Willy Zwaenepoel received the B.S. degree from the University of Gent, Belgium, in 1979, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 1980 and 1984. Since 1984, he has been on the faculty at Rice University. His research interests are in distributed operating systems and in parallel computation. While at Stanford, he worked on the first version of the V kernel, including work on group communication and remote file access performance. At Rice, he has worked on fault tolerance, protocol performance, optimistic computations, distributed shared memory, and nonvolatile memory.
Rice Systems Group