Zhiheng Zhong

Biography

I joined Clouds Lab at the University of Melbourne since July 2018, as a PhD student under the supervision of Prof Rajkumar Buyya. I received my master’s degree in cloud computing from the University of Newcastle, UK and bachelor’s degree in Information and Computer Engineering from Nanchang University, China. After completing my master’s degree in 2015, I worked in Epam System as a software engineer for 6 months. Then I joined Morgan Stanley and worked as a Java Developer until Feb 2018, mainly responsible for development of trade surveillance application, like detecting market manipulation, ramping, handling high volumes of trading data processing. My current research project is a cost-efficient container orchestration strategy based on Kubernetes platform. We aim to achieve cost efficiency and energy saving by supporting heterogeneous task configurations for container placements, and utilization optimization through cleaning unhealthy VM instances that are continuously suffering from low resource utilization by a rescheduling mechanism. We plan to build more pricing models and clearer benchmarks of QoS requirements in the future.