• Kang CHEN

• Professor

• Department of Computer Science and Technology

• Joined Department: 2007

• Email:kang.chen.tsinghua@gmail.com

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• Phone:+86-10-62783505 ext. 5

• Fax:+86-10-62771138

Education background

Bachelor of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1999;

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2004.

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

Storage Systems, Distributed Systems

National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on Key Technologies of Network-based Virtualization of Multiple Computing Resources (2010-2012);

National Basic Research Program of China (The 973 Program): Research on the Virtualization of Multiple Computing Resources (2007-2011).

Research Status

My current research focuses on system virtualization. Before joining Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University, I worked at Intel China Research Center where I did some research on data streaming in the grid environment. I have also worked on Chinese natural language processing while I was doing research at City University in Hong Kong between 2001 and 2002.

We have built a system which uses virtual machines to form virtual clusters, so that users and applications can be provided with customized environment such as tailored operating systems and specified application environment. I have also done some work on distributed data processing. By using transparent data streaming mode, traditional applications that use file system for data storing can be coupled together in a network environment. In the area of Chinese natural language processing, we have proposed a method using character count of substring accessors (predecessors and successors). The larger the count value, the more likely the substring is a word. In this way, words can be extracted from a collection of raw text.

Academic Achievement

[1] Haodi Feng, Kang Chen, Xiaotie Deng, Weimin Zheng, Accessor Variety Criteria for Chinese Word Extraction, Computational Linguistics, Volume 30, Number 1, 1 March 2004, pp. 75-93(19)

[2] Kang Chen, Meiming Shen, Weimin Zheng. Resources Allocation Schemas for Web Information Monitoring. TSINGHUA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2005 Vol.10 No.3 P.309-315

[3] Kang Chen, Zhiteng Huang, Bingchen Li, Eric Huang, Hrabri L. Rajic, Robert H. Kuhn, Wenguang Chen, Distributed File Streamer: A Framework for Distributed Application Data Coupling, The 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing, Barcelona, September 28th-29th 2006

[4] Kang Chen, Jun Xin, Weimin Zheng, VirtualCluster: Customizing the Cluster Environment through Virtual Machines, 2008 International Workshop on End-User Virtualization (EUV'08), Shanghai, China, Dec. 17-20, 2008

[5] Kang Chen, Hongliang Yu, Kun Zhang, Adaptive Replication Management Algorithm based on Location and File Popularity for Peer-to-Peer Network, Journal of Computers, vol.10, 2009 (in Chinese)

[6] Kang Chen, Weimin Zheng, Cloud Computing: System Instances and Current Research, Journal of Software, 2009,20(5):1337-1348 (in Chinese)