Willy Zwaenepoel received his B.S. from the University of Gent, Belgium in 1979, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1980 and 1984, respectively.
Since 1984, he has been on the faculty at Rice University, where he is presently the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory, a joint effort between the Computer Science and the Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments. He is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
His interests are in all aspects of distributed computing. While at Stanford, he was involved in the design and implementation of the V-System. At Rice, he has worked on two distributed shared memory systems, Munin and TreadMarks, on checkpoint/restart through coordinated checkpointing and message logging in the Manetho system. He has also worked with Alejandro Schaffer on FASTLINK, a project to provide fast sequential and parallel genetic linkage analysis software. His most recent projects, ScalaServer and Puppeteer, focus on system support for scalable network servers and adaptation of component-based applications for mobile computing.
He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1998, and Fellow of the ACM in 2000. In 2000, he also received the Rice Graduate Student Association Teaching and Mentoring Award.
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