Peter received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2008. Prior to that he spent fifteen years as an engineer in industry, at Apple, Motorola, and a number of start-ups, after receiving the BS and MS degrees in EECS from MIT in 1988. Peter's research focuses on operating systems, storage, and cloud computing, drawing on his experience to explore practical solutions to the problems of tomorrow's applications and devices. Other interestsinclude; algorithms for Flash storage, Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) disk drives, cloud Computing and the Massachusetts Open Cloud and teaching operating systems concepts.