People
It's my honor to work with a group of stellar people. Yes, the honor is
mine. :)
Graduate Students
- Kang, Qihan, PhD 2024 - now (Graduated from CAS)
- Cai, Jiazhen, PhD 2024 - now (Graduated from CMUT)
- Ren, Yuanming, PhD 2023 - now (Graduated from TJU)
- Liu, Qingxiu, PhD 2023 - now (Graduated from CAS)
- Puyang, Huancheng, PhD 2022 - now (Graduated from HKUST)
- Ren, Yanjing, PhD 2022 - now (Graduated from UESTC)
- Zhao, Jia, PhD 2022 - now (Graduated from CUHK)
- Sheng, Siyuan, PhD 2021 - now (Graduated from CAS)
- Cheng, Keyun, PhD 2020 - now (Graduated from CHUK)
Post-doc
- Chan, Hoi Wan (Helen), Sep 2019
- now (Graduated from CUHK)
Alumni
Graduated Students
- Li, Jinhong, PhD 2024
- Thesis: "On the Workload Characterization and Read-Modify-Write
Optimization for SSD-Based Cloud Data Centers."
- First employment: Senior Software Engineer, Tencent.
- Tang, Kaicheng, MPhil 2022
- Thesis: "Balancing Repair Bandwidth and Sub-packetization in
Erasure-Coded Storage via Elastic Transformation."
- First employment: Alibaba Group.
- Wang, Qiuping, PhD 2022
- Thesis: "Enabling High Performance in Large-Scale Block Storage
Systems through New Caching and Garbage Collection Algorithms."
- First employment: Software engineer, Alibaba Group.
- Yang, Zuoru, PhD 2022
- Thesis: "Enhancing Secure Deduplication with Tunability and Shielded
Execution for Outsourced Storage."
- First employment: Senior research engineer, Huawei Technologies.
- Ma, Pengcheng, MPhil 2022
- Thesis: "A Performance Evaluation Study of Triple-Fault-Tolerant
Erasure Codes."
- Cheng, Zhinan, PhD 2022
- Thesis: "Fault-tolerant Designs for Distributed Stream Processing."
- First employment: Senior Software Engineer, Tencent.
- Han, Shujie, PhD 2021
- Thesis: "Characterization and Prediction of Disk Drive Failures at
Scale."
- First employment: Boya Postdoc Fellow, Peking University.
- Wong, Tsz Fung (Ivan), MPhil 2021
- Thesis: "Enabling Heterogeneity-Aware Raft Consensus for Distributed
Key-Value Storage."
- First employment: Software Analyst, Ahsay Backup, Hong Kong.
- Tang, Lu, PhD 2020
- Thesis: "Invertible Sketches for Network Measurement at Scale."
- First employment: Postdoc, CUHK.
- Next (from March 2021): Assistant Professor, Xiamen University.
- Li, Xiaolu, PhD 2020
- Thesis: "Enabling Optimal Repair and Unified Management of Erasure
Coding in Distributed Storage Systems."
- First employment: Postdoc, CUHK
- Next (from February 2022): Lecturer, Huazhong University of Science
and Technology.
- Zhang, Mi, PhD 2019
- Thesis: "On the Reliability Analysis and Robust Straggler Tolerance of
Data-Center Storage with Erasure Coding."
- First employment: Postdoc, CUHK.
- Next (from September 2021): Assistant Researcher, Institute of Computing
Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Chan, Hoi Wan (Helen), PhD 2018
- Thesis: "Log-structured Flash-based Storage with Endurance,
Reliability, and Performance Guarantees."
- First employment: R&D engineer, Unissoft Inc., Hong Kong.
- Current (from September 2019): Postdoc, CUHK.
- Qin, Chuan, PhD 2016
- Thesis: "Unifying Security and Deduplication in Cloud Storage."
- First employment: Researcher, Rakuten Institute of Technology, Tokyo,
Japan.
- Yiu, Man Tung (Matt), MPhil 2016
- Thesis: "Erasure Coding in In-Memory Key-Value Storage."
- First employment: Stepcase, Hong Kong. (Stepcase is the company that
built Lifehack)
- Li, Runhui, PhD 2015
- Thesis: "Enabling Efficient and Dependable Clustered File Systems
through New Erasure Coding Techniques."
