Advisees

• Nikita Borisov , now a professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Yatin Chawathe, now at Google
• Mike Chen,  now at Intel Research Seattle
• Mike Demmer, now at a startup
• Armando Fox , now a professor at Berkeley
• Barbara Hohlt, now at Intel
• Paul Gauthier, co-founder of Inktomi, now at a startup
• Steve Gribble , now a professor at the University of Washington
• Ian Goldberg, now a professor at Waterloo
• Sergui Nedevschi, currently at Intel
• Rob von Behren, now at Google
• David Wagner, now a professor at UC Berkeley
• Matt Welsh, now a professor at Harvard (co-advised with David Culler)
• Feng Zhou, now at NetEase (1B+ page view/day Chinese Internet company)

Tier Advisees

• Joyojeet Pal, now at University of Washington
• Renee Kuriyan, now a Intel People & Practices Group
• Lakshmi Subramanian, now at NYU

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Awards

Personal

• Photography

Documents:

• Short bio
• Press photo