Current Students

PhD Candidate

• Xin Chen
  

MS Candidates

• Benjamin Eckart
• Guanying Wu
• Fang Han
• Ferrol Aderholdt

Undergraduate Students

• Jimmy Warren
• Luke McNeese

Graduated Students

Ph.D Degree

• Li Ou, "Design of a High Performance and High Availability Distributed Storage System", Date Graduated: December 2006. First employment after graduation: Scalable Systems Group, Dell Inc., Austin, TX

M.S. Degree

• Jeremy Langston, "Availability and Performance Analysis of Data Hot-spots in Distributed Storage Systems", Date Graduated: May 2009. First employment after graduation: Redstone Technical Test Center, Huntsville, AL.
• Xin Chen, "L2 Cache Performance Evaluation and I/O Improvement of Multi-Core Architectures", Date Graduated: May 2007. First employment after graduation: PhD candidate at TTU
• Ololade Funmilayo, "Performance Analysis of iSCSI Communication", Date Graduated: December 2006. First employment after graduation: Motorola Inc., Chicago, IL
• Kartik Ramaswamy, "Power and Performance Evaluation of Cache Algorithms for Superscalar Processors", Date Graduated: August 2005. First employment after graduation: Force10 networks, CA
• Sathish Venkataramani, "Design and Analysis of External Profiling", Date Graduated: August 2005. First employment after graduation: HP
• Praveenku Beedanagari, Thesis Title: "Design and Evaluation of a Distributed iSCSI RAID", Date Graduated: December 2004. First employment after graduation: A Software Consultant Company, Dallas, TX
• Dan Zhou, Thesis Title: "I/O Analysis on iSCSI-based Storage Systems", Date Graduated: August 2004. Current employment : Linux Network System Administrator, Columbus State University, GA

Undergraduate Students (Supported in part by an NSF REU project)

• Jason Taylor (2009)
• Benjamin Eckart (2007, 2008)
• Paul Giblock (2006)
• Khalid Abston (2006)
• Karthik Sankar (2005)
• Eyhab Saeed (2005)
• April Childers (2005)

Advice to Students

How to prepare technical papers?
            L.M. Ni, "Preparing Technical Reports Using MS Word" (MS Word).
            S.L. Kleiman, "Writing amath phase two paper," (PDF)

How to make presentations?
            S.L.P. Jones, J. Hughes, J. Launchbury, "How to give a good research talk," (PDF)
            M. Hill, "Oral Presentation Advice"

Tips for a research student:
            D.A. Bailey, A Letter to Research Students (PDF)