Research

My current research interests involve embedded systems, non-volatile systems, computer architecture, security, and energy. Presently, I am working on reliably erasing solid state disks (SSDs) at the Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory.

Publications

Ming II: A Flexible Platfrom for NAND Flash-based Research Trevor Bunker, Michael Wei, Steven Swanson. UCSD Technical Report cs2011-0978. May 2012. [ Technical Report, 1.40 MB]

CORFU: A Shared Log Design for Flash Clusters. Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber, Michael Wei, and John Davis. To Appear: 9th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '12). April 2012.

CORFU: A Shared Log Design for Flash Clusters. Mahesh Balakrishnan, Dahlia Malkhi, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ted Wobber, Michael Wei, and John Davis. MSR Techinal Report MSR-TR-2011-119. Sept 2011. [ Technical Report, 468 KB]

Reliably Erasing Data from Flash-Based Solid State Drives. Michael Wei, Laura M. Grupp, Frederick E. Spada, and Steven Swanson. 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11), Feb 2011. [ Paper, 1.91 MB]

SAFE: Fast, Verifiable Sanitization for SSDs. Steven Swanson, Michael Wei. UCSD Technical Report cs2011-0963. Oct 2010. [ Technical Report, 1.06 MB]

Occupancy-Driven Energy Management for Smart Building Automation. Yuvraj Agarwal, Bharathan Balaji, Rajesh Gupta, Jacob Lyles, Michael Wei, Thomas Weng. Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys '10), Nov 2010. [ Paper, 2.92 MB]

Talks and Presentations

Issues and Trends in Reliably Sanitizing Solid State Disks. 2012 UCSD Security Day. La Jolla, CA, May 2012. [Invited Talk, slides, 5.77 MB]
Issues and Trends in Reliably Sanitizing Solid State Disks. 25th USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '11). Boston, MA, December 2011. [Invited Talk, slides, 5.77 MB]
The CORFU Hardware Platform. Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. Mountain View, CA, September 2011. [ slides, 8.33 MB]
Challenges and Advances in Data Recovery of SSDs. 2011 Flash Memory Summit (FMS 2011). Santa Clara, CA, August 2011. [Invited Panelist]
Reliably Erasing Flash-Based Solid State Disks. 2011 Flash Memory Summit (FMS 2011). Santa Clara, CA, August 2011. [ slides, 4.87 MB]
Reliably Erasing Flash-Based Solid State Disks. 3rd Trusted Infrastructure Workshop (TIW '11). Pittsburgh, PA, June 2011. [ slides, 4.89 MB]
Reliably Erasing Flash-Based Solid State Disks. 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '11). San Jose, CA, Feb 2011. [ slides, 4.32 MB]
Reliably Erasing Solid State Disks. CMRR Fall Research Review. San Diego, CA, Oct 2010. [ slides, 922 KB]
Solid State Disk Secure Erase. 2010 Flash Memory Summit (FMS 2010). Santa Clara, CA, Aug 2010. [ slides, 922 KB]

Awards and Honors

2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Fellow.
2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Honorable Mention.

Education

University of California, San Diego

In Progress - Ph.D. Computer Science 2010 - Present

University of California, Irvine

B.S. Biological SciencesJune 2009
B.S. Computer ScienceJune 2009
B.A. PhilosophyJune 2009