H. Howie Huang Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering School of Engineering and Applied Science The George Washington University 801 22nd Street NW (map) Washington, DC 20052	Email   Office Phillips Hall 624B  Voice (202) 994-0523      Fax (202) 994-0227
Research     Awards      Publications      Professional Activities      Teaching      Students
Research
My research interests are data-intensive computing, operating systems, computer architecture, high-performance computing, and Grid/Cloud computing. Current projects include:
Balanced Scalable Architectures for Data-Intensive Supercomputing (in collaboration with Alex Szalay at JHU) High-Performance Power-Aware Systems
My research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and IBM.
Selected Awards (Click Here for Full List of Awards and Grants)
IBM Real Time Innvoation Faculty Award 2008
Selected Publications (Full List)
Low-Power Amdahl-Balanced Blades for Data Intensive Computing, USENIX HotPower 2009 Market Based Resource Allocation for Differentiated Quality Service Levels,  Market Oriented Grid and Utility Computing, Wiley Inc. 2009 Reconfigurable Active Drive: An FPGA Accelerated Storage Architecture for Data-Intensive Applications, SAAHPC 2009 HiCloud: Taming Clouds on the Clouds, CCGrid 2009 Automated Performance Control in a Virtual Distributed Storage System, Grid 2008 Analyzing the Feasibility of Building a New Mass Storage System on Distributed Resources, CCPE 2008 A Highly Available Job Execution Service in Computational Service Market, Grid 2007 The Cost of Transparency: Grid-Based File Access on the Avaki Data Grid, ISPA 2006 Mining Frequent Patterns with the Pattern Tree, NGC 2005 Efficient Runtime Generation of Association Rules, CIKM 2001
Selected Professional Activities (Full List)
ICPADS 2009, Program Committee Member AICCSA 2009, Program Committee Member Empowering Leadership Alliance, Mentor
Teaching
ECE 182/201: Computer Architecture, Fall 2009 ECE 206: High-Performance Processors, Spring 2009 ECE 227: Grid and Network Computing, Fall 2008
Students
I have the privilege of working with extraordinary students:
Shan Li, PhD student Ahsen Uppal, MS student, BS in Computer Science and BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park
Prospective students: I am always looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students, so please feel free to email me if you are interested in becoming a Research Assistant and doing research along those lines.
Last Updated: 11/1/2009