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	Zhang, Zhe \| 张喆 Research Staff Member Messaging and Event Systems Department Thomas J. Watson Research Center IBM Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University Email: zhezhang AT us DOT ibm DOT com Phone: 914-784-6079 (O) Mail Address: 19 Skyline Drive Hawthorne, NY 10532

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Short Bio

Born in the Xi'An city in northwestern China, Zhe Zhang finished his undergraduate study in 2003 from the University of Science and Technology of China with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering. In 2004 summer he entered the North Carolina State University to pursue his graduate study co-majoring in Operations Research and Computer Science. Zhe got his Master's degree in Operations Research in May 2006 under the direction of Dr. David McAllister, after which he joined Dr. Xiaosong Ma's research group and started working on distributed computing systems. After finishing his Ph.D. study in Operations Research and Computer Science in November 2009, Zhe worked in the Technology Integration Group in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a staff scientist for one year. In November 2010 Zhe joined the Messaging and Event Systems Department in the IBM T. J. Watson research center as a research staff member. Zhe is also an adjunct assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science of NCSU, and a professional member of the ACM.

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Education

Ph.D., Operations Research and Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 2009
M.S., Operations Research, North Carolina State University, 2006
B.E., Computer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 2003

Publications

Journal papers:

Xiaosong Ma, Sudharshan Vazhkudai, and Zhe Zhang, Improving Data Availability for Better Access Performance: A Study on Caching Scientific Data on Distributed Desktop Workstations, The Journal of Grid Computing (JGC), Special issue on Volunteer Computing and Desktop Grids, 2009.

Peer-reviewed conference papers:

Youngjae Kim, Raghul Gunasekaran, Galen Shipman, David Dillow, Zhe Zhang, and Bradley Settlemyer, Workload Characterization of a Leadership Class Storage, The 5th Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW'10), Nov. 2010, New Orleans, LA.
Dali Wang, Daniel Ricciuto, Zhe Zhang, Haihang You, and Wilfred Post, A CCSM-based Terrestrial Ecosystem Model Parameterization Framework, 2010 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference(SC '10), Poster Session, Nov. 2010, New Orleans, LA.
Galen M. Shipman, David A. Dillow, Sarp Oral, Feiyi Wang, Douglas Fuller, Jason Hill and Zhe Zhang, Lessons Learned in Deploying the World’s Largest Scale Lustre File System, The 52nd Cray User Group Conference (CUG '10), May 2010.
Heshan Lin, Xiaosong Ma, Jeremy Archuleta, Wu-chun Feng, Mark Gardner and Zhe Zhang, MOON: MapReduce on Opportunistic Environments, The ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC '10), Jun. 2010, Chicago, IL (Acceptance Rate: 25.3% = 23/91).
Zhe Zhang, Yu Gu, Fan Ye, Hao Yang, Minkyong Kim, Hui Lei and Zhen Liu, A Hybrid Approach to High Availability in Stream Processing Systems, The 30th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '10), Jun. 2010, Genoa, Italy (Acceptance Rate: 14.4% = 84/585)
Yu Gu, Zhe Zhang, Fan Ye, Hao Yang, Minkyong Kim, Hui Lei and Zhen Liu, An Empirical Study of High Availability in Stream Processing Systems, The ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference (Middleware '09), Industrial Track, Nov. 2009, Urbana Champaign, IL.
Chao Wang, Zhe Zhang, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Xiaosong Ma and Frank Mueller, Improving the Availability of Supercomputer Job Input Data Using Temporal Replication, The 2009 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC '09), Jun. 2009, Hamburg, Germany
Zhe Zhang, Amit Kulkarni, Xiaosong Ma and Yuanyuan Zhou, Memory Resource Allocation for File System Prefetching -- From a Supply Chain Management Perspective, The 4th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys '09), Apr. 2009, Nuremberg, Germany (Acceptance Rate: 16.9% = 25/148).
Chao Wang, Zhe Zhang, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Xiaosong Ma and Frank Mueller, On-the-fly Recovery of Job Input Data in Supercomputers, The 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '08), Sep. 2008, Portland, Oregon
Zhe Zhang, Kyuhyung Lee, Xiaosong Ma and Yuanyuan Zhou, PFC: Transparent Optimization of Existing Prefetching Strategies for Multi-level Storage Systems, The 28th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '08), Jun. 2008, Beijing, China (Acceptance Rate: 16.0% = 102/638)
Zhe Zhang, Chao Wang, Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Xiaosong Ma, Gregory G. Pike, John W. Cobb and Frank Mueller, Optimizing Center Performance through Coordinated Data Staging, Scheduling and Recovery, 2007 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference(SC '07), Nov. 2007, Reno, NV (Acceptance Rate: 20.1% = 54/268)
Zhe Zhang and David F. McAllister, A Uniform Metric for Anaglyph Calculation , 2006 IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference(EI '06), Jan. 2006, San Jose, CA .

