Jim Plank is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University
of Tennessee.
Professor Plank received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1993,
under the direction of the incomparable
Kai Li.
His research interests are currently focused on erasure codes for
storage applications.
Other interests are network storage,
fault-tolerance, checkpointing, distributed and Grid computing,
systems programming and operating systems. Less related to his
job at Tennessee, he also has interests in
computer-mediated music performance,
origami, and
jgraph.
He has been at the University
of Tennessee since January, 1993.
