Zhihui Du

 

 

Principal Senior Researcher

Department of Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology,

Newark , New Jersey 07102

Email: zhihuidu@gmail.com  zhihui.du@njit.edu

Google Scholar Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=66fXQKgAAAAJ&hl=en

ORCID: 0000-0002-8435-1611 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2359-1611

Scopus Author ID: 7402288638 https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7402288638

Publications

 

 

Research Fields and Interests:

Data Analytics and Data Science; Parallel and Energy Efficient Algorithms;

Performance Optimization based on GPUs, Cluster and Cloud computing

Working Experience

2022.9-Current: Principal Senior Researcher, Department of Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology

2020.1-2022.8: Research Scientist, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology

2001.8-2019: Associate Professor in Computer Sci & Tech, Tsinghua University

2013.9-2014.9: Visiting Scholar in College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

2008.1-2008.12: Visiting Scholar in College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

2000.6-2001.7:  Assistant Professor in Computer Sci & Tech, Tsinghua University

1998.9-2000.5:  PostDoc in Computer Sci & Tech, Tsinghua University

List of Honors and Awards

[1]     Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics 2016 because of the contribution to gravitational wave data processing.

[2]     "Large Scale GPU Accelerated PPMLR-MHD Simulations for Space Weather Forecast." Scale Challenge Award by IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing. In 2016 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), pp. 576-581.

[3]     “GPU-Assisted Hybrid Network Traffic Model”. Jason Liu, Yuan Liu, Zhihui Du, Ting Li. Best Paper Award of ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM PADS 2014)

[4]     “Modeling the Parallel Efficiency of Density Functional Theory based Jobs on Sunway TaihuLight”, Best Paper Award of the 22th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (IEEE CSE 2019). Yurui Wang, Zhihui Du, Jun Jiang, Baokun Liu, and Chongyu Wang.

[5]     “DeepSuper-21C Supercomputer System” (the 163rd supercomputer in Nov. 2003 TOP 500 list) . First Class ShenZhen Science & Technology Progress Award, 2004

[6]     “ZiQiang 2000 High-Performance Computer System SUHPCS” First Class Shanghai Science & Technology Progress Award, 2001

[7]     “THNPSC-1 Supercomputer System” Second Class Science & Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education, 2000

List of Research Projects

[1]     National Science Foundation. “EAGER:High Performance Algorithms for Interactive Data Science at Scale ”. 2021.3-2024.6. Grant No. 2109988. $ 2,123,142.00 . Senior investigator.

[2]     National Science Foundation. “Collaborative Research:PPoSS:Planning: Streamware - A Scalable Framework for Accelerating Streaming Data Science”. 2021.10-2022.9. Grant No. 2118458. $90,000. Senior investigator.

[3]     National Key Research and Development Program of China. “High Throughput Computing Algorithm and Software”.2017.7-2021.6. Grant No. 2017YFB0701501. 600000RMB. Co-PI of sub-project

[4]     National Key Research and Development Program of China. “Research and Development on Key Technology and System for Large Scale Relational Scientific Data”.2016.7-2019.6. Grant No.2016YFB1000602. 6430000RMB. PI

[5]     Ministry of Education Research Center for Online Research key Project. “Learning Behavior Modeling and Analyzing based on the Big Data from Massive Open Online Courses”. 2016.1-2017.12. Grant No. 2016ZD302. 200,000 RMB. PI.

[6]     National Nature Science Foundation of China Project. “Co-Optimization Model and Methods for Large Scale Parallel Applications on GPU Clusters”, 2015.1-2015.12, Grant No. 61440057, 190,000 RMB. PI

[7]     Collaboration Project. “Internet Image Database and Screening System”. 2014.12.1-2015.11.30. 380,000 RMB. PI

[8]     National Nature Science Foundation of China Project. “Energy Efficient Task Scheduling Model and Algorithm: Adapting GPU Clusters to Power Budget, 2013.1-2016.12, Grant No. 61272087, 840,000 RMB. PI

[9]     Beijing Natural Science Foundation Project “Energy Efficient Scheduling Algorithms for New Generation Supercomputer ”2012.1-2014.12, Grant No. 4122039, 110,000 RMB. PI

[10]   National Nature Science Foundation of China Project. “Design and Optimization of Parallel Sorting Algorithm based on GPU”, 2011.1-2013.12, Grant No. 61073008, 360,000 RMB. PI

[11]   Collaboration Project. “Simulation Resources Management and Billing System”. 2010.6-2010.12. 370,000RMB.PI

