Current Ph.D. Students
Research Consultant
Graduated Ph.D.'s
- Yong Yan, May 1998, (Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo
Alto, California),
Ph.D. Dissertation: Exploiting Multiprocessor Cache
Locality at Run-Time.
- Zhao Zhang,
June 2002, (Associate Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Chicago),
Ph.D. Dissertation: Software and Hardware Methods for
Memory Access Latency Reduction on ILP Processors.
- Best Paper Award, International Conference on Microelectronics
Systems Education, 2007.
ACM Microarchitecture Test of Time Award
- Li Xiao, July
2002, (Professor of
Computer Science and Engineering,
Michigan State University),
Ph.D. Dissertation: Adaptive and Secured Resource
Management in Distributed and Internet Systems.
- USENIX Association Ph.D. Research Fellowship, 2001.
Zhichun Zhu, July
2003, (Associate Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Illinois at Chicago),
Ph.D. Dissertation: Power Considerations for
Memory-Related Microarchitecture Designs.
Song Jiang,
June 2004, (Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering ,
University of Texas at Arlington),
Ph.D. Dissertation: Efficient Caching Algorithms for
Memory Management in Computer Systems.
Songqing Chen,
July 2004, (Professor of
Computer Science,
George Mason University),
Ph.D. Dissertation: Building Internet Caching Systems
for Multimedia Content Delivery.
- Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Award, George Mason University,
2009.
- Young Investigator Award (YIP), U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific
Research, 2009.
- Raising Star Faculty
Research Award, George Mason University, 2008.
-
Faculty Early Career Development Award, U.S. National Sceince Foundation, 2007.
- IEEE Fellow, Class 2024.
Xin Chen,
April 2005, (Member of Technical Staff,
Microsoft Corporation),
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Internet Techniques of Data Prefetching, Replication, and
Consistency.
Lei Guo,
November 2007, (Software Engineer,
Google Inc.),
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Insights into Access Patterns of Internet Media Systems:
Measurements, Analysis, and System Design.
- S. Park Graduate Research Award, College of William and Mary, 2005.
Shansi Ren,
March 2009, (Staff Engineer, Alibaba Group),
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Analysis, design, and implementation of topology-aware overlay systems
on Internet.
Feng Chen,
July 2010, (Associate Professor of
Computer Science and Engineering,
Louisiana State University)
Ph.D. Dissertation:
On Performance Optimization and System Design of Flash-based
Solid State Drives in Storage Hierarchy
Xiaoning Ding,
July 2010, (Associate Professor of
Computer Science, New Jersey Institute
of Technology)
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Advancement of Operating Systems to Manage Critical Resources in
Increasingly Complex Computer Architecture
- CSE Graduate Research Award, Ohio State, 2008.
- Best Student Paper Award, USENIX LISA 2008.
- NSF Computing Innovation Fellow, Intel Labs and CMU, 2010.
Enhua Tan,
April 2013, (Senior Software Engineer,
Linkedin Corporation),
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Spam analysis and detection in online social networks.
Yin Huai,
May 2015, (Software Engineer in
Databricks)
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Building High Performance Data Analytics Systems based on Scale-out
Models
- Best Paper Award, IEEE ICDCS 2011.
- Wael Bahaa-El-Din Graduate Research Award in System Performance,
Ohio State, 2014.
Kaibo Wang,
December 2015, (Software Engineer in Google)
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Algorithmic and Software Support to Accelerate Data Processing
in CPU-GPU Hybrid Computing Environment
- Wael Bahaa-El-Din Graduate Research Award in System Performance,
Ohio State, 2015.
Yuan Yuan,
December 2016, (Software Engineer in Google)
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Advanced Concurrency Control Algorithms and GPU System Support
for In-Memory Management
- Wael Bahaa-El-Din Graduate Research Award in System Performance,
Ohio State, 2016.
Sofoklis Floratos,
December 2020, (Software Engineer in Microsoft)
Ph.D. Dissertation:
High Performance Iterative Processing in Database Systems