OSU Department of Biomedical Informatics

Xi Zhang M.S.

phone: (614) 688-3236
fax: (614) 688-6600

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3175 Graves Hall
333 W. 10th Ave.
Columbus, Ohio 43210


Michael Xi Zhang received a B.S. in both Computer Science and Molecular Biology from the Special Class for Gifted Young (SCGY) at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1999. After spending a year and half at Biophysics graduate program at The Ohio State University, he transferred to State University of New York at Stony Brook and received a M.S. in Computer Science in 2002. Now he is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering Department at The Ohio State University under the advisory of Dr. Joel H. Saltz. He has been working as a Graduate Research Associate at BMI since January 2003.

Research

Project Involvement

My research interests focus on storage and run-time support of data-intensive application, especially on supporting optimized data storage, indexing, retrieval and processing of large datasets across many distributed storage systems. My research efforts aim to support efficient analysis, associative query, and visualization of very large datasets and investigate the relative I/O performance of various file cache and replication strategies.

I am also interested in performance modeling and evaluation for large-scale mass-storage systems and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) storage networks.


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Publications

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Xi Zhang, Benjamin Rutt, Umit V. Catalyurek, Tahsin M. Kurc, Paul L. Stoffa, Mrinal Sen, Joel H. Saltz, "Supporting Scalable and Distributed Data Subsetting and Aggregation in Large-Scale Seismic Data Analysis", The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 20 (3) : pp. 423-438, August, 2006.

Xi Zhang, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "Design and Analysis of a Multi-dimensional Data Sampling Service for Large Scale Data Analysis Applications", 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), : pp. 58, April, 2006.

Matheus F. Ribeiro, Tahsin M. Kurc, Tony C. Pan, Kun Huang, Umit V. Catalyurek, Xi Zhang, Stephen Langella, Shannon L. Hastings, Scott Oster, Renato A. Ferreira, Joel H. Saltz, "Tools For Efficient Subsetting and Pipelined Processing of Large Scale, Distributed Biomedical Image Data", December, 2005.

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Xi Zhang, Tahsin M. Kurc, Tony C. Pan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Pete Wyckoff, Joel H. Saltz, "Strategies for Using Additional Resources in Parallel Hash-based Join Algorithms", in Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-13), Honolulu, HI, 2004

Xi Zhang, Tony C. Pan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "Serving Queries to Multi-Resolution Datasets on Disk-based Storage Clusters", in Proceedings of 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid04), Chicago, IL, 2004

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Tech Reports

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Tahsin M. Kurc, Umit V. Catalyurek, Xi Zhang, Joel H. Saltz, R. Martino, Mary F. Wheeler, Malgorzata Peszynska, Alan Sussman, C. Hansen, Mrinal Sen, Roustam Seifoullaev, Paul L. Stoffa, Carlos Torres-Verdin, Manish Parashar, "A Simulation and Data Analysis System for Large Scale, Data-Driven Oil Reservoir Simulation Studies", Technical Report, No. OSUBMI_TR_2004_n16, Biomedical Informatics, 2004.

Xi Zhang, Tahsin M. Kurc, Tony C. Pan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Pete Wyckoff, Joel H. Saltz, "Strategies for Using Additional Resources in Parallel Hash-based Join Algorithms", Technical Report, No. OSUBMI_TR_2004_n05, Biomedical Informatics, 2004.

Xi Zhang, Tony C. Pan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "Serving Queries to Multi-Resolution Datasets on Disk-based Storage Clusters", Technical Report, No. OSUBMI_TR_2004_n07, Biomedical Informatics, 2004.


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Abstracts

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Xi Zhang, Tony C. Pan, Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, Tahsin M. Kurc, Umit V. Catalyurek, Joel H. Saltz, "Grid-Based Image Analysis and Visualization", Vis 2003, Seattle, WA, October 2003

Publications

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Xi Zhang, Benjamin Rutt, Umit V. Catalyurek, Tahsin M. Kurc, Paul L. Stoffa, Mrinal Sen, Joel H. Saltz, "Supporting Scalable and Distributed Data Subsetting and Aggregation in Large-Scale Seismic Data Analysis", The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 20 (3) : pp. 423-438, August, 2006.

