Min Feng

Research Interests

• Compilers and Architectures for Parallel Systems
• Software Tools for Debugging

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, expected to graduate in Summer 2012, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA, Advisor: Rajiv Gupta
• M.Phil. in Computer Science, Aug 2007, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Advisor: Liu Wenyin
• B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology, Jul 2005, Tongji University, Shanghai, PR. China

Publications

Compilers and Architectures:

1. Chen Tian, Min Feng, and Rajiv Gupta, “Software Based Speculative Parallelization For Multicore/Manycore Architecture”, Programming Multi-core and Many-core Computing Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Edited by S. Pllana and F. Xhafa, to appear, June 2012.
2. Min Feng, Rajiv Gupta, and Iulian Neamtiu, “Effective Parallelization of Loops in the Presence of I/O Operations”, ACM SIGPLAN 2012 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Beijing, China, June 2012. 18.8% (48/255)
3. Min Feng, Chen Tian, and Rajiv Gupta, “Enhancing LRU Replacement via Phantom Associativity”, 16th Workshop on Interaction between Compilers and Computer Architectures (INTERACT), 8 pages, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2012.
4. Min Feng, Changhui Lin, and Rajiv Gupta, “PLDS: Partitioning Linked Data Structures for Parallelism”, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) special issue on High-Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC), pages 38:1-38:21, volume 8, issue 4, Jan 2012.
5. Min Feng, Chen Tian, Changhui Lin, and Rajiv Gupta, “Dynamic Access Distance Driven Cache Replacement”, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), pages 14:1-14:30, volume 8, issue 3, Oct 2011.
6. Min Feng, Rajiv Gupta, and Yi Hu, “SpiceC: Scalable Parallelism via Implicit Copying and Explicit Commit”, 16th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), pages 69-80, San Antonio, TX, Feb 2011. 15.8% (26/165)
7. Chen Tian, Changhui Lin, Min Feng, and Rajiv Gupta, “Enhanced Speculative Parallelization Via Incremental Recovery”, 16th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), pages 189-200, San Antonio, TX, Feb 2011. 15.8% (26/165)
8. Chen Tian, Min Feng, and Rajiv Gupta, “Supporting Speculative Parallelization in the Presence of Dynamic Data Structures”, ACM SIGPLAN 2010 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), pages 62-73,Toronto, Canada, June 2010. 20.1% (41/204)
9. Chen Tian, Min Feng, and Rajiv Gupta, “Speculative Parallelization Using State Separation and Multiple Value Prediction”, Ninth International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM), pages 63-72, Toronto, Canada, June 2010. 43.3% (13/30)
10. Chen Tian, Min Feng, Vijay Nagarajan, and Rajiv Gupta, “Speculative Parallelization of Sequential Loops On Multicores”, International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP), pages 508-535, volume 37, number 5, October 2009.
11. Chen Tian, Min Feng, Vijay Nagarajan, and Rajiv Gupta, “Copy Or Discard Execution Model For Speculative Parallelization On Multicores”, IEEE/ACM 41th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), pages 330-341, Lake Como, Italy, November 2008. 19.0% (40/210)

12. Min Feng, Rajiv Gupta, and Iulian Neamtiu, “Programming and Compiling Speculatively Executed Code in C/C++”, in submission.

Software Engineering:

13. Min Feng and Rajiv Gupta, “Learning Universal Probabilistic Models for Fault Localization”, Ninth ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE), pages 81-88, Toronto, Canada, June 2010. 41.4% (12/29)
14. Min Feng and Rajiv Gupta, “Detecting Virus Mutations Via Dynamic Matching”, International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), pages 105-114, Edmonton, Canada, September 2009. 21.6% (35/162)
15. Dennis Jeffrey, Min Feng, Neelam Gupta, and Rajiv Gupta, “BugFix: A Learning-Based Tool to Assist Developers in Fixing Bugs”, IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), pages 70-79, Vancouver, Canada, May 2009. 27.0% (20/74)

16. Yan Wang, Min Feng, Rajiv Gupta, and Iulian Neamtiu, “QuickZoom: A State Alteration and Inspection-based Interactive Debugger”, in submission.

Publications in Other Areas:

