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   CSCE430/830  | 
  
   Fall 2012  | 
 
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Computer Systems Architecture, especially design and analysis of
distributed storage and file systems, memory hierarchy in multi- and many-core
systems, memory management, performance evaluations;
_  Cluster
and Grid Computing, especially middleware design and development for
parallel and distributed computing in heterogeneous environments, automatic
parallelization, dynamical load balancing by means of judicious, resource-aware
jobs and tasks scheduling, and data consistency and integrity in cluster, Grid
and P2P systems;
_  IT
Support for Distance Education, especially using distributed computing and multiagent
technologies to enhance teaching and cooperative learning.
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SANE:
Semantic-Aware Namespace in Exascale File Systems
(NSF CNS-1116606)
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Turbo Button: A Sematically-Smart SSD-Based RAID System for Internet-Scale
Applications (NSF CNS-1016609)
Other Current Research
Projects
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Cache Resource Optimization for CMP Systems
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Memory
Management in VM Environment
Past Research Projects
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ProActive:
A RAID Protection Activator for High Availability (NSF-IIS-0916859)
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A New
Semantic-Aware Metadata Organization for Improved File-System Performance and
Functionality in High-End Computing (NSF-CCF-0937993)
o Scalable and Adaptive Metadata Management for High-End Computing (NSF-CCF-0621526)
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Automatic
Pattern- and Object-Based Parallelization for Cluster and Grid Computing
Environments 
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Detection-based
Consistency Management for Internet-Scale and Duplication-Based Distributed
Systems
o Dynamic Load Balancing for I/O-Intensive Applications in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems (NSF-funded)
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Highly
Available Parallel File Systems for Clusters (NSF-funded)
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High
Performance Distributed Computing for Heterogeneous systems (NSF-funded)
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I-MINDS: An Intelligent Multiagent
Infrastructure for Distributed Systems in Education (NSF-funded) 
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   Ph.Ds:  | 
  
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 กค     
  Junjie
  Qian (Beginning in Fallกฏ11, co-supervised with Sharad Seth) กค     
  Hao
  Luo (Beginning in Fallกฏ11) กค Yaodong Yang (Beginning in Fallกฏ11) กค Xin Liu (Beginning in Fallกฏ12) กค Zhe Zhang (Beginning in Fallกฏ13)  | 
  
 
Current Post-Docs/Visiting Scholars
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Dr. Zhichao Yan (co-supervised with Dr. Witty)
กค     
Dr.
Wei Tong 
Graduated Students 
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   Ph.Ds:  | 
  
   
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   Sibabrata Ray (1995, faculty, The University of Alabama; Now At Google)  | 
  
   
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   Venkat R. Gunuganti (95) Ping Luo (95)  | 
 
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   Yongqiang Wang (1997) (co-supervised with Q. Jiang)  | 
  
   
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   Xiaofeng Lin (97) Jian Huang
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   Jameela Al-Jaroodi (Summerกฏ04, faculty, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ; Now at United Arab Emirates University) 
 Nader Mohamed (Summerกฏ04, faculty, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ; Now at United Arab Emirates University) 
 Xiao Qin (Summerกฏ04, faculty, New Mexico Tech., NM; Now at Auburn University, AL)    | 
  
   
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   Tong Wu (00) Guangsheng Yang (01) Yifeng Zhu (02) Hai Huang (Fallกฏ03) Phanivas Vemuri (03) Xuesong Zhang (Fallกฏ04) (co-supervised with Soh) Huili Wang (Fallกฏ04) 
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   Yifeng Zhu (Summerกฏ05, faculty, University of Maine)    | 
  
   
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   Nobel Khandaker (05) (co-supervised with Soh) 
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   Xuli Liu (Springกฏ07, co-supervised with Leen-Kiat Soh, faculty, University of Nebraska at Kearney) 
 Sumanth J. V. (Springกฏ07, co-supervised with David Swanson, Senior Firmware Engineer, Seagate) 
 Yijun Lu (Summerกฏ07, co-supervised with Ying Lu, Asankya Networks) 
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    Stephens Mkandawire (Spring
  2012) Ziling Huang (Spring 2014)  | 
 
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   Feng Xian (Springกฏ08, Microsoft)
  (co-supervised with Witty) Jian Hu (Summerกฏ12, GARMIN) Dongyuan Zhan
  (Summerกฏ12, AMD) (co-supervised with Sharad Seth) Lei Xu (Summerกฏ14, Cloudera)  | 
  
   
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Past Post-Docs/Visiting
Scholars
 
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Dr. Qiang
Cao (faculty, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, China) 
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Dr. Dan Feng (faculty, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) 
กค     
Dr. Xinrong
Zhou (Huawei) 
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Dr. Xueming
Li (faculty, Chongqing University, China)
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Dr. Yu Hua (faculty, Huazhong University of
Science and Technology, China)
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Dr. Jie
Yao (faculty, Huazhong University of Science and
Technology, China)
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Dr. Bo
Mao (faculty, Xiaman
University, China)
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Dr. Suzhen
Wu (faculty, Xiaman University, China)
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Dr. Yinjin
Fu (faculty, National University of Defense Technology, China)
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Dr.
Fang Liu (faculty,
National University of Defense Technology, China)
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Dr. Lei Tian (Tintri)
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Dr.
Zhan Shi (faculty,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
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Dr.
Hua Wang (faculty,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
Teaching
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   CSCE430/830  | 
  
