Biography
Peter Desnoyers is an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Desnoyers earned his PhD in 2007 after a fifteen-year engineering career at Apple, Motorola, and smaller startups. He is a founder and committee member of the Massachusetts Open Cloud, a multi-institutional collaboration that develops new models for cloud computing. His research focuses on storage issues in operating systems, namely the integration of emerging storage technologies such as Flash and SMR disks into existing software infrastructures.
Desnoyers is a member of the Industrial Advisory Board for the UMass Boston Department of Computer Science and was a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He has chaired the IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies and the ACM Workshop on Interactions of NVM/Flash with Operating Systems and Workloads. Desnoyers is also an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers and has served on the program committees and editorial boards of acclaimed computer science conferences and journals.
