Dr. Yanyong Zhang
Assistant Professor,
Computer Engineering

Education

B.S. Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 1997
Ph.D. Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University, 2002

Research Interests

Computer Architecture
Operating Systems
Parallel Computing
Cluster Computer
Performance Evaluation
Sensor Networks

Awards and Recognitions

IBM Research Fellowship, 2001-2002 (27 recipients nationwide out of more than 250 applicants)
Best Graduate Research Assistant Award in the CSE Department at Penn State for Outstanding Research, 2001
Dean's Fellowship, College of Engineering, Penn State, 1997-2000

 

Recent Journal Articles

Y. Zhang, J. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, C. Liu, H. Franke. Decision-Support Workload Characteristics on a Clustered Database Server from the OS perspective. In proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), May 2003.

Y. Zhang, H. Franke, J. Moreira, A. Sivasubramaniam. An Integrated Approach to Parallel Scheduling Using Gang-Scheduling, Backfilling and Migration. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 14(3):236-247, March 2003.

M. Squillante, Y. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, N. Gautam, H. Franke, J. Moreira. Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Coscheduling in Parallel and Distributed Environments. Special Issue of Performance Evaluation Review, 30(1). Also as Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS 2002 Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sigmetrics'2002), pages 43-54, June 2002.

Y. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam, J. Moreira, H. Franke. Impact of Workload and System Parameters on Next Generation Cluster Scheduling Mechanisms, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 12(9):967-985, September 2001.

Y. Zhang, A. Sivasubramaniam. Scheduling Best-Effort and Real-Time Pipelined Applications on Time-Shared Clusters. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA'2001), pages 209-218, July 2001.