Luke Logan

1. SUMMARY

Passionate systems researcher and software engineer seeking agile teams to contribute to improving the programmability, portability, and performance of distributed systems.

2. EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics

  • ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; Chicago, IL
  • Spring 2020
  • GPA: 3.76

  (Click to view PDF of diploma)

• Master of Computer Science

  • ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; Chicago, IL
  • Spring 2020
  • GPA: 3.66

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• PhD. Computer Science

  • ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; Chicago, IL
  • Exp. 2024
  • Current GPA: 3.82

3. RESEARCH PROJECTS

• MegaMmap

  Spring 2024

  • Memory capacity limits are being reached
  • Designed/implemented a system for presenting massive, distributed datasets as if in memory
  • Leverages storage tiering and prefetching to effectively expand memory capacity
  • Can use up to 2.6x less DRAM while maintaining competitive speed

• LabStor

  Spring 2022

  • Linux I/O stack suffers from performance and programmability issues in HPC/Cloud
  • Designed/implemented a platform (18K C/C++) for easily developing new I/O stacks
  • Provides tools and APIs for bypassing overheads and monitoring application I/O patterns
  • I/O stacks developed in LabStor improve I/O speed by up to 60% in a distributed setting

4. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• L. Logan, A. Kougkas, X.-H. Sun. “MegaMmap: Blurring the Boundary Between Memory and Storage for Data-Intensive Workloads”. The 2024 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'24), November 17-24, 2024.
• L. Logan, J. Cernuda Garcia, J. Lofstead, X.-H. Sun, A. Kougkas. “LabStor: A Modular and Extensible Platform for Developing High-Performance, Customized I/O Stacks in Userspace”. The 2022 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'22), November 14–17, 2022.

5. ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE

• IoWarp

  Spring 2024 - Present

  • Lead engineer on the IOWARP project ($5 million NSF project)
  • Developing an AI-governed I/O system with an intuitive natural-language interface
  • Built using the foundations of Hermes

• Hermes

  Spring 2022 - 2023

  • Lead engineer on the Hermes project ($4 million NSF project)
  • Designed/implemented a system in C++ for buffering data in the distributed memory and storage hierarchy
  • Up to 10x faster than a traditional HDD-based PFS

6. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Teaching Assistant for Discrete Mathematics

  Spring 2022

• Student Project Supervisor for Advanced Operating Systems

  Fall 2020 - Fall 2024

• Scalable Computing Software Laboratory Technical Trainer

  Fall 2024

7. SKILLS

• Programming

  • C/C++
  • Python
  • MPI
  • OpenMP
  • Linux Kernel Modules
  • PMDK
  • SPDK
  • DPDK
  • HDF5
  • Adios
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • SciPy
  • Pandas
  • Keras
  • Bash
  • Java
  • R
  • SQL
  • Android
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

• Software

  • Git
  • Spack
  • CMake
  • CLion
  • Qemu
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Spark
  • Google Cloud/Colab
  • Chameleon Cloud
  • AWS
  • VirtualBox
  • Hadoop

8. ACTIVITIES, HONORS, and AWARDS

• • Web Administrator at Scalable Computing Software Laboratory (2020 - 2022)
  • Student Volunteer at Conference for HPC, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) (2020 - 2021)
  • Dean’s List at IIT (2016 - 2020)
  • Eagle Scout - (2016)