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Xiao Qin

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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Shelby Center for Engineering Technology, Suite 3101E

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering
Auburn University, AL 36849-5347

Office: 1-334-844-6327 

Fax:     1-334-844-6329

News:

We have multiple undergraduate research assistantships, please apply now!

[08/08]Double Congratulations to Mohammed Alghamdi! In addition to receiving the Ph.D. degree in Aug. 2008, Mohammed accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Albaha University, Saudi Arabia.

[08/08] NSF Cyberinfrastructure-TEAM (CI-TEAM) Award, 2008-2011. Our NSF CI-TEAM proposal was selected for funding (PI: John A. “Drew” Hamilton, Jr., co-PIs: Kai Chang, Xiao Qin, and Wei-Shinn Ku). This grant allows us to support the enhancement of an existing digital forensics curriculum and then eventually installing it within the Veterans Administration system nation-wide.

[08/08] Exploiting Redundancies to Enhance Schedulability in Fault-Tolerant and Real-Time Distributed Systems. W. Luo, X. Qin, F.-M. Yang, L.-P. Pang and A. A. Manzanares, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man & Cybernetics, Part A. Accepted.

[08/08] M. Nijim, A. Manzanares, and X. Qin, "An Adaptive Energy-Conserving Strategy for Parallel Disk Systems," Proc. the 12th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, Oct. 2008. [Abstract | PDF]

[07/08]Double Congratulations to Ziliang Zong! He successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on July 2, 2008. Two months before the defense, Ziliang accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. To read more about his dissertation research Click Here.

[07/08]Congratulations to Fangyang Shen! He successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in June 2008. In addition, Fangyang accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the Northern New Mexico College. 

[07/08]Congratulations to Wei Luo! He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in July 2008. He will join the China Ship Design and Development Center as a Research Scientist. Click Here for Wei's graduation photo.

[07/07] We welcome Shu Yin who joined the research group this summer as a doctoral student. Prior to joining us, he was a Master's student at the Wuhan University of Technology, China. Shu will be working on reliability modeling for energy efficient parallel disk systems. To read more about his research Click Here.

[06/08] Two new photos were added. click here

[05/08] M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, K. Bellam, X.-J. Ruan and X. Qin, "Security-Aware Cache Management for Cluster Storage Systems," Proc. the 17th Int'l Conf. Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008. [Abstract | PDF]

[05/08] T. Xie and X. Qin, "Security-Aware Resource Allocation for Real-Time Parallel Jobs on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Clusters," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 682-697, May 2008. [Abstract | PDF]

[04/08] Engineering at AU was ranked 42nd among public institutions and 73rd among public and private institutions in the rankings, which U.S. News released on March 28. Read more...

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 A Brief Biography:

Xiao Qin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004. Prior to joining Auburn University in 2007, he had been an assistant professor with New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) for three years. In 2007, he received an NSF CPA Award (No. CCF-0742187) and an NSF CSR Award (No. CNS-0757778). His research interests include parallel and distributed systems, real-time computing, storage systems, fault tolerance, and performance evaluation. His research is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Auburn University, and Intel Corporation. He had served as a subject area editor of IEEE Distributed System Online (2000-2001). He has been on the program committees of various international conferences, including IEEE Cluster, IEEE IPCCC, and ICPP.

Updated on 08/12/2008 

 

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