Mai Zheng
Email: mai@iastate.edu
Phone: 515-294-6285
Title(s):
Associate Professor
Office
349 Durham Center
Information
Education
Ph.D., The Ohio State University (2015)
M.S., University of Science and Technology of China (2009)
B.S., Qingdao University (2006)
Core Area(s): Data Storage Systems, Data Intensive Computing, Reliablity & Security
Department’s Strategic Area(s): Cyber Infrastructure; Data, decisions, networks & autonomy
Publications
Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mFcB0JMAAAAJ&hl=en
- “PROV-IO+: A Cross-Platform Provenance Framework for Scientific Data on HPC Systems”. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2024.
- “λMDS: Scaling Distributed File System Metadata Service using Serverless Functions”. Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2023.
- “Understanding Persistent-Memory Related Issues in the Linux Kernel”. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2023.
- “Drill: Log-based Anomaly Detection for Large-scale Storage Systems Using Source Code Analysis”. Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2023.
- “FaultyRank: A Graph-based Parallel File System Checker”. Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2023.
- “ConfD: Analyzing Configuration Dependencies of File Systems for Fun and Profit”. Proceedings of the 21st USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2023.
- “Data Distribution for Heterogeneous Storage Systems”. IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2022
- “Understanding Configuration Dependencies of File Systems”. Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2022. Best Paper Nominee
- “PROV-IO: An I/O-Centric Provenance Framework for Scientific Data on HPC Systems”. Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2022.
- “A Study of Failure Recovery and Logging of High-Performance Parallel File Systems”. ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2022.
- “SentiLog: Anomaly Detecting on Parallel File Systems via Log-based Sentiment Analysis”. Proceedings of the 13th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2021. Best Paper Nominee
- “A Study of Persistent Memory Bugs in the Linux Kernel”. Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR), 2021
- “Lessons and Actions: What We Learned from 10K SSD-Related Storage System Failures”. Proceedings of the 2019 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), 2019.
- “PFault: A General Framework for Analyzing the Reliability of High-Performance Parallel File Systems.” Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/SIGARCH International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), 2018
- “Towards Robust File System Checkers.” Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2018 Best Paper Nominee
- “Reliability Analysis of SSDs under Power Fault”. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 2016
- “Torturing Databases for Fun and Profit”. Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2014.
- “GMRace: Detecting Data Races in GPU Programs via A Low-Overhead Scheme”.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2014 - “Understanding the Robustness of SSDs under Power Fault”. Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2013
- “2ndStrike: Towards Manifesting Hidden Concurrency Typestate Bugs”. Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2011
- “GRace: A Low-Overhead Mechanism for Detecting Data Races in GPU Programs”. Proceedings of the 16th ACM/SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 2011
Primary Strategic Research Area
Resilient Infrastructures
Departments
Affiliations
Interests
Big DataCloud ComputingCyber SecurityData-Driven Eng and SciFile SystemsHigh Performance ComputingStorage Systems