School of Computing

Frank Wang

Professor in Future Computing, Head of School of Computing

Photo of FZ Wang, if available

Canterbury

  • Tel: +44(0)1227 (82)3017
  • Fax: +44(0)1227 762811
  • Email: F.Z.Wang@kent.ac.uk
  • Room S115A
    Cornwallis South
    University of Kent
    Canterbury
    Kent CT2 7NF

Medway

  • Tel: +44 (0)1634 202988
  • Fax: +44 (0)1634 888900
  • Email: F.Z.Wang@kent.ac.uk
  • Room M312
    Medway Building
    Chatham Maritime
    Kent ME4 4AG
Personal Assistant: J.Teulings@kent.ac.uk

Publications

My publications are available from the Computer Science department publications repository.

Professor Wang has a publication record including a book, 68 journal papers [ 13 IEEE Transactions such as IEEE Transactions on Computers, 3 ACM publications such as ACM Operating System Review, etc.], 53 conference papers, and 4 book chapters (Wiley/Elsevier/Cambridge University Press, Springer, including Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering by Wiley).

Research Interests

I belong to the following research groups:

My Current Research Interests

  • Brain-like Computer via memristor
  • Cloud/Grid Computing
  • The Internet of the Future
  • Data Storage & Data Communication
  • Green Computing

Teaching

I teach on Cloud Computing (CO846) and Green Computing (CO847) modules at the postgraduate level. I supervise students on CO600 (BSc Project) and CO880 (MSc Project). I am also leading a new MSc course on Future Computing.

Personal Interests

I love playing football and tennis.

PhD supervision

  • PhD candidate: Mian-Guan Lim, Sponsored by EPSRC, 2008-2012
  • PhD candidate: Md Mamunur Rashid, sponsored by EC CERN Doctoral Scholarship, 2007-2011
  • PhD candidate: Unekwu Solomon Idachaba, from NHS, p/t, 2010-2016
  • PhD candidate: Xiao Yang, 2010-2014.
  • MSc Res/PhD candidate: Bin Ye, 2011-2016.
  • PhD candidate: Wanlong Chen, 2011-2015.
  • PhD candidate: Khaled Alanazi, accepted, to be sponsored by The Saudi Arabian government, 2012-2016.>
  • Visiting Scholar: Jiyuan Li (Wuhan University), sponsor: Chinese Governmental Scholarship Council, 2011-2013.
  • PhD candidate: Gbola Akanmu, sponsored by the Nigerian Government, 2012-2016.

Recent Academic Activities

  • General Co-Chair, International Conference on Cloud and Service Computing (CSC 2012), Shanghai, November 22-24, 2012
  • Keynote speech, International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, London, 10th December 2012
  • Keynote speech, Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference 2011, Colchester, UK, 12 September 2012
  • Invited talk, CloudCon-2012, Dalian, China, 28 August 2012
  • Invited talk, London, 25th June 2012
  • Keynote Speech, WorldCIS-2012, Toronto, Canada, 10 June, 2012
  • Keynote speech, International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology, Chennai, India, 19th April 2012
  • Keynote Speech, 14th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation (UKSim), Cambridge, UK, 28 March 2012
  • Invited talk at Bournemouth University, UK, 8th March, 2012
  • Honorary General Chair, The International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (CICN), Gwalior, India, 7-9 Oct 2011.
  • Keynote Speech, "Green Computing", World Congress on Sustainable IT, London, 9 November 2011
  • Keynote Speech, "Towards 2020 Computing", IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks, 26-28 July, 2011, Indonesia
  • Keynote Speech, "Towards 2020 Computing", International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), 27-29 June 2011, London

Professor Frank Zhigang Wang, FBCS, SMIEEE, PhD, MSc, BSc

Prof. Frank Wang is Head of School, School of Computing (formerly known as Computing Laboratory), University of Kent, UK. In 1987 the Computing Laboratory Extension was formally opened by Her Majesty the Queen. In 1998 the University of Kent becomes the first European university to be recognised as an Authorised Academic Java™ Campus, reflecting the University's position as a 'first-tier' university in Computer Science. Kent was placed 24th out of 159 participating institutions in terms of the 4* (World Leading) research according to the UK Government's 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.

