Bio
David Essary graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pittsburgh in the spring of 2003. He graduated with a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Mathematics. He is currently enrolled in the Department of Computer Science as a doctoral student and plans to graduate by spring of 2010.

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Research Interests
Research interests include intelligent grouping for purposes of caching, disk management, data layout, and power and latency reduction. I am currently working under Dr. Ahmed Amer on the Pitt SRG Team, where I am currently working on aggressive replication and reorganization strategies for disk management.

My other interests include intelligent game play and machine learning algorithms.
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Teaching
I am currently not teaching or grading.

A guide to previous semester(s)'s page(s) may be viewed here.
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Academia Novus

  • David Essary, Ahmed Amer, "Avoiding State-space Explosion of Predictive Metadata with SESH," International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) 2009. Phoenix, Arizona, December 2009.
  • David Essary, Ahmed Amer, "Space-Efficient Predictive Block Management," International Workshop on Software Support for Portable Storage (IWSSPS) 2009. Grenoble, France, October 2009.
  • David Essary, Ahmed Amer, "Predictive Data Grouping: Defining the bounds of energy and latency reduction through predictive data grouping and replication," ACM Transactions on Storage. May 2008.
  • David Essary, "Testing the Limits of Power and Latency Reductions by Predictive Data Grouping", University of Pittsburgh's School of Arts and Sciences Grad Expo (invited presentation). Pittsburgh, PA. March, 2007.
  • David Essary, "Predictive Layout Strategies and Disk Management", University of Pittsburgh's Department of Computer Science Graduate Research Competition 2007 (invited presentation). Pittsburgh, PA. February, 2007.
  • David Essary, "Limits of Power and Latency Reductions by Intelligent Grouping", 7th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '06 WiP). Seattle, WA. November, 2006.
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