Hong Zhang joined the Cheriton School of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor in 2023.
Tell us a bit about your research.
I work on systems and networking in general. At a high level, my research focuses on developing high-performance and scalable distributed systems for big data and machine learning applications.
Big data and machine learning applications are being used increasingly to harvest massive amounts of data and as a result they require large-scale and high-performance systems to transfer, to store, and to process data at these massive scales. In response to this critical need, my research focuses on designing systems that efficiently leverage the underlying infrastructure resources — the compute, the memory, and the network — to optimize the performance of these big data and machine learning applications.
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