In 2004, Frank's appointment as Chair & Professor in Grid Computing & e-Science was seen as crucial to the initiative of the CCHPCF (Cambridge-Cranfield High Performance Computing Facility), which is a collaborative research facility in the Universities of Cambridge and Cranfield (with an investment size of 40 million GBPs). As the founding Director, Professor Frank Wang and his colleagues at Centre for Grid Computing have been developing a Grid Computing platform. This platform can universally accelerate Office/Database/Web/Media applications by a factor up to ten. This work won an ACM/IEEE Super Computing Finalist Award in 2007. Positive comments have been received, including "This is a famous follow-on project :-)"--- Professor. Garth Gibson, Father of NAS & NASD, Carnegie Mellon University, "It is certainly first of its kind" -- an EC reviewer, and "This proposed work has all the potentials of keeping the UK research and development - world class." -an EPSRC reviewer. A number of collaborations have been fostered with industrial giants, including IBM, BBC, Microsoft, Xerox, CERN, Rolls Royce, HP and EADS.

Professor Frank Wang and his colleagues are also pioneering Grid Computing education. In 2005, they launched a new MSc Programme in Grid Computing that is the first in UK and the second in the world. Two of their students have been recruited by Microsoft, and another student, Mr. Christos Melissidis, won the Champion of the Grid Computing Competition organized by British Computer Society (BCS) in 2008.

Professor Wang's research interest includes Future Computing, Green Computing (via memristor), Grid/Cloud Computing, Biologically-inspired Computing, Quantum Computing/Communication, Data Storage & Data Communication, and Data Mining and Data Warehousing, etc. His publications include a book, 68 journal papers [13 IEEE Transactions such as IEEE Transactions on Computers, 3 ACM publications such as ACM Operating System Review, etc], 53 conference papers, and 4 book chapters (Wiley/Elsevier/Cambridge/Springer, including Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering by Wiley).

Prof Wang was elected as the Chairman (UK & Republic of Ireland Chapter) of the IEEE Computer Society in 2005. He is Fellow of British Computer Society. He serves the High End Computing Panel for Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the UK Government EPSRC e-Science Panel. Frank has attracted a number of EC/EPSRC/DTI/Industrial grants, totaling a few million euros. He has been invited to present keynote speeches and other invited talks at Princeton University (USA), Carnegie Mellon University (USA), Oxford University (UK), Edinburgh University (UK), CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Hong Kong), Tsinghua University (Taiwan), Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), Aristotle University (Greece), Helsinki Technology University (Finland), Turkish Government The Ministry of Industry and Commerce, University of Johannesburg (South Africa), Central Philippine University (Philippine), and Princess Sumaya University for Technology (Jordan), etc. Prof Frank Wang is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of Grid Computing and Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing. In 1992 Frank was awarded Japanese Government Scholarship (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) for academic study at Research Institute of Electrical Communication Technology, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. In 1999 Frank obtained his PhD at University of Plymouth, UK. In 2001 Frank won The Newly Appointed Lecturer Award from The Nuffield Foundation in Science, Engineering and Mathematics. Prof Wang is CTO of SanjiTech Software Co., LTD. (http://www.sanjitech.com). This company was jointly established by one of his ex-students and himself in 2004.

