Campus Directory

Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Baskin School of Engineering

Title Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair Professor
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Genomics Institute

Faculty Type Emeriti

Areas of Expertise Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Computer and Network Security
Intellectual Property

Web Site

Primary Office Location Engineering Building 2
Room 331

Additional Location(s) Engineering 2, Laboratory 381
Engineering 2, Laboratory 383

Mail Stop SOE3

Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Darrell D.E. Long is Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He holds the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair of Storage Systems Research and is Director of the Storage Systems Research Center. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from San Diego State University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

While in graduate school, he served as a Lecturer in mathematics at San Diego State University and in computer science at the University of California, San Diego. After earning his Ph.D. he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has served as Associate Dean for research and graduate studies in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, and he directs the Storage Systems Research Center. His research in in data storage, reliability and computer security. 

He has held visiting positions at the Université Paris–Dauphine (Paris IX), the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, the Université Paris–Descartes (Paris V), Sorbonne Université, the University of Technology, Sydney, the Center for Communications Research and is Professor ad Honorem de la Universidad Católica del Uruguay. He is an Associate Member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

He served as the Vice Chair and then Chair of the University of California Committee on Research Policy. For more than a decade he served on the University of California President’s Council on the National Laboratories, and on the Science & Technology, National Security and Intelligence committees for those laboratories. He served for a number of years on the National Research Council's Standing Committee on Technology Insight-Gauge, Evaluate and Review (TIGER) and on the Committee on Defense Intelligence Agency Technology Forecasts and Reviews and on the National Research Council's Committee on Science and Technology for Defense Warning. He currently serves on the Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group (ISTEG) for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. 

Research Interests

• Data storage systems
• Distributed computing systems
• Operating systems
• Mobile computing
• Performance evaluation
• Reliability and fault tolerance
• Computer security