Lei Xu Resume
Lei Xu
*rd Year Computer Science Ph.D Candidate
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Email: ***@***.***.***
Webpage: http://cse.unl.edu/ lxu/
Mobile: 402-***-****
Research Interests
Performance, Scalability and Reliability of Large-Scale Storage System, Benchmark and Performance
Evaluation of Storage System, Metadata Management, File System, Distributed System, Cloud Com-
puting
Education
09/2008 05/2013(expected)
Ph.D Candidate, Computer Science
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Advisor: Hong Jiang and David Swanson
09/2001 06/2005
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Science and Technology
Wuhan University, Hubei, China.
09/2001 06/2005
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology
Wuhan University, Hubei, China.
Academic and Professional Experiences:
Fall 2009 present
Research Assistant
Professor Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Topic: Scalable and Reliable Metadata Organization with Semantic-Awareness
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Fall 2008 Summer 2009
Research Assistant
Professor David Swanson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Topic: Performance and Reliability Analyzing for Cluster Storage of High-End Computing
March 2007 May 2008
Co-founder and Software Architect Quarkware.com
I designed and implement a prototype for a Google File System like commercial cluster le system.
February 2006 February 2007
Software Engineer Roxbeam.com
Being a member of P2P VOD Group, I wrote several P2P servers in P2P VOD System.
Designed and wrote a system-wide monitor system.
An ajax based web interface for P2P Player
July 2005 January 2006
Storage Optimizing Engineer Sina.com
I designed and implemented a distributed storage migrating system, which was used to detect healthy
status of mail servers and provide strategies of balancing the storage between servers.
Selected Publications
1. Jian Hu, Hong Jiang, Lei Tian, Lei Xu, PUD-LRU: An Erase-E cient Write Bu er Manage-
ment Algorithm for Flash Memory SSD, MASCOTS 2010.
2. Lei Xu, Hong Jiang, Lei Tian, Hi re: A High Fidelity Trace Replayer for Large-Scale Storage
Systems, Work-in-Progress in FAST 10,
Major abilities:
Programming Languages
Expert in C++/C/Python. Four years experience of developing distributed system in ACE,
Twisted.
Strong skills in Java. Contributed several patches for Hadoop.
Good skills in Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, Bash, Awk, Sed.
Others
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Strong knowledges about Google File System/Hadoop, ext3/4 le, FUSE systems. I con-
tributed several patches for Hadoop Distributed File System(HDFS).
Strong knowledges of le system implementations, FUSE.
Familiar with MapReduce model and distributed computing.
6+ Years experiences of Linux/FreeBSD development.
Experience with Linux Kernel, File System, Distributed File System, Google File System,
Hadoop, Dcache.
Experience with RAID, Solid State Disk.
Strong knowledges about Network Programming, Multi-Threads/Multi-Core Programming.
Good at algorithms, data structures, design patterns, extreme programming.
Personal Activities
Membership in Professional Societies
Student Member, USENIX
Awards
USENIX Student Grent, 8th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies(FAST 10)
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