GONG ZHANG
Ph.D. Candidate

College of Computing

Georgia Institute of Technology

 


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PHD in COMPUTER SCIENCE

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
Thesis: Data and application migration in Cloud based data centers 


Research                                                          


       My research interests broadly lie in the filed of high performance distributed system, storage systems and cloud computing. My dissertation research has been focused on system performance from the perspective of reliability, resource utilization, and quality of service, and has resulted in important architectural design and system implementation work in multi-tiered storage system architecture, reliable distributed system and cloud computing. Scaling up or scaling out system to achieve higher performance is a common theme in my research.

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Publications        


 

·         Refereed Conference Publications

1.        Gong Zhang and Ling Liu. “Why Do Migrations Fail And What Can We Do About It”, accepted by 25th Large Installation System Administration Conference (USENIX LISA 2011), Boston, MA, December 4–9, 2011

2.        Gong Zhang, Larry Chiu, and Ling Liu. “Adaptive Data Migration in Multi-tiered Storage Based Cloud Environment”, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (Cloud2010), Miami, Florida, July5-10, 2010

3.        Gong Zhang, Larry Chiu, Clem Dickey, Ling Liu, Paul Muench and Sangeetha Seshadri. Automated Lookahead Data Migration in SSD-enabled Multi-tiered Storage Systems”, Proceedings of the 26th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST2010), Nevada, May 3-7, 2010.

4.        Yuehua Wang, Ling Liu, Calton Pu and Gong Zhang, “An Utility-driven Routing Scheme for Scalling Multicast Applications”, Proceedings of 2009 International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2010), (IEEE Press), Chicago, Illinois, October 9-12, 2010.

5.        Gong Zhang, Ling Liu, etc, Scalable and Reliable Location Services Through Decentralized Replication”, Proceedings of IEEE 2009 International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 6-10, 2009

6.        Bhuvan Bamba, Ling Liu, Philip Yu, Gong Zhang and Myungcheol Doo,  Scalable Processing of Spatial Alarms”, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2008)

7.        Sangeetha Seshadri, Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Ling Liu, Karsten Schwan and Gong Zhang, STREAMREUSE: Grouping Distributed Stream Queries by Operator Similarity and Network Locality”,  Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Services 2008 (SCC 2008) 2008

8.        Jianjun Zhang, Gong Zhang and Ling Liu, GeoGrid: A scalable Location Service Network”,  International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2007, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 25-29, 2007

9.        Jianjun Zhang, Ling Liu, Lakshmish Ramawamy, Gong Zhang and Calton Pu, A Utility-Aware Middleware Architecture for Decentralized Group Communication Applications”. ACM/IFIP/USENIX 8th International Middleware Conference (Middleware) 2007 (Best Paper Nomination)

·         Technical Reports

10.    IBM Almaden Orion project team, Gong Zhang. “Scaling Highly-parallel Data-Intensive applications using MapReduce on a Parallel Clustered File System”. (One of the 3 Finalist projects in HPC Storage Challenge in International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2008. (SC 2008))

 

Manuscript Under Submission

11.    Gong Zhang, Ling Liu, and Larry Chiu. “Adaptive Data Migration in Multi-tiered Storage Systems”, to be submitted to IEEE TKDE

12.    Gong Zhang, Ling Liu, and Jianjun Zhang. “GeoGrid: A Scalable Location Based Service”, to be submitted to IEEE TPDS

 

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Research Internships                                                        

 


 

Research intern in Summer 2007, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,

Designed and implemented a RFID based spatiotemporal situation detection system for mobile asset management which can track the locations of moving objects and can be applied into healthcare management or inventory management.

Research intern in Summer 2008, IBM Almaden Research Center, Almaden, CA, USA

Working on a cloud computing project on comparing performance of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and GPFS (General Parallel File System) in supporting map-reduce workloads. Through designing experiments running map reduce applications on these two different file systems, we compare their performance differences and further investigate the improvements to support the map reduce applications more efficiently for GPFS. The project team is of the 3 Finalist teams in HPC Storage Challenge in International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, 2008. (SC 2008))

Research intern in summer 2009, IBM Almaden Research Center, Almaden, CA, USA

Design the adaptive data migration scheme for a commercial multi-tiered storage system to improve the system performance through integrating solid state drive (SSD) as top tier in the storage stack.

Research intern in summer 2010, NEC Lab at Princeton, Princeton, NJ, USA

Working on the project focusing on automating the migration process of networked services to cloud computing.

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Teaching Assistantship                                         

 


Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall 2007, Fall 2010 for a graduate level course titled “Emerging Database Technologies”

Graduate Teaching Assistant Spring 2009 for a graduate level course titled “Advanced Internet Application Development”

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Contact


 

Office :

KACB 3319

Klaus computing Building

Georgia Institute of Technology

266 Ferst Drive

Atlanta GA 30332

Email :

<gzhang3>@cc.gatech.edu 

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Last Updated on 10th Jan '11

 


 

 

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