Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Colorado School of Mines
1500 Illinois Street
Golden, CO 80401

Office:    Brown Hall 280-F
Telephone: +1 303 384 2326
Fax:       +1 303 273 3875
Email:     zchen_AT_mines_DOT_edu

Biography

Zizhong Chen is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines. His research interests include high performance computing, fault tolerance and checkpointing, power-aware algorithms and software, real number error/erasure correcting codes, numerical linear algebra algorithms and software, and computational science and engineering. His research results have been published in leading high performance computing journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX), SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC), IBM Journal of Research and Development (IBMRD), ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), and ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS). During the past five years, he has taught more than twenty classes for over ten different courses, reviewed papers for more than fifteen journals, and served as Program Chair/Co-Chair/Vice-Chair/Workshop-Chair for five international conferences/workshops, and Member of Technical Program Committee for over twenty international conferences/workshops. He received a Best Paper Award from the 19th International Supercomputer Conference in 2004, a Distinguished Research Award from Jacksonville State University in 2008, and an Outstanding Faculty Award from Colorado School of Mines in 2010. He is currently a senior member of the IEEE.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. Advisor: Jack Dongarra.
  
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. Advisor: Jack Dongarra.
  
• B.Sc. in Mathematics, Beijing Normal University, P. R. China.
  

Selected Recent Publications (with my students underlined; Full List >>>)

• TC 2012:  " Multi-Level Diskless Checkpointing", Doug Hakkarinen and Zizhong Chen.
  
• HPDC 2011:  " Algorithm-Based Recovery for Iterative Methods without Checkpointing", Zizhong Chen.
  
• ICS 2011:  " High Performance Linpack Benchmark: A Fault Tolerant Implementation without Checkpointing", Teresa Davies, Christer Karlsson, Hui Liu, Chong Ding, and Zizhong Chen.
  
• IPDPS 2010:  " Algorithmic Cholesky Factorization Fault Recovery", Doug Hakkarinen and Zizhong Chen.
  
• SC 2009:  " Optimal Real Number Codes for Fault Tolerant Matrix Operations", Zizhong Chen.
  
• TC 2009:  " Highly Scalable Self-Healing Algorithms for High Performance Scientific Computing", Zizhong Chen and Jack Dongarra.
  
• TPDS 2008:  " Algorithm-Based Fault Tolerance for Fail-Stop Failures", Zizhong Chen and Jack Dongarra.
  

Selected Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Faculty Award, Graduating Students and Alumni Association, Colorado School of Mines, 2010.
  
• Distinguished Research Award, Jacksonville State University, 2008.
  
• Best Paper Award, The 19th International Supercomputer Conference (ISC 2004), Heidelberg, Germany, June 22 - 25, 2004.