Dr. Huan Zhou

Design an C-based, efficient and portable communication substrate on multi-core clusters for the PGAS runtime system (DFG-funded project – DASH) - Familiar with the compute node and layered memory architecture of nowadays large-scale machines. - Increase the performance and improve the user productivity for real-world engineering application. Optimize the large-scale parallel applications on all kinds of platforms and the collective communication algorithms

SSD firmware validation on Intel SSD products in reactive and host parts - Familiar with SSD/NAND architecture and firmware testing process. - Develop test cases with Python to verify firmware behaviours. - Execute automation testing Integrate and enable all the Windows Embedded Standard 8 (WES8) I/O drivers on Valley View (VLV) - Integrate USB, HD-audio, SD card, Early Camera and all kinds of Low Power (LPE) I/O drivers (I2C, UART, GPIO, and SPI) into VLV.

- High Performance Computing - Parallel Programming (MPI/threaded(OpenMP)/PGAS) - Parallel Algorithm - Performance analysis and benchmarking - Distributed simulation - Network communication algorithm optimization - Large-scale (scientific or engineering) application optimization

- Parallel computing and programming - Software design - compiler principle - Chip architecture - Network principle

- Basic programming (C/C++/Java) - Operation System - Digital logic - Principles of microprocessor - Compute Architecture - Discrete and Advanced Mathematics