Yiqi Xu’s research focus is in the resource management of big-data systems, including parallel and distributed storage systems. His projects include vPFS, a framework that supports diverse plugins to achieve different types of Quality of Service (QoS) for parallel storage systems running in high-performance systems.
Yiqi is pursuing Ph.D. in the School of Computing and Information Sciences in FIU. Since 2009, he has been working with Dr. Ming Zhao in the Laboratory of Virtualized Infrastructure, Systems and Applications (VISA) in the School of Computing and Information Sciences.
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