Faculty
Dr. Xian-He Sun
Distinguished Professor
Dr. Xian-He Sun is the Director of the Gnosis Research Center and an IEEE fellow. He is a University Distinguished Professor and the Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair of Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology. His current research interests include parallel and distributed processing, memory and I/O systems, software system for Big Data applications, and performance evaluation and optimization.
Dr. Anthony Kougkas
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Anthony Kougkas is a Research Assistant Professor and the Deputy Director of the Gnosis Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology. Holding a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same institution, Anthony has dedicated his academic journey to addressing the challenges of I/O in modern supercomputers. With over nine years of leadership experience as a military officer, Anthony seamlessly transitioned to academia, where he now mentors and supervises graduate students, envisioning research directions and managing research grants. His current research focuses on optimizing I/O operations, enhancing storage infrastructures, and creating intelligent systems that adapt to the unique demands of HPC environments.
Researchers
Engineers
Visiting Scholars
External Collaborators
Some of Our Alumni
| Name | Dissertation / Thesis | Degree | Year | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiam Amine | M.Sc. | 2024 | HPC, Distributed Storage | |
| Hariharan Devarajan | Towards a self-programmable storage solution in extreme-scale environments | PhD | 2021 | HPC, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Parallel I/O Optimizations, Key-Value Storage |
| Kun Feng | A Multi-level Data Integration Approach for the Convergence of HPC and Big Data Systems | PhD | 2020 | HPC, Parallel and Distributed Systems, I/O Optimization, Data Integration |
| Anthony Kougkas | Accelerating I/O using Data Labels: A Contention-Aware, Multi-Tiered, Scalable, and Distributed I/O Platform | PhD | 2019 | HPC, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Storage Systems, Object Stores |
| Eduardo Berrocal | Improving Distributed Systems with Data Analysis | PhD | 2017 | Fault Tolerance, Data Consistency |
| Sean Wallace | Power Profiling, Analysis, Learning, and Management for High-Performance Computing | PhD | 2017 | |
| Xu Yang | Cooperative Batch Scheduling for HPC Systems | PhD | 2017 | |
| Xi Yang | An Integrated Data Access System for Big Computing | PhD | 2016 | |
| Li Yu | Reliability and Energy Analysis for Extreme Scale Systems | PhD | 2016 | |
| Yanlong Yin | Application-Aware Optimizations for Big Data Access | PhD | 2014 | |
| Jingjin Wu | Performance Analysis and Optimization of Large-scale Scientific Applications | PhD | 2013 | |
| Hui Jin | System Support for Resilience in Large-Scale Parallel Systems: From Checkpointing to MapReduce | PhD | 2012 | |
| Wei Tang | An integrated job scheduling framework for production supercomputers | PhD | 2012 | |
| Ziming Zheng | Log analysis for reliability management in large-scale systems | PhD | 2012 | |
| Yong Chen | A Hybrid Data Prefetching Architecture for Data-Access Efficiency | PhD | 2009 | |
| Yawei Li | Efficient Fault Management in High-Performance Computing | PhD | 2008 | |
| Cong Du | Dynamic Virtual Private Environment in a Shared Cyberspace | PhD | 2008 | |
| Surendra Byna | Server-based Data Push Architecture for Data Access Performance Optimization | PhD | 2006 | |
| Ming Wu | System Support of Quality of Service in Shared Network Environments | PhD | 2006 | |
| Vijay Gurbani | Service Oriented Computing: Enabling Cross-Network Services between The Internet and The Telecommunications Network | PhD | 2004 | |
| Kasidit Chanchio | Efficient Checkpointing in Heterogeneous Collaborative Environments: Representation, coordination, and Automation | PhD | 2000 | |
