Storage Technology and Architecture Research (STAR) Lab

Faculty:

Dr. Xubin He, Director

Current Students

Graduate students

• Wenjie Liu, PhD, Fall 2017--
• Peiyu Liang, PhD, Fall 2019--
• Nan Wang, PhD, Summer 2021--

Undergraduate students

• REU students are welcome. Please contact Dr. He for details if interested.
  

Alumni

Ph.D Degree

1. Tong Liu, “Efficient Data Reduction in HPC and Distributed Storage Systems”, Date Graduated: Summer 2021. First employment after graduation: Marvell Technology Group, Boston, MA.
2. Yuhua Guo (co-supervised with Dr. Weijun Xiao, VCU), “Improving the Performance and Energy Efficiency of Emerging Memory Systems”, Date Graduated: May 2018, First employment after graduation: DataDirect Networks (DDN), MD.
3. Kun Tang, “Improving the Performance and Energy Efficiency for Power-constrained High Performance Computing”, Date Graduated: Summer 2017. First employment after graduation: Amazon, Seattle.
4. Tao Lu, “Optimizing Virtual Machine I/O Performance in Cloud Environments”, Date Graduated: December 2016. First employment after graduation: EMC
5. Pradeep Subedi, “Exploration of Erasure-coded Storage Systems for High Performance, Reliability, and Inter-operability”, Date Graduated: August 2016, First employment after graduation: Postdoc@Rutgers
6. Min Li (co-supervised with Dr. Meng Yu, CS), "Privacy Protection on Cloud Computing", Date Graduated: May 2015. First employment after graduation: FireEye, CA
7. Guanying Wu, "Performance and Reliability Study and Exploration of NAND Flash-based Solid State Drives", Date Graduated: August 2013. Current Employment: Micron, CO
8. Chentao Wu, “Improve the Performance and Scalability of RAID-6 Systems Using Erasure Codes”, Date Graduated: December 2012. First employment after graduation: Assistant Professor, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
9. Xin Chen, "Dependability Modeling and Benchmarking for Distributed Storage Systems", Date Graduated: August 2010. Current Employment: ATT, Austin, TX
10. Li Ou, "Design of a High Performance and High Availability Distributed Storage System", Date Graduated: December 2006. Current Employment: AMD Inc., Austin, TX

M.S. Degree

1. Morgan Stuart, "Mitigating Interference during Virtual Machine Live Migration through Storage Offloading", Date Graduated: December 2016. First employment after graduation: Genworth.
2. Ben Eckart, "A Distributed Framework for Runtime Optimization and Diskless Checkpointing on Virtualized Clusters", Date Graduated: August 2010. First employment after graduation: PhD candidate at CMU.
3. Guanying Wu, "Design and Evaluation of an Adaptive Write Buffer Cache for Solid State Drives ", Date Graduated: December 2009. First employment after graduation: PhD candidate at TTU.
4. Jeremy Langston, "Availability and Performance Analysis of Data Hot-spots in Distributed Storage Systems", Date Graduated: May 2009. First employment after graduation: Redstone Technical Test Center, Huntsville, AL.
5. Xin Chen, "L2 Cache Performance Evaluation and I/O Improvement of Multi-Core Architectures", Date Graduated: May 2007. First employment after graduation: PhD candidate at TTU
6. Ololade Funmilayo, "Performance Analysis of iSCSI Communication", Date Graduated: December 2006. First employment after graduation: Motorola Inc., Chicago, IL
7. Kartik Ramaswamy, "Power and Performance Evaluation of Cache Algorithms for Superscalar Processors", Date Graduated: August 2005. First employment after graduation: Force10 networks, CA
8. Sathish Venkataramani, "Design and Analysis of External Profiling", Date Graduated: August 2005. First employment after graduation: HP
9. Praveenku Beedanagari, Thesis Title: "Design and Evaluation of a Distributed iSCSI RAID", Date Graduated: December 2004. First employment after graduation: A Software Consultant Company, Dallas, TX
10. Dan Zhou, Thesis Title: "I/O Analysis on iSCSI-based Storage Systems", Date Graduated: August 2004. Current employment : Linux Network System Administrator, Columbus State University, GA

Past Post-Docs/Visiting Scholars

1. Ting Yao, visiting PhD student, October 2017-September 2018
2. Peng Xu, visiting PhD student, August 2016-August 2017
3. Dr. Ping Huang, Postdoc, March 2013 - Jan 2016
4. Yulong Yu, visiting PhD student, Feb. 2014 --- August 2014
5. Dr. Zhihu Tan, Visiting Professor, Aug. 2012--Aug. 2013
6. Dr. Shenggang Wan, Post-Doc, Nov. 2011-Nov. 2012
7. Chao Yu, Visiting PhD Student, Jan. 2012--Nov. 2012
8. Dr. Leihua Qin, Nov. 2011 - Jan. 2012, Faculty, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
9. Dr. Huailiang Tan, Jan.-Dec. 2011, Faculty, Hunan University, China

Undergraduate Students (Supported in part by an NSF REU project)

• Shakeel Alibhai, Fall 2017--May 2020
• Tu Tran, Spring 2018
• Benjamin Young, DURI awardee, Spring 2014-Spring 2015
• Morgan Stuart, Fall 2012, Spring 2013
• David Elizondo, Spring 2012
• David Lyons, Spring 2011
• Luke McNeese (2009-2010)
• Juho Yoo (Spring 2010)
• Jimmy Warren (2009)
• Jason Taylor (2009)
• Benjamin Eckart (2007, 2008)
• Paul Giblock (2006)
• Khalid Abston (2006)
• Karthik Sankar (2005)
• Eyhab Saeed (2005)
• April Childers (2005)

Advice to Students

How to prepare technical papers?
            L.M. Ni, "Preparing Technical Reports Using MS Word" (MS Word).
            S.L. Kleiman, "Writing amath phase two paper," (PDF)

How to make presentations?
            S.L.P. Jones, J. Hughes, J. Launchbury, "How to give a good research talk," (PDF)
            M. Hill, "Oral Presentation Advice"

Tips for a research student:
            D.A. Bailey, A Letter to Research Students (PDF)