17. Yi Hu, Laxmi N. Bhuyan, and Min Feng, “Maintaining Data Consistency in Structured P2P Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 14 pages, to appear, 2012.
18. Yi Hu, Laxmi N. Bhuyan, and Min Feng, “P2P Consistency Support for Large Scale Interactive Applications”, Computer Networks, 15 pages, to appear, 2012.
19. Yi Hu, Min Feng, and Laxmi N. Bhuyan, “A Balanced Consistency Maintenance Protocol for Structured P2P Systems”, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), mini conference, pages 1-5, San Diego, USA, March 2010. 24.3% (382/1575)
20. Yi Hu, Min Feng, Laxmi N. Bhuyan, and Vana Kalogeraki, “Budget-Based Self-Optimized Incentive Search in Unstructured P2P Networks”, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), pages 352-360, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009. 19.7% (282/1435)
21. Liu Wenyin, Xiaojun Quan, Min Feng, Bite Qiu, “A Short Text Modeling Method Combining Semantic and Statistical Information”, Information Sciences: an International Journal, volume 180, issue 20, October 2010.
22. Liu Wenyin, Tianyong Hao, Wei Chen, and Min Feng, “A Web-based Platform for User-Interactive Question-Answering”, World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems, volume 12, issue 2, pages 107-124, June 2009.
23. Dawei Hu, Wei Chen, Qingtian Zeng, Tianyong Hao, Min Feng, and Liu Wenyin, “Using a User-interactive QA System for Personalized E-learning”, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, volume 6, issue 3, pages 1-22, 2008.
24. Wang Weiming, Dawei Hu, Min Feng, and Liu Wenyin, “Automatic Clinical Question Answering Based on UMLS Relations”, International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, Xi’An, China, October 2007.
25. Liu Xiaoli, Dawei Hu, Min Feng, and Liu Wenyin, “Semantic Pattern Based Dependency Matching for Exact Answer Retrieval”, International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, Xi’An, China, October 2007.
26. Wanpeng Song, Min Feng, Naijie Gu, and Liu Wenyin, “Question Similarity Calculation for FAQ Answering”, International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, Xi’An, China, October 2007.
27. Min Feng, Wenyin Liu and and Wei Chen, “Answer Clustering and Fusion in a User-interactive QA System”, International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid, Guilin, China, 2006.
28. Liu Wenyin, Qingtian Zeng, Wei Chen, Min Feng and Wan Zhang, “Using a User-interactive QA System to Capture Student's Interest and Authority about Course Content”, International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL), Penang, Malaysia, 2006.
29. Min Feng, Wan Zhang, and Liu Wenyin, “Symbol Recognition Using Bipartite Transformation Distance and Angular Distribution Alignment”, Graphics Recognition. Ten Years Review and Future Perspectives (GREC), volume 3926, pages 398-407, 2006.

Posters and Talks:

1. Min Feng, Rajiv Gupta, and Laxmi N. Bhuyan, “Speculative Parallelization on GPGPUs”, 17th ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), New Orleans, LA, Feb 2012.
2. Min Feng, Rajiv Gupta, and Iulian Neamtiu, “The SpiceC Parallel Programming System”, SoCal Programing Languages and Systems Workshop (SoCal), San Diego, Dec 2011.

Honors and Awards

• Dissertation Year Program Award by University of California, Riverside, 2011-2012.
• The 9th Place (out of 77) in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Asia Regional, Beijing, as coach, Sep 2004.
• The 5th Place (out of 126) in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Asia Regional, Bombay, Dec 2003.
• The 3rd Place Award in RoboCup Simulation League of 2nd Chinese Robot Competition, Aug 2003.
• The 4th Place (out of 106) in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Asia Regional, Xi’an, Nov 2002.
• The 9th Place (out of 91) in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Asia Regional, Beijing, Oct 2002.

Teaching Experience

• Teaching assistance in Compiler Construction, spring 2010.
• Teaching assistance in Compiler Design, winter 2010.
• Teaching assistance in Compiler Construction, spring 2009.
• Teaching assistance in Introduction to Computer Science, winter 2008.
• Teaching assistance in Introduction to Computer Science, fall 2007.

Professional Activities

Reviewing for Conferences

• (SAMOS 2012) International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation.
• (ISCA 2012) The 39th International Symposium on Computer Architecture.
• (PPoPP 2012) ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practices of Parallel Programming.
• (POPL 2012) ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages.
• (ASPLOS 2012) ACM International Conf. on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems.
• (EXADAPT 2011) Second International Workshop on Adaptive Self-tuning Computing Systems for the Exaflop Era.
• (RV 2011) Second International Conference on Runtime Verification.
• (APLAS 2011) The Ninth ASIAN Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems.
• (CASES 2011) International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis of Embedded Systems.
• (ISMM 2011) International Symposium on Memory Management.
• (SAMOS 2011) International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation.
• (CGO 2011) IEEE-ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization.
• (ISPASS  2011) IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software.
• (QSIC 2011) 11th International Conference on Quality Software.
• (SAC 2011) ACM Symposium on Applied Computing.
• (INTERACT 2011) Workshop on Interaction Between Compilers and Computer Architectures.
• (PLDI 2010) ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Languages Design and Implementation.
• (CASES 2010) International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis of Embedded Systems.
• (PACT 2010) International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques.
• (RV 2010) First International Conference on Runtime Verification.
• (CGO 2010) IEEE-ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization.
• (HiPEAC 2010) International Conference on High Performance Embedded Architectures and Compilers.
• (SAMOS 2010) International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation.
• (ICESS 2010) 7th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems
• (SAC 2010) ACM Symposium on Applied Computing.
• (QSIC 2010) 10th International Conference on Quality Software.
• (INTERACT 2010) Workshop on Interaction between Compilers and Computer Architectures.
• (PACT 2009) International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques.
• (ICESS 2009) Sixth IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems.
• (SAMOS 2009) International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation.
• (APLAS 2008) The Sixth ASIAN Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems.
• (CASES 2008) International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems.

Reviewing for Journals

• (IEEE Micro) IEEE Micro magazine.
• (PARCO) Parallel Computing.
• (IEEE TC) IEEE Transactions on Computers.
• (ACM TECS) ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.

Other Activities

• Web Chair, 16th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) 2011.