Chad Yoshikawa

		email: Rhodes Hall ECECS Department University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221
me (middle, right) rafting on the American River

I'm currently in my second year of the PhD CS program at the University of Cincinnati.  My research interests include distributed systems, volunteer computing/storage, and networks.  Before entering the University of Cincinnati, I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering from CMU and a M.S. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley under Professor David Culler.  My current co-advisers are Dr. Kenneth A. Berman and Dr. Fred Annexstein from CS, and Dr. Urmila Ghia from the Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering Department.  I'm funded via a Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) Fellowship.

My PhD thesis research involves building a large-scale volunteer storage system capable of supporting computational-fluid dynamics (CFD) I/O workloads. 

I'm involved in the Adult Literacy Council of Clermont & Brown Counties and a member of the League of Women Voters of Cincinnati.