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
Assistant Research Professor
Dr. Anthony Kougkas is the Deputy Director of the Gnosis Research Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science, he is committed to solving data management and I/O challenges in extreme-scale distributed applications. His research has led to advancements in multi-tiered storage systems, data prefetching, replication, compression, and in-transit/in-situ techniques, resulting in performance improvements for HPC, Cloud, and AI workloads.
Researchers
Research Staff
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 |