Darrell D. E. Long is Distinguished Professor of Engineering and holds the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair. He is the Director Emeritus of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Research in Storage Systems and the Director Emeritus of the Storage Systems Research Center. His current research interests in the storage systems area include high performance storage systems, archival storage systems and energy-efficient storage systems. His research also includes computer system performance, applied machine learning, and cyber security.

Dr. Long is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is Professor ad Honorem de la Universidad Católica del Uruguay. He has been Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Postgraduate School, Visiting Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, and Professeur Invité at the Université Paris–Dauphine, the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, the Université Paris–Descartes, and Sorbonne Université. He is an Associate Member, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).