PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

    Program Committee Member

• ICDCS 2016; BDCloud 2016; IPCCC 2016


• PMAM 2015; IPCCC 2015


• CIKM 2014; IPCCC 2014; MEDES 2014

    Reviewer for Journal

• IEEE Transactions on Prallel and Distributed Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering
• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
• IEEE Network Magzine

AWARDS AND HONORS

• CCF BigData 2017 Best Student Paper Award, 2017


• 3rd National Cloud Computing Application and Innovation Contest Best Instructor Award, 2017


• NDBC 2015 Best Paper Award, 2015


• SOCC 2011 Paper of Distinction, 2011

AWARDS OF MY STUDENTS

• Second Place Award in the 4th National Cloud Computing Application and Innovation Contest (Fangjing Wang, Yabing Zhu, Jingjing Chen, Huili Yang), 2018


• CCF BigData 2017 Best Student Paper Award (Xiaowang Kong), 2017


• First Place Award in the 3rd National Cloud Computing Application and Innovation Contest (Xuan Zhou, Liang Geng, Xiaowang Kong, Xun Wei), 2017


• Excellent Master Degree Thesis of Liaoning Province (Shufeng Gong), 2016


• NDBC 2015 Best Paper Award (Shufeng Gong), 2015


• NDBC 2015 Sashixuan Excellent Student Paper (Shufeng Gong), 2015

PUBLICATIONS

• SQLoop: High Performance Iterative Processing in Data Management
  Sofoklis Floratos, Yanfeng Zhang, Yuan Yuan, Rubao Lee, and Xiaodong Zhang
  38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2018), Vienna, Austria, 2018.
• A Low-cost Disk Solution Enabling LSM-tree to Achieve High Performance for Mixed Read/Write Workloads
  Dejun Teng, Lei Guo, Rubao Lee, Feng Chen, Yanfeng Zhang, Siyuan Ma, and Xiaodong Zhang
  ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 14(2), Apr, 2018, pp. 15:1-15:26.
• Accelerating distributed Expectation-Maximization algorithms with frequent updates
  Jiangtao Yin, Yanfeng Zhang, Lixin Gao
  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 111, Jan, 2018, pp. 65-75.
• Clustering Stream Data by Exploring the Evolution of Density Mountain
  Shufeng Gong, Yanfeng Zhang, Ge Yu
  Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 11(4):393-405, 2017.
• bHash: An I/O Efficient External Hash Grouping Scheme  Best Student Paper Award
  Xiaowang Kong, Yanfeng Zhang, Ge Yu
  5th CCF BigData Conference (CCF BigData 2017), Shenzhen, China, 2017.
• LSbM-tree: Re-Enabling Buffer Caching in Data Management for Mixed Reads and Writes
  Dejun Teng, Lei Guo, Rubao Lee, Feng Chen, Siyuan Ma, Yanfeng Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang:
  37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), Atlanta, USA, 2017.
• Efficient Distributed Density Peaks for Clustering Large Data Sets in MapReduce (Extended Abstract) (TKDE Poster)
  Yanfeng Zhang, Shimin Chen, Ge Yu
  33rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2017), San Diego, USA, 2017.
• Efficient Distributed Density Peaks for Clustering Large Data Sets in MapReduce
  Yanfeng Zhang, Shimin Chen, Ge Yu
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 28(12), December, 2016, pp. 3218-3230.
• EDDPC: An Efficient Distributed Density Peaks Clustering Algorithm
  Shufeng Gong, Yanfeng Zhang
  Journal of Computer Research and Development 53(6), June, 2016, pp.1567-1579. (In Chinese)
• i2MapReduce: Incremental MapReduce for Mining Evolving Big Data (Extended Abstract) (TKDE Poster)
  Yanfeng Zhang, Shimin Chen, Qiang Wang, Ge Yu
  32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2016), Helsinki, Finland, 2016.
• i2MapReduce: Incremental MapReduce for Mining Evolving Big Data [technical report]
  Yanfeng Zhang, Shimin Chen, Qiang Wang, Ge Yu
