Xiaoyi Lu
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Ohio State University
Office: 472 Dreese Laboratories
Address: 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH-43210, USA
Phone: +1-614-688-8320
Email: luxi AT cse DOT ohio-state DOT edu
News
- 12/2020: My advised Ph.D. student Shashank Gugnani has successfully defended his thesis and graduated. Congratulations, Dr. Gugnani!
- 12/2020: A paper is accepted in IPDPS 2021: NVMe-CR: A Scalable Ephemeral Storage Runtime for Checkpoint/Restart with NVMe-over-Fabrics. Congratulations, Shashank and Tianxi!
- 11/2020: A paper is accepted in VLDB 2021: Understanding the Idiosyncrasies of Real Persistent Memory. Congratulations, Shashank and Arjun!
- 11/2020: My advised Ph.D. student Haiyang Shi has successfully defended his thesis and graduated. Congratulations, Dr. Shi!
- 08/2020: A tutorial is accepted in IISWC 2020: Benchmarking and Accelerating Big Data Systems with RDMA, PMEM, and NVMe-SSD. Congratulations to Haiyang and Shashank!
- 06/2020: Two papers are accepted in SC 2020: "INEC: Fast and Coherent In-Network Erasure Coding" and "RDMP-KV: Designing Remote Direct Memory Persistence-based Key-Value Stores with PMEM". Congratulations to Haiyang, Tianxi, Shashank, and Dr. Shankar!
- 04/2020: I will serve as a TPC Vice-Chair for IEEE Cloud Summit 2020. Call for Papers
- 02/2020: I will serve on the PC of SC 2020 (Research Posters Track), HiPC 2020, CCGrid 2020, TPDS's special section on "Parallel and Distributed Computing Techniques for AI, ML and DL", and others.
Research
My research interests include High Performance Interconnects and Protocols, Big Data Computing (Hadoop/Spark Ecosystem), Deep Learning (TensorFlow Ecosystem), Parallel Computing (MPI/PGAS), Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. I am the founder/co-founder and R&D leader on the following projects:
- High-Performance Big Data (HiBD)
- High-Performance Deep Learning (HiDL) with RDMA-TensorFlow
- MVAPICH2-Virt: High-Performance MPI Library with Virtualization Support
- DataMPI: Extending MPI for Big Data with Key-Value based Communication
- LingCloud: A Resource Single Leasing Point System to Support Heterogeneous Application Modes on Shared Cloud Infrastructure
- High-Performance Neuroscience (NeuroHPC)
Teaching
- CSE 3244 - Data Mgmt in Cloud (Autumn 2020)
Professional Services
TPC Chairs/Co-Chairs/Vice-Chairs:
- IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Big Data and Cloud Computing (HPBDC), 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- IEEE Cloud Summit, 2020
- International Forum on High-Performance Interconnects, co-located with National Annual Conference on High Performance Computing (HPC China), 2019, 2020
General Co-Chairs or Co-Organizers
- BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench), 2019
- BoFs on AI, Big Data, and Cloud Computing topics, co-located with International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC), 2017, 2019
- A BoF on HPC and Cloud Computing topics, co-located with International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), 2017
- Big Data Neuroscience Workshop, Organized by the Advanced Computational Neuroscience Network (ACNN), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
TPC Members:
- International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 2019, 2020 (Poster Track)
- IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2021
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed System (TPDS)’s special section on “Parallel and Distributed Computing Techniques for AI, ML and DL”, 2020
- IEEE Cluster Conference (CLUSTER), 2021
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGrid), 2020, 2021
- International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2015
- IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC), 2019, 2020
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- International Conference on High-Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPCAsia), 2020
- International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
- International OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop (OFAW), 2021
Journal Reviewers:
- ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2019, 2020
- ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), 2016
- ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2019
- IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2015, 2020
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2016, 2017
- IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), 2016, 2017
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), 2015
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), 2014
- IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (TMSCS), 2018
- IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), 2019
- Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- IEEE Access, 2018
Students
Ph.D. Students:
Undergraduate Students:
- Xi Xiong
Past Students:
- Shashank Gugnani (OSU Ph.D., 2020; First job placement: Oracle)
- Haiyang Shi (OSU Ph.D., 2020; First job placement: ByteDance)
- Haseeb Javed (OSU M.S., 2019; First job placement: Amazon)
- Dipti Shankar (OSU Ph.D., 2019; First job placement: Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany; Co-advised with Prof. D. K. Panda)
I am also fortunate to have worked with these talented past students as their mentor and thesis committee member:
- Jie Zhang (OSU Ph.D., 2018; First job placement: Amazon)
- Rajarshi Biswas (OSU M.S., 2018; First job placement: Amazon)
- Mingzhe Li (OSU Ph.D., 2017; First job placement: Facebook)
- Nusrat Islam (OSU Ph.D., 2016; First job placement: Intel)
- Wasiur Rahman (OSU Ph.D., 2016; First job placement: Intel)
- Kunal Kulkarni (OSU M.S., 2016; First job placement: Microsoft)
- Adithya Bhat (OSU M.S., 2015; First job placement: Amazon)