Ken Salem

Biography

Dr. Ken Salem is a Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

Research Interest

Dr. Ken Salem primary research area is data management systems. Generally speaking, I am interested in how to design, build, and evaluate systems for reliably storing, organizing, querying, and updating large amounts of data. Recently, much of my work has been focused on two broad topics. The first is data management systems for cloud computing. My work has considered how existing database systems should be deployed and used in the cloud, and how scalable, highly available, and disaster-tolerant data management and storage systems can be designed for cloud settings. Hardware virtualization is used extensively in cloud settings, and some of my work has considered how such virtualization affects database systems, and how they can exploit it. The second broad topic is storage management, where my work has focused on scalable distributed storage services for cloud settings, integration of solid state storage devices into the storage hierarchy, and on adaptive, application-aware cache management.