Bio

Erik Riedel, Ph.D. is Director of Interfaces & Architecture
at Seagate Research in Pittsburgh, PA.  His group focusses
on novel storage devices and systems with increased
intelligence to optimize performance, improve security,
improve reliability, automate management, and enable smarter
organization of data.  The group's work targets all Seagate
product families from those in large-scale enterprise
storage clusters to ad-hoc collections of consumer and
mobile storage devices working together.

Erik is a member of the SNIA Technical Council, helping to
lead industry-wide education, technology promotion and
standardization efforts.  He also serves on the technical
advisory board for The Technology Collaborative supporting
technology startups in the state of Pennsylvania.

Before joining Seagate, Erik was a researcher in the storage
program at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA working on
networked storage, distributed storage and security.  He has
authored and co-authored eleven granted patents and a number
of pending patent applications, as well as numerous
technical publications on a range of storage-related topics.

Erik holds B.S., M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie
Mellon University.  His thesis work was on Active Disks as
an extension to Network-Attached Secure Disks (NASD).

Erik was born in Wuerzburg, Germany and - even after 30
years in the United States - is still occasionally puzzled
by strange American customs like peanut butter.

References

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~riedel
http://www.seagate.com
http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/Active