Dr. Xian-He Sun is the Director of the SCS laboratory and an IEEE fellow. He is a University Distinguished Professor and the Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair of Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology. His current research interests include parallel and distributed processing, memory and I/O systems, software system for Big Data applications, and performance evaluation and optimization.

Dr. Anthony Kougkas is the director of I/O research development within the SCS lab and the Lead Researcher on the multi-million collaborative NSF-funded project Hermes. He received his PhD under Dr. Sun and he is an expert in Parallel and Distributed systems, Parallel I/O optimizations, HPC systems, I/O Convergence, and I/O Advanced Buffering.