Zhiling Lan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Office: Stuart Building 226D
Office Hours:
Phone: 312.567.5710
Fax: 312.567.5067
Email:
lan@iit.edu
Web:
http://www.cs.iit.edu/~zlan
Expertise
- Parallel and Distributed Systems
Education
- Ph.D., ECE, Northwestern University (2002)
Curriculum Vitae
Research & Major Accomplishments
Dr. Lan joined the Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology in August 2002. Her research are in the area of parallel and distributed systems, in particular, fault tolerance, dynamic load balancing, and performance analysis and modeling and Scientific Computing..
Current Projects
- FENCE: Fault awareness Enabled Computing Environment,
- Exploring Large-scale Adaptive Applications on Distributed Systems
Awards/Honors
- Recognized for outstanding teaching performance by IIT Dean of college of science and letters, 2006
- "Fate of the Universe Award", HPC Games of SC’1999, Portland, OR (1999)
Patents
Books
Selected Publications
Z. Lan and Y. Li, “Adaptive Fault Management of Parallel Applications for High Performance Computing”, to appear in IEEE Trans. on Computers.
Z. Lan, V. Taylor and Y. Li, “DistDLB: Improving the Efficiency of Cosmology Simulations in Distributed Computing Environments through Hierarchical Load Balancing”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 66(5), pp. 716-731, 2006.
Z. Lan and P. Deshikachar, “Performance Analysis of a Large-scale Cosmology Application on Three Cluster Systems”, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), 2006.
Z. Lan, V. Taylor, and G. Bryan, “Exploring Cosmology Applications on Distributed Environments”, Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 19(6), pp. 839-847, August, 2003.
Z. Lan, V. Taylor, and G. Bryan, “A novel dynamic load balancing scheme for parallel systems”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol . 62/12, pp. 1763 – 1781, 2002.