Huang

Qi Huang, a graduate student in the Systems Lab of the Department of Computer Science, is one of 12 winners of a Facebook Graduate Fellowship this year.

Facebook fellowships support emerging research leaders who demonstrate potential to advance Facebook’s mission of making the world “more open and connected.” They cover tuition and fees and provide a $30,000 stipend.

Huang’s research is in the area of distributed systems, and many of his projects intersect with networking and storage in the context of cloud computing. His advisers are Ken Birman and Robbert van Renesse.

Huang is researching emerging adaptivity problems seen in today's massive-scale distributed systems, which often run in diverse environments. Such environments can arise as a consequence of different management domains, various network layouts, or from diverse application scenarios each bringing its own load patterns. His goal is to bring environmental awareness into the design of distributed system, so that systems can adapt themselves without disrupting services.