Bianca Schroeder

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Bianca Schroeder is a computer scientist whose research concerns the reliability of data storage devices and the effects of data faults on high performance computing. [1] [2] [3] [4] Educated in Germany, Ireland, and the US, she works in Canada as a professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto.

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Education and career

Schroeder studied computer science at Saarland University in Germany, with a year in Ireland as an exchange student at the University of Limerick. She earned a master's degree in 1999, under the joint supervision of Kurt Mehlhorn and Susanne Albers. [5] Next, she went to Carnegie Mellon University in the US, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2005. Her dissertation, Improving the Performance of Static and Dynamic Requests at a Busy Web Site, was advised by Mor Harchol-Balter. [5] [6]

Shroeder remained at Carnegie Mellon University for two years as a postdoctoral researcher with Garth Gibson before taking a faculty position at the University of Toronto. [7] Schroeder was given a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Reliable and Efficient Data Centres in 2014, renewed in 2019. [8] She is a professor in the Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Toronto, [9]

Recognition

Schroeder was a 2013 recipient of the Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Researcher Award of Computer Science Canada/Informatique Canada. [10] She was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2013. [11]

Her research has won two USENIX test of time awards. At FAST 2019, she was given the award for a 2007 paper with Garth Gibson entitled "Disk Failures in the Real World: What Does an MTTF of 1,000,000 Hours Mean to You?". At FAST 2022, she was awarded a second time for her 2008 paper "An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack", written with Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth Goodson, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. [12]

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  2. ↑ Campbell, Don (26 April 2013), "Bianca Schroeder: creating more efficient, reliable data centres", U of T News, University of Toronto, retrieved 2024-03-08
  3. ↑ Engber, Daniel (22 July 2015), "Do computers die of old age?", Popular Science, retrieved 2024-03-08
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  5. 1 2 Curriculum vitae, Carnegie Mellon University, 7 January 2007, retrieved 2024-03-08
  6. ↑ Bianca Schroeder at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ↑ "Bianca Schroeder", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, retrieved 2024-03-08
  8. ↑ "Bianca Schroeder: Canada Research Chair in Reliable and Efficient Data Centres", Canada Research Chairs, Government of Canada, 25 June 2021, retrieved 2024-03-08
  9. ↑ "Bianca Schroeder", Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, University of Toronto, retrieved 2024-03-08
  10. ↑ Past winners, Computer Science Canada/Informatique Canada, retrieved 2024-03-08
  11. ↑ Lanthier, Jennifer; Kleiner, Kurt Kleiner, Kurt (19 February 2013), "Meet U of T's five newest Sloan Fellows", U of T News, University of Toronto, retrieved 2024-03-08
  12. ↑ USENIX Test of Time Awards, Usenix, retrieved 2024-03-08
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