Xi Zhang, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "Design and Analysis of a Multi-dimensional Data Sampling Service for Large Scale Data Analysis Applications", 20th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), : pp. 58, April, 2006.

Matheus F. Ribeiro, Tahsin M. Kurc, Tony C. Pan, Kun Huang, Umit V. Catalyurek, Xi Zhang, Stephen Langella, Shannon L. Hastings, Scott Oster, Renato A. Ferreira, Joel H. Saltz, "Tools For Efficient Subsetting and Pipelined Processing of Large Scale, Distributed Biomedical Image Data", December, 2005.

Tahsin M. Kurc, Umit V. Catalyurek, Xi Zhang, Joel H. Saltz, R. Martino, Mary F. Wheeler, Malgorzata Peszynska, Alan Sussman, C. Hansen, Mrinal Sen, Roustam Seifoullaev, Paul L. Stoffa, Carlos Torres-Verdin, Manish Parashar, "A Simulation and Data Analysis System for Large Scale, Data-Driven Oil Reservoir Simulation Studies", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 17 (11) : pp. 1441-1467, September, 2005.

Xi Zhang, Tahsin M. Kurc, Tony C. Pan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Pete Wyckoff, Joel H. Saltz, "Strategies for Using Additional Resources in Parallel", Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 2004, (HPDC-13), : pp. 4-13, June, 2004.

Xi Zhang, Tony C. Pan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "Serving queries to multi-resolution datasets on disk-based storage clusters", Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2004 (CCGrid 2004), : pp. 490-498, April, 2004.

Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Tahsin M. Kurc, Xi Zhang, Joel H. Saltz, "Applying Database Support for Large Scale Data Driven Science in Distributed Environments", Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2003), : pp. 141-148, November, 2003.

Presentations

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Xi Zhang, Tahsin M. Kurc, Tony C. Pan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Pete Wyckoff, Joel H. Saltz, "Strategies for Using Additional Resources in Parallel Hash-based Join Algorithms", in Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-13), Honolulu, HI, 2004

Xi Zhang, Tony C. Pan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "Serving Queries to Multi-Resolution Datasets on Disk-based Storage Clusters", in Proceedings of 4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid04), Chicago, IL, 2004

Tech Reports

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Tahsin M. Kurc, Umit V. Catalyurek, Xi Zhang, Joel H. Saltz, R. Martino, Mary F. Wheeler, Malgorzata Peszynska, Alan Sussman, C. Hansen, Mrinal Sen, Roustam Seifoullaev, Paul L. Stoffa, Carlos Torres-Verdin, Manish Parashar, "A Simulation and Data Analysis System for Large Scale, Data-Driven Oil Reservoir Simulation Studies", Technical Report, No. OSUBMI_TR_2004_n16, Biomedical Informatics, 2004.

Xi Zhang, Tahsin M. Kurc, Tony C. Pan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Pete Wyckoff, Joel H. Saltz, "Strategies for Using Additional Resources in Parallel Hash-based Join Algorithms", Technical Report, No. OSUBMI_TR_2004_n05, Biomedical Informatics, 2004.

Xi Zhang, Tony C. Pan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Tahsin M. Kurc, Joel H. Saltz, "Serving Queries to Multi-Resolution Datasets on Disk-based Storage Clusters", Technical Report, No. OSUBMI_TR_2004_n07, Biomedical Informatics, 2004.

Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan, Umit V. Catalyurek, Tahsin M. Kurc, Xi Zhang, Joel H. Saltz, "Applying Database Support for Large Scale Data Driven Science in Distributed Environments", Technical Report, No. OSUBMI_TR_2003_n02, Biomedical Informatics, 2003.


Abstracts

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Xi Zhang, Tony C. Pan, Scott Oster, Shannon L. Hastings, Tahsin M. Kurc, Umit V. Catalyurek, Joel H. Saltz, "Grid-Based Image Analysis and Visualization", Vis 2003, Seattle, WA, October 2003

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