Presenter

Ellis H. Wilson III, Ph.D., is a Software Architect at Panasas and current lead on the Next-Generation Object Storage Device (OSD) project. He joined Panasas for three summers as an intern working on parallel filesystem research under Dr. Garth Gibson from 2011 to 2013, and has been with Panasas full-time since 2014. During his tenure he has performed storage systems research, design, and engineering in the areas of big data workflow integration in parallel filesystems, data compression and deduplication, remote snapshot replication, storage repair and reconstruction, and data rebalancing algorithms. Most recently he serves as lead architect on the Next-Generation OSD project, which has a mandate to completely re-engineer the hardware and software platform of the Panasas OSD from the ground up to unlock significant performance and efficiency gains today and enable innovative storage design for the future.

Prior to Panasas Ellis completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Pennsylvania State University under the advisement of Dr. Mahmut Kandemir. At Penn State his research spanned flash-based SSD FTL design, data reduction techniques and analysis, parallel filesystems, and big data frameworks, and has peer-reviewed publications in most of these areas.