Xiaodong Zhang (张晓东) Robert M. Critchfield Professor in Engineering Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A. Office phone: (614) 292-2770 Office fax: (614) 292-2911 E-mail: zhang at cse dot ohio-state dot edu URL: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~zhang

Xiaodong Zhang is the Robert M. Critchfield Professor in Engineering, and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University.

Since 1992, he has established and directed the High Performance Computing and Software Laboratory where he has supervised over 40 graduate students (both MS and Ph.D), post-docs, and visiting scholars. His research interests cover a wide spectrum in the areas of high performance and distributed systems. A common thread among his research projects focuses on fast data accesses and resource sharing with cost- and energy-efficient management at different levels of the memory and storage hierarchies in computer, distributed, and Internet systems. Several technical innovations and research results from his team have been adopted or being developed in commercial products and open source systems with direct impacts to our daily computing operations, including the permutation memory interleaving technique first in the Sun MicroSystems' UltraSPARC IIIi processor for various desktop and server products and then in the Sun's dual-core Gemini Processor, the token thrashing protection mechanism and the Clock-Pro page replacement algorithm for memory management in the NetBSD operating system, and in the Linux Kernel . This list of selected and representative papers reflects his long term research efforts.

Xiaodong Zhang was the Program Director of Advanced Computational Research at the National Science Foundation, 2001-2004. He is the associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and is also serving on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Micro, and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. He is an organizer and a lecturer of the Dragon Star Lecture Program offering advanced research classes of computer science and engineering in many Chinese universities for thousands of talented graduate students and young faculty every year.

Xiaodong Zhang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Beijing University of Technology.

Xiaodong Zhang completed his Master thesis of computer science in Colorado, under the direction of Ralph Slutz (1917-2005), who was a world-class scholar and a computer pioneer.