Jehoshua (Shuki) Bruck is the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems & Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He leads the Distributed Information Systems Group and serves as the founding director of Caltech's Information Science and Technology (IST) program. His work bridges information theory, storage systems, and computational biology. Bruck holds B.Sc. (Summa cum Laude) and M.Sc. degrees from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (1982-1985) and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (1989). He has held academic positions at Caltech since 1994, advancing from Associate Professor to Moore Professor. Research Focus: His dual-track research explores Physical implementations of coding schemes for flash memories (rank modulation, rewriting codes) Biological computation mechanisms, particularly DNA sequence evolution via replication Secure distributed storage systems and RAID schemes Awards & Recognition: Recipient of the Feynman Teaching Prize (2008), Sloan Fellowship, NSF Young Investigator Award, and multiple IEEE best paper awards. Holds over 40 patents and authored 350+ publications. Industry Contributions: Co-founder of storage startups Rainfinity (acquired by EMC) and XtremIO, which pioneered flash storage solutions. Collaborates with NASA-JPL on non-volatile memory for space missions.







