Bio ---- Dr. Qingyang Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of EECS at Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge. His research is in distributed systems and cloud computing with a current focus on performance and scalability analysis of large-scale web applications (e.g., Amazon.com). He has led research projects at LSU on cloud performance measurements, scalable web application design, and automated system management in clouds. He has collaborated extensively with scientists and researchers from industry companies, including IBM, HP, Amazon, Fujitsu (Japan), Wipro (India), and Huawei (China). He graduated from the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. degree in 2014, and has previously received his M.E. and B.E. degrees in computer science and engineering from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Wuhan University in 2007 and 2004, respectively. He is a recipient of the Best Student Paper award in IEEE Cloud 2011 and nominated for the Best Student Paper Award in IEEE Cloud 2013.