Office: Room 640, 500 UTA Blvd         

Phone: 817-272-3605 

Fax: 817-272-3784 

E-mail: hong.jiang@uta.edu 

Co-Director (with Hao Che): ACES Research Lab

Employment Prior to UTA

Current Research Interests

• Computer Systems Architecture, especially design and analysis of distributed storage and file systems, memory hierarchy in multi- and many-core systems, memory management, virtualization;
• Big Data, Cloud and Edge Computing, especially middleware design and development for big data and cloud computing in heterogeneous and data-intensive environments, virtualization techniques, systems support for big data analytics, dynamical load balancing by means of judicious, resource-aware jobs and tasks scheduling, and data consistency and integrity in cloud systems;

Current Research Projects

o   Request-SLO-Aware Orchestration for Large-scale Sensing Services over IoT-Edge-Cloud Hierarchy (NSF)

o   Online, Holistic Job Scheduling and Resource Provisioning Framework for Datacenter Architectures and Applications (NSF)

o   Multi-SLO Guaranteed per-Job Scheduling in Datacenters (NSF);

o   High-Performance and Low-Cost Distributed Graph-Processing Frameworks for Big Data Analytics; 

o   Data Reduction in Modern Storage and Cloud Environments

o   Systems Architecture for Green Datacenters; and 

o   Memory Management in VM Environment

Past Research Projects

o   Price-based, Quality-of-Service (QoS) Aware Transport Protocols for Datacenters (Alibaba)

o   Enforcing Xth Percentile Latency and Throughput SLOs under Consolidated Datacenter Resources (Futurewei)

o   Data Deduplication in Distributed Object Storage Systems Used for Cold Storage (NetApp); 

o   Semantic-Aware Namespace in Exascale File Systems (NSF); 

o   Turbo Button: A Sematically-Smart SSD-Based RAID System for Internet-Scale Applications (NSF CNS-1016609)

o   ProActive: A RAID Protection Activator for High Availability (NSF-IIS-0916859)

o   A New Semantic-Aware Metadata Organization for Improved File-System Performance and Functionality in High-End Computing (NSF-CCF-0937993)

o   Scalable and Adaptive Metadata Management for High-End Computing (NSF-CCF-0621526)

o   Automatic Pattern- and Object-Based Parallelization for Cluster and Grid Computing Environments

o   Detection-based Consistency Management for Internet-Scale and Duplication-Based Distributed Systems

o   Dynamic Load Balancing for I/O-Intensive Applications in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems (NSF-funded)

o   Highly Available Parallel File Systems for Clusters (NSF-funded)

o   High Performance Distributed Computing for Heterogeneous systems (NSF-funded)

o   I-MINDS: An Intelligent Multiagent Infrastructure for Distributed Systems in Education (NSF-funded)

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Current Graduate Students

Current Research Associates and Post-Docs

o   Zhijun Wang (Spring 2017 --)

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Graduated Students

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Past Post-Docs/Visiting Scholars

• Dan Feng, 2002-2003 (current position: Professor and Dean at Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China)
• Xinrong Zhou, 2003 (current position: Director of R&D at FRC, Huawei)
• Xueming Li, 2005-2006 (current position: Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Engineering, Chongqing University, China)
• Qiang Cao, 2008-2009 (current position: Professor at Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China)
• Yu Hua, Post-doc, 2010-2011 (current position: Associate Professor at Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China)
• Jie Yao, Post-doc, 2010-2012 (current position: Assistant Professor at Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China)
• Bo Mao, Post-doc, 2010-2013 (current position: Assistant Professor at Xiamen University, China)
• Suzhen Wu, Post-doc, 2011-2012 (current position: Associate Professor at Xiamen University, China)
• Yinjin Fu, exchange PhD student, 2010-2012 (current position: Assistant Professor, PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China)
• Wen Xia, Exchange PhD student, 2011-2012 (current position: Assistant Professor at Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China)
• Fang Liu, 2011-2012 (current position: Associate Professor at National University of Defense Technology, China)
• Lei Tian, Post-doc, 2010-2014 (current position: Senior Member of Technical Staff at Tintri)
• Zhan Shi, Post-doc, 2013-2014 (current position: Associate Professor at Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China)
• Hua Wang, Post-doc, 2013-2014 (current position: Associate Professor at Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China)
• Wei Tong, Post-doc, 2014-2015 (current position: Associate Professor at Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China)
• Yunxiang Wu, Post-doc (Co-supervising with Hao Che)
• Minh Nguyen, Post-doc (Co-supervising with Hao Che)
• Zhijie Huang, Post-doc (Co-supervising with Hao Che)

o   Suzhen Wu, Visiting Research Associate (Co-supervising with Hao Che)

o   Wenhui Zhang, Post-doc (Co-supervising with Song Jiang,)

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Graduate Advisors:

Ph.D.     ----Dr. Laxmi Bhuyan

M.A.Sc.  ----Dr. Kenneth C. Smith