Welcome to the Research Laboratory for Virtualized Infrastructure, Systems, and Applications (VISA) at Arizona State University (ASU).
Projects
Our team current works on a variety of exciting projects on cloud, HPC, and big data systems as well as operating systems and storage systems in general.
Publications
EuroSys’18: “RTVirt: Enabling Time-sensitive Computing on Virtualized Systems through Cross-layer CPU Scheduling”, EDGE’18: “Are Existing Knowledge Transfer Techniques Effective For Deep Learning on Edge Devices?” …
About Us
VISA Lab is a place for fun and productivity! We are looking for talented students to join us! We have multiple PhD positions with full scholarships and paid undergraduate positions.
LATEST NEWS
Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA)
Directed by Prof. Ming Zhao, the Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA) is a NSF funded Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) that addresses the challenges in real time data analytics and machine learning using accelerated and next generation systems. Faculty, spread across four university sites of ASU, Rutgers, UMBC, and U. of Miami participate[…]
MSST 2024 Call for Papers
The 37th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2024) will be held at Santa Clara University, in the heart of Silicon Valley, from June 3rd to 7th, 2024, and offer a full week dedicated to storage technology. This year’s conference will include a two-day research track of peer-reviewed papers on the design,[…]
ACM TOS Special Issue Call for Papers
ACM Transactions on Storage invites academic researchers and industry professionals from a broad range of disciplines to submit to the Special Issue on Past, Present, and Future of Storage Technologies. Guest Editors: Geoff Kuenning, Emeritus Professor at Harvey Mudd College, geoff@cs.hmc.edu Youjip Won, Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, ywon@kaist.ac.kr Ming Zhao, Associate Professor at the[…]
IEEE RSDM-GeoSci Workshop Keynote
Dr. Zhao gave a keynote talk at the IEEE RSDM-GeoSci Workshop on DataStorm (from Cloud to Edge)—A Data-driven System for Disaster Management
ICASSP Presentations
Dr. Zhao presented two papers at the flagship signal processing conference ICASSP and its satellite workshop on “A Contrastive Knowledge Transfer Framework for Model Compression and Transfer Learning” (YouTube video) and “Confidence-based Federated Distillation for Vision-based Lane-centering”.
IPDPS Paper
Dr. Zhao presented a paper on “GPU-enabled Function-as-a-Service for Machine Learning Inference” at a top distributed computing conference, IPDPS 2023.
AISTATS Paper
Congrats to VISA PhD student Kaiqi Zhao on her paper “Automatic Attention Pruning: Improving and Automating Model Pruning using Attentions” (YouTube Video) published and presented at AISTATS, a top AI conference.
VISA high-school researcher Alex Huang won 2nd place at AzSEF
VISA high-school researcher Alex Huang won 2nd place of Software Systems at the Arizona Science and Engineering Fair (AzSEF) for his project on Semantic Privacy-Preserving for Video Surveillance Services on the Edge. Congratulations Alex!
Tara won the 2nd place in graduate student poster competition
VISA master student Tara Paranjpe won the 2nd place in the ASU Institute for Social Science Research Graduate Student Poster Competition for her interdisciplinary project on real-time stress management.
Congrats to Tara and Sang-Hun on passing thesis defenses!
Tara Paranjpe’s Honors Thesis: “Investigating Stress Among Police Training Cadets Using Machine Learning” Sang-Hun Sim’s Master Thesis: “Exploration of Edge Machine Learning-Based Stress Prediction Using Wearable Devices”