Dr. Zhenlin Wang Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science College of Computing Director Center for Scalable Architectures and Systems Institute of Computing and Cybersystems Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 49931 Office: Rekhi 322A Work phone: (906) 487-2187 Fax: (906) 487-2283 Email: zlwang AT mtu DOT edu

 

Research         Publications            Teaching         Students          Awards

Office hours: TF 11 – noon

Courses (Fall 2025)

Research Interests

• Datacenter resource management
• Memory system architecture and optimization
• Programming languages, compiler optimizations, and data locality
• High performance computing
• Parallel languages, multi-threaded programming
• Virtualization and cloud computing

 

Projects

• Resource prediction and management for datacenters
• Key-value store design and management
• Heterogenous memory management for VM
• GPU optimization
• Cache replacement modeling

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Past Projects

• Scale
• DaCapo
• TRIPS
• Impulse

Students

Shiwei Ding (PhD candidate, co-advised with Dr. Brian Yuan)

Yuguang Wang (PhD student, co-advised with Dr. Junqiao Qiu)

Junyao Yang (PhD candidate)

Liang Yan (PhD student, co-advised with Dr. Laura Brown)

 

Alumni

Yuchen Wang (PhD, 2024)

Daniel Byrne (PhD, 2024, co-advised with Dr. Nilufer Onder)

Robbie Watling (MS, 2023)

Jason Hiebel (PhD, 2019, co-advised with Dr. Laura Brown)

Wei Kuang (PhD, 2017, co-advised with Dr. Laura Brown)

Haitang Duan (MS, 2017)

Bo Yu (MS, 2016)

Liang Yan (MS, 2015)

Trevor Fisher (MS, 2013)

Wei Wang (PhD Candidate, co-advised with Dr. Steve Carr)

Weiming Zhao (PhD, 2011)

Justin Splepak (MS, 2011, co-advised with Dr. Steve Carr)

Dustin Larson (MS, 2011, co-advised with Dr. Steve Carr)

Tongfeng Wang (MS, 2011)

Steve Vormwald (MS, 2010, co-advised with Dr. Steve Carr)

Changpeng Fang (PhD, 2006, co-advised with Dr. Steve Carr)

Sandesh Kubhmar (MS, 2008)

Mingsong Bi (MS 2007)

Mark Malek (MS, 2005)

Da Gao (MS, 2005)

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Awards

 

	NSF SaTC2225424, 2022-2025 Hardware-assisted Self-repairing in Decentralized Cloud Storage against Malicious Attacks National Science Foundation Security and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program
	NSF Career 0643664, 2007-2012 Modeling Data Locality for Next Generation Systems National Science Foundation Computing Processes and Artifacts Program