The Ohio State University College of Engineering is pleased to announce that Dr. Xiaodong Zhang has been appointed chair of Department of Computer Science and Engineering effective January 1, 2006.
Zhang, who also has been named the Robert M. Critchfield Professor in Engineering, is currently the Lettie Pate Evans Professor of Computer Science and department chair at the College of William and Mary.
Since 1992, Zhang has established and directed the High Performance Computing and Software Lab, where he has supervised more than 40 graduate students, postdoctoral students and visiting scholars. His research interests cover a wide spectrum in the areas of high performance and distributed systems. Several technical innovations and research results from his team have been adopted or are being developed in commercial products and open source systems with strong impacts to our daily computing operations, including the permutation memory interleaving technique in the Sun MicroSystems' UltraSPARC IIIi processor, the token thrashing protection mechanism and the Clock-Pro page replacement algorithm in Linux Kernels.
Zhang served as the program director of Advanced Computational Research at the National Science Foundation from 2001 to 2004. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1998-2002, and currently serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE Micro magazine.
Zhang received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1989 and his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Beijing Polytechnic University, China, in 1982.