Dr. Song Fu

     Assistant Professor  (9/2010-Present)

     Director, Dependable Computing Systems Lab
     Department of Computer Science and Engineering
     University of North Texas
     Denton, Texas 76203
      

Dr. Song Fu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas. He is the Director of the Dependable Computing Systems Lab (DCS). He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology from 8/2008 to 7/2010. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit Michigan, in 2008. He received the M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2002 and 1999, respectively. He worked as a System Engineer at the State Grid Electric Power Research Institute in 2002. Dr. Fu's research interest is primarily in cloud computing and distributed and parallel systems, including architecture, dependability assurance, resource management, and security. His research has been supported in part by funding from the National Science Foundation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the University of North Texas.

[News] [Research Interests] [Grants] [Selected Publications] [Teaching] [Students] [Services] [Correspondence] {Publications}

 News

• Ziming and Qiang are now PhD candidates. Congratulations!
• Our paper "Ensemble of Bayesian Predictors and Decision Trees for Proactive Failure Management in Cloud Computing Systems" was published by the Journal of Communications, January 2012.
• UNT Research Initiation Grant (RIG), 2/2012-1/2013. Our UNT RIG proposal was selected for funding (PI: Song Fu). This allows us to develop a novel anomaly identification framework for dependability assurance in cloud computing systems.
• Ziming's paper "macropower: A Coarse-Grain Power Profiling Framework for Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing" was accepted by the 30th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), November 2011.
• UNT Research Opportunity Grant (ROP), 9/2011-8/2012. Our UNT ROP proposal was selected for funding (PI: Song Fu). This allows us to develop energy-efficient cloud computing systems with desirable productivity.
• Qiang's paper "Proactive Failure Management by Integrated Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning for Dependable Cloud Systems" was accepted by IEEE International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), August 2011.
• Our paper "Quantifying Event Correlations for Proactive Failure Management in Networked Computing Systems" was accepted by the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Elsevier, June 2010.
• NSF Computer System Research (CSR) Grant, 2009-2012. Our NSF CSR proposal was selected for funding (PI: Song Fu). This allows us to develop reliability models for resilient computational clusters.

Research Interests

As distributed and cloud computing systems become more and more large-scale and complex, new foundations are needed for understanding and controlling their integral properties. Dr. Fu’s research is dedicated to the investigation, establishment, and experimental evaluation of new theoretical foundations and system artifacts to significantly improve the system reliability, availability, security, and performance. His research interest is primarily in cloud computing and distributed and parallel systems, including

• Cloud Computing
• Reliability Modeling and Failure Management
• Autonomic Resource Management and Reconfigurable Systems
• Power Management and Energy-Efficient Computing
• Resource Access Control and Security Protection
• Virtualization Technologies

Research Grants

• NSF, "CSR: Failure-Aware Monitoring and Management of Online Availability and Performance for Dependable Computing Clusters", 9/2009-8/2012 (PI).
• Amazon, "Advanced Distributed Computing on Amazon EC2 Cloud", 4/2012-3/2013 (PI).
• LANL, "An Infrastructure to Support Research on Dependable High-Productivity Cluster Systems", 11/2008-9/2009 (PI).
• Xilinx Inc., "Reconfigurable Computing on FPGAs", 10/2010-9/2011 (PI).
• UNT, "RIG: Autonomic Anomaly Identification for Developing Highly Dependable Cloud Computing Systems", 2/2012-1/2013 (PI).
• UNT, "ROP: Developing High-Productivity and Green Data Management Systems in Cloud Computing", 9/2011-8/2012 (PI).
• UNT, "RIG: Explore Failure Prediction for Proactive Resource Management in Dependable Networked Computer Systems", 1/2011-12/2011 (PI).
• NMT, "Failure-Aware Resource Management for High-Availability Computing with Reconfigurable Distributed Virtual Machines", 1/2010-12/2010 (PI).

Selected Publications

• Ensemble of Bayesian Predictors and Decision Trees for Proactive Failure Management in Cloud Computing Systems, Journal of  Communications, 2012.
• Characterizing Power and Energy Usage in Cloud Computing Systems, IEEE CloudCom'11.
• Experimental Framework for Injecting Logic Errors in a Virtual Machine to Profile Applications for Soft Error Resilience, Resilience in Euro-Par'11.
• Proactive Failure Management by Integrated Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Learning for Dependable Cloud Systems, IEEE ARES'11.
• macropower: A Coarse-Grain Power Profiling Framework for Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing, IEEE IPCCC'11.
• Ensemble of Bayesian Predictors for Autonomic Failure Management in Cloud Computing, IEEE ICCCN'11.
• Failure-Aware Resource Management for High-Availability Computing Clusters with Distributed Virtual Machines, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, 2010.
• Quantifying Event Correlations for Proactive Failure Management in Networked Computing Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, 2010.
• auto-AID: A Data Mining Framework for Autonomic Anomaly Identification in Networked Computer Systems, IEEE IPCCC'10.
• Failure-Aware Construction and Reconfiguration of Distributed Virtual Machines for High Availability Computing, IEEE/ACM CCGrid'09. 
• Random Choices for Churn Resilient Load Balancing in Peer-to-Peer Networks, IEEE/ACM IPDPS'08. 
• Exploring Event Correlation for Failure Prediction in Coalitions of Clusters, IEEE/ACM SC'07. 
• Quantifying Temporal and Spatial Correlation of Failure Events for Proactive Management, IEEE SRDS'07. 
• More …

Teaching

Dr. Fu teaches graduate and undergraduate course related to computer architecture, operating systems, and cloud, distributed and parallel computing.    

• CSCE 6680: Advanced Distributed Computing (Spring'12)

• CSCE 5933-003: Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (Spring'11)

• CSCE 3730: Reconfigurable Logic (Fall'11, Fall'10)

Students

Current graduate students and research associates in the Dependable Computing Systems (DCS) Lab:    

• Ziming Zhang  (PhD candidate. Internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2011)

• Qiang Guan  (PhD candidate. Internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2011)

• Mahendra Talasila  (PhD student, co-advised with Dr. Shengli Fu)

• Ritika Yadav  (Masters student)

• Neeraja Ganesh  (Masters student)

• Kalyan Peyyalametta  (Masters student)

• Chi-Chen Chiu  (Undergraduate research student)

• Oluwaseun Adeyemi  (Undergraduate research student)

• Michael Wang  (TAMS student)

• Yosef Borga  (Undergraduate research student, SUPER program, 2011)

Professional Services

Dr. Fu serves as an Editor and Guest Editor for three international journal. He has participated in the program committees of several international conferences and workshops in his field.

• Publication Chair, 30th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2011)
• Track Chair, 20th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2011)
• Registration Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Electronic System Design (ISED 2011)
• Poster Chair, 29th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2010)
• TPC, 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Software and Applications (COMPSAC 2012)
• TPC, 7th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2012)
• TPC, 6th FTRA International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2012)
• TPC, 16th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010)
• TPC, 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010)
• TPC, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010)
• TPC, International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2010)
• TPC, 10th IEEE International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks (I-SPAN 2009)
• TPC, ACM International Compute Conference (Compute 2009)
• TPC, IEEE International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST 2009)
• TPC, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2009)
• TPC, International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2009)
• TPC, IEEE/IFIP International Conference On Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2008)
• Paper Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS); IEEE Transactions on Computers (TOC); ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS); Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC); Journal of Systems and Software (JSS); Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Journal of Supercomputing (JSC).
• Member, ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Society Society.
• Member, CSE Executive Committee and CSE Undergraduate Committee at UNT.

Correspondence

Last updated in February 2012