Other publications:

Zhe Zhang, Xueping Li, Xiaoyan Zhu, Rui Xu, Xiaosong Ma, and Galen Shipman, Supply Chain Models and Heuristics for Data Cache Management, to appear, The INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Annual Meeting (INFORMS '10), Austin, TX, Nov. 2010 (invited extended abstract and talk).
Zhe Zhang, Amey Deshpande, Xiaosong Ma, Eno Thereska, and Dushyanth Narayanan, Does erasure coding have a role to play in my data center?, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2010-52. May 2010.
Xiaosong Ma, Zhe Zhang, and Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai, Improving Data Availability for Better Access Performance: A Study on Caching Scientific Data on Distributed Workstations, ORNL Technical Report 007030, Mar. 2007 (extended version appeared in Journal of Grid Computing in 2009).

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Professional Experience and Service

11/2009 -- present, Research Staff Member, Messaging and Event Systems Department, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
07/2010 -- present, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University.
11/2009 -- 11/2010, I/O System Computational Scientist, National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
07/2009 -- 09/2009, Research Intern, Systems and Networking Group, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)
05/2008 -- 08/2008, Research Intern, Next Generation Distributed Systems Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
05/2007 -- 08/2007, Software Engineering Intern, NMAI Service Node group, Cisco Systems
06/2006 -- 08/2006, Research Intern, Computer and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
08/2004 -- 11/2009, Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University.

Invited reviewer, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Aug. 2010
Invited reviewer, Future Generation of Computer Systems (FGCS), Aug. 2010
Invited reviewer, Journal of Grid Computing, special issue on Volunteer Computing and Desktop Grids (JGC), Apr. 2009
Invited reviewer, U.S. Department of Energy Small Business Innovation Research (DOE SBIR), Feb. 2010
External reviewer for:

The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '08)
The 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '08)
The 2008 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC '08)
The 23th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '09)
The 2009 SOSP Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '09)

Professional Member of the ACM: author profile (with ACM and IEEE publications)
Member of SIAM

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News

[Job] Nov. 2010: I started working in the MES group at IBM T. J. Watson research center.
[Job] Jul. 2010: Thanks NCSU Computer Science Department for granting me the title of adjunct assistant professor!
[Publication] Feb. 2010: Our paper presenting a hybrid high availability approach for distributed stream processing systems was accepted by ICDCS 2010. This novel technique is based on the observations from our previous Middleware paper.
[Job] Nov. 2009: I started working in the TechInt group in ORNL, the same day when Jaguar becomes the world's fastest supercomputer!
[Life] Nov. 2009: I passed my Ph.D. thesis defense after spending 22 yrs in different schools :-)
[Professional] Oct. 2009: I became an ACM professional member
[Publication] Jul. 2009: Our paper on evaluating high availability mechanisms for distributed stream processing systems was accepted by Middleware '09 industrial track.
[Publication] Jun. 2009: Our paper on distributed storage scavenging was accepted by the Journal of Grid Computing. My first journal paper!
[Job] Jun. 2009: I will go to Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) for an internship from July. Looking forward to punting on the River Cam!
[Publication] Jan. 2009: Our paper on applying Supply Chain Management techniques to improve file system performance is accepted by EuroSys '09, a top conference in operating systems.

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Last Updated: Jan. 18th , 2011