A Report from a CU-CS alum to the Home Department
Xiaodong Zhang, Ph.D.’89
This year marks the 20 year anniversary of my Ph.D. graduation from the Computer Science Department at
University of Colorado at Boulder. My professional life has been a bit dynamic – I have worked in four
different institutions since I left Boulder. I spent my first 8 years in the University of Texas at San Antonio,
I. Making impact and contributions in research is a life-term goal
A common thread of my research focuses on fast data accesses and resource sharing with cost- and energy-
efficient management at different levels of the memory and storage hierarchies in computer, distributed, and
Internet systems. I have led research projects for design and implementation of caches, memory and storage
II. “Never tired of learning and teaching”
Being a professor, I have been fortunate to have an unique opportunity to mentor and teach many talented
students, and update my own knowledge by learning from them. I have supervised several dozens of
III. Leading and serving the community
I have chaired the Department in each of three universities I was/am on faculty. Immediately after I was
tenured and promoted at the University of Texas at San Antonio, I was asked to be an acting chair of the