Xiaodong Zhang
Chairman, Department of Computer Science
     and Engineering and
Robert M. Critchfield Professor in Engineering
Ohio State University

Xiaodong Zhang is the Robert M. Critchfield Professor in Engineering, and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University.  Since 1992, he has established and directed the High Performance Computing and Software Laboratory where he has supervised over 40 graduate students (both MS and Ph.D), post-docs, and visiting scholars. His research interests cover a wide spectrum in the areas of high performance and distributed systems. A common thread among his research projects focuses on fast data accesses and resource sharing with cost- and energy-efficient management at different levels of the memory and storage hierarchies in computer, distributed, and Internet systems. Several technical innovations and research results from his team have been adopted or being developed in commercial products and open source systems with direct impacts to our daily computing operations, including the permutation memory interleaving technique first in the Sun MicroSystems' UltraSPARC IIIi processor and then in the Sun's dual-core Gemini Processor, the token thrashing protection mechanism and the Clock-Pro page replacement algorithm for memory management in the Linux Kernel .

Xiaodong Zhang was the Program Director of Advanced Computational Research at the National Science Foundation, 2001-2004. He is the associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and is also serving on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Micro, and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.

Xiaodong Zhang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.