Education

01/2008-Present

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
PhD in Computer Science

09/2002-06/2005

Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
M.S. in Computer Science

09/1998-07/2002

Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
B.S. in Computer Science

Experience

01/2008-Present

Illinois Institute of Technology
Research Assistant (01/2008~present)
Teaching Assistant (01/2010~present)

05/2008-Present

Argonne National Laboratory
Guest Graduate (08/2010~05/2011)
Research Aide (summer 2008,2009,2010,2011)

06/2005-01/2008

Lucent Technologies Inc.
Member of Technical Staff-1

Publications

  1. W. Tang, N. Desai, D. Buettner, and Z. Lan, ''Job Scheduling with Adjusted Runtime Estimates on Production Supercomputers,'' in submission to Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)
  2. W. Tang, N. Desai, V. Vishwanath, and Z. Lan, ''Multi-Domain Job Coscheduling on Leadership Computing Systems,'' in Journal of Supercomputing (J Supercomput), 2012.
  3. Z. Zhou, W. Tang, Z. Zheng, Z. Lan, and N. Desai, ''Evaluating Performance Impacts of Delayed Failure Repairing on Large-scale Systems,'' in Proc. of International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster'11), 2011. (5-page paper/poster)
  4. W. Tang, N. Desai, V. Vishwanath, D. Buettner, and Z. Lan, ''Job Coscheduling on Coupled High-End Computing Systems,'' in Proc. of International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPPW'11), 2011. (in P2S2 workshop)
  5. W. Tang, Z. Lan, N. Desai, D. Buettner, and Y. Yu, ''Reducing Fragmentation on Torus-Connected Supercomputers,'' in Proc. of IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'11), 2011.
  6. Z. Zheng, L. Yu, W. Tang, Z. Lan, R. Gupta, N. Desai, S. Coghlan, and D. Buettner, ''Co-Analysis of RAS Log and Job Log on Blue Gene/P,'' in Proc. of IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'11), 2011.
  7. W. Tang, Z. Lan, and N. Desai, ''Improving Job Scheduling on Production Supercomputers,'' in Proc. of IEEE IPDPS Workshops & Phd Forum (IPDPSW'11), 2011. (4-page paper/poster)
  8. W. Tang, Z. Lan, N. Desai, and D. Buettner, ''Automatic and Coordinated Job Recovery for High Performance Computing,'' in Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS'10) (in conjunction with SC'10), 2010.
  9. W. Tang, N. Desai, D. Buettner, and Z. Lan, ''Analyzing and Adjusting User Runtime Estimates to Improve Job Scheduling on the Blue Gene/P,'' in Proc. of IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'10), 2010. (Best Paper Award)
  10. W. Tang, Z. Lan, N. Desai, and D. Buettner, ''Fault-Aware, Utility-Based Job Scheduling on Blue Gene/P Systems,'' in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster'09), 2009.
  11. S. Li, Q. Chen, B. Cheng, and W. Tang, ''A Metadata Management Policy for HANDY Cluster File System,''  Journal of Computer Engineering and Science, 2006(11) (in Chinese)
  12. S. Li, W. Tang, K. Shi, B. Cheng, and T. Meng, ''Distributed Metadata Management for Parallel File Systems with High Availability,'' Journal of Applied Sciences, 2005(03) (in Chinese)
  13. L. Pang, T. Meng, K. Shi, B. Cheng, and W. Tang, ''Design and Implementation of a File System for Cluster Streaming Servers,'' Journal of Computer Engineering and Science, 2005(06) (in Chinese)

Presentations

  • Doctoral research showcase at SC'11, Seattle, WA, 2011.
  • Poster presentation at Cluster’11, Austin, TX, 2011.
  • Paper and poster presentation at IPDPS’11, Anchorage, AK, 2011.
  • Paper presentation at SC’10, New Orleans, LA, 2010.
  • Paper presentation at IPDPS’10, Atlanta, GA, 2010.
  • Paper presentation at Cluster’09, New Orleans, LA, 2009.

Services

  • Student Volunteer at ACM HPDC’10, Chicago, IL, 2010.
  • Student Volunteer at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC’09), Portland, OR, 2009.
  • Student Volunteer at IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC’08), Austin, TX, 2008.

Awards

  • Best Student Paper, CS Department of IIT, 2010
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE IPDPS'10, 2010
  • Starr Research Fellowship, IIT, 2009
  • Honorable Mention in COMAP Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2001
  • Honorable Mention in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Asia Regional, 2000