Professor and Chair
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| Telephone: | 850-644-5442 |
| E-Mail: | yuw [ at cs dot fsu dot edu ] |
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Research
Yu has broad research interests spanning structured and unstructured database systems, data mining and analytics of big data and social networks, parallel computer systems and architecture, high speed interconnects, cloud computing, computational biology and climate modeling, storage and I/O systems.Dr. Yu has graduated many doctoral and master students who upon graduation joined prestigious organizations such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Yahoo, Intel, Boeing, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Amazan, and other industry positions. He is currently working with the PASL group of two postdoctoral researchers, 8 Ph.D. students and 3 master students. His group’s research has been supported in part by NASA, DOE (ORNL and LLNL), NSF, Alabama Department of Commerce, Mellanox, Intel, NVIDIA, and Scitor, along with equipment donations from Mellanox, NVIDIA, and Solarflare. Yu’s research won the 2012 Alabama Innovation Award and the First Prize of the 2012 ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals. Yu is a senior member of IEEE and member of ACM and USENIX.