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 27(7), July, 2015, pp.1906-1919.
• EDDPC: An Efficient Distributed Density Peaks Clustering Algorithm  Best Paper Award
  Shufeng Gong, Yanfeng Zhang
  The 32nd National Database Conference (NDBC 2015) Chengdu, China, Oct. 2015.
• Asyn-SimRank: An Asynchronous Large-Scale SimRank Algorithm (In Chinese)
  Chunlei Wang, Yanfeng Zhang, Yubin Bao, Changkuan Zhao, Ge Yu, Lixin Gao
  Journal of Computer Research and Development, 52(7), 2015.
• Maiter: An Asynchronous Graph Processing Framework for Delta-based Accumulative Iterative Computation [Supplemental File]
  Yanfeng Zhang, Qixin Gao, Lixin Gao, Cuirong Wang
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 25(8), August, 2014, pp.2091-2100.
• Mux-Kmeans: Multiplex Kmeans for Clustering Large-scale Data Set
  Chen Li, Yanfeng Zhang, Minghai Jiao, Ge Yu
  Proc. 5th Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud 2014), Vancouver, Canada, June 2014.
• MaiterStore: A Hot-aware, High-Performance Key-Value Store for Graph Processing
  Dong Chang, Yanfeng Zhang, Ge Yu
  Proc. 2nd Workshop on Big Data Management and Analytics (BDMA 2014), Bali, Indonesia, April 2014.
• Asynchronous Computation Model for Large-Scale Iterative Computations
  Yanfeng Zhang, Qixin Gao, Lixin Gao, Cuirong Wang
  In Xiaolin Li, Judy Qiu (Eds.), Cloud Computing for Data-Intensive Applications, Springer Press, 2014, pp.303-329.
• Extending MapReduce for Iterative Processing
  Yanfeng Zhang, Qixin Gao, Lixin Gao, Cuirong Wang
  In Sherif Sakr, Mohamed Gaber (Eds.), Large Scale and Big Data: Processing and Management, CRC Press, 2014, pp.107-126.
• PrIter: A Distributed Framework for Prioritized Iterative Computations  [Supplemental File]
  Yanfeng Zhang, Qixin Gao, Lixin Gao, Cuirong Wang
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 24(9), September, 2013, pp. 1884-1893.
• i2MapReduce: Incremental Iterative MapReduce [slides]
  Yanfeng Zhang, Shimin Chen
  2nd International Workshop on Cloud Intelligence (Cloud-I 2013), Riva del Garda, Italy, August 2013.
• Accelerating Expectation-Maximization Algorithms with Frequent Updates
  Jiangtao Yin, Yanfeng Zhang, Lixin Gao
  Proc. IEEE CLUSTER 2012, Beijing, China, September 2012.
• Accelerate Large-Scale Iterative Computation through Asynchronous Accumulative Updates [slides]
  Yanfeng Zhang, Qixin Gao, Lixin Gao, Cuirong Wang
  Proc. 3rd Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud 2012), Delft, Netherlands, June 2012.
• iMapReduce: A Distributed Computing Framework for Iterative Computation
  Yanfeng Zhang, Qixin Gao, Lixin Gao, Cuirong Wang
  Journal of Grid Computing, 10(1), March, 2012, pp.47-68.
• PrIter: A Distributed Framework for Prioritized Iterative Computations [slides]  Honored as Paper of Distinction
  Yanfeng Zhang, Qixin Gao, Lixin Gao, Cuirong Wang
  Proc. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC 2011), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.
• iMapReduce: A Distributed Computing Framework for Iterative Computation [slides]
  Yanfeng Zhang, Qixin Gao, Lixin Gao, Cuirong Wang
  Proc. International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Cloud (DataCloud 2011), Alaska, USA, May 2011.
• MultiNet: Multiple Virtual Networks for a Reliable Live Streaming Service
  Yanfeng Zhang, Lixin Gao, Cuirong Wang
  Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM '09), Hawaii, USA, November 2009.
• Weighted Size-Aware Packet Distribution for Multipath Live Streaming
  Yanfeng Zhang, Cuirong Wang, Yuan Gao
  Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC '09), Dresden, Germany, June 2009.