He received his ScB from Brown in 1987 and his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1995, where he was a member of the RAID project. He has written over 75 papers in areas including large-scale storage systems, file systems for next-generation storage technologies, secure file systems, distributed systems, and information retrieval. His current research interests include issues in petabyte-scale storage systems, file systems for non-volatile RAM technologies, and long-term archival storage systems. His broader interests include file systems, operating systems, parallel and distributed systems, and computer security. He can be contacted at elm@cs.ucsc.edu.