People
Director
 | Tao Xie received the PhD degree in computer science from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 2006. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the San Diego State University. His research interests are storage systems, high performance computing, cluster and Grid computing, parallel and distributed systems. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2009 and the IPDPS Best Paper Award in 2013. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM. Read More>> |
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Ph.D Students
 | Wenyu Peng received the BE degree in Software Engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2019 and the MS in Computer Science from San Diego State University in 2021. He is currently a PhD student in the joint Ph.D. program in Engineering between San Diego State University and University of California, San Diego (UCSD). His research interests include non-volatile memories, cloud storage, and machine learning. |
 | Xiaojia Song received the BE degree in Electrical Engineering from North University of China in 2008, and he received the MS in Electrical Engineering from Tianjin University in 2010. He graduated from the joint PhD program in Computational Science between San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University in May 2019. His research interests include storage systems, non-volatile memories, and FPGA-based reconfigurable computing. The title of his dissertation is "Accelerating Data Center Applications through Energy-Efficient Reconfigurable Computing: from Near-Data Processing to Data-Access Reduction". He joined AMD right after his graduation |
 | Wen Pan received the BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Hefei University of Technology, China, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He graduated from the joint PhD program in Computational Science between San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University in May 2019. His research interests include storage systems, operating system, file systems, and NVM technologies. The title of his dissertation is "Data Management on Non-volatile Memory: from Mobile Applications to Large-scale Databases". He joined Western Digital right after his graduation. |
 | Deng Zhou received the BE degree in Software Engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2009, and he received the MS in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China in 2012. He graduated from the joint PhD Program in Computational Science between San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University in December 2016. The title of his dissertation is "I/O Stack Optimization for Different Levels of Non-Volatile Memory Based Storage Systems". He joined NetApp right after his graduation. |
 | Wei Wang received the BS and MS degrees in Electronics Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He graduated from the joint PhD program in Computational Science between San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University in May 2015. His research interests include storage systems, operating system, parallel and distributed systems, real-time embedded systems, and information security. He received the IPDPS 2013 Best Paper Award. The title of his dissertation is "Boosting Performance and Endurance of Flash-Based Storage Systems: From Embedded Systems to Enterprise Servers". He joined Western Digital right after his graduation. He is currently a manager of firmware engineering at Micron Technology. |
Master Thesis Students
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Master students worked in the lab
 Shane Wechsler |  Michael MacFadden |  Richard Shelby |  Madhavi Mutukulloju |  Shashank Tomar |
 Krunal Desai (Qualcomm) |  Vipul Satav |  Xi Huang | Renata Widjaja | Rajani B. Thota |
Paulina Pual | Abraham Lee | |||
Undergraduate students worked in the lab
 Seung Kyem Kim |  Aria Kafie |  Stevan Kassis |  Isabelle Bernal |  Eric Chappel |
 Matt Zhou |  Jonathan Cademy-Pfeffer |  Yusufu Feierdawusi |  Andre Blanco |  Shekib Aziz |
 Tyler Moskovitz | Dave Maung | Kyle Sablan | Michael Haddad |