Howie Huang

Professor

Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Contact:

Email: Howie Huang

Office Phone: (202) 994-0523

seas.gwu.edu/~howie

SEH 6610 | Office hours: By appointment

Professor Howie Huang's research interests are in the general areas of computer and systems architecture, especially cloud computing, data-intensive computing, file and storage systems, energy-efficient computer systems, and high-performance computing and storage for scientific applications. His research has been supported by National Science Foundation, IBM, NVIDIA, and GWU Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

Education

Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2008

Areas of Expertise

Computer engineering
Computer architecture
High-performance computing

Publications

Hang Liu, Howie Huang. Enterprise: Breadth-First Graph Traversal on GPUs. Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC’15).
Ron C. Chiang, Howie Huang, Timothy Wood, Changbin Liu, Oliver Spatscheck. IOrchestra: Supporting High-Performance Data-Intensive Applications in the Cloud via Collaborative Virtualization. Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC’15).
X. Xu, H. H. Huang. On Soft Error Reliability of Virtualization Infrastructure. IEEE Transactions on Computers. 2016.
R. C. Chiang, S. Rajasekaran, N. Zhang, H. H. Huang. Swiper: Exploiting Virtual Machine Vulnerability in Third-Party Clouds with Competition for I/O Resources. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 1732 - 1742, June 1 2015.
Ron C. Chiang, Ahsen Uppal, H. Howie Huang, An Adaptive IO Prefetching Approach for Virtualized Data Centers, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. August 2015.
X. Xu, H. H. Huang. Exploring Data-Level Error Tolerance in High-Performance Solid-State Drives. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 15 - 30, March 2015.
Xin Xu, Ron Chiang, H. Howie Huang. Xentry: Hypervisor-Level Soft Error Detection. The 43rd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'14)
Ron C. Chiang, Jinho Hwang, Howie Huang, Timothy Wood. Matrix: Achieving Predictable Virtual Machine Performance in the Clouds. USENIX International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC’14).
Jinho Hwang, Ashen Uppal, Timothy Wood, Howie Huang. Mortar: Filling the Gaps in Data Center Memory. International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE’14)
J. Chen, G. Venkataramani, H. H. Huang. RePRAM: Re-cycling PRAM Faulty Blocks for Extended Lifetime. Proceedings of the Dependable Computing and Communications Symposium at the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN’12).
A. Uppal, R. Chiang, H. H. Huang. Flashy Prefetching for High-Performance Flash Drives. Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST’12).
R. Chiang, H. H. Huang. TRACON: Interference-Aware Scheduling for Data- Intensive Applications in Virtualized Environments. Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC’11). Best Student Paper Award Nomination.
H. H. Huang, N. Zhang, W. Wang, G. Das, A. Szalay. Just-In-Time Analytics on Large File Systems. Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST’11), San Jose, California, February 15-17, 2011.

Distinctions

Workshop Co-Chair, Cluster 2012
PC Member, SC'12 Doctoral Showcase

Awards

NSF CAREER Award 2014
Comcast Technology Research and Development Fund Award 2015
GWU School of Engineering and Applied Science Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2014
NVIDIA Academic Partnership Award 2011
IBM Real Time Innovation Award 2008
ACM Best Undergraduate Student Research (advisor), SC’12
Best Student Paper Award Nomination, SC’11
Best Poster Award, PACT’11
High Performance Storage Challenge Finalist, SC’09