   Computer
  Architecture  | 
  
   Spring 2012  | 
 
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   CSCE430/830  | 
  
   Computer
  Architecture  | 
  
   Spring 2011  | 
 
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   CSCE930  | 
  
   Advanced
  Computer Architecture  | 
  
   Fall 2010  | 
 
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   CSCE489  | 
  
   Computer
  Engineering Professional Development (Senior Design Project)  | 
  
   Fall 2010  | 
 
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   CSCE430/830  | 
  
   Computer
  Architecture  | 
  
   Spring 2010  | 
 
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   CSCE488  | 
  
   Computer
  Engineering Professional Development  | 
  
   Spring 2010  | 
 
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   CSCE432/832  | 
  
   High
  Performance Processor Architecture  | 
  
   Fall 2009  | 
 
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   CSCE430/830  | 
  
   Computer
  Architecture  | 
  
   Spring 2009  | 
 
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   CSCE489  | 
  
   Computer
  Engineering Senior Design Project  | 
  
   Spring 2009  | 
 
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   CSCE430/830  | 
  
   Computer
  Architecture  | 
  
   Fall 2008  | 
 
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   CSCE488  | 
  
   Computer
  Engineering Professional Development  | 
  
   Fall 2008  | 
 
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   CSCE430/830  | 
  
   Computer
  Architecture  | 
  
   Fall 2007  | 
 
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   CSCE432/832  | 
  
   High
  Performance Processor Architecture  | 
  
   Fall 2007  | 
 
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   CSCE430/830  | 
  
   Computer
  Architecture  | 
  
   Spring 2007  | 
 
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   CSCE430/830  | 
  
   Computer
  Architecture  | 
  
   Fall 2006  | 
 
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   CSCE489  | 
  
   Computer
  Engineering Senior Design Project  | 
  
   Spring 2006  | 
 
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   CSCE488  | 
  
   Computer
  Engineering Professional Development  | 
  
   Fall 2005  | 
 
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   CSCE489  | 
  
   Computer
  Engineering Senior Design Project  | 
  
   Fall 2005  | 
 
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   CSCE488  | 
  
   Computer
  Engineering Professional Development  | 
  
   Spring 2005  | 
 
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   CSCE990  | 
  
   Systems
  Research Seminar  | 
  
   Fall 2004  | 
 
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   CSCE230  | 
  
   Computer
  Organization  | 
  
   Fall 2004  | 
 
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   CSCE430/830  | 
  
   Computer
  Architecture  | 
  
   Summer 2004  | 
 
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   CSCE430/830  | 
  
   Computer
  Architecture  | 
  
   Spring 2004  | 
 
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   CSCE430/830  | 
  
   Computer
  Architecture  | 
  
   Fall 2003  | 
 
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   CSCE489  | 
  
   Computer
  Engineering Senior Design Project  | 
  
   Spring 2003  | 
 
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   CSCE432/832  | 
  
   High
  Performance Processor Architecture  | 
  
   Fall 2002  | 
 
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   CSCE930  | 
  
   Advanced
  Computer Architecture  | 
  
   Spring 2002  | 
 
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   Associate Editor  | 
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2008-2013 | 
 
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   Program Committee Member  | 
  The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), Beijing, China, June 17-20, 2008 | 
 
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   Program Steering Chair  | 
  The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture andParallel I/Os (SNAPI'07), in conjunction with the 24th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST), San Diego, California, September 24, 2007  | 
 
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   Program Committee Member  | 
  The Twelfth Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC07), Seoul, Korea, August 23-25, 2007 | 
 
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   Conference General Co-Chair  | 
  2007 International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storages (NASกฏ07), Guilin, China, July 29-31, 2007  | 
 
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   Program Committee Member  | 
  The 7th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2007), June 11-14, 2007,  Hangzhou, China | 
 
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   Program Committee Member  | 
  The 3rd International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICDCIT 2006), December 20-23, 2006, Bhubaneswar, India | 
 
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   Program Committee Member  | 
  The 11th Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC06), Shanghai, China, September 8-10, 2006 | 
 
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   Program Committee Co-Chair  | 
  IEEE International Workshop on Networking, Architecture, and Storages (IWNASกฏ06), Shenyang, China, August 1-3, 2006.  | 
 
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   Program Committee Co-Chair  | 
  The 2005 International Workshop on Intelligent Storage Systems and Technology (ISST '05), in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-2005), IEEE, Xian, China, December 16-18, 2005. | 
 
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   Program Committee Co-Chair  | 
  International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPIกฏ05), in conjunction with PACT'2005 (Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques), ACM/IEEE, St. Louis, USA, September 17 - 21, 2005.  | 
 
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   Program Committee Member  | 
  The 10th Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC05), Singapore, October 24-27, 2005  | 
 
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   Program Committee Co-Chair  | 
  
   International
  Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and  Parallel
  I/Os (SNAPIกฏ04),
  in conjunction with PACT'2004   (Parallel Architecture
  and Compilation Techniques),  ACM/IEEE, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, September
  29 - October 3, 2004.   | 
 
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   Program Committee Member  | 
  
   The 13th
  International Conference on Computer Communications  and Networks
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  IEEE, Chicago, IL, October 11-13, 2004  | 
 
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   Program Committee Member  | 
  The 10th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADSกฏ04), IEEE, Newport Beach, California, July, 2004  | 
 
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   Program Committee Member  | 
  
   International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC  2003), IEEE/ACM,
  Hyderabad, India, Dec. 17-20, 2003  | 
 
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   Panelist  | 
  
   National Science Foundation, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007  | 
 
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   Referee  | 
  
   Numerous journals (IEEE-TC, IEEE-TPDS, JPDC, JSC, etc) and   international
  conferences (ICPP, ISCA, INFOCOM, ICDCS, IPDPS, etc).  | 
 
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   Professional Membership  | 
  
   Computer Society, IEEE, and ACM  | 
 
Graduate Advisors:
Ph.D. ----Dr. Laxmi Bhuyan
M.A.Sc. ----Dr. Kenneth C. Smith