Windsor Hsu is a research staff member and manager of the Storage-Specific Solutions and Services group at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. His research interests include information storage and management, computer architecture, and the performance analysis and modeling of computer systems and workloads.

Windsor is currently focused on developing technologies for the trustworthy storage and management of electronic records, especially for facilitating regulatory compliance. He was previously the architect and technical lead for the ALIS project, which developed an autonomic storage system that automatically optimizes storage system performance based on the dynamic usage pattern. Windsor's earlier projects include PC server cache design and database performance and benchmarking.

Windsor was raised in the city state of Singapore. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. Windsor is an IBM Master inventor. He has been awarded three IBM Supplemental Patent Issue Awards and eight IBM Invention Achievement Awards. He received the 2006 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) best paper award. He has also received the IBM Graduate Fellowship and was a University of California Regents' Scholar, Chancellor's Scholar, and Regents' Fellow.

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IBM Almaden Research Center
K56J/B3
650 Harry Road
San Jose, CA 95120-6099
USA