Biography

Dongfang Zhao is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Washington (UW), where he is affiliated with the Tacoma School of Engineering & Technology, the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, and the eScience Institute. His research focuses on databases, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence. Before joining UW, he held faculty positions at UC Davis and the University of Nevada, and worked in various government and industry labs, including Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and IBM Almaden Research Center. He completed his MS at Emory University, PhD at Illinois Tech, and postdoctoral fellowship at UW. Before moving to the U.S., he studied engineering, computer science, and statistics at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Research

• I found the High-Performance and Data-Intensive Computing (HPDIC) research lab
• Publications indexed by third-parties: Google Scholar (overestimated due to my popular Chinese name), DBLP (missing some works)
• If you are interested in working or collaborating with me, here in the following are some potential topics:
  • [PAKDD'24] Towards Nonparametric Topological Layers in Neural Networks
  • [SIGMOD'23] Toward Efficient Homomorphic Encryption for Outsourced Databases through Parallel Caching
  • [SC'21] BAASH: lightweight, efficient, and reliable blockchain-as-a-service for HPC systems
  • [ICDE'21] SciChain: Blockchain-enabled Lightweight and Efficient Data Provenance for Reproducible Scientific Computing
  • [AAAI'20] HDK: Toward High Performance Deep-Learning-Based Kirchhoff Analysis
  • [SC'19] Swift machine learning model serving scheduling: a region based reinforcement learning approach
  • [VLDB'17] Comparative Evaluation of Big-Data Systems on Scientific Image Analytics Workloads

Teaching

In 2024-2025, I teach

• CSE 499: Reading and Research

I have been the primary advisor of the following graduate students (graduation year, degree, name, first employment):

• 2024, MSc, Soumya Naraparaju, Software Engineer at Amazon, USA
• 2023, PhD, Olamide Tawose, Assistant Professor at Lincoln University, USA
• 2022, PhD, Abdullah Al-Mamun, Assistant Professor at Augusta University, USA
• 2021, MSc, Jianing Zhuang, Software Engineer at Microsoft, USA
• 2020, MSc, Bin Li, Software Engineer at Google, USA

Resources

• UW CSE: bicycle.cs.washington.edu
• UW Web: ovid.u.washington.edu
• UW HPC: klone.hyak.uw.edu
• TACC Cloud: 129.114.109.16