| Yu Zhuang | Stable, Globally Non-iterative, Non-overlapping Domain Decomposition Methods for the Numerical Solution of Parabolic Evolutionary Systems | PhD | 2000 | |
| Kirk Cameron | Empirical and Statistical Application Modeling Using On-Chip Performance Monitors | PhD | 2000 | |
| Janusz Nosek | Concurrency and Locality Aware GPGPU Thread Group Scheduling | M.Sc. | 2018 | |
| Srivatsa H.C. | M.Sc. | 2018 | ||
| Yongen Yu | PetaART: Toward Petascale Cosmological Simulations using the Adaptive Refinement Tree (ART) Code | M.Sc. | 2013 | |
| Ke Tao | Checkpointing Orchestration: Toward a Scalable HPC Fault-Tolerant Environment | M.Sc. | 2011 | |
| Jiexing Gu | System Diagnosis and Prognosis of Failures in High-Performance Computing Systems | M.Sc. | 2009 | |
| Sindhu Subramanya | Optimizing Energy Consumption while Running I/O Intensive Workloads Using DVFS | M.Sc. | 2009 | |
| Dinagar Raghunathan | Evaluation of Interrupt Handling Mechanisms in Multi-core Environment | M.Sc. | 2009 | |
| Eduardo Berrocal | Exploring Pattern based Replacement Policies in MPI-IO Caching | M.Sc. | 2009 | |
| Huaiyu Zhu | Global-aware and Multi-order Context-based Data Prefetching | M.Sc. | 2009 | |
| Hui Jin | Performance under Failures of DAG-based Parallel Computing | M.Sc. | 2008 | |
| Prerak Shukla | Virtual Machines in Grid Environments: Dynamic Virtual Machines | M.Sc. | 2008 | |
| Petre Brotea | Grid-enabled Migration of Native Processes under Java Virtual Machine Environments | M.Sc. | 2008 | |
| Alaknantha Eswaradass | Network Bandwidth Predictor (NBP) A System for Online Network Performance Forecasting | M.Sc. | 2005 | |
| Naga Kunderu | AEGIS: A Security Architecture for Mobile Devices | M.Sc. | 2004 | |
| Beulah Kurian | Grid Eigen Trust, A Framework For Computing Reputation in Grids | M.Sc. | 2003 | |
| Balamurali Ananthan | SLA Oriented QoS Management and Provisioning in Virtual Application Service | M.Sc. | 2003 | |
| Dinanath D. Sulakhe | GNARE-GeNome Analysis Research Environment: a high-throughput server for genome analysis | M.Sc. | 2003 | |
| Patrick Wagstrom | Scarlet: A Framework for Context Aware Computing | M.Sc. | 2003 | |
| Xiaoshan He | A QoS Guided Scheduling Model in Grid Environment | M.Sc. | 2002 | |
| Rahul Pidaparti | Matchmaker for Distributed Parallel Computing | M.Sc. | 2002 | |
| Antoine Nguyen | Implementation of Scalable Tridiagonal Solvers for Ocean Simulation on Parallel Supercomputers | M.Sc. | 2001 | |
| Zhiqiang Li | A Java Client/Server Message Board System | M.Sc. | 2000 | |
| Bo Pan | Parallel implementation of Adaptive Wavelet Element method, A MPI Implementation of a Two-Dimensional Wavelet ADI Application | M.Sc. | 2000 | |
| Dhruv Khettry | Virtual Collaboratory for Numerical Simulation | M.Sc. | 1999 | |
| Ramachandran Krishnamoorthi | On-Line Simulation of Materials | M.Sc. | 1999 | |
| Ram Mohan Suryanarayana | Network Resource Monitoring System | M.Sc. | 1999 | |
| Zhaohua Zhan | A Java 3D Visualization Environment for Scalable Systems | M.Sc. | 1998 | |
| Vittal Krishnamurthy | Path Restoration in Self-Healing ATM Networks | M.Sc. | 1998 | |
| Dongmei He | Research interests are in performance modeling and evaluation of advanced hierarchical memory systems | M.Sc. | 1998 | |
| Lalitha Kommajosyula | Development of a LOST (Line-Of-Sight Telemetry) software system for wireless communication | M.Sc. | 1998 | |
| Yu Zhuang | A Java 3D Visualization Environment for Scalable Systems | M.Sc. | 1998 | |
| Zhang Lei | Developed a network teaching environment | M.Sc. | 1997 | |
| Qingxu Hou | M.Sc. | 1997 | ||
| Kasidit Chanchio | M.Sc. | 1996 | ||
| Xin Liao | M.Sc. | 1996 | ||
| Adnan Haider | B.Sc. | 2018 | ||
| Anthony Fleck | Empowering Data Management, Diagnosis, and Visualization of Cloud-Resolving Models by Cloud Library upon Spark and Hadoop | B.Sc. | 1997 |