[12]   Ministry of Education of China Project. “Streaming Media Cluster System for National Excellent Courses Integration Project”, 2007.6-2010.6. Grant No. JPKC-5, 2,100,000 RMB. PI

[13]   Beijing Natural Science Foundation Project “Research on Supercomputer Hierarchical Task Scheduling Algorithm”2008.1-2010.12, Grant No.4082016, 110,000 RMB. PI

[14]   National Nature Science Foundation of China Project. “Nodes Clustering based Hierarchical Message Scheduling Model and Algorithm”, 2008.1-2008.12, Grant No. 60773148, 80,000 RMB. PI

[15]   National Nature Science Foundation of China Project. “HXMT Science Ground Segment Prototype”, 2007.1-2009.12, 2500,000 RMB. Grant No. 10778604. 2,200,000RMB. Member

[16]   Collaboration Project. “Development of Information Grid Management Mechanism and Scheduling Algorithm with QoS Support”. 2007.4-2007.12. 90,000RMB.PI

[17]   National Nature Science Foundation of China Project. “Contractor based Mechanism and Model to Support Grid Service QoS”, 2006.1-2008.12, Grant No. 60503039. 240,000 RMB.PI

[18]   National Fundamental Research 973 Program ‘Fundamental Research on Improving the Reliability of Large Electric Power Grid’ , Subproject ‘Research on the Distributed Computing Theory and Method of Large Electric Power Grid’ (Grant No. 2004CB217903，2004.9-2009.9), 1,570,000RMB. Member

[19]   European Commission (EC) Asia-Link Programme . “EA-Grid: Euro-Asia United Establishment of Double Degree Master Programme in Grid Computing”, 2005.12 -2006.12, 400,000euros. Member

[20]   National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China, “Research and Development of a Simulation Application Grid”. Grant No 2004AA104330,1,300,000RMB. Co-PI

[21]   Beijing Natural Sciences Foundation, “Research on Building Giganet/SAN Hardware and Software System”, Grant No.4042018. 120,000RMB. PI

[22]   Collaboration Project with HeBei University .”HDJK-32 High Performance Cluster System”. 2003.10-2004.7 1,000,000RMB. PI

[23]   IBM foundation . “EzGrid:Research on Automatic Computing Grid Key Technology”, 2002.9-2003.12, 230,000RMB Co-PI

[24]   National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China, Subproject “64bit High Performance Cluster Communication System” 2003.5－2003.12, 200,000RMB. PI

[25]   Domestic collaboration project. “High Performance Computing based Parallel Algorithm Design and Application” . 2003.10-2004.12，35,000RMB. PI

[26]   Tsinghua University Information School Foundation. “Parallel Simulated Annealing Algorithm Research”. 1999.10-2002.9，150,000RMB. Co-PI

[27]   Tsinghua University Basic Research Foundation “Grid Computing Model Research Based on Mini Grid System “.  2001.11-2003.10, 80,000RMB. PI

[28]   Tsinghua Key Researcher Supporting Program. “Research on Cluster Computing Technology”. 2000.7-2002.12，30,000RMB. PI

[29]   Domestic Collaboration project “Development of MPI (Message Passing Interface) Course Material”. 2001.7－2002.6,100000MB. PI

[30]   HuaWei Sci&Tech. Foundation. “SAN High Speed Interconnection Communication”.  2002.2-2002.10,80,000RMB. PI

[31]   Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation. “Compilation Technology based on Supernodes “. 1999.1-2000.8, 10,000RMB. PI

[32]   Collaboration project. “DeepSuper-21C Supercomputer System”. 2002-2004, 8,000,000RMB. Member

[33]   Tsinghua University 985 project. “Scalable High Performance Cluster System”. 2000.1-2002.12，8,000,000RMB. Member

[34]   Domestic Collaboration project. “Design of a Simulation Grid System”. 2002.8-2003.12，100,000RMB, Member

[35]   Tsinghua University Basic Research Foundation. “Quantitative Prediction and Analysis on Material based on Interdisciplinary High Performance Computing Platform”. 2000.11-2002.10, 300,000. Member

[36]   Ministry of Education Key Project “Pilot Project of Advanced Computational Infrastructure Between Beijing and Shanghai”. 2000.8-2001.6. 1,500,000RMB, Member

[37]   Shanghai Technology Committee project.  “ZiQian 2000 High Performance Supercomputer SUHPCS”. 1999.8-2000.9，3,000,000RMB. Member

[38]   Climbing B Project “Networked Parallel Supercomputer System THNPSC-1”. 1998.9-1999.4. 1,200,000. Member

