Yifeng Zhu name in Chinese:
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maine
5708 Barrows Hall, Room 271
Orono, ME, 04469-5708
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Yifeng Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the College of Engineering at University of Maine. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Nebraska in 2002 and 2005 respectively. Before that, he received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. His research interests are in computer architecture and systems, data storage systems, parallel/distributed computing, cluster computing, sensor networks and embedded systems.

His current research projects focus on cluster supercomputing, job scheduling, caching, middlewares, metadata management, networking, and energy-aware computing. He is associated with the High Performance Computing Lab (HPC). You can find nice pictures of our supercomputers here. We have 256-node dual Xserve G5 cluster (Bender) and 208-node dual P3 cluster (Blackbear).

He is the director of the research lab Archsys: Computer Architecture and Systems Lab. His research is currently supported by National Science Foundation (CCF #0621493, CCF #0754951, CNS #0723093, DRL #0737583, CNS #0619430), Maine Space Grant Consortium, Sun Microsystems, Altera, and Xilinx.


Funded Projects

  • SAM^2 Toolkit: Scalable and Adaptive Metadata Management for High-end Computing
  • SuperMe REU Site: Supercomputing Summer Undergraduate Program in Maine
  • IDEAS: Inquiry-based Dynamic Earth Applications of Supercomputing, Seeing the Big Picture with Information Technology

Teaching

  • ECE498 Cybercomputing (Fall 2008)
  • ECE473 Computer Architecture and Organization (Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005)
  • ECE574 Cluster Computing (Spring 2008, Spring 2006)
  • ECE471 Microprocessor Applications Engineering (Fall 2007, co-teach with Prof. Rick Eason)
  • ECE598 Advanced Computer Architecture (Spring 2007)

Awards

  • 2007 Award for Outstanding Research by Young Faculty, College of Engineering, University of Maine
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, 2007
  • Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award for commitment and dedication as a research assistant by Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2005
  • Outstanding Master Student Award by Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2003
  • Distinguished Graduate Award by Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 1998.

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