Ph.D Degree 

• Hong Wang, Ph.D,  
  Thesis title: “Resource Allocation in High Performance Computer Systems,” Date Graduated: Jan. 5, 1996. Employment after graduation: Director of Microarchitecture Research Lab (MRL) Intel Co. Winner of  Intel Accomplishment Award and Intel Fellow.
• Tong Sun, Ph.D,  
  Ph.D, Thesis title: “Design and Performance Evaluation of Cache Memories for High Performance Computers,” Date Graduated: April, 1996. Employment after graduation: Adjunct Professor, Computing Security at RIT, Research Lab Director, Adobe.
• Nagesh Anupindi, Ph.D, 
  Thesis title: “Data Partition and Migration for High Performance Computation in Distributed Memory Multiprocessors,” Date Graduated: Sept., 1994. First Employment after graduation: Senior Scientist, Aware Inc., Cambridge,MA. 
• Yiming Hu, Ph.D, 
  Dissertation Title: “Design and Performance Evaluation of New I/O Architectures “, Date Graduated: Dec. 16, 1998. Employment after graduation: Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE, University of Cincinnati. Winner of 2000 NSF Career Award, Well-known award-winning photographer specializing in fine art landscape photography, nature photography, and travel photography.
• Ben He, Ph.D, 
  Dissertation Title: “Design and Performance Evaluation of Networked Storage Architectures” Date Graduated: August, 2002. Employment after graduation: Professor Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Temple University.
• Weijun Xiao, Ph.D, 
  Dissertation Title: “Design and Analysis of High-performance and Recoverable Data Storage” Date Graduated: May 2009. Named as Computing Innovation Fellow by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA) funded by NSF Employment after graduation: Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Virginia Commonwealth University 
• Ming Zhang, Ph.D, 
  Dissertation Title: “Toward high performance and highly reliable storage services” Date Graduated: Dec. 2004. Employment after graduation: Consultant Software Engineer, EMC.
• Jin Ren, Dissertation Title: “High Performance SSD Storage”, Jan. 2011. Employment after graduation: Senior Architect, Western Digital Corp. 
• Xiaorong Zhang, Dissertation Title: “Cyber Physical System for Neural-Machine Interface”, May 2013. Employment after graduation: Tenure Track Assistant Professor, San Fransisco State University Winner of NSF Career Award.
• Robert Hernandez, Dissertation Title: “SVM-BASED VOLITIONAL ARTIFICIAL LEG CONTROL VIA UBIQUITOUS SMALL AND LOW POWER ARCHITECTURES” May, 2014.Employment after graduation: Lead Systems Engineer, NUWC, RI. Recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE):
• Jason Kane, Dissertation Title: ” “Research Into Computer Hardware Acceleration of Data Reduction and SVMS” (2016) May, 2016. Employment after graduation: Lead Systems Engineer, NUWC, RI.
• Dongyang Li, Dissertation Title: ” “PROCESSING IN STORAGE, THE NEXT GENERATION OF STORAGE SYSTEM” (2019) May, 2019. Employment after graduation: CISCO, Senior Architect.
• Jing Yang, Dissertation Title: ” “ACCELERATING DATA ACCESSING BY EXPLOITING FLASH MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES” (2019) Aug. 2019. Employment after graduation: Research and Development Engineer, Samsung.
• Shuyi Pei, “REMOVING PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS ON SSDS AND SSD-BASED STORAGE SYSTEMS”, May, 2021, Employment after graduation: Research and Development Engineer, Samsung.

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