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Dr. Cao Qiang, is a professor in Wuhan National Research Center of Optoelectronics of HUST, a professor in Data Storage Storage Laboratory of the School of Computer Science and Technology of HUST and a supervisor of doctoral candidates. He received his bachelor's degree in Applied Physics from Nanjing University in 1997 and then studied at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received his master's degree in Computer Application in 2000 and his Doctor's degree in Computer Architecture in 2003. From July 2008 to July 2009, he was a visiting scholar at Nebraska-Lincoln University in the United States. His main research fields include computer system and architecture, large-scale high-performance storage systems, novel storage principles and systems, green long-term storage, near data processing, optical storage, FPGA development, etc.

He is a distinguished Member of CCF, member of CCF TCARCH, standing committee member of CCF TCIST, senior member of IEEE, senior member of ACM. Undertook. He has presided or participated in more than 10 national research projects, including the national key R&D project “Multi-level Long-term Coding and Data Channel for Holographic Storage”; 7 projects supported by NSFC, namely “Research on an Efficient Heterogenous Consolidation Architecture and Mechanisms for Emerging Hybrid Storage”,  “Study on Architecture and Mechanism of Key-value Direct Storage”, “Research on Energy Consumption Optimization Method of Large-scale Data Storage System”, “Research on the Theory, Method and Realization Technology of Low Entropy Storage System (LESS)”, “Autonomous Storage Intermediary Agent Research”, “Research on the Theory and Realization Technology of Evolutionary Storage System (ESS)”, “Unified Storage (USN) Theory, Structure and Experiment”; 3 “863” projects as “Design and Implementation of Tiered Storage System” , “Design and Implementation of Continuous Data Protection” and  “Storage Virtualization and File System Research”; 3 “973” projects as “Research on the Construction Method of Efficient Storage System”; “Research on PB-Level Massive Network Storage System”, and “High Speed Channel Research in Holographic Storage”; and 1 CNGI project “Intelligent Storage System Based on IPv6”. He has published more than 100 papers in international conferences including FAST, ATC, Eurosys, SOCC, IPDPS, ICS, ICDCS, DSN, ICPP, DATE, etc., and academic journals, such as IEEE Trans. On Computer. IEEE Trans. On Parallel and Distributed Systems, ACM Trans. On Storage, JNCA, etc. He has applied for or authorized more than 60 patents, 30 software copyrights. He wrote and published monographs “Principle and Design of Massive Network Storage System” and “Design and Optimization of Erasure-correcting Code Storage Cluster System”, which won the second prize of Technology Invention of Hubei Province in 2008. In 2015, he was the first in the world to develop the PB-level large-capacity automatic optical disc library and won the gold medal in the 43rd International Invention Fair of Geneva . He was supported by the 2015 Nanjing 321 Leading Scientific and Technological Innovation Talent Program and the 2017 Jiangsu Mass Innovation Talent Program. He has cultivated 20 doctoral students and 40 master students.

Academic Degrees

September 2000 ~ November 2003

Huazhong University of Science and Technology Doctoral Degree in Computer Architecture - postgraduate (Doctoral)

September 1997 ~ June 2000

Huazhong University of Technology Master degree in Computer Application - postgraduate (master)

September1993 ~ June 1997

Nanjing University Bachelor's Degree in Applied Physics- Undergraduate (Bachelor)

Professional Experience

Courses Taught

Computer System and Architecture, Spring Semester /2003-2022 academic year

Awards and Honors

2015 won Gold Medal of the 43rdInternational Invention Fair of Geneva

2008 won the second prize of Technology Invention Award in Hubei Province

Selected Projects Funded

[1] Research on an Efficient Heterogenous Consolidation Architecture and Mechanisms for Emerging Hybrid Storage,62172175,

[2] Multi-level Long-acting Coding and Data Channel for Holographic Storage, 2018YFA0701804,2019-09-01-2024-08-31

[3] Study on Architecture and Mechanism of Key-value Direct Storage, 61872156

Selected Publications

[1] Shucheng Wang, Qiang Cao, Ziyi Lu, and Jie Yao, Mlog: Multi-log Write Buffer upon Ultra-fast SSD RAID, 51st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP2022), August 29th -Sept 1st, 202, virtual conference.

[2] Shucheng Wang, Qiang Cao, Ziyi Lu, Hong Jiang, Jie Yao, and Yuanyuan Dong, StRAID: Stripe-threaded Architecture for Parity-based RAIDs with Ultra-fast SSDs, USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '2022)

[3] Ziyi Lu, Qiang Cao, Hong Jiang, Shucheng Wang, and Yuanyuan Dong, p2KVS: a Portable 2-Dimensional Parallelizing Framework to Improve Scalability of Key-value Stores on SSDs, Eurosys2022.

