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Biography

NOTE: I have joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at SUNY-Buffalo as an Associate Professor as of Spring 2011. You can reach me at tkosar@buffalo.edu.
Prior to joining UB, Dr. Tevfik Kosar was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and in the Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) at LSU between 2005-2010. He holds a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Dr. Kosar has received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked in the Condor project for six years. He has also spent three summers at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center doing research on several state-of-the-art topics, such as on-demand computing, storage area networks, and web capacity planning.

Dr. Kosar's main research interests lie in the cross-section of petascale distributed systems, eScience, Grids, Clouds, and collaborative computing with a focus on large-scale data-intensive distributed applications; cyberinfrastructure design and development; end-to-end data and workflow management; I/O optimization, modeling, and scheduling; storage management; coordination of computation and I/O in distributed environments.

He is the primary designer and developer of the Stork distributed data scheduling system which has been adopted by many national and international institutions, and the lead investigator of the state-wide PetaShare distributed storage network. He has published four book chapters and more than fifty journal and conference papers. Dr. Kosar has served on the technical program committee of numerous conferences and workshops, on NSF and DOE panel reviews, and on many journal and conference peer reviews. He gave invited talks at several national and international forums.

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