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Approximation Algorithms, Graph Optimization Problems, Cloud Computing, File Systems, Computer Storage, Data Protection, Data Compression, Data Deduplication
United States, Israel, Russia

Biography

Dr. Ivan Bassov (Ivan Basov) is a Russian-Israeli-American scientist and inventor in the field of computer science and computing machinery. He is best known as an innovator and visionary in data storage, holding more than 80 granted patents related to this field.

For over 20 years, Dr. Bassov worked at Dell Corporation as a leading engineer and software systems architect. Since 2021, he has been employed at Oracle Corporation, specializing in cloud technologies, file systems, and data protection.

Dr. Bassov holds a PhD, as well as MBA, MSE, and BSc degrees from Israeli and American universities. He is also a Six Sigma Black Belt Specialist. He has invented, patented, and implemented numerous technologies related to cloud storage systems, file systems, backup, recovery, compression, and data deduplication.

Additionally, Dr. Bassov is a reviewer for scientific journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Computers.

From 1991 to 1995, he studied Informatics and Computing Machinery at the Department of Radio Electronics and Informatics at Rybinsk State Aviation Technical University named after P. A. Solovyov. In 1994, he was awarded the Certificate of Honor from the Governor of the Yaroslavl Oblast "for excellent success in studies and active participation in scientific work."

In 1998, he graduated with honors from the University of Haifa with a degree in mathematics. In 2001, at the invitation of EMC Corporation (later merged with Dell), he moved with his family to Boston, USA, where he combined work with studying for his master's and doctoral degrees.

His doctoral dissertation, "Approximation Algorithms for a Class of Resource-Constrained Network Optimization Problems," focuses on developing a mathematical model that encompasses a class of weakly NP-hard graph optimization problems with multiple parameters. This model unified disparate results into a single theory and provided approximation algorithms with performance guarantees for all problems in the wide class.

Activities

Employment (5)

Oracle Corporation: Burlington, Massachusetts, US

2021 to present | Research & Development
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Dell EMC: Hopkinton, Massachusetts, US

1998 to 2020 | Research & Development
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

University of Haifa: Haifa, IL

1997 to 1998 | Computer Lab Administrator
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
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Rybinsk State Aviation Technological Academy: Rybinsk, RU

1993 to 1995 | Engineer
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

NPO Krista: Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, RU

1993 to 1995 | Consultant
Employment
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Education and qualifications (8)

University of Nicosia: Nicosia, CY

2020 to 2023 | Digital Currencies, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), NFTs and the Metaverse
Education
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Villanova University: Villanova, Pennsylvania, US

2006 | Six Sigma Black Belt
Qualification
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Northcentral University: Prescott, Arizona, US

2004 | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Applied Computer Science
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
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Northcentral University: Prescott, Arizona, US

2003 | Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
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Brandeis University: Waltham, Massachusetts, US

2003 | Master of Software Engineering (MSE)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Brandeis University: Waltham, Massachusetts, US

2002 | Advanced Graduate Certificate in Software Engineering
Qualification
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Ivan Bassov

University of Haifa: Haifa, IL

1997 | Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Computer Science
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Rybinsk State Aviation Technological Academy: Rybinsk, RU

1991 to 1995 | Informatics and Computing Machinery
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Professional activities (11)

Dell Technologies: Hopkinton, MA, US

2019 | Top Patent Award (FY19)
Distinction
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Ivan Bassov

Dell Technologies: Hopkinton, MA, US

2018 | Top Patent Award (FY18)
Distinction
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Ivan Bassov

EMC Corp: Hopkinton, MA, US

2015 | Gold Award
Distinction
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Ivan Bassov

EMC Corp: Hopkinton, MA, US

2014-05 | Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of the Month
Distinction
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Ivan Bassov

EMC Corp: Hopkinton, MA, US

2013-06 | Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of the Month
Distinction
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

EMC Corp: Hopkinton, MA, US

2008-07 | Most Valuable Player (MVP)
Distinction
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Ivan Bassov

Marquis Who's Who: Berkeley Heights, NJ, US

2006 | Biographical Sketch (Encyclopedia Article)
Distinction
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Ivan Bassov

Computerra Magazine: Moscow, RU

2003-01 | First-place winner in a programming competition held by the Computerra Magazine
Distinction
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

University of Haifa: Haifa, IL

1997 | Dean's Recognition Scholarship for Excellent Academic Performance
Distinction
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Province of Yaroslavl: Yaroslavl, RU

1994 | Recognition from the Province of Yaroslavl for diverse studies called the Diploma for Excellent Success in Studies and Active Participation in Scientific Work.
Distinction
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Ivan Bassov

City of Rybinsk: Rybinsk, RU

1994 | First-place award in a competition of all students in the City of Rybinsk called the Student Olympiad in Informatics
Distinction
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Works (50 of 101)

