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Gengrui (Edward) Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University, where he leads the Distributed Computing Systems (DISCOS) Research Group. His research focuses on advancing the development of high-performance, highly scalable, and highly available distributed systems. His work spans the full spectrum from theoretical foundations, mathematical analysis, and system design to efficient implementation and rigorous experimentation. He addresses real-world challenges in key areas such as AI-supporting distributed systems, blockchain, cloud computing, and data management. He is particularly interested in designing new algorithms and system architectures to enhance coordination, data consistency, fault tolerance, computational efficiency, and transactions in large-scale systems. Zhang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2024 and has served as a program committee member for international conferences including IEEE DAPPS, ACM SYSTOR, ACM Middleware, IEEE ICDE, and VLDB. He actively collaborates with both academia and industry.
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