Biography
Jehoshua (Shuki) Bruck (S’86-M’89-SM’93-F’01-LF'21) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1989. His current research interests include information theory and systems and the theory of computation in nature.
He is the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of computation and neural systems and electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. He founded the Caltech Information Science and Technology (IST)program and served as its first director during 2003-2005. IST was thefirst integrated research and teaching activity in the USthat investigated information from multiple angles: from the fundamental theoretical underpinnings of information to the science and engineering of novel information substrates, quantum information systems, biological circuits, and complex social systems. He led the ISTfundraising activity that resulted in about $60Mfor a construction of a new building (mainly, from the Annenberg foundation) and support for the new program (mainly, from the Moore foundation).
Dr. Bruck advised 19 graduate students and 12 postdocs. Currently,18 out of the 31 alumni hold faculty positions.In 2007 he created and since then taught aninnovative undergraduate classcalled “Information and Logic.” The class is addressing the questions: How do we make circuits (in physics or biology) compute and solve problems? How did civilization get there?The class answers these questions by explaining the evolution of these concepts through the history of civilization. His teaching of the class was recognized by the2009 Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching-Caltech’s highest teaching award.
Dr. Bruck has extensive industrial experience, including working withIBM Researchwhere he participated in the design and implementation of the first IBM parallel computer. He was a co-founder and Chairman ofRainfinity(acquired in 2005 by EMC), a spin-off company from Caltech that has created the first virtualization solution for Network Attached Storage. Heco-founded and served as Chairman of XtremIO. XtremIO was founded in Israel in 2009 and was acquired in 2012 by EMC. XtremIO pioneered scalable all-flash enterprise storage systems. XtremIO’s product achieved a cumulative revenue of a billion dollars in the first eighteen months since its introduction (in 2014) and a cumulative revenue of 3 billion dollars in its first three years. This is the fastest product ramp-up in the history of enterprise storage systems.TheXtremIO product was selected as one of the Breakthrough Products that Changed the World, to celebrate Israeli innovation on the occasion of the 70thIndependence Day of Israel (2018). Currently, Bruck is a co-founder and Chairman of MemVerge. It is the leading company in software for the virtualization and pooling of big memory enterprise systems.
Dr. Bruck is a Life Fellow of the鶹ýAV, a recipient of the Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching, aSloan Research Fellowship, aNational Science FoundationYoung Investigator Award, an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award and an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award.
He published more than 350journal and conference papersand he holds more than 50US patents. His papers were recognized in journals and conferences, including, winning the 2022 鶹ýAV Communications Society best paper award in Signal Processing and Coding for Data Storage for a paper on optimal deletion correcting codes; the 2020 Persistent Impact Prize in Information Theory and Coding for a paper on rank modulation for flash memories; the 2019 鶹ýAV Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award for a paper on optimal k-deletion correcting codes;the 2013 鶹ýAV Communications Society best paper award in Signal Processing and Coding for Data Storage for a paper onMDS array codes with optimal rebuilding; the 2010 鶹ýAV Communications Society best student paper award in Signal Processing and Coding for Data Storage for a paper oncodes for limited-magnitude errors in flash memories; the 2009 鶹ýAV Communications Society best paper award in Signal Processing and Coding for Data Storage for a paper onrank modulation for flash memories; the 2005 A. Schelkunoff Transactions prize paper award from the 鶹ýAV Antennas and Propagation society for a paper onsignal propagation in wireless networks; and the Best Paper Award in the 2003 Design Automation Conference for a paper oncyclic combinational circuits.
Contact Information
Electrical Engineering Department
Caltech
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Pasadena, CA 91125
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