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Faculty

Dr. Xian-He Sun
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
Dr. Anthony Kougkas
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Anthony Kougkas is the Associate 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

Keith Bateman
Keith Bateman
PhD Candidate
HPCDistributed Storage
Vadim Biryukov
Vadim Biryukov
PhD Student
HPCDistributed Storage
Jaime Cernuda
Jaime Cernuda
PhD Candidate
Distributed SystemsHPCStreaming Applications
Luke Logan
Luke Logan
PhD Candidate
Distributed StorageParallel and Distributed SystemsParallel I/OOperating Systems
Neeraj Rajesh
Neeraj Rajesh
PhD Candidate
Parallel and Distributed SystemsHPCML-Assisted Systems
Meng Tang
Meng Tang
PhD Candidate
Distributed StorageWorkflow I/OContainerization
Hua Xu
Hua Xu
PhD Student
HPCDistributed Storage
Jie Ye
Jie Ye
PhD Candidate
Distributed StorageParallel and Distributed SystemsParallel I/O
Izzet Yildirim
Izzet Yildirim
PhD Candidate
HPCDistributed StorageI/O CharacterizationContainerization

Research Staff

Dr. Kun Feng
Dr. Kun Feng
Research Software Engineer
Mr. Eneko Gonzalez
Mr. Eneko Gonzalez
Research Software Engineer
Dr. Xiaoyang Lu
Dr. Xiaoyang Lu
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Aparna Sasidharan
Dr. Aparna Sasidharan
Research Software Engineer

Visiting Scholars

Dr. Harry Agyropoylos
Dr. Harry Agyropoylos
Senior Researcher
University of Piraeus, Greece
Computational FinanceComputational EconometricsHPC

External Collaborators

Dr. Hariharan Devarajan
Dr. Hariharan Devarajan
Computer Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
High Performance ComputingI/O PerformanceDistributed Storage
Dr. Gerd Heber
Dr. Gerd Heber
Executive Director
The HDF Group
Data ModelingData IntegrationLarge-Scale Data ManagementHDF5
Dr. Jay Lofstead
Dr. Jay Lofstead
Principal Scientist
Sandia National Laboratories
High Performance ComputingI/O PerformancePortability
Dr. Kathryn Mohror
Dr. Kathryn Mohror
Group Leader
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
High Performance ComputingI/O PerformancePortability
Dr. Bogdan Nicolae
Dr. Bogdan Nicolae
Computer Scientist
Argonne National Laboratory
Parallel and Distributed ComputingHigh Performance ComputingFault ToleranceStorage
Dr. Nathan Tallent
Dr. Nathan Tallent
Group Leader
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
High Performance ComputingPerformance Analysis

