Carlos Maltzahn is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering and a faculty member of the Storage Systems Research Center both at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is also Executive Director of the UCSC/Los Alamos Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management. Dr. Maltzahn’s current research interests include scalable file system data and metadata management, storage QoS, very long-term preservation, network intermediaries, machine learning, information retrieval, and cooperation dynamics.

Carlos Maltzahn joined UC Santa Cruz in January 2005 after five years at Network Appliance. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1999, his M.S. in Computer Science in 1997, and his Univ. Diplom Informatik from the University of Passau, Germany in 1991.