Qing (Ken) Yang

Distinguished Engineering Professor
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Ph.D. University of Louisiana, Lafayette,1988 
M.A. University of Toronto, 1985 
B.Sc.  Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech. China, 1982 

Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE, URI , 1988 
Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE, URI , 1993 
Professor, Dept. of ECE, URI, 1997 
Distinguished Engineering Professor, Dept of ECEURI, 1998 


An IEEE Fellow, professor Yang’s research interests include Computer Architectures, Memory Systems, I/O and Data Storage architectures, Computer networking, Cyber Security, Parallel and Distributed Computing (software and hardware), Embedded Computer Systems and Applications, Computer Applications in Biomedical Systems. He is the director of High Performance Computing Lab (HPCL).

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Selected Publications

ISCA“ A Bus Authentication and Anti-probing Architecture Extending Hardware Trusted Computing Base off CPU Chip and Beyond,” The 2020 Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, (ISCA’2020). Z. Xu, T. Mauldin, Z. Yao, S. Pei, T. Wei, and Qing Yang
ISCA“TRAP-Array: A Disk Array Architecture Providing Timely Recovery to Any Point-in -time” in The 33rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Qing Yang, Weijun Xiao, and Jin Ren
ISCA“DCD—Disk Caching Disk: A New Approach for Boosting I/O Performance,” The 23rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Philadelphia PA (ISCA’96). Y. Hu and Qing Yang
ISCA“Caching Address Tags: A technique to reduce chip area cost for on-chip caches,” The 22nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture,Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy. H. Wang, T. Sun, and Qing Yang
ISCA“A novel cache design for vector processing,” The 19th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, pp. 362-37 1. Gold Coast, Australia. Qing Yang and Liping W. Yang
HPCA “I-CASH: Intelligently Coupled Array of SSD and HDD” in The 17th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, San Antonio, TX. Jin Ren and Qing Yang
HPCA“RAPID-Cache — A Reliable and Inexpensive Write Cache for Disk I/O Systems”, in The 5th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-5). Orlando, Florida. Y. Hu, Qing Yang, and T. Nightingale

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Teaching

  • Graduate Courses: Computer Network (ELE543), Computer Architecture (ELE548), Embedded Computer Systems and Applications (ELE547), Advanced Topics on Computer Architecture (ELE648), and Digital System Design (ELE545).
  • Undergrad Courses: Computer Organization Lab (ELE408), Launching a technology startup (ELE403G), and Engineering Entrepreneurship (EGR325).