Yin Lu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas Tech University in 2015. During his Ph.D.
study, he was the recipient of President's Collaborative Research Initiative Award in 2015, Summer
Dissertation Research Award in 2015, Best Research Poster Finalist of the 24th ACM/IEEE International
Conference for High Performance Computing Networking, Storage, and Analysis in 2012 and Best Paper
Award of the 7th International Conference on Future Information Technology in 2012. He has been
funded by the National Science Foundation, the IEEE Computer Society, and ACM/IEEE Supercomputing
Conference for student awards and grants for attending prestigious conferences such as the 28th IEEE
International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'14), the 25th ACM/IEEE International
Conference for High Performance Computing Networking, Storage, and Analysis(SC’13), the 27th
International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS'13), the 20th International ACM Symposium on HighPerformance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC’11) and 2011 Federated Computing Research
Conference (FCRC’11). He was a research aide at Argonne National Lab in the summer of 2013. He
joined the National Wind Institute team in October 2015, where he is presently a Research Associate.
Yin's current research interests can be divided into three groups: High-performance computing and
distributed computing; Parallel I/O and data-intensive I/O middleware; Data-focused scalable
cyberinfrastructure. He has authored/co-authored over 10 technical papers including peer-reviewed
journals and conference proceedings. He has served on program committees of several conferences and
workshops; some of the recent one’s being the 9th International Workshop on Parallel Programming
Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2'16), the 2015 Programming Models,
Languages and Compilers for Manycore and Heterogeneous Architectures International Workshop
(PLC’15), the 8th International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for
High-End Computing (P2S2'15), the 20th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
Systems (ICPADS'14), and the 2013 Multicore and GPU Programming Models, Languages and Compilers
Workshop (PLC'13). He has also served as a referee for numerous conferences, including the 2016
International Workshop of Software-Defined Data Communications and Storage (SDDCS'16), the 16th
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing(CCGrid'16), the 21st IEEE
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'15), the 2015 International
Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores (PMAM'15), the 6th
International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom'14), the 2014 IEEE
International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER'14), the 23rd International Conference on
Computer Communications and Networks(ICCCN'14), the 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud
Computing (Cloud'14), the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid
Computing (CCGrid'14), and the 2014 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications
for Multicores and Manycores (PMAM'14).
Yin was selected as the student volunteer in 2013 for SCinet - one of the most powerful and advanced
networks in the world. He was the graduate student mentor of Student Cluster Competition (SCC) Team
of Texas Tech University at the ACM/IEEE International High Performance Computing, Networking,
Storage, and Analysis Conference in 2012. He also participated in Research Experiences for
Undergraduates (REU) program supported by the National Science Foundation. One of his students’, Eric
Valenzuela, was placed 4th for ACM Student Research Competition in the 2014 ACM/IEEE
Supercomputing Conference.
His personal interests include running marathons, swimming and hiking with friends. He was the
champion of the 2014 TTU Computer Science department Invitational Ping Pong Tournament.