Dr. Kun Feng is a Research Software Engineer at the Gnosis Research Center. A PhD graduate of Illinois Institute of Technology (2020), he is a key developer for the Hermes storage system and IOWarp infrastructure. His expertise spans data-intensive applications, memory systems, and HPC software engineering. Kun first joined IIT as a PhD student in 2012, earned his PhD in 2020, and became a Research Software Engineer in June 2021.
Joined: Aug 2012Graduated: Dec 2020
Now: Research Software Engineer at Gnosis Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology
12Publications
3Projects
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- HPC Storage
- I/O Buffering
- Data Management
- Software Engineering
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2026
ChronoLog: Distributed Shared Tiered Log Store
2019
NIOBE: An Intelligent I/O Bridging Engine for Complex and Distributed Workflows
2018
SciDP: Support HPC and Big Data Applications via Integrated Scientific Data Processing
2016
Visualization and Adaptive Subsetting of Earth Science Data in HDFS - A Novel Data Analysis Strategy with Hadoop and Spark
2015
Efficient Disk-to-Disk Sorting: A Case Study in Decoupled Execution Paradigm
2015
Fast Fault Injection and Sensitivity Analysis for Collective Communications
2015
IOSIG+: on the Role of I/O Tracing and Analysis for Hadoop Systems
2014
Rethinking Key-Value Store for Parallel I/O Optimization
2014
Decoupled I/O for Data-Intensive High Performance Computing
2014
Performance-Aware Data Placement in Hybrid Parallel File Systems
2013
Runtime System Design of Decoupled Execution Paradigm for Data-Intensive High-End Computing (Poster Presentation)
2013