2011
[08/11] Double Congratulations to Xiaojun Ruan, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation in Aug. 2011. Dr. Ruan joined the Department of Computer Science at West Chester University of Pennsylvania as a tenure-track faculty member. Please read more about his research here.
[08/11] Congratulations to Zhiyang Ding. After defended his Ph.D. dissertation in Aug. 2011, he joined the China's State Development & Investment Corporation as a Member of Technical Staff. Details on Dr. Ding's research can be found here.
2010
[10/10] Dr. Xie received an NSF CAREER award: Dr. Tao Xie - my former doctoral student - received an NSF CAREER award - to incorporate flash solid state disks into enterprise-class storage systems. read more
[08/10] UNL spotlight on Qin's research. UNL CSE graduate Xiao Qin received an NSF CAREER award in 2009 to investigate parallel disks that put substantial multicore computing power on disks. read more
[06/10] Dr. Ziliang Zong received one of the three 2010 distinguished dissertation awards from Auburn University. read more
[04/10] Congratulations to Adam Manzanares. Adam defended his dissertation, "Energy Efficient Prefetching – From Models to Implementation", in April 2010. Currently, Adam is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Click here to read more about his dissertation research.
[01/10] Our paper, "Communication-Aware Load Balancing for Parallel Applications on Clusters", was published in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 42- 52, Jan. 2010. The abstract and PDF file of the paper can be found here: Abstract | PDF.
2009
[10/09] NSF CAREER Award: Qin's NSF CAREER proposal was selected for funding. This five-year award will allow Qin and his research group to develop novel architectures for parallel disk systems where significant multicore processing power and memory are integrated into parallel disk drives.
[08/09] Auburn moves up, ranks among Top 50 public universities for 17th consecutive year in U.S. News survey.
[08/09] Double Congratulations to Kiranmai Bellam! She successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation in April, 2009. In addition, Kiranmai accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Prairie View A&M University. To read more about her dissertation research.
[06/09] NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Award, 2009-2012. Our NSF CCLI proposal was selected for funding (PI: Xiao Qin, co-PIs: Kai Chang, John A. “Drew” Hamilton, Jr., and Wei-Shinn Ku). The project creates a novel middleware-based approach to teaching undergraduate students how to develop large-scale secure software.
[02/09] Our paper titled "Static Security Optimization for Real Time Systems" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. (with M. Lin, L. Xu, L.T. Yang, N.-G. Zheng, Z.-H. Wu, and M.-K Qiu).
[01/09] NSF REU Site Award, 2009-2012. Our NSF REU-Site proposal was recommended for funding (PI: Saad Biaz, co-PIs: Wei-Shinn Ku and Xiao Qin). This NSF grant will make it possible to involve undergraduates to investigate, design, implement, and/or evaluate solutions to many challenging issues in the arena of pervasive and mobile computing.
2008
[11/08] ioBalanceSim: A Simulation Environment for I/O-Aware Dynamic Load Balancing (Version 0.1 released on 11/25/08)
[10/08] NSF Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS) Award, 2008-2010. Our NSF SFS 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 improve the skills of information assurance (IA) faculty through professional development and to develop a multi-disciplinary information assurance educational program.
[09/08] NSF Cyber Trust Award, 2008-2011. Our NSF CyberTrust proposal was selected for funding (PI: Wei-Shinn Ku, co-PIs: John A. “Drew” Hamilton, Jr., Xiao Qin, and Haixun Wang). This grant allows us to develop space encryption and space decryption mechanisms, to design privacy-protected query processing algorithms to answer spatial queries based on encrypted search space, and to develop a sophisticated SPEAR system architecture for supporting real-world applications.
[09/08] Auburn University College of Engineering Climbs in Rankings.
[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.
[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.
[06/08] Two new photos were added.
[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.
[05/08] A. Roth, A. Manzanares, K. Bellam, M. Nijim, and X. Qin, "Energy Conservation for Real-Time Disk Systems with I/O Burstiness," Proc. IEEE Int'l Workshop Next Generation Autonomous Storage and High Performance Computing , St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008. [Abstract | PDF]
[05/08] C. Liu, X. Qin, and S. Li, "PASS: Power-Aware Scheduling of Mixed Applications with Deadline Constraints on Clusters," Proc. the 17th Int'l Conf. Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Aug. 2008.
[05/08] A. Manzanares, D. Hamilton, and X. Qin, "The Relationship Between Software Architecture and Visual Programming Languages," Proc. Grand Challenges in Modeling & Simulation, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2008.
[04/08] K. Bellam, A. Manzanares, X.-J. Ruan, X. Qin, and Y.-M. Yang, "Improving Reliability and Energy Efficiency of Disk Systems via Utilization Control," Proc. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'08), July 2008.
