{"id":7325,"date":"2015-07-24T12:36:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=7325"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:40:24","slug":"orran-krieger","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/orran-krieger\/","title":{"rendered":"Orran Krieger, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Orran Krieger is the <\/span><span>Director of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/research.redhat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Hat Research<\/a><span> (while on leave of absence from Boston University), Director of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/massopen.cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mass Open Cloud Alliance<\/a><span>, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science at Boston University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Krieger&#8217;s research interests, broadly, are in computer systems, with focus on operating systems, file systems, and cloud computing. As co-founder and PI of the <\/span>Mass Open Cloud (MOC)<span>, he leads efforts to create an open, distributed platform for AI\/ML workloads. The MOC establishes a new model for public clouds where multiple stakeholders participate in implementing and operating the infrastructure, creating a multi-sided marketplace. At Red Hat Research, Krieger works with the global research team on advancing open-source cloud platforms for the AI era.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Before coming to BU as an Institute Fellow, Krieger spent five years at VMware starting and working on vCloud. Prior to that, he was a researcher and manager at IBM T. J. Watson, leading the Advanced Operating System Research Department. Orran obtained his PhD and MASc degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42431,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7325\/revisions\/42431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}