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Baoquan Zhang received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science advised by Professor David H.C. Du. His research interests focus on Key-Value Stores, Graphing Systems, Persistent Memory Systems, Archivng Storage, and etc. After his graduation, he worked as a research scientist at Facebook.

Bingzhe Li completed his PostDoc Researches at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Computer Science. His advisor is Prof. David Du and Prof. David J. Lilja. His research interests include Storage System Design, Cloud Computing, Stochastic Computation and VLSI circuit design. After his post-doc researches, he works as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University.

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Zhichao Cao received his Ph.D. degree in computer science at the University of Minnesota in 2020. His advisor is Dr.David Hung-Chang Du. His research interests include Cloud storage, hierarchy storage integration, and information system modeling. After his graduation, he works as a research scientist at Facebook.

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Fenggang Wu received his Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota in 2020. His advisor is Dr. David Hung-Chang Du. His research interests include SMR Drives, Persistent Memory, Key-Value Store, etc. After his graduation, he works at a research scientist at Facebook.

Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2019, Prof. David Du, Twitter

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Resource Management in Hyperconverged Infrastructure 
Software-Defined Storage etc

Computer Science, Prof. David Du

Solid State Storage
Non-Volatile Memory 
Data Deduplication

Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2017, Prof. David Du, Dell EMC

Workload Characterization and Regeneration 
RAID 
Solid State Drives 
Computer Architecture

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2017, Prof. David Lilja, AMD

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Solid State Drives and Phase Change Memory.

Ph.D. in Computer Science, May 2017, Prof. David Du, LinkedIn

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Non-Volatile Memory
Data Deduplication
High-Performance Computing and File Systems

Computer Science and Engineering

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Xiongzi Ge received his PhD degree in computer science at the University of Minnesota in June 2017 and is working in Netapp. His advisor is Dr.David Hung Chang Du. His research interests include Cloud Storage and Cloud Computing, Data Deduplication, Cache Techniques, File Systems and Energy Efficient Computing.

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Xiang Cao received his PhD degree in May 2017 at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His advisor is Prof. David Hung-Chang Du. His research interests include Big Data, IoT, NoSQL databases, Key-Value Store, Networking, Cloud Computing, etc. He becomes a faculty at Grand Valley State University after his graduation.

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Guanlin Lu received his PhD degree in 2011. His advisor was Dr.David Hung Chang Du. He currently works at Data Domain/EMC Corporation.

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Biplob Debnath received his PhD degree in October 2010. He is currently working at NEC research labs, Princeton, New Jersey

Computer Science and Engineering

Dongchul Park received his PhD in July 2012. His advisor was Dr.David Hung Chang Du. He is currently working at Samsung Elecronics, California

Nohhyun Park received his PhD in August 2013. His advisor was Dr.David Lilja. He works at Cloud Physics in California.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Weijun Xiao received his Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in 2009. He worked at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis as a Computing Innovation Fellow hosted by Professor David Lilja. He is now a faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research interests include high performance storage, recoverable data storage, distributed systems and GPU computing.

Computer Science and Engineering

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Pradeep Ganesan received his MS in May 2013. His advisor was Dr. David Hung Chang Du. He works at Advanced Development, APG Chief Architecture Office, NetApp Inc at Wichita.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Peng Li received his Ph.D. degree in June 2013. His advisor was Prof. David Lilja. He is currently working at SSD System Architecture and Advanced Development, Seagate Technology, Shakopee, Minnesota.

Computer Science and Engineering

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Muthukumar Murugan received his PhD in June 2013. His advisor was Dr. David Du. He works for the Advanced Development team in HP Storage in Boulder, Colorado.

Computer Science and Engineering

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Weiping He is currently a PhD student at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His advisor is Dr. David Hung Chang Du. His research interests include high performance storage system, I/O workload, data-deduplication and high performance computing.

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Keerthi Palanivel is currently a MS student at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her advisor is Dr. David J. Lilja. Her research interests include IO Workload Characterization, Storage System Design, IO Access Hints, Cloud Computing and Data-deduplication.

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Rohan Pasalkar is currently a graduate student at University of Minnesota in the Department of Computer science and Engineering. His advisor is Dr. David Hung Chang Du. His research interests include solid state storage, data deduplication, distributed file systems.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Brandon Hoffmann is currently a M.S. student at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His advisor is Dr. David J. Lilja. His current research interests include Performance Modeling, Phase Change Memory and Software Defined Storage.

Computer Science and Engineering

Jeremy Kieser is currently a PhD student at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His advisor is Dr.David Hung Chang Du. His research interests include shingled write disc design, solid state drives, and network applications.

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Shravya Rukmannagari is currently a MS student in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota. Her advisor is Dr. David Hung Chang Du. Her research interests include Cloud Computing and cloud storage, Storage Systems design.

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Kewal Panchputre is currently a MS student in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota. His advisor is Dr. David Hung Chang Du. His research interests include Accelerating Hadoop and Software Defined Networks.

Computer Science and Engineering

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Anna is currently a MS student at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Her advisor is Dr.David Hung Chang Du. Her research interests include storage system design, cloud computing, digital archiving, file systems and energy efficient systems.

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Chung-I Lin is currently a Ph.D student at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His advisor is Dr. David Hung Chang Du. His research interests include Shingled Write Disk System, Archival System and Data De-duplication.

Computer Science and Engineering

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Sandeep Ummadi received his MS in May 2013. His advisor was Dr. David Hung Chang Du. He works at Advanced Development at NetApp Inc, Boulder, Colorado.