Some of Our Alumni

NameDissertation / ThesisDegreeYearResearch Interests
Wiam AmineM.Sc.2024HPC, Distributed Storage
Hariharan DevarajanTowards a self-programmable storage solution in extreme-scale environmentsPhD2021HPC, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Parallel I/O Optimizations, Key-Value Storage
Kun FengA Multi-level Data Integration Approach for the Convergence of HPC and Big Data SystemsPhD2020HPC, Parallel and Distributed Systems, I/O Optimization, Data Integration
Anthony KougkasAccelerating I/O using Data Labels: A Contention-Aware, Multi-Tiered, Scalable, and Distributed I/O PlatformPhD2019HPC, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Storage Systems, Object Stores
Eduardo BerrocalImproving Distributed Systems with Data AnalysisPhD2017Fault Tolerance, Data Consistency
Sean WallacePower Profiling, Analysis, Learning, and Management for High-Performance ComputingPhD2017
Xu YangCooperative Batch Scheduling for HPC SystemsPhD2017
Xi YangAn Integrated Data Access System for Big ComputingPhD2016
Li YuReliability and Energy Analysis for Extreme Scale SystemsPhD2016
Yanlong YinApplication-Aware Optimizations for Big Data AccessPhD2014
Jingjin WuPerformance Analysis and Optimization of Large-scale Scientific ApplicationsPhD2013
Hui JinSystem Support for Resilience in Large-Scale Parallel Systems: From Checkpointing to MapReducePhD2012
Wei TangAn integrated job scheduling framework for production supercomputersPhD2012
Ziming ZhengLog analysis for reliability management in large-scale systemsPhD2012
Yong ChenA Hybrid Data Prefetching Architecture for Data-Access EfficiencyPhD2009
Yawei LiEfficient Fault Management in High-Performance ComputingPhD2008
Cong DuDynamic Virtual Private Environment in a Shared CyberspacePhD2008
Surendra BynaServer-based Data Push Architecture for Data Access Performance OptimizationPhD2006
Ming WuSystem Support of Quality of Service in Shared Network EnvironmentsPhD2006
Vijay GurbaniService Oriented Computing: Enabling Cross-Network Services between The Internet and The Telecommunications NetworkPhD2004
Kasidit ChanchioEfficient Checkpointing in Heterogeneous Collaborative Environments: Representation, coordination, and AutomationPhD2000
Yu ZhuangStable, Globally Non-iterative, Non-overlapping Domain Decomposition Methods for the Numerical Solution of Parabolic Evolutionary SystemsPhD2000
Kirk CameronEmpirical and Statistical Application Modeling Using On-Chip Performance MonitorsPhD2000
Janusz NosekConcurrency and Locality Aware GPGPU Thread Group SchedulingM.Sc.2018
Srivatsa H.C.M.Sc.2018
Yongen YuPetaART: Toward Petascale Cosmological Simulations using the Adaptive Refinement Tree (ART) CodeM.Sc.2013
Ke TaoCheckpointing Orchestration: Toward a Scalable HPC Fault-Tolerant EnvironmentM.Sc.2011
Jiexing GuSystem Diagnosis and Prognosis of Failures in High-Performance Computing SystemsM.Sc.2009
Sindhu SubramanyaOptimizing Energy Consumption while Running I/O Intensive Workloads Using DVFSM.Sc.2009
Dinagar RaghunathanEvaluation of Interrupt Handling Mechanisms in Multi-core EnvironmentM.Sc.2009
Eduardo BerrocalExploring Pattern based Replacement Policies in MPI-IO CachingM.Sc.2009
Huaiyu ZhuGlobal-aware and Multi-order Context-based Data PrefetchingM.Sc.2009
Hui JinPerformance under Failures of DAG-based Parallel ComputingM.Sc.2008
Prerak ShuklaVirtual Machines in Grid Environments: Dynamic Virtual MachinesM.Sc.2008
Petre BroteaGrid-enabled Migration of Native Processes under Java Virtual Machine EnvironmentsM.Sc.2008
Alaknantha EswaradassNetwork Bandwidth Predictor (NBP) A System for Online Network Performance ForecastingM.Sc.2005
Naga KunderuAEGIS: A Security Architecture for Mobile DevicesM.Sc.2004
Beulah KurianGrid Eigen Trust, A Framework For Computing Reputation in GridsM.Sc.2003
Balamurali AnanthanSLA Oriented QoS Management and Provisioning in Virtual Application ServiceM.Sc.2003
Dinanath D. SulakheGNARE-GeNome Analysis Research Environment: a high-throughput server for genome analysisM.Sc.2003
Patrick WagstromScarlet: A Framework for Context Aware ComputingM.Sc.2003
Xiaoshan HeA QoS Guided Scheduling Model in Grid EnvironmentM.Sc.2002
Rahul PidapartiMatchmaker for Distributed Parallel ComputingM.Sc.2002
Antoine NguyenImplementation of Scalable Tridiagonal Solvers for Ocean Simulation on Parallel SupercomputersM.Sc.2001
Zhiqiang LiA Java Client/Server Message Board SystemM.Sc.2000
Bo PanParallel implementation of Adaptive Wavelet Element method, A MPI Implementation of a Two-Dimensional Wavelet ADI ApplicationM.Sc.2000
Dhruv KhettryVirtual Collaboratory for Numerical SimulationM.Sc.1999
Ramachandran KrishnamoorthiOn-Line Simulation of MaterialsM.Sc.1999
Ram Mohan SuryanarayanaNetwork Resource Monitoring SystemM.Sc.1999
Zhaohua ZhanA Java 3D Visualization Environment for Scalable SystemsM.Sc.1998
Vittal KrishnamurthyPath Restoration in Self-Healing ATM NetworksM.Sc.1998
Dongmei HeResearch interests are in performance modeling and evaluation of advanced hierarchical memory systemsM.Sc.1998
Lalitha KommajosyulaDevelopment of a LOST (Line-Of-Sight Telemetry) software system for wireless communicationM.Sc.1998
Yu ZhuangA Java 3D Visualization Environment for Scalable SystemsM.Sc.1998
Zhang LeiDeveloped a network teaching environmentM.Sc.1997
Qingxu HouM.Sc.1997
Kasidit ChanchioM.Sc.1996
Xin LiaoM.Sc.1996
Adnan HaiderB.Sc.2018
Anthony FleckEmpowering Data Management, Diagnosis, and Visualization of Cloud-Resolving Models by Cloud Library upon Spark and HadoopB.Sc.1997