Graduated Ph.D.'s

• Yong Yan, May 1998, (Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California),
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Exploiting Multiprocessor Cache Locality at Run-Time.

• Zhao Zhang, June 2002, (Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University),
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Software and Hardware Methods for Memory Access Latency Reduction on ILP Processors.
  
  • Best Paper Award, International Conference on Microelectronics Systems Education, 2007.

• Li Xiao, July 2002, (Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University),
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Adaptive and Secured Resource Management in Distributed and Internet Systems.
  
  • USENIX Association Ph.D. Research Fellowship, 2001.

• Zhichun Zhu, July 2003, (Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago),
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Power Considerations for Memory-Related Microarchitecture Designs.

• Song Jiang, June 2004, (Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Wayne State University),
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Efficient Caching Algorithms for Memory Management in Computer Systems.
  
  • Faculty Early Career Development Award, U.S. National Science Foundation, 2008.
  • S. Park Graduate Research Award, College of William and Mary, 2003.

• Songqing Chen, July 2004, (Assistant Professor of Computer Science, George Mason University),
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Building Internet Caching Systems for Multimedia Content Delivery.
  
  • Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Award, George Mason University, 2009.
  • Young Investigator Award (YIP), U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2009.
  • Raising Star Faculty Research Award, George Mason University, 2008.
  • Faculty Early Career Development Award, U.S. National Sceince Foundation, 2007.

• Xin Chen, April 2005, (Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Live Search),
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Internet Techniques of Data Prefetching, Replication, and Consistency.

• Lei Guo, November 2007, (Senior Member of Technical Staff, Yahoo!),
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Insights into Access Patterns of Internet Media Systems: Measurements, Analysis, and System Design.
  
  • S. Park Graduate Research Award, College of William and Mary, 2005.

• Shansi Ren, March 2009, (Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft Live Search),
  Ph.D. Dissertation: Analysis, design, and implementation of topology-aware overlay systems on Internet.

• Feng Chen (Ph.D. Candidate)

• Xiaoning Ding (Ph.D. Candidate)

• Shuang Liang (Ph.D. Student, on-leave)

• Enhua Tan (Ph.D. Candidate)

Postdoctoral Researchers

• Rubao Lee

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