Selected Projects (PI)

• 2020 Sangfor Project: "Research on erasure coding technologies"
• 2019 Huawei Project: "Dedupliation for WAN"
• 2018 Air (Alibaba innovation research) Project: "Data layout research for low-cost cold storage systems"
• 2018 National Natural Science Foundation of China: "Theory and techniques of data scaling for erasure-coding-based cloud storage"
• 2017 Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
• 2017 Hikvision Project: "Improvements and optimization for erasure coding techniques"
• 2016 Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China: "Research on fault tolerance transistion for multi-cloud storage"
• 2016 ZTE Project: "Research on data dedupliation technologies" (Co-PI: Wen Xia)
• 2015 National Natural Science Foundation of China: "Research on some key issues of inter-cloud storage based on network coding"
• 2015 CCF-Tencent Open Fund: "Reliability research on heterogeneous data storage systems with network coding "

Open source

• NCScale: https://github/yuchonghu/ncscale
• ECHash: https://github/yuchonghu/echash
• DoubleR: http://adslab.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/software/doubler (in cooperation with Prof. Patrick P. C. Lee)
• NCCloud: http://adslab.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/software/nccloud/ (in cooperation with Prof. Patrick P. C. Lee)
• NCFS: http://adslab.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/software/ncfs/ (in cooperation with Prof. Patrick P. C. Lee)

Authorized Patents （First author）

• ZL 2016 1 0344015.9 一种基于RAID4的多云存储系统扩展方法
• ZL 2018 1 0304384.4 一种基于网络编码的存储扩展方法
• ZL 2019 1 0454764.0 提升基于局部修复编码的存储系统可靠性的方法及装置
• ZL 2019 1 0639534.1 一种基于分片的MBR的并行读方法
• US 20120266044 A1: Network-coding-based distributed file system.
  

Awards and Honors

• 2019 湖北省科技进步奖一等奖
• 2019 National scholarship for graduate students (Master student: Liangfeng Cheng).
• 2018 National scholarship for graduate students (PhD student: Xiaoyang Zhang).
• 2017 National scholarship for graduate students (Master student: Wenxiang Chen).
• 2016 National scholarship for graduate students (Master student: ZiJin Han).
• 2015 CCF-Tencent Open Fund.
• 2010 CAS Pollyanna Y. W. CHU Scholarship for Outstanding Ph.D Students.

Activities

• Session Chair, 2018 Global storage semicon & flash memory technology summit.
• Comittee member, 10th International Photonics and OptoElectronics Meetings (POEM 2017), Wuhan China, Nov. 2017.
• PC member, 28th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 28), Sep. 2016.
• Invited talk, "Network Coding for cloud storage", Institut Henri Poincare (IHP), Paris, France, Feb. 2016.
• Invited talk, "Network Coding for inter-cloud storage", University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, Aug. 2015.