Selected publications

  • Frank Wang, et al., "Delayed switching applied to memristor neural networks", Journal of Applied Physics, accepted [IF=2.5]
  • Yuhui Deng and Frank Wang, "LAG: Achieving Transparent Access to Legacy Data by Leveraging Grid Environment", International Journal Future Generation Computer Systems, accepted [IF=2.229]
  • F.Z. Wang, Na Helian, Sining Wu, Guan Lim, Yike Guo & Andy Parker, .Delayed Switching in Memristors and Memristive Systems., IEEE Electron Device Letters, Volume 31, Issue 7, 2010 [IF= 1.610]
  • Frank Z. Wang, Na Helian, Sining Wu, Yike Guo, Derek Yuhui Deng, Lingkui Meng, Wen Zhang, Jon Crowncroft, Jean Bacon, and Michael Andrew Parker, .Eight Times Acceleration of Geospatial Data Archiving and Distribution on the Grids., IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, VOL. 47, NO. 5, May 2009. [IF=1.6]
  • Yuhui Deng and Frank Wang, .Energy Efficient Disk Drive Architecture., Information Sciences, Elsevier Science, Volume 178, Issue 22, 15 November 2008, pp.4403-4417. [IF=3.095]
  • Yuhui Deng and Frank Wang, .Ant Colony Optimization Inspired Resource Discovery in P2P Grid Systems., Journal of Supercomputing, Springer Science, 28 May 2008. [IF=0.4]
  • Yuhui Deng and Frank Wang, .Exploring the Performance Impact of Stripe Unit Size on Network Attached Storage Systems., Journal of Systems Architecture, Elsevier Science, Volume 54, Issue 8, August 2008, pp.787-796. [IF=0.47]
  • Frank Wang, Na Helian, Sining Wu, Yike Guo, Derek Deng, Vineet Khare, C. Liao, M. Rashid and Andy Parker, .A Case for Redundant Arrays of Hybrid Disks (RAHD)., IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, ISSN 00189464, Vol.44, No.11, pp.3738-3741, 2008. [IF=1.014]
  • Yuhui Deng, Frank Wang, Na Helian, Sining Wu, Chenhan Liao, .Dynamic and scalable storage management architecture for Grid Oriented Storage devices., Parallel Computing, Volume 34, No.1, pp.17.31, Elsevier, 2008. [IF=0.86]
  • Frank Wang, Sining Wu, Na Helian, Andy Parker, Yike Guo, Yuhui Deng, Vineet Khare, .Grid-oriented Storage: A Single-Image, Cross-Domain, High-Bandwidth Architecture., IEEE Transaction on Computers, ISSN: 0018-9340, pp.474-487, Vol.56, No.4, pp. 474-487, 2007. [IF=1.875]
  • Yuhui Deng & Frank Wang, .A Dynamic Storage Management Architecture for Grid Oriented Storage Device., Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, accepted in August 2007. [IF=0.86]
  • Frank Zhigang Wang, Na Helian, Sining Wu, Yuhui Deng, Vineet Khare, Michael Parker, .An Underlying Data-Transporting Protocol for Accelerating Web Communications., International Journal of Computer Networks, special issue on Innovations in Web Infrastructure, pp.4561-4573, Vol.51, Issue.16, November 2007, Elsevier, ISSN: 1389-1286 [IF=0.978]
  • Frank Zhigang Wang, Sining Wu, Na Helian, Yuhui Deng, Vineet Khare, Chris Thompson and Michael Parker, .Grid-based Data Access to Nucleotide Sequence Database with 6x Improvement in Response Times., New Generation Computing, ISSN 0288-3635, pp.409-424, Vol.25, No.4, 2007. [IF=0.97]
  • Yuhui Deng and Frank Wang, .A Heterogeneous Storage Grid Enabled by Grid Service., ACM Operating System Review, ACM SIGOPS, ISSN 0163-5980, No.1, Vol.41, 2007. [IF=0.70]
  • Frank Wang, Yuhui Deng, Na Helian, S. Wu, V. Khare, C. Liao & A. Parker, .Evolutionary Storage: Speeding up a Magnetic Disk by Clustering Frequent Data., IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, ISSN 00189464, Issue.6, Vol.43, 2007. [IF=1.014]
  • Frank Wang, Na Helian, Sining Wu, Yuhui Deng, Ke Zhou, Yike Guo, Steve Thompson, Ian Johnson, Dave Milward & Robert Maddock, .Grid-Oriented Storage., IEEE Distributed Systems Online, Volume 6, Issue 9, pp.1-4, Sept. 2005

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