CS Ph.D. Students Ziming Zheng and Wei Tang Receive Awards
IIT Today February 02, 2009

Two CS Ph.D. students who work with Assistant Professor Zhiling Lan received honors in December. Ziming Zheng won the Cray Log Analysis contest held during the USENIX (Advanced Computing Technical Association) Workshop on the Analysis of System Logs (WASL), December 8 - 10 in San Diego, CA. WASL was co-located with the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation. Zheng's research focuses on discovering and forecasting incipient faults in large-scale systems, as well as fast failure recovery.



Also in December, Wei Tang was awarded a $15,000 Starr Research Fellowship for 2009 from IIT Graduate College. The fellowship allows students to conduct research, develop their skills, and build a portfolio that will demonstrate their capabilities at a national level. Wei's interests are fault tolerance in high-performance computing, resource management in large-scale systems, and related areas.



Both students are members of IIT's Scalable Computing Laboratory, headed by Professor Xian-He Sun and Lan. The SCL conducts research in high-performance computing and communication, especially in the area of parallel and cooperated network processing, including high- performance computing, grid computing, and the emerging area of pervasive computing.