- First employment: Postdoc at CUHK.
- Current (from 2018): Storage expert, Sangfor Technologies, China.
- Huang, Qun, PhD 2015
- Thesis: "Efficient Algorithms and Systems for High-Speed Network
Traffic Analytics"
- First employment: Researcher, Future Network Theory Lab, Huawei
Technologies, Hong Kong.
- Current (from June 2020): Assistant Professor, Peking University,
China.
- Xu, Min, MPhil 2015
- Thesis: "Even Data Placement for Load Balance in Reliable Distributed
Deduplication Storage."
- First employment: PhD student in Computer Science at University of
Chicago.
- Chan, Chun Wing (Jeremy), MPhil 2014
- Thesis: "Enabling High-Performance Erasure-Coded Storage Systems via
Workload-Aware Designs."
- First employment: Analyst, Barclays Investment Bank, Hong Kong.
- Ding, Qian, MPhil 2014
- Thesis: "TWEEN: Toward Write Efficiency and Endurance in SSD RAID
using Non-volatile Cache."
- First employment: Software Engineer, Google, Mountain View, US.
- Li, Yan Kit (Wilson), MPhil 2014
- Thesis: "Performance and Security of Deduplication Storage Systems"
- First employment: Research assistant at CUHK.
- Next (from March 2015): Researcher, Rakuten Institute of Technology,
Tokyo, Japan.
- Lin, Jian, MPhil 2013
- Thesis: "Augmenting Cloud File Systems with Erasure Coding: A
Practical Perspective."
- First employment: Epic, Wisconsin, US.
- Tang, Chung Pan, MPhil 2013
- Thesis: "A Tunable Version Control System for Virtual Machines in an
Open-Source Cloud."
- First employment: Harmonic Inc., Hong Kong.
- Chen, Chuk Hin (Henry), MPhil 2012
- Thesis: "Practical Data Integrity Protection in Network-coded Cloud
Storage."
- First employment: Research assistant at CUHK.
- Next (from September 2013): Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UT
Austin.
- Ng, Chun Ho, MPhil 2012
- Thesis: "Live Deduplication Storage of Virtual Machine Images in an
Open-Source Cloud."
- First employment: Research assistant at CUHK.
- Next (from November 2013): Epic, Wisconsin, US.
- Ma, Mingcao, MPhil 2012
- Thesis: "Kernel-Space Inline Deduplication File Systems for Virtual
Machine Image Storage."
- First employment: NetDimensions, Hong Kong.
- Rahumed, Arthur, MPhil 2012
- Thesis: "Data Security and Reliability in Cloud Backup Systems with
Deduplication."
- First employment: Harmonic Inc., Hong Kong.
- Choi, Fu Wing (Harry), MPhil 2011
- Thesis: "An Extensible Design of a Load-Aware Virtual Router Monitor
in User Space."
- First employment: Harmonic Inc., Hong Kong.
- Fung, Siu Yuen (Ben), MPhil 2011
- Thesis: "DeRef: A Privacy-Preserving Defense Mechanism Against Request
Forgery Attacks."
- First employment: Management Trainee at Standard Chartered Bank, Hong
Kong.
- Tang, Yang, MPhil 2011
- Thesis: "FADE: Secure Overlay Cloud Storage with Access Control and
File Assured Deletion."
- First employment: Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Columbia
University.
Post-doc Alumni
- Wu, Si, Postdoc, January 2019 - July 2020
- First employment: Associate Researcher, University of Science and
Technology of China (USTC), China
- Shen, Zhirong, Postdoc, September 2017 - August 2019
- First employment: Associate Professor, Xiamen University, China
- Li, Jingwei, Postdoc, January 2015 - February 2016
- First employment: Assistant Professor, University of Electronic Science
and Technology of China (UESTC), China
- Li, Mingqiang, Postdoc, March 2013 - February 2015
- First employment: Advisory Researcher, Lenovo Group Limited
- Hu, Yuchong, Postdoc, December 2013 - January 2015
- First employment: Associate professor, Huazhong University of Science
and Technology, China
- Li, Yongkun, Postdoc (affiliated with Institute of Network Coding),
September 2012 - December 2013
- First employment: Associate researcher, University of Science and
Technology of China