Weikuan Yu

Weikuan Yu @ Florida State University Mainline Information Systems Endowed Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science
Office: 259 James Love Bldg.
Mail: 1017 Academic Way, 253 Bldg. LOV,
          Dept. of Computer Science, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4530
Tel: +1 (850) 644-5442; Fax: +1 (850) 644-0058
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About

Weikuan (Will) Yu is a full professor and the department chair in the Computer Science Department at Florida State University (FSU). He has founded the Computer Architecture and SysTems Research Laboratory (CASTL) at FSU. Yu has broad research interests spanning computer architecture and systems, cloud computing, parallel file and storage systems, deep learning and data analytics. Dr. Yu has graduated many doctoral and master students who upon graduation joined prestigious organizations such as Boeing, Yahoo, Intel, IBM, Amazon, Oak Ridge National Lab, Berkeley Lab, Argonne Lab, Arista Networks, and other industry positions.
Yu's research has been supported for nearly $8 million by many federal and commercial sponsors including NASA, NSF, DOE (ORNL and LLNL), Alabama Department of Commerce, Mellanox, Intel, NVIDIA, and Scitor, with Yu serving as the PI for more than $6 million. His research also has been supported through equipment donations from Mellanox, NVIDIA, and Solarflare. Yu is a senior member of IEEE and member of AAAS, ACM and USENIX.

Teaching

Prospective Students

University Services

  1. Chair - Department of Computer Science, 2023-2026.
  2. Associate Chair for Research - Department of Computer Science, 2022-2023.
  3. Trainee - FSU Emerging Leadership Program, 2020-2021.
  4. Member - FSU Research Infrastructure and Technology Taskforce (RITT), 2020-present.
  5. Member - FSU Research Computing Advisory Council, 2020-present.
  6. Chair - CS Faculty Search Committee, 2018-2020.
  7. Member - FSU Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine (CGPM) Executive Committee, 2018-2019.
  8. Member - CS Chair Selection Committee, 2016-2017.
  9. Member - CS Graduate Admission Committee, 2015-2017.

External Services

  1. Editorial Excellence Award (2020) - IEEE TPDS editorial board
  2. Associate Editor for TPDS (2018-2022)
  3. Supercomputing (SC) (2010, 2013, 2017, 2021), TPC member
  4. INFOCOM (2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), TPC member
  5. HPDC (2022, 2023, 2024), TPC member
  6. ICDCS (2021), TPC member
  7. IPDPS (2020, 2021, 2022), TPC member
  8. Cluster (2012, 2015, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023), TPC member
  9. CCGrid (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022) TPC member
  10. IEEE BigData (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018), TPC member
  11. HPCC 2017, TPC member
  12. ICPP (2007, 2008), TPC member
  13. PC Vice Chair: NAS 2015 Network Track.
  14. PC Co-Chair: DISCS 2015, 2014 International Workshop on Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS-2014).
  15. Co-Chair: Dagstuhl Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of User-Level File Systems for HPC, 2015.
  16. Panelist: NASA 2017, NIH 2014, NSF (2020, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010), DOE ASCR (2023, 2011), NIST BTOP 2009.
  17. External Proposal Reviewer: Hong Kong RGC (2014), Canada NSERC (2014)
  18. Technical Reviewers for major journals such as TCBB, TPDS, TC, JPDC, IEEE Micro, IEEE Computer, PLOS One, etc.

Last Modified: August 3, 2023