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Ron C. Chiang

Associate Professor

Software Engineering and Data Science

  • Research Interests
  • distributed systems, cloud computing, high performance computer architectures, task and resource management algorithms, the design of advanced virtualization systems.

Interests:

My passion is to tackle complex computer system problems with creative designs in algorithms and architectures. At a high level, my research interests include distributed systems, cloud computing, and high performance computer architectures. I am especially interested in task and resource management algorithms and the design of advanced virtualization systems.

Courses taught at UST:

  • Foundations of Software Development - SEIS 601
  • Software Engineering - SEIS 610

(See full list on Dr. Chiang's Google site)

'Matrix: Achieving Predictable Virtual Machine Performance in the Clouds,' ICAC 2014

'Swiper: Exploiting Virtual Machine Vulnerability in Third-Party Clouds with Competition for I/O Resources,' TPDS

'UniCache: Hypervisor Managed Data Storage in RAM and Flash,' CLOUD 2014

'Flashy Prefetching for High-Performance Flash Drives,' MSST 2012

'TRACON: Interference-Aware Scheduling for Data-Intensive Applications in Virtualized Environments,' TPDS and SC 2011 (Best Student Paper Award Finalist)

'Energy-aware Writes to Non-volatile Main Memory,' HotPower 2011 (A "Best of HotPower" paper)

'Heterogeneity in Computing: Insights from a Worksharing Scheduling Problem,' IJFCS and IPDPS 2010


  • Best Student Paper Award Finalist of SC11
  • A 'Best of the HotPower' paper at HotPower11
  • Awarded housing and registration grant from SC11
  • Being selected to participate in the SC11 Student Volunteer Program
  • Distinguished Performance Award for Technology from the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 2005
  • First Prize in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,Tamkang University, during the academic year 1998-1999

  • 'Memory Space Utilization Method for Highly Efficient Java Application Management and Installation Method Thereof,' R.O.C. patent no. I234739