[39]   Shanghai Science and Technology Committee project “ZiQiang 2000 extension”. 2000.12-2001.3. 600,000. Member

[40]   Shanghai Science and Technology Committee project. “Research and Implementation of Security Service and Management System of High Performance Platform on Network Environment”. 1999.8-2001.4. 400,000MB. Member

[41]   National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China. “HPF Compilation System”. 1996.8-1998.6，240,000RMB. Member

[42]   National Climbing Program B project. “Research on Parallel Compilation Technology and Its Infrastructure” 1995.8-1998.6, 240000RMB. Member

[43]   Collaboration project.  “Long Distance Telephone Management Geographic Information System of Shanxi Province”. 1993-1995. 50,000RMB. Member

[44]   Collaboration project. “Local Telephone Management System of Taiyuan City”. 1992-1994. 30,000RMB. Member

List of Services

Associate Editor

ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC)(2019-now)

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems(TPDS)(2014-2018)

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)(2011-now)

International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS)(2011-2018)

Program Vice Chair

IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) (2012)

Workshop Co-Chair

International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2014)

Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair

The Doctoral Symposium of the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UUC 2016)

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGRid 2015)

Keynote Speech

ISUM 2014 (International Supercomputing Conference in Mexico) Keynote: Building a Robot Cloud

HPGC 2012 (High-Performance Grid and Cloud Computing Workshop) Keynote: Building a Robot Cloud

Panel Member

NDM 2012 (International Workshop on Network-Aware Data Management) Panel Discussion: New Directions in Networking and Data Management

IPDPS 2012 (IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium) Panel Discussion: Will exascale computing really require new algorithms and programming models?

Technical Program Committee

IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing (HPSC 2015-2017)

BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench2019-2020)

International Conference on Big Scientific Data Management (BigSDM 2018)

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security (IDS 2016-2017)

Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computational Models (APDCM 2016)

International IEEE Symposium on Big Data Management and Analytics (BIDMA 2016-2019)

IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing  (CSCloud 2015-2017)

IEEE International Conference of Scalable and Smart Cloud (SSC 2016-2017)

International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data (TrustData 2016)

International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2016)

International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage  (SpaCCS 2016)

International Workshop on Resilience and/or Energy-aware techniques for High-Performance Computing  (RE-HPC 2016)

The IEEE International Conference on Smart Cloud (SmartCloud 2016-2017)

International Conference on Smart Computing and Communication (SmartCom 2016-2017)

International Symposium on Foundations and Applications of Big Data Analytics(FAB 2015)

International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data（CloudCom-Asia 2015）

IEEE International Symposium on Big Data Security on Cloud （BigDataSecurity 2015-2016,2018）

International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems （BigSystem 2014-2015）

International Workshop on High Performance Computing for Big Data（HPC4BD 2015-2016）

International Conference on Platform Technology and Service（PlatCon-15）

IEEE International Conference on Open Source Systems & Technologies (ICOSST-2015)

International Symposium on Computing and Networking(CANDAR 2014-2015)

International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2014,2016)

International Congress on Big Data (BigData 2014,2023)

International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC 2023) 

IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGRid 2010-2012,2014)

IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010-2011)

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2012-2013)

IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2013,2016,2018)

International Conference on Networking and Computing(ICNC2012)

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing(UCC2012,2016)

International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC-2012)

International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par2012-2013,2019)

International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data (CloudCom-Asia 2013,2016)

IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2011)

International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010, 2012,2017)

IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC2012)

SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing (PP12)

International Workshop on Network-aware Data Management (NDM 2011-2012,2015)

International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2 2011-2017)

International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Applications to Business, Engineering and Science (DCABES 2010,2012-2014,2017)

International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (Simutools 2010)

International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2008,2010)

Futuristic Trends in Network and Communication Technology (FTNCT 2018)

Workshop on big scientific data benchmarks, architecture, and systems (SDBA 2018)

IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2017)

Workshop on High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing (HPPAC 2017)

IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Big Data Computing (HPBDC 2017)

International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Large Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics (ParLearning 2017)

 

Reviewer

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)

IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)

IEEE’s Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)

IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD)

IETE Technical Review (TITR)

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)

Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)

Journal of Computational Science (JOCS)

Computers & Geosciences, Journal of Software (JOS)

Chinese Journal of Computers (CJC)

Chinese Journal of Electronics (CJE)

Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD)

Journal of Computational Science (JOCS)

The Journal of Supercomputing (SUPE)

Journal of Tsinghua University