Randy H. Katz
Professor Emeritus, Professor in the Graduate School
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Research Areas
- Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC)
- Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)
- Distributed and networked systems design and implementation
Biography
He has supervised 43 M.S. theses and 31 Ph.D. dissertations (including one ACM Dissertation Award winner and eight women), and leads a research team of over ten graduate students, technical staff, and academic visitors. His recognitions include thirteen best paper awards (including one "test of time" paper award and one selected for a 50 year retrospective on IEEE Communications publications), three best presentation awards, the Outstanding Alumni Award of the UCB Computer Science Division, the CRA Outstanding Service Award, the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award, the Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Decoration, the IEEE Reynolds Johnson Information Storage Award, the ASEE Frederic E. Terman Award, and the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. In the late 1980s, with colleagues at Berkeley, he developed Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), a $25 billion per year industry sector. While on leave for government service in 1993-1994, he established whitehouse.gov and connected the White House to the Internet.
Education
- 1980, PhD, Computer Science, UC Berkeley
- 1978, MS, Computer Science, UC Berkeley
- 1976, AB, Computer Science & Math, Cornell University
Selected Publications
- K. Shankari, M. Yin, D. E. Culler, and R. H. Katz, "E-Mission: Automated transportation emission calculation using smartphones," in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), WiP track, 2015.
- A. Rabkin and R. H. Katz, "Chukwa: A System for Reliable Large-Scale Log Collection," in 24th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '10), USENIX, 2010.
- Y. Chen, A. S. Ganapathi, and R. H. Katz, "To Compress or Not To Compress - Compute vs. IO tradeoffs for MapReduce Energy Efficiency," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2010-36, March 2010.
- H. Balakrishnan, S. Seshan, E. Amir, and R. H. Katz, "Best Paper Award: Improving TCP/IP performance over wireless networks," in Proc. ACM 1st Annual Intl. Conf. on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM '95), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 1995, pp. 2-11.
- R. H. Katz, Contemporary Logic Design, Redwood City, CA: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Co., 1994.
- R. H. Katz, "Adaptation and mobility in wireless information systems," IEEE Personal Communications Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 6-17, Jan. 1994.
- M. Stonebraker, R. H. Katz, D. A. Patterson, and J. Ousterhout, "The design of XPRS," in Proc. 14th Intl. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases, F. Bancilhon and D. J. DeWitt, Eds., San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., 1988, pp. 318-330.
- D. A. Patterson, G. Gibson, and R. H. Katz, "A case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) (ACM SIGMOD 1998 Test of Time Award)," in Proc. 1988 ACM SIGMOD Intl. Conf. on Management of Data (SIGMOD '88), H. Boral and P. Larson, Eds., New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 1988, pp. 109-116.
Awards, Memberships and Fellowships
- Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, 2018
- Jim and Donna Gray Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Computer Science, 2012
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 2011
- ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, 2011
- IEEE James H. Mulligan Education Medal, 2010
- Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching Computer Science, 2008
- ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award, 2002
- National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member, 2000
- Frederick Emmons Terman Award of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Division, 1999
- Tau Beta Pi Eminent Engineer, 1999
- IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award, 1999
- Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, 1999
- ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award, 1999
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, 1995
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 1995
- CRA Distinguished Service Award, 1995
- UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award, 1992
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member, 1990
- NSF Presidential Young Investigator (PYI), 1984