Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the 27th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2025), held in Exeter, UK on August 13, 2025. The talk was titled "From Parallel Computing to Concurrent Data Access: The Dataflow under von Neumann Machine Approach."
Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the 5th Workshop on Performance Engineering, Modeling, Analysis, and Visualization Strategy (PERMAVOST 2025), held in conjunction with ACM HPDC 2025 on July 20, 2025. The talk was titled "Dataflow under the von Neumann Machine: A New Paradigm for Computing Systems."
Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025), held in Columbus, Ohio on June 24, 2025. The talk was titled "The Data-Centric Imperative: from Hermes to StoreHub." Dr. Anthony Kougkas, Executive Director of GRC, serves as General Chair of SSDBM 2026.
Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2024), held in Haikou, China on December 7, 2024. The talk was titled "Hermes, Coeus, and ChronoLog: Some big data I/O systems for network, parallel and distributed computing."
From May 6 to May 9, 2024, the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing (CCGRID) (opens in a new tab) was held in Philadelphia, USA. On May 7, Professor Xian-He Sun, a distinguished professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and director of the Gnosis Research Center, delivered a keynote titled "AI & Data: Challenges and Opportunities in Computer System Research."
Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC 2023), held in Melbourne, Australia on December 13, 2023. The talk was titled "Data Centric Computing: an I/O System Approach."
Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the 13th International Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings (POEM 2021), Workshop on Information Storage System and Technology (ISST), on November 8, 2021. The talk was titled "High Performance Data Access: The Hermes Approach."
Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the 13th CCF National (Advanced) Computer Architecture Conference (ACA 2020) on August 13, 2020. The talk was titled "Data Flow under the von Neumann Computer Architecture."
Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the International Conference on High Performance Big Data and Intelligent System (HPBD&IS 2020) on May 23, 2020. The talk was titled "dLABEL: A Label-Based Data Representation and its implementation on Big Data I/O Systems."
Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a plenary keynote at the National Annual Conference on High Performance Computing (HPC-China 2019), held in Hohhot, China on August 22, 2019. The talk was titled "High Performance Data Access: the DMSH approach."
Professor Xian-He Sun delivered a keynote at the ACM Turing Celebration Conference, China (ACM TURC 2019), SIGMOBILE symposium, held in Chengdu, China on May 19, 2019. The talk was titled "Data Access of Big Data: Solving the system bottleneck."