Kun Feng
Visiting Researcher at Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKun Feng is a visiting researcher and PhD candidate in computer science at Illinois Institute of Technology with 12 years of experience focused on distributed systems, particularly distributed I/O and storage. Over a decade at IIT he has progressed from teaching assistant to research roles and now leads research initiatives that bridge theoretical storage concepts with practical system implementations. Based in Chicago, he combines deep academic rigor with hands-on development experience, making him adept at prototyping and evaluating scalable storage architectures. His sustained tenure at a single research institution highlights a commitment to long-term projects and mentorship, often translating complex I/O problems into reproducible experiments and incremental system improvements.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Hunan University
Github Skills (10)
operation9
logging9
storage8
high-performance8
accumulo7
infrastructure7
redis6
redis-client5
ntfs1
nfs1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fkengun/Chameleon-toolkit
Sep 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 release, 95 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
grc-iit/ChronoLog
Mar 2022 - Apr 2025
ChronoLog: A High-Performance Storage Infrastructure for Activity and Log Workloads
Contributions:264 reviews, 54 PRs, 200 pushes in 3 years 1 month
operationaccumuloworkloadsinfrastructurelogging
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