[4] Shucheng Wang, Qiang Cao, Ziyi Lu, Hong Jiang and Yuanyuan Dong, PATS: Taming Bandwidth Contention between Persistent and Dynamic Memories, the 22nd Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference, (DATE2022), 14 - 23 March 2022 | ONLINE.

[5] Bin Xu, Jianzhong Huang, Xiao Qin, Qiang Cao, Yuanyuan Dong, and Weikang Kong. Archpipe: Fast and Flexible Pipelined Erasure-coded Archival Scheme for Heterogeneous Network. in: the 36th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’22). Virtually in Lyon, France, May 30-June 3, 2022.

[6] Yi-fan Zhang, Lei Sun, Qiang Cao. TLP-LDPC: Three-Level-Parallelism FPGA Architecture for Fast Prototyping of LDPC Decoder Using High-Level Synthesis. JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 36(5): 985-1001, 2022.

[7] Yang Yang, Qiang Cao, Jie Yao, Yuanyuan Dong, Puyuan Yang, SPMFS: A Scalable Persistent Memory File System on Optane Persistent Memory, 50th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP2021), August 9-12, 2021 Chicago (Argonne National Lab), Illinois, USA.

[8] Haoran Cai, Qiang Cao*, Hong Jiang, Qiang Wang, GreenHetero: Adaptive Power Allocation for Heterogeneous Green Datacenters, 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS2021), July 7 - July 10, 2021.

[9] Bin Xu, Jianzhong Huang*, Qiang Cao*, Xiao Qin, Ping Xie, F-Write: Fast RDMA-supported Writes in Erasure-coded In-memory Clusters, 36th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS2021), May 30 – June 3, 2022 Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon Lyon, France.

[10] Chen Zhang, Qiang Cao*, Jie Yao, VRefine: Refining Massive Surveillance Videos for Efficient Store and Fast Analyzing, 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021).

[11] Shucheng Wang, Ziyi Lu, and Qiang Cao*, Hong Jiang, Jie Yao, Yuanyuan Dong, Puyuan Yang and Changsheng Xie, Exploration and Exploitation for Buffer-Controlled HDD-Writes for SSD-HDD Hybrid Storage Server, ACM Transactions on Storage, ACM Transactions on Storage,Vol8(1), February 2022.

[12] Bin Zhou, Shenggang Wan, Qiang Cao, A-Cache: Asymmetric Buffer Cache for RAID-10 Systems under a Single-Disk Failure to Significantly Boost Availability, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TCAD.2021.3063999.

[13] Bin Xu, Jianzhong Huang, Qiang Cao, and Xiao Qin, Traffic-Aware Erasure-Coded Archival Schemes for In-Memory Stores, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume: 31, Issue: 12, 2020:On Page(s): 2938-2953.

[14] Feng Sheng, Qiang Cao, Hong Jiang and Jie Yao, GraBi: Communication-Efficient and Workload-Balanced Partitioning for Bipartite Graphs, in Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’20), 2020.

[15] Feng Dan, Shengcheng Wang, Qiang Cao, Shuyang Liu, Yuanyuan Dong and Puyuan Yang, SeRW: Adaptively Separating Read and Write upon SSDs of Hybrid Storage Server in Clouds, in Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’20), 2020.

[16] Yang Yang, Qiang Cao, Li Yang, Hong Jiang, Jie Yao, Batch-File Operations to Optimize Massive Files Accessing, ACM Transactions on Storage, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2020

[17] Feng Sheng, Qiang Cao, and Jie Yao，Exploiting Buffered Updates for Fast Streaming Graph Analysis， IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol: 70, Issue: 2, 2020, Page(s): 255-269

[18] Shucheng Wang, Ziyi Lu, and Qiang Cao*, Hong Jiang, Jie Yao, Yuanyuan Dong and Puyuan Yang, BCW Buffer-Controlled Writes to HDDs for SSD-HDD Hybrid Storage Server, the 18th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’20), February 25–27, 2020, Santa Clara, CA, USA

[19] Ziyi Lu, Fei Mei, Qiang Cao, Hong Jiang, Jingjun Li, A Novel Multi-stage Forest based Key-Value Store for Holistic Performance Improvement, IEEE Transactions On Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol 31, Issue:4, 2020, Pages(856-870)

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