Yue Cheng, an assistant professor of computer science, recently received two prestigious research awards.
Cheng is one of three 2022 recipients of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society Technical Community on High Performance Computing Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing.
He also has won a Meta Research Award for AI Systems Hardware/Software Codesign for his proposal, “Serverless and scalable GNN training with disaggregated compute and storage.”Cheng holds dual appointments as an assistant professor in the School of Data Science and in the Department of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA's faculty in 2022, he was an assistant professor of computer science at George Mason University.
Cheng's research interests include distributed systems, cloud and serverless computing, high-performance computing and operating systems. His research is driven by the complexities of modern data-intensive computer systems, and the need for more efficient and easy-to-use approaches to manage such complexities.