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CURRICULUM VITAE

Randy H. Katz

Business Address:


Computer Science Division, EECS Department


465 Soda Hall


University of California


Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

(510) 642-8778

Education:

1.
Ph.D. (Computer Science), University of California, Berkeley, June 1980.

Thesis: Database Design and Translation for Multiple Data Models.

Advisor: Eugene Wong
2.
M.S. (Computer Science), University of California, Berkeley, June 1978.

Thesis: Compilation of Database Queries. Advisor: Lawrence Rowe.
3. A.B. (Computer Science), Cornell University, May 1976.

Academic Honors and Awards:
Diane S. McEntyre Distinguished Teaching Award, Computer Science Division, EECS Department, 2008;
Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison,
WI, (February 2008);
Keynote Address, MANWEEK Conferences, San Jose, CA, (October 2007);
Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI,
(September 2007);
Keynote Address, IWQoS 2007, Evanston, IL, (June 2007).
Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa), University of Helsinki, Finland, (May 2007);
Keynote Address, NOMS 2006, Vancouver, Canada, (April 2006);
Keynote Address, IWQoS 2005, Passau, Germany, (June 2005);
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Facolta di Scienze Informatiche, Universita della Svizzera Italiana (USI),
Lugano, Switzerland, (June 2005);
Best Paper Award, F. Yu, T. V. Lakshman, R. H. Katz, Gigabit Rate Pattern-Matching using TCAM,
International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Berlin, Germany, (October 2004).
Best Paper Award, F. Yu, T. V. Lakshman, R. H. Katz, Multi-class Classification using TCAM, Hot
Interconnects: 12
th
Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, Stanford, CA, (August 2004).
Best Student Paper Award, USENIX Network and Distributed Information Systems (NDIS) Conference,
San Francisco, CA, (March 2004), L. Subramanian, V. Roth, I. Stoica, R. H. Katz, S. Shenker, Listen
and Whisper: Security Mechanisms for BGP, USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked System
Design and Implementation (NSDI04), San Francisco, CA, (March 2004).
Best Student Paper Award, CRA Grace Murray Hopper Celebration of Women in Computer Science
Conference. Vancouver, BC, (October 2002), Z. Mao, R. H. Katz, A Framework for Universal
Service Access using Device Ensembles. (Mao selected for Hopper Young Investigator Award).
ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contributor Award, 2002;
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Class of 2002;
Keynote Address, Pervasive 2002, Zurich, Switzerland, (August 2002);
Keynote Address, Networking 2002, Pisa Italy, (May 2002);
Keynote Address, International Conference on Networking Protocols (ICNP), Riverside, CA, (October
2001);
Best Paper Award, S. D. Gribble, M. Welsh, R. von Behren, E. A. Brewer, D. Culler, N. Borisov, S. Czerwinski, R.
Gummadi, J. Hill, A. Joseph, R. H. Katz, Z. M. Mao, S. Ross, B. Zhao, The Ninja Architecture for Robust
Internet-Scale Systems and Services, Journal of Computer Networks, Special Issue on Pervasive Computing, V
35, N 4, (March 2001), pp. 473-497.
National Academy of Engineering, Class of 2000;
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ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, (May 2000);
Keynote Address, 20
th
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Taipei, Taiwan;
Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service, Department of the Air Force, for Service on the United States Air
Force Scientific Advisory Board, 1997-1999, (November 1999);
1999 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Frederick Emmons Terman Award for Contemporary
Logic Design, Addison-Wesley-Longham, Reading, MA, 1993. Outstanding engineering textbook published by
an author under the age of 40 who receives the award before his/her 45
th
birthday;
1999 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for Dr. Hari Balakrishnan, Challenges to Reliable Data Transport over
Heterogeneous Environments, (May 1998), currently Associate Professor, MIT Laboratory for Computer
Science;
Keynote Address, 43
rd
Swiss Conference on Communications, Berne, Switzerland, (March 1999);
1999 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award for the development of Redundant Arrays of
Inexpensive Disks (RAID). With David Patterson and Garth Gibson;
Keynote Address, 8
th
INRIA-Industry Meeting on Computer Software for Communications and Multimedia, Paris,
France, (November 1998);
Best Paper Award, ACM SIGCOMM98 Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 1998;
ACM SIGMOD 1998 Test of Time Award for the Most Influential Paper Published in the 1988 ACM SIGMOD
Proceedings (Patterson, Gibson, Katz, The Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID));
The United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
1996 - Present;
Invited Plenary Speaker, IEEE ICCD97 Conference, Austin, TX, 1997;
Best Paper Award, ACM Multimedia Conference, Seattle, WA, 1997;
Best Paper Award, IEEE ICCD97 Conference, Austin, TX, 1997;
Best Paper Award, ACM/IEEE Mobile Computing Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 1997;
Keynote Address, ACM/IEEE Mobile Computing Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 1997;
Keynote Address, ACM Workshop on Satellite-Based Information Systems, Budapest, Hungary, 1997;
Fellow of the ACM, 1996;
Fellow of the IEEE, 1996;
Best Paper Award, ACM Mobile Computing and Networks Conference (MCN95), Oakland, CA, 1995;
Computing Research Association, Distinguished Service Award, 1995;
Keynote Address, ASPLOS VI Conference, San Jose, CA, 1994;
Keynote Address, Third International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Austin, TX, 1994;
Distinguished Alumni Award, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1994;
Brice Colloquium Lecturer, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1994;
Keynote Address, ACM SIGUCCS User Services Conference, San Diego, CA, 1993;
Keynote Address, Computer Elements Workshop, Vail, CO, 1992;
Distinguished Teaching Award, Academic Senate, University of California, Berkeley, 19911992;
I.E.E.E. Certificate of Appreciation for Program Chairmanship of Second International Conference on Architectural
Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-II);
Best Presentation Award: I.E.E.E. International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD86);
Distinguished Invited Lecturer: University of Colorado-Boulder, (March 1988);
Distinguished Invited Lecturer: University of Wisconsin-Madison, (November 1987);
Best Paper Award: 23rd A.C.M./I.E.E.E. Design Automation Conference, (June 1986);
Best Presentation Award: 23rd A.C.M./I.E.E.E. Design Automation Conference, (June 1986);
Best Panel Session Award: 33rd I.E.E.E. International Solid-State Circuits Conference (February 1986);
I.B.M. Faculty Development Award 1984 1986;
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator 1984 1989;
I.E.E.E. Certificate of Appreciation for Associate Editorship of Database Engineering Newsletter;
Best Presentation Award: 19th A.C.M./I.E.E.E. Design Automation Conference (June 1982);
I.B.M. Predoctoral Fellowship; Sigma Xi; Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Cornell Regents Scholarship; Cornell
College Scholar

Professional Society Memberships:
Association for Computing Machinery (Fellow);
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Fellow);
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE);
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Employment:
1.
July 1989 - Present: Full Professor (1996-Present, the United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished
Professor in EECS), Computer Science Division, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department,
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
2.
July 1996 June 1999: Chairman, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of
California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
3.
January 1993 - December 1994: Program Manager and Deputy Director, Computer Systems Technology
Office (now Information Technology Office), Advanced Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense,
Arlington, VA.
4.
July 1985 - June 1989: Associate Professor, Computer Science Division, Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
5.
July 1983 - June 1985: Assistant Professor, Computer Science Division, Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
6.
July 1981 - June 1983: Assistant Professor, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, Madison, WI.
7.
October 1980 - July 1981: Computer Scientist, Computer Corporation of America, Inc., Cambridge, MA.
Leader of MULTIBASE Design Team: research in heterogeneous and distributed database management.
8.
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