Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau is the Grace Wahba professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former chair of the Computer Sciences department. He co-leads a research group with Professor Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau. He and Andrea have co-written a textbook on operating systems, "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" (OSTEP), that is downloaded millions of times yearly and used at hundreds of institutions worldwide. His research been cited over 15,000 times and is one of the leading experts in the area of data storage.
He currently serves as the Director of the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences and as Special Advisor to the Provost on Computing.
Arpaci-Dusseau received his Bachelor of Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1993, then proceeded to earn his Master's in 1996 at the University of California, Berkeley. He later earned his Ph.D at the same institution, with a thesis titled Performance Availability for Networks of Workstations.