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Feng Chen

Intel Laboratories
2111 NE 25th Avenue
Hillsboro, OR 97124

E-mail: feng.a.chen AT intel DOT com
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About me

    I am a research scientist with Circuits and Systems Research, Intel Labs in Hillsboro, OR.

    I received my Ph.D. degree (2010) and M.S. degree (2009) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University. I received my M.E. degree (2003) and B.E. degree (2000) in Computer Science from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Before joining the Ohio State University, I was a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at the College of William and Mary.

    My advisor was Professor Xiaodong Zhang, and I was a member of HPCS Lab.

Research Interest

Operating systems
Storage systems (focusing on SSDs, NVM, Cloud Storage)
Big data management in cloud and large-scale distributed systems

Education

2006-2010 Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
08/2009 M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2003-2005 Graduate student in Computer Science, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2000-2003 M.E. in Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
1996-2000 B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Honors and Awards

2011 Best Paper Award , the 25th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'2011)
2010 Mike Liu CSE Graduate Research Award, The Ohio State University
2007 First Prize Award, CSE 2007 Research Poster Exhibition, The Ohio State University
2005 USENIX Conference Scholarship (FAST'05)
2002 ZyXEL Special Scholarship, Zhejiang University
1999 Outstanding Student Scholarship, Zhejiang University
1997 Outstanding Student Teaching and Practice Scholarship, Zhejiang University
1996 Outstanding Freshman Scholarship, Zhejiang University

Employment History

2010-present Research Scientist, Circuits and Systems Research, Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR
2006-2010 Research Associate, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
06-09/2008 Graduate Intern Technical, Intel Labs, Hillsboro, OR
2004-2005 Research Assistant, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2003-2004 Teaching Assistant, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
1999-2003 Research Assistant, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Research Papers (Google Scholar Citations)

Tian Luo, Rubao Lee, Michael P. Mesnier, Feng Chen, and Xiaodong Zhang, "hStorage-DB: Heterogeneity-aware Data Management to Exploit the Full Capability of Hybrid Storage Systems", Proceedings of the 38th ACM International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB'12), Istanbul, Turkey, August 27-31, 2012.

Michael P. Mesnier, Jason Akers, Feng Chen, and Tian Luo, "Differentiated Storage Services", Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles (SOSP'11), Cascais, Portugal, October 23-26, 2011.

Feng Chen, David Koufaty, and Xiaodong Zhang, "Hystor: Making the Best Use of Solid State Drives in High Performance Storage Systems", Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'11), Tucson, Arizona, May 31-June 4, 2011. Best Paper Award.

Feng Chen, Tian Luo, and Xiaodong Zhang, "CAFTL: A Content-Aware Flash Translation Layer Enhancing the Lifespan of Flash Memory based Solid State Drives", Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'11), San Jose, CA, February 15-17, 2011.

Feng Chen, Rubao Lee, and Xiaodong Zhang, "Essential Roles of Exploiting Internal Parallelism of Flash Memory based Solid State Drives in High-Speed Data Processing", Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA'11), San Antonio, Texas, February 12-16, 2011.

Feng Chen and Xiaodong Zhang, "PS-BC: Power-saving Considerations in Design of Buffer Caches Serving Heterogeneous Storage Devices", Proceedings of 2010 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'10), Austin, Texas, August 18-20, 2010.

Rubao Lee, Xiaoning Ding, Feng Chen, Qingda Lu, and Xiaodong Zhang, "MCC-DB: Minimizing Cache Conflicts in Multi-core Processors for Databases", Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'09), Lyon, France, August 24-28, 2009.

Feng Chen, David Koufaty, and Xiaodong Zhang, "Understanding Intrinsic Characteristics and System Implications of Flash Memory based Solid State Drives", Proceedings of 2009 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS/Performance'09), Seattle, WA, June 15-19, 2009.

Feng Chen and Xiaodong Zhang, "Caching for Bursts (C-Burst): Let Hard Disks Sleep Well and Work Energetically", Proceedings of 2008 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'08), Bangalore, India, August 11-13, 2008.

Feng Chen, Song Jiang, Weisong Shi, and Weikuan Yu, "FlexFetch: A History-Aware Scheme for I/O Energy Saving in Mobile Computing", Proceedings of 2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'07), Xi'an, China, September 10-14, 2007.

Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, and Feng Chen, "A Buffer Cache Management Scheme Exploiting Both Temporal and Spatial Locality", ACM Transactions on Storage, 3(2): June 2007.

Xiaoning Ding, Song Jiang, Feng Chen, Kei Davis, and Xiaodong Zhang, "DiskSeen: Exploiting Disk Layout and Access History to Enhance I/O Prefetch", Proceedings of 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'07), Santa Clara, CA, June 17-22, 2007.

Feng Chen, Song Jiang, and Xiaodong Zhang, "SmartSaver: Turning Flash Drive into a Disk Energy Saver for Mobile Computers", Proceedings of 2006 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'06), Tegernsee, Germany, October 4-6, 2006.

Song Jiang, Xiaoning Ding, Feng Chen, Enhua Tan, and Xiaodong Zhang, "DULO: An Effective Buffer Cache Management Scheme to Exploit Both Temporal and Spatial Localities", Proceedings of the 4th USENIX Conference on Files and Storage Technologies (FAST'05), San Francisco, CA, December 14-16, 2005, pp.101-114.

Song Jiang, Feng Chen, and Xiaodong Zhang, "CLOCK-Pro: An Effective Improvement of the CLOCK Replacement", Proceedings of 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX'05), Anaheim, CA, April 10-15, 2005, pp.323-336.

Book Chapter

Feng Chen, Xiaoning Ding, and Song Jiang, "Exploiting Disk Layout and Block Access History for I/O Prefetch", The Handbook of Research on Advanced Operating Systems and Kernel Applications: Techniques and Technologies, IGI Global, ISBN 978-1-60566-850-5, Sept. 2009.

Patents

Feng Chen and Michael P. Mesnier, "A Protection Mechanism for Non-volatile Memory", U.S. Patent app. filed in 2011.

Michael P. Mesnier, Tian Luo, and Feng Chen, "A Classification-based QoS Framework for Database I/O", U.S. Patent app. filed in Jan. 2011.

Teaching Experiences

2004 Teaching Assistant of "Algorithms" at the College of William and Mary
2003 Teaching Assistant of "Programing Language Principles","Data Structures" at the College of William and Mary

Professional Membership and Activities

2013 Member of Program Committee for the IEEE RTCSA'2013 conference
2012 Invited researcher to the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search
2009-2013 Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
2007,2009 Invited graduate research presenter for the CSE External Advisory Board
2007-2009 Conference webmaster of ICDCS'08, WWW'08, ICDCS'09
2005 HP Sponsored student for USENIX FAST'05 conference

Peer Review and Referee

Conferences

PPoPP'12, ICS'12, NVMW'12, ICDCS'12, ICC'12 NGNI, SC'11, ICC'11 NGNI, IPDPS'11, WWW'10, SC'10, Cluster'10, ISCC'10, INFOCOMM'09, SC'09, ICDCS'09, SIGMETRICS'08, SC'08, INFOCOM'07, ICDCS'07, ICPP'06, ICPADS'06, PLDI'05, ICDCS'05, MSP'05

Journals

ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), Journal of Low Power Electronics (JOLPE), Journal of System and Software (JSS), Journal of System Architecture (JSA), Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Journal of Information Science and Engineering (JISE), Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Journal (ETRI), IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (MM), IEEE Transactions on Parallel & Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD)

Research Guide

Useful Links

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