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Reporting of Space Savings due to Pattern Matching in Storage Systems

2024-01-02 | Patent
PAT:

11,860,834

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Ahsan Rashid; Philippe Armangau
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

System and Method for Sub-Block Deduplication with Search for Identical Sectors Inside a Candidate Block

2023-12-19 | Patent
PAT:

11,847,333

Contributors: Istvan Gonczi; Sorin Faibish; Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Managing Truncation of Files of File Systems

2023-12-19 | Patent
PAT:

11,847,095

Contributors: Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

File Layer to Block Layer Communication for Selective Data Reduction

2023-02-28 | Patent
PAT:

11,593,312

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Sorin Faibish; Philippe Armangau; Istvan Gonczi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Improving Data Reduction for Cloud Storage using Digital Entropy

2022 | Preprint
Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Support for Data Reduction Attributes in NFSv4 Version 2

Internet-Draft (work-in-progress). Network Working Group. Internet Engineering Task Force.
2022-12-13 | Technical Standard
Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Philip Shilane; Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

System and Method for Improving Space Efficiency by Compressing Multi-Block Aggregates

2022-12-06 | Patent
PAT:

11,520,509

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Concurrent Computations Operating on Same Data for CPU Cache Efficiency

2022-11-29 | Patent
PAT:

11,514,001

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Philippe Armangau
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

File Layer to Block Layer Communication for Block Organization in Storage

2022-11-29 | Patent
PAT:

11,513,739

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Ivan Bassov; Istvan Gonczi; Philippe Armangau
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Adaptive Inline Compression

2022-11-15 | Patent
PAT:

11,500,540

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Ivan Bassov; Istvan Gonczi; Philippe Armangau
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Compressing Data using Deduplication-like Methods

2022-08-23 | Patent
PAT:

11,422,975

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Ivan Bassov; Istvan Gonczi; Philippe Armangau
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Techniques for Generating Data Sets with Specified Compression and Deduplication Ratios

2022-06-28 | Patent
PAT:

11,372,579

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Istvan Gonczi; Sorin Faibish
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

System and Method for Hash-Based Entropy Calculation

2022-06-14 | Patent
PAT:

11,360,954

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Philip Shilane; Ivan Bassov; Istvan Gonczi; Philippe Armangau; Vamsi Vankamamidi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

System and Method for Detecting Deduplication Opportunities

2022-05-31 | Patent
PAT:

11,347,423

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Sorin Faibish; Istvan Gonczi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Managing Data Reduction in Storage Systems Using Machine Learning

2022-04-26 | Patent
PAT:

11,314,432

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Rustem Rafikov; Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Selection of Digest Hash Function for Different Data Sets

2022-04-19 | Patent
PAT:

11,308,036

Contributors: Istvan Gonczi; Ivan Bassov; Sorin Faibish
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Selection of Hash Key Sizes for Data Deduplication

2022-01-25 | Patent
PAT:

11,232,075

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Sorin Faibish; Rustem Rafikov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Techniques for Selectively Activating and Deactivating Entropy Computation

2022-01-11 | Patent
PAT:

11,221,991

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Philippe Armangau; Sorin Faibish; Istvan Gonczi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Managing Inline Data Compression in Storage Systems

2022-01-04 | Patent
PAT:

11,216,186

Contributors: Philippe Armangau; Ivan Bassov; Monica Chaudhary; Ajay Karri
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Techniques for Scavenging of Free Provisioned Blocks

2021-12-21 | Patent
PAT:

11,204,703

Contributors: Philippe Armangau; Ivan Bassov; Walter Forrester
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Data Reduction Reporting in Storage Systems

2021-12-14 | Patent
PAT:

11,199,990

Contributors: Philippe Armangau; Ivan Bassov; John Didier
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Inline Compression with Small Write Compression Avoidance

2021-12-07 | Patent
Contributors: Yining Si; Philippe Armangau; Ivan Bassov; Christopher A. Seibel
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Adaptive Ingest Throttling in Layered Storage Systems

2021-11-02 | Patent
PAT:

11,163,449

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Istvan Gonczi; Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Detecting Data Deduplication Opportunities Using Entropy-Based Distance

2021-10-26 | Patent
PAT:

11,157,188

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Sorin Faibish; Istvan Gonczi; Philippe Armangau
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

System and Method for Offset-Based Deduplication

2021-10-05 | Patent
PAT:

11,138,154

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Philip Shilane; Ivan Bassov; Istvan Gonczi; Vamsi Vankamamidi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Detecting Data Deduplication Opportunities Using Hash Distance

2021-09-07 | Patent
PAT:

11,112,985

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Philippe Armangau; Sorin Faibish; Istvan Gonczi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Optimizing Data Deduplication

2021-09-07 | Patent
PAT:

