Thomas. He received a Ph.D. from the George Washington University in 2014 (Advisor: Prof. H. Howie Huang). He interned at the AT&T Labs-Research in 2013. His passion is to tackle complex computer system problems with creative designs in algorithms and architectures. At a high level, his research interest is in the general areas of Computer Systems and Data Analytics, including Cloud Computing, Big Data, High-Performance Computing, Embedded, and Storage Systems. Dr. Chiang's research won a Best Student Paper Award Finalist at SC'11 and the Best of HotPower'11. His Mobile and Cloud Computing course is awarded grants by Amazon and IBM.