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.

Professional services

• Program Chair
  • 2009 The 4th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS'09)
  • 2007 The 4th International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI'07)
• Publication Chair
  • 2007 International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storages (NAS'07)
  • 2006 International Workshop on Networking, Architecture, and Storages (IWNAS'06)
• Workshop Chair
  • The 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-09)
• Program Committee Member
  • 2009 IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN'09)
  • 2009 The 6th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations, April 27-29, 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (Track on Middleware)
  • 2008 The 5th International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os (SNAPI'08)
  • 2008 The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'08)
  • 2008 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'08)
  • 2008 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC'08)
  • 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storages (NAS'08)
  • 2008 IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS'08)
  • 2008 The 3rd International Symposium on Trustworthiness, Reliability and services in Ubiquitous and Sensor neTworks (TRUST-08), Shanghai, China December 17-21, 2008 (in Conjunction with EUC 2008)
  • 2007 IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS'07)
  • 2007 Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference 2007 (APSCC), sponsored by IEEE CS Society (APSCC'07)
  • 2007 International Workshop on Semantic GRid Applications in Computing and Engineering (SGrid'07)
  • 2006 International Workshop on Semantic GRid Applications in Computing and Engineering (SGrid'06)
  • 2005 Workshop on Intelligent Storage Systems and Technology (ISST '05).
  • 2005 International Workshop on Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os 05, Saint Louis, Missouri, September 2005, in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques.
• Organizor
  • Parallel Computing Workshop at Jackson Lab
  • 2006 IEEE R1 Student Conference (UMaine won the Friend of IEEE award for organizing this event.)

Highlights:

• 2006 IEEE Region 1 Student Conference Program
• 2006 Parallel Computing Workshop
• Graduate Study @ EECE (pdf file)