Zhenlin Wang

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Michigan Technological University
Houghton, MI 49931

Office: Rekhi 207
Work phone:  (906) 487-2187
Fax: (906) 487-2283
Email: zlwang AT mtu DOT edu

Research Publications Teaching Students Funding

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Courses

Office hours (Spring 2010): TR 2- 3:30 PM

CS4131 Compiler Construction (WebCT), Spring 1010

CS4481 System Performance Analysis (WebCT), Spring 2010

Previously Taught

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Research Interests

• Memory system architecture and optimization
• Programming languages, compiler optimizations, and data Locality
• High performance computing
• Parallel languages, multi-threaded programming
• Virtual Machine

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Projects

• Modeling and predicting temporal and spatial reuses
• Compiling UPC for multi-core systems
• Compiler-guided memory access ordering
• Cooperative memory management for VM and JVM

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Past Projects

• Scale
• DaCapo
• TRIPS
• Impulse

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Students

Weiming Zhao (PhD student)

Wei Wang (PhD Student, co-advisor)

Linjia Hu (PhD Student)

Tongfeng Wang (PhD student)

Steve Vormwald (MS, 2010, co-advisor)

Changpeng Fang (PhD, 2006, co-advisor)

Sandesh Kubhmar (MS, 2008)

Mingsong Bi (MS 2007)

Mark Malek (MS, 2005)

Da Gao (MS, 2005)

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Funding

	NSF Career 0643664, Modeling Data Locality for Next Generation Systems National Science Foundation Computing Processes and Artifacts Program Single PI, Start: 04/15/2007 (5 years)
	NSF CCF 0811427, Feedback-Directed Resource Management in Virtual Private Machines National Science Foundation Computing Processes and Artifacts Program Co-PI, Start: 9/1/2008 (1 year)
	NSF CCF 0833082, A Performance Model for Partitioned Global Address Space Languages National Science Foundation High End Computing University Research Activity (HECURA) Co-PI, Start: 9/1/2008 (1 year)