Joseph Pasquale

Professor, Computer Science & Engineering

Design, implementation, and performance evaluation of networks and operating systems to support Internet-scale systems.

Professor Pasquale is an authority on operating systems and networks, with special interest in improving performance and reliability of Internet-scale systems. His research has spanned topics of communication and control structures for highly decentralized (peer-to-peer) systems, packet scheduling and process scheduling to support quality of service, extended client/server structures based on mobile code to support wireless Internet access, performance of TCP/IP protocol software, operating system and network support for multimedia (digital video and audio), multicast routing, and high performance file and I/O system design and implementation. Pasquale has also investigated issues of coordination and decentralized control in very large distributed systems, focusing on understanding the characteristic performance of systems where resources are allocated by autonomous decision-making agents that must act despite uncertain knowledge of the states of other agents and resources. A popular lecturer, he teaches courses primarily on operating systems at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as freshman seminars on far-ranging topics such as gambling theory and the slide rule.

Capsule Bio:
Joseph Pasquale holds the J. Robert Beyster Chair in Engineering, and joined the UCSD faculty in 1987. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1988, and B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT in 1982. He has published over 75 refereed articles in the areas of operating systems and networks. During 1991-94, Pasquale led a team of researchers building the Sequoia 2000 Network, a wide-area high-speed multimedia network connecting five University of California campuses. In 1998, he led CSE's first winning proposal for a highly competitive large-scale NSF Research Infrastructure Grant (UCSD ActiveWeb). Pasquale is a recipient of the UCSD Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award (2003), Faculty Awards from IBM, NCR, and TRW (1991), and the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989). He was a member of the select IDA/DARPA Defense Science Study Group (1996-97), and has served on numerous ACM and IEEE technical program conference committees, including those for SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, ICDCS, INFOCOM, Multimedia, NOSSDAV, CSCW, and ISADS.

Institute Affiliation:
Center for Networked Systems