Personal Profile

Dr. Feng Dan, Professor, Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholars Program, and obtainer of Distinguished Young Scholars of NSFC (National Science Foundation of China). She is a professor and the dean of School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). She is also the director of Division of Data Storage System, Wuhan National Lab for Optoelectronics, and the director of Key Laboratory of Information Storage System, Ministry of Education of China.

Academic Degrees

1994.9 ~ 1997.12

Huazhong University of Science and Technology -  Doctor

Professional Experience

2015.4-Now

Huazhong University of Science and Technology - School of Computer Science and Technology- Dean - Professor

2001.6-Now

Huazhong University of Science and Technology - School of Computer Science and Technology - Professor

1998.6-2001.6

Huazhong University of Science and Technology - School of Computer Science and Technology - Associate Professor

1997.12-1998.6

Huazhong University of Science and Technology - School of Computer Science and Technology - Lecturer

Courses Taught

[1] Computer Architecture

[2] Information Storage Theory and Technology

[3] Scientific Thinking and Training Methods

[4] Computer System and Data Structure

Awards and Honors

[1] The Second grade of National Invention Award of Science and Technology, 2014

[2] National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 2010

[3] Changjiang Scholars Program for Distinguished Professor, Ministry of Education, 2008

[4] The Second grade of National Invention Award of Science and Technology, 2001

[5] The Fourth grade of National Natural Science Award, 1999.

Selected Projects Funded

[1] Jan.2019-Now: Big data Storage System and Technology, Funded by National Science Foundation of China

[2] Jan.2019-Now: Mechanism and Architecture for Memristor-based Combination of Computing and Memory, Funded by National Science Foundation of China

[3] Jan.2018- Nov.2021: Architecture and Key Technologies of Near-data-processing-based Non-Volatile Memory Controller, Funded by National Science Foundation of China

[4] Jan.2015-Nov.2018: New Storage Architecture for In-Memory Computing, Funded by the National High Technology Research 863 Program of China  

[5] Jan. 2011 – 2015: Basic Research on Data Storage System Theory and Technology for Complex Application Environment, Funded by the National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China

[6] Jan. 2009 – 2011: Research on Mass Storage System and Technology, Funded by the National High Technology Research 863 Program of China

[7] Sept. 2004 – 2009: Research on the Organization and Key Technologies of Storage System on the Next Generation Internet, Funded by the National Grand Fundamental Research 973 Program of China

Selected Publications

[1] Xueliang Wei, Dan Feng, Wei Tong, Jingning Liu, Liuqing Ye. MorLog: Morphable Hardware Logging for Atomic Persistence in Non-Volatile Main Memory, In Proceedings of 2020 ACM/IEEE 47th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2020), May 29 – June 3, 2020, pages:610-623

[2] Jie Xu, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Fangting Huang, Wen Zhou, Wei Tong and Jingning Liu. An Efficient Spare-Line Replacement Scheme to Enhance NVM Security. Proceedings of the 56th Design Automation Conference 2019 (DAC 19). Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 2-6, 2019, Pages: 91:1-91:6,

[3] Jie Xu, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Wei Tong, Jingning Liu, Chunyan Li, Gaoxiang Xu and Yiran Chen. Adaptive Granularity Encoding for Energy-efficient Non-Volatile Main Memory. Proceedings of the 56th Design Automation Conference 2019 (DAC 19). Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 2-6, 2019, Pages: 114:1-114:6

[4] Wen Xia, Yukun Zhou, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Yuchong Hu, Yucheng Zhang, Qing Liu, FastCDC: a Fast and Efficient Content-Defined Chunking Approach for Data Deduplication, Proceedings of the 2016 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC’16), June 22–24, 2016, Denver, CO, USA. pages:101-114

[5] Min Fu, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Xubin He, Zuoning Chen, Wen Xia, Yucheng Zhang, and Yujuan Tan, Design Tradeoffs for Data Deduplication in Backup Workloads, Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'15), February 16-19, 2015, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

[6] Yang Hu, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Lei Tian, Hao Luo and Shuping Zhang. Performance Impact and Interplay of SSD Parallelism through Advanced Commands, Allocation Strategy and Data Granularity. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS’11), Tucson, Arizona. May 31-June 4, 2011. Pages:96-107.

