Kan Zhong

I am a graduated Ph.D student of Collecge of Computer Science, Chongqing University. I am lucky to work with my supervisor Prof. Duo Liu. I was a visiting scholar of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida from 2016 to 2017. During the stay in UFL, I joined Intelligent Design of Efficient Architectures Laboratory (IDEAL) and worked with Prof. Tao Li. Currently, I am a research enginieer in Huawei Inc.

Research Interests

• The application and software design of emerging byte-addressable non-volatile memory
• High-performance and energy-efficient mobile devices
• High-performance storage systems

Slected Publications

Conference Papers

• [HPCA’18] Mingcong Song, Kan Zhong, Jiaqi Zhang, Yang Hu, Duo Liu, Weigong Zhang, Jing Wang, and Tao Li, “In-situ AI: Towards Autonomous and Incremental Deep Learning for IoT Systems”, in Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), pages 1562-1567, Feb. 24-28, 2018 Vienna, Austria. [Lightning Talk]
• [DAC’17] Xiao Zhu, Duo Liu, Kan Zhong, Jinting Ren, and Tao Li, “SmartSwap: High-Performance and User Experience Friendly Swapping inMobile Systems”, in Proceedings of the 54th Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 18-22, 2017, Austin, TX, USA.
• [DATE’16] Kan Zhong, Duo Liu, Liang Liang, Linbo Long, Yi Lin, Zili Shao, “FLIC: Fast, Lightweight Checkpointing for Mobile Virtualization using NVRAM”, in Proceedings of the 2016 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), pages 1562-1567, Mar. 14-18, 2016, Dresden, Germany.
• [HPCC’15] Xiao Zhu, Duo Liu, Liang Liang, Kan Zhong, Meikang Qiu, and Edwin H.-M. Sha, “Swap-Bench: The Easy Way to Demystify Swapping in Mobile Systems”, in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), pages 497-502, Aug. 24-26, 2015, New York, USA.
• [DATE’15] Kan Zhong, Duo Liu, Linbo Long, Xiao Zhu, Weichen Liu, Qingfeng Zhuge, and Edwin H.-M. Sha, “_n_Code: Limiting Harmful Writes to Emerging Mobile NVRAM through Code Swapping”, in Proceedings of the 2015 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), pages 1305-1310,Mar. 9-13, 2015, Grenoble, France.
• [EMSOFT’14] Kan Zhong, Tianzheng Wang, Xiao Zhu, Linbo Long, Duo Liu, Weichen Liu, Zili Shao, and Edwin H.-M. Sha, “Building High-Performance Smartphones via Non-Volatile Memory: The Swap Approach”, in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), pages 30:1-30:10, Oct. 12-17, 2014, New Delhi, India.
• [ISLPED’14] Kan Zhong, Xiao Zhu, Tianzheng Wang, Dan Zhang, Xianlu Luo, Duo Liu, Weichen Liu, and Edwin H.-M. Sha, “DR. Swap: Energy-Efficient Paging for Smarthpones”, in Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposiumon LowPower Electronics andDesign (ISLPED), pages 81-86, Aug. 11-13, 2014, La Jolla, California, USA.

Journal Papers

• [TPDS’18] Kan Zhong, Duo Liu, Yunsong Wu, Lingbo Long, Weichen Liu, Jinting Ren, Renping Liu, Liang Liang, Zili Shao, “Towards Fast and Lightweight Checkpointing for Mobile Virtualization using NVRAM”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) (Accepted).
• [TPDS’17] Kan Zhong, Duo Liu, Lingbo Long, Jinting Ren, Yang Li, and Edwin H.-M. Sha, “Building NVRAM-Aware Swapping Through CodeMigration inMobile Devices”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 28, No. 11, pp. 3089-3099, June 2017. (doi:10.1109/TPDS.2017.2713780)
• [TC’17] Duo Liu, Kan Zhong, Xiao Zhu, Yang Li, Lingbo Long, and Zili Shao, “Non-VolatileMemory Based Page Swapping for Building High-Performance Mobile Devices”, IEEE Transactions on Computer (TC), Vol. 66,No. 11, pp. 1918-1931, June 2017. (doi:10.1109/TC.2017.2711620)
• [FGCS’17] Xiao Zhu, Duo Liu, Liang Liang, Kan Zhong, Linbo Long, Meikang Qiu, Zili Shao, and Edwin H.-M. Sha, “Revisiting Swapping in Mobile Systems with SwapBench”, Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 74, pp. 265-275, Sep. 2017. (doi:10.1016/j.future.2016.05.026)
• [TPDS’16] Duo Liu, Kan Zhong, Tianzheng Wang, Yi Wang, Zili Shao, Edwin H.-M. Sha, and Jingling Xue, “Durable Address Translation in PCM-based Flash Storage Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 475-490, June 2016. (doi:10.1109/TPDS.2016.2586059)
• [FGCS’16] *Linbo Long, Edwin H.-M. Sha, Duo Liu, Liang Liang, Kan Zhong, and Xiao Zhu, “A Compiler Assisted Wear Leveling for Morphable PCM in Embedded Systems”, Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 71, pp. 32-43, Nov. 2016. (doi:10.1016/j.sysarc.2016.06.007)
• [TCAD’15] Kan Zhong, Duo Liu, Liang Liang, Xiao Zhu, Linbo Long, Yi Wang, and Edwin H.-M. Sha, “Energy-Efficient In-memory Paging for Smartphones”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Vol. 35, No. 10, pp. 1577-1590, Oct. 2015. (doi:10.1109/TCAD.2015.2512904)
• [TCAD’15] Linbo Long, Duo Liu, Liang Liang, Xiao Zhu, Kan Zhong, Zili Shao, and Edwin H.-M. Sha, “Morphable ResistiveMemory Optimization for Mobile Virtualization”, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 891-904, Oct. 2015. (doi:10.1109/TCAD.2015.2495264)

Software

• NVM-Swap
  • Building a NVRAM-based swapping system for mobile devices
  • Kernel code and details are available at nvm-swap.bitbucket.io
• Flight-AR.Drone-2
  • A controller of parrot AR.drone 2 on Windows
  • Code available at github.com/zhongkan/Flight-AR.Drone-2

Awards and Honors

• First Prize Winner, The Programming Contest of Chongqing University, May 2013
• Silver Medal, The ACM-ICPC Invitation Tournament of Chengdu Site, June 2013
• First Prize Winner, The Programming Contest of Chongqing, September 2013
• National Scholarship of Graduate Student, 2013
• National Scholarship 2012
• Bronze Medal, The ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest, Changchun Site, October 2012

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant
  • CST30102, Computer Architecture (Enrollment: ~80), Spring 2014
  • CST30102, Computer Architecture (Enrollment: ~90), Spring 2015