[03/08] Tao Xie and Xiao Qin, “An Energy-Delay Tunable Task Allocation Strategy for Collaborative Applications in Networked Embedded Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 329-343, March 2008. [Abstract | PDF]
[02/08] X. Qin and T. Xie, "An Availability-Aware Task Scheduling Strategy for Heterogeneous Systems," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 188-199, Feb. 2008. [Abstract | PDF]
[01/08] Tao Xie and Xiao Qin, “ Improving Security for Periodic Tasks in Embedded Systems through Scheduling,” ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 6, no. 3, May 2007. [Abstract | PDF]
[01/08] X. Qin, "Performance Comparisons of Load Balancing Algorithms for I/O-Intensive Workloads on Clusters," Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 32-46, January 2008. [Abstract | PDF]
2007
[12/07] Auburn University has been ranked among the top 50 Public National Universities in the U.S. again (USNews and World Report, 2008).
[10/07] X. Qin et al., “Improving Security of Real-Time Wireless Networks Through Packet Scheduling,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Submitted Feb. 2007; revised Sept. 2007; accepted Oct. 2007.
[10/07] NSF Computer System Research (CSR) Award, 2007-2010. Our NSF Computer System Research/SMA proposal was selected for funding (PI: Xiao Qin). This allows us to build mathematical reliability models for fault-tolerant energy-aware parallel disk systems.
[09/07] T. Xie and X. Qin, "Performance Evaluation of a New Scheduling Algorithm for Distributed Systems with Security Heterogeneity," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 1067-1081, October 2007. [Abstract | PDF]
[08/07] We welcome Adam Manzanares who joined the research group this fall as a Ph.D. student. Prior to joining us, he was a M.S. student in the University of Colorado at Boulder. Adam will be working on energy efficient and highly reliable wireless storage systems. To read more about his research.
[07/07] Double Congratulations to Mais Nijim! After she defended her Ph.D. dissertation, Mais accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Southern Mississippi, which is a Ph.D. granting institution. To read more about her dissertation research.
[07/07] Congratulations to Kiranmai Bellam for winning a Nokia Student Travel Award from IEEE-AINA’07, July 2007.
[07/07] M. Nijim, Z.-L. Zong, and X. Qin, "StReD: A Quality of Security Framework for Storage Resources in Data Grids," Future Generation Computer Systems: The Int'l J. of Grid Computing, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 816-824, July 2007. [Abstract | PDF]
[06/07] Congratulations to Mohammed Alghamdi for wining a Student Award from the Ministry of Higher Education of Saudi Arabia and a Excellence in Education Award from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, July 2007.
[05/07] NSF Computing Processes & Artifacts (CPA) Award, 2007-2010. This award allows us to investigates novel energy conservation techniques to provide significant energy savings while achieving low-cost and high-performance for parallel disk systems.
[05/07] Congratulations to Ziliang Zong, Mohammed Alghamdi, and Kiranmai Bellam for winning three NMT 2007 Summer Graduate Student Travel Awards, May 2007.
[05/07] T. Xie and X. Qin, "Security-Driven Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications on Grids," Cluster Computing: The J. of Networks, Software Tools and Applications, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 145-153, June 2007. [Abstract | PDF]
[04/07] X. Qin and T. Xie, "An Availability-Aware Task Scheduling Strategy for Heterogeneous Systems," IEEE Transactions on Computers. Submitted March 2006; revised Aug. 2006 and Dec. 2006; accepted April 2007. [In press]
[04/07] Z.-L. Zong, X. Qin, M. Nijim, X.-J. Ruan, K. Bellam, and M. Alghamdi, "Energy-Efficient Scheduling for Parallel Applications Running on Heterogeneous Clusters," Proc. 36th Int'l Conf. Parallel Processing (ICPP), Sept. 2007. [Abstract | PDF]
[04/07] T. Xie and X. Qin, "Improving Security for Periodic Tasks in Embedded Systems through Scheduling," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 6, no. 1, 2007.
[04/07] Congratulation to Xiaojun Ruan for his first paper: "An Energy-Efficient Scheduling Algorithm Using Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Parallel Applications on Clusters," Pcoc. 16th IEEE Int'l Conf. Computer Comm. and Networks (ICCCN), Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 2007. [Abstract | PDF]
[04/07] K. Bellam, R. K. Vudata, X. Qin, Z.-L. Zong, M. Nijim, and X.-J. Ruan, "Interplay of Security and Reliability using Non-Uniform Checkpoints," Proc. 16th IEEE Int'l Conf. Computer Comm. and Networks (ICCCN), Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 2007. [Abstract | PDF]