Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Re-think the computing system software/hardware design by distributing the computing capability across CPU, memory, and storage devices, and its implication to mainstream applications (e.g., AI/ML, data analytics)
1. Y. Qiao, X. Chen, N. Zheng, J. Li, Y. Liu, and T. Zhang, "Closing the B+-tree vs. LSM-tree Write Amplification Gap on Modern Storage Hardware with Built-in Transparent Compression"", USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2022
2. N. Zheng, X. Chen, J. Li, Q. Wu, Y. Liu, Y. Peng, F. Sun, H. Zhong, and T. Zhang, "Re-think Data Management Software Design Upon the Arrival of Storage Hardware with Built-in Transparent Compression,"" USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), July 2020
3. W. Cao, Y. Liu, Z. Cheng, N. Zheng, W. Li, W. Wu, L. Ouyang, P. Wang, Y. Wang, R. Kuan, Z. Liu, F. Zhu, and T. Zhang, "POLARDB meets computational storage: Efficiently support analytical workloads in cloud-native relational database,"" USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), Feb. 2020
4. F. Chen, T. Zhang, and X. Zhang, "Software Support Inside and Outside Solid-State Devices for High Performance and High Efficiency,"" Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 105, issue 9, pp. 1650-1665, Sept. 2017
5. H. Wang, K. Zhao, M. Lv, X. Zhang, H. Sun, and T. Zhang, "Improving 3D DRAM Fault Tolerance through Weak Cell Aware Error Correction,"" IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 66, issue 5, pp. 820-833, May 2017