Weijun Xiao has been named a Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow), a postdoctoral fellowship program developed by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and the Computing Research Association (CRA), with funding from the National Science Foundation. This award is extremely competitive, with fewer than 12% of 526 applicants receiving the awards this year (fewer than 5% for international students). The fellowship will grant him $140,000 to support his postdoctoral work at the University of Minnesota hosted by Professor David Lilja.
Weijun defended his dissertation in May on "Design and Analysis of High-performance and Recoverable Data Storage" under the supervision of Professor Qing Yang. His research interests span Recoverable Data Storage, Networked Storage Systems, Distributed Systems, and GPU Computing. With this CIFellow award, he will continue his research on storage class memories for high-performance computing.