Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau

Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau is the founding dean of UW–Madison’s College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence (CAI) and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of the Department of Computer Sciences.

As a researcher and educator, Remzi co-leads the ADvanced Systems Laboratory (ADSL) with Professor Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau, focusing on operating systems, storage, and distributed systems. Their open-source operating systems textbook, called OSTEP, is downloaded millions of times each year and used at hundreds of institutions worldwide. In 2020, Remzi was named a Fellow of the ACM for “contributions to storage and computer systems,” and in 2023, he became a Fellow of the AAAS for “distinguished contributions to computer systems research and development of computing systems with concomitant devotion to computing education for everyone.”