[7] Chengning Wang, Dan Feng, Wei Tong, Yu Hua, Jingning Liu, Bing Wu, Wei Zhao, Linghao Song, Yang Zhang, Jie Xu, Xueliang Wei, Yiran Chen. Improving Multilevel Writes on Vertical 3-D Cross-Point Resistive Memory. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. Vol. 40, Issue: 4, April 2021, pages: 762-775

[8] Chengning Wang, Dan Feng, Wei Tong, Jingning Liu, Bing Wu, Wei Zhao, Yang Zhang, and Yiran Chen. Improving Write Performance on Cross-Point RRAM Arrays by Leveraging Multidimensional Non-Uniformity of Cell Effective Voltage. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC). Vol.70, Issue: 4, April 1 2021, Pages: 566-580

[9] Xiaoyi Zhang, Dan Feng, Yu Hua, Jianxi Chen. Optimizing File Systems with a Write-Efficient Journaling Scheme on Non-Volatile Memory. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 68, No. 3, March 2019. pages：402-413

[10] Qing Liu, Dan Feng, Yuchong Hu, Zhan Shi, Min Fu. High-Performance General Functional Regenerating Codes with Near-Optimal Repair Bandwidth. ACM Transactions on Storage (ToS), Volume 13 Issue 2, Article No. 15, June 10, 2017, pages:1-28 

Professional Affiliations

[1] General Co-Chair, the 13th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE 2022) 

[2] General Co-Chair, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS-2019)

[3] Program committee member of FAST 2022

[4] Program committee member of ATC 2023

[5] Chair of Information Storage Technology Committee of Chinese Computer academy, 2015 - 2019

[6] Vice chair of  Information Storage Technology Committee of Chinese Computer academy, 2004 – 2015

Research Group

Name of Research Group: data storage system and technology

Information Storage and Optical Display Division, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) operated by the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, is also the Education Ministry’s key laboratory of Information Storage System and the Engineering Research Center for Data Storage Systems and Technology. We have over 50 faculty members including 2 Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professors, 2 National Science Foundation For Outstanding Young Scholars winners, 1 National High-Level Talent Special Support Plan “Youth Science and technology innovation leader”，2 Chutian Scholars, and 2 “Talent of the New Century” scholars. Together with over 300 Ph.D. and MS students, our lab is the largest and the first class research institution and graduate training base in the area of information storage in China.

With over 40 years of history in data storage research since 1974, our lab is the nation’s key research and educational center in system and architecture area and is listed as “211”, “985”, and “Double First-Class” major institute in the subject area of computer architecture.

Our laboratory’s main research directions include but not limited to:

(1) Non-volatile memory technology. Including PCM, new mechanism of RRAM, Non-Volatile Memory architecture, Persistent Memory management and file system, Processing in Memory based on a memristor, etc.

(2) Disk array technology. Storage channel interface technology, data layout algorithm, data fault tolerance technology, data recovery and reconstruction algorithm, performance optimization technology and energy saving technology, etc. We also independently developed universal solid-state disk array and portable disk array prototype systems.

(3) Mass storage system and technology. We study high availability, high performance, large capacity, self-organizing parallel storage technology, object storage system, distributed storage technology, etc. and independently developed Massive Distributed Object Storage System (CapFS).

(4) Cloud storage and QoS technology. Including storage virtualization, data deduplication, data backup, disaster recovery, and long-term data protection, etc.

(5) Solid state storage technology. Including PCM, solid-state storage technology based on flash fusion, high speed solid-state disk technology, etc. We independently developed solid-state disk prototype.

(6) Storage applications. Storage system architecture and storage software in complex network environment, including K-V storage, storage management, storage virtualization, and storage service software, etc.

Recent accomplishments of our lab include winning over 40 research contracts and grants such as 973, 863, NSFC Key projects, National Science Foundation, National Defense Pre-research Projects, etc. The lab has produced many high quality graduate students including 3 Huawei “TopMinds” and some of them received national/CIE excellent doctor awards, the finalist of international storage challenge. We have published over 600 papers and filed over 200 patents.

We have a very comprehensive experimental environment including a petabyte-level test bed for networked storage research, high density memory chips, and optical storage, etc. We also have world class testing equipment and development tools.

Our goal is to build a first class storage laboratory around the world, produce significant research results and cultivate a large number of talents in the area of information storage science and technology.

Enrollment Information

[1] Wuhan National Lab for Optoelectronics/Computer Architecture/2022

Personal Homepage

Web：http://faculty.hust.edu.cn/dfeng/en/index.htm