Short Bio
Zhiling Lan is a Professor of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology.
She is also a Guest Research Faculty at the Argonne National Laboratory.
She received her Ph.D.(Computer Engineering) in 2002 from Northwestern University (Thesis Advisor: Valerie Taylor).
She leads the SPEAR (Systems for Performance, Energy, and Resiliency) Team.
She is Associate Director of Scalable Computing Software Laboratory.

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 Research Expertise  --- scalable system software for large-scale HPC, AI, and data analytics

• Cluster Management (Resource Management and Job Scheduling)
• Interconnect Networks and Communication
• Performance Modeling and Simulation
• Power and Energy Efficiency
• Fault Tolerance

​Recent Professional Services

• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2014-2018
• Technical Program Committee (TPC): SC'14, Cluster'15, HPDC'15, HPDC'16, Cluster'16, CCGrid'17, SSDBM'17, HPCC'17, JSSPP'15-'21, SC'17, Cluster'17, CCGrid'18, ICPP'18, Cluster'18, SC'18, CCGrid'19, SC'19, ACM PADS'19, PADS'20, IISWC'20, Cluster'20, ICPP'21,CCGrid'21,FTXS'21, SC'21
  
• IPDPS'20 System Software Vice Chair, ACM ICS'17 Financial Chair, GCASR'17 Co-Chair