11,112,987

Contributors: Istvan Gonczi; Philippe Armangau; Sorin Faibish; Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Compression of Host I/O in a Storage Processor of a Data Storage System with Selection of Data Compression Components based on a Current Fullness Level of a Persistent Cache

2021-07-20 | Patent
PAT:

11,068,405

Contributors: Philippe Armangau; Ivan Bassov; Monica Chaudhary; Christopher A. Seibel
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Sub-Block Data Deduplication

2021-04-27 | Patent
PAT:

10,990,310

Contributors: Istvan Gonczi; Ivan Bassov; Sorin Faibish; Philippe Armangau
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

System and Method for Average Entropy Calculation

2021-04-27 | Patent
PAT:

10,990,565

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Philip Shilane; Ivan Bassov; Istvan Gonczi; Philippe Armangau; Vamsi Vankamamidi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Deduplicating Data at sub-Block Granularity

2021-03-30 | Patent
PAT:

10,963,436

Contributors: Philippe Armangau; Sorin Faibish; Istvan Gonczi; Ivan Bassov; Vamsi K. Vankamamidi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

System and Method for Data Deduplication

2021-03-30 | Patent
PAT:

10,963,437

Contributors: Istvan Gonczi; Ivan Bassov; Sorin Faibish; Philippe Armangau; Anton Kucherov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Techniques for Improving Storage Space Efficiency with Variable Compression Size Unit

2021-03-23 | Patent
PAT:

10,956,370

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Sorin Faibish; Istvan Gonczi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Fragment Filling for Storage System with Inline Compression

2021-03-16 | Patent
PAT:

10,949,107

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Philippe Armangau; Yining Si; Christopher Alan Seibel
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Providing Data Deduplication in a Data Storage System with Parallelized Computation of Crypto-Digests for Blocks of Host I/O Data

2021-03-02 | Patent
PAT:

10,936,228

Contributors: Istvan Gonczi; Ivan Bassov; Philippe Armangau
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Managing Data Storage in Storage Systems

2021-02-16 | Patent
PAT:

10,922,027

Contributors: Philippe Armangau; Ivan Bassov; John Didier; Ajay Karri
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Efficient Data Deduplication Caching

2020-12-01 | Patent
PAT:

10,852,975

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Istvan Gonczi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Techniques for Data Reduction by Understanding Application Data

2020-12-01 | Patent
PAT:

10,853,325

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Ronald A. Miller, II; James M. Pedone, Jr.; Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Elastically Managing Cache at sub-Block Deduplication

2020-11-17 | Patent
PAT:

10,838,643

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Philippe Armangau; Istvan Gonczi; Ivan Bassov; Vamsi K. Vankamamidi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Managing Storage Capacity in Version Families having both Writable and Read-Only Data Objects

2020-11-17 | Patent
PAT:

10,838,634

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Walter C. Forrester; Michal Marko; Ahsan Rashid; Karl M. Owen
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

System and Method for Encoding-Based Deduplication

2020-10-27 | Patent
PAT:

10,817,475

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Philip Shilane; Ivan Bassov; Istvan Gonczi; Philippe Armangau; Vamsi Vankamamidi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Optmizing Metadata Management in Data Deduplication

2020-09-08 | Patent
PAT:

10,768,843

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Philippe Armangau; Istvan Gonczi; Ivan Bassov; Anton Kucherov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Compressing Data Inline using Weighted Compression Budgets

2020-09-01 | Patent
PAT:

10,761,756

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Philippe Armangau; Yining Si
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Managing Inline Data Compression in Storage Systems

2020-09-01 | Patent
PAT:

10,763,892

Contributors: Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Managing Inline Data Compression in Storage Systems

2020-08-04 | Patent
PAT:

10,733,158

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Philip Shilane; Ivan Bassov; Istvan Gonczi; Philippe Armangau; Vamsi Vankamamidi
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Managing Inline Data Compression and Deduplication in Storage Systems

2020-05-26 | Patent
PAT:

10,664,165

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Istvan Gonczi; Philippe Armangau; Vamsi Vankamamidi; Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Managing Data Reduction in Storage Systems Using Machine Learning

2020-04-14 | Patent
PAT:

10,620,863

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Rustem Rafikov; Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Techniques for Assessing Data Reduction Efficiency

2020-04-07 | Patent
PAT:

10,613,760

Contributors: Sorin Faibish; Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Converting Files between Thinly and Thickly Provisioned States

2020-03-17 | Patent
PAT:

10,592,469

Contributors: Ivan Bassov; Walter C. Forrester; Michal Marko; Ahsan Rashid
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov

Tool for Selectively Deploying Inline Compression

2020-03-10 | Patent
PAT:

10,585,604

Contributors: Ivan Bassov
Source: Self-asserted source
Ivan Bassov
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Peer review (8 reviews for 3 publications/grants)

Review activity for IEEE transactions on computers. (1)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on parallel and distributed systems : (3)
Review activity for IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence. (4)