Curriculum Vitae
Specializing in Computer Vision, Self-Supervised Learning, and 3D Scene Understanding.
Professional Summary
PhD researcher specializing in high-performance computing infrastructure with expertise in distributed storage systems, real-time data processing, and exascale computing environments. Developed novel approaches to real-time data management and adaptive resource management for scientific computing applications. Currently advancing the intersection of HPC and artificial intelligence through agentic system architectures to address complex challenges in scientific computing. Proven track record of building HPC-scale middleware systems.
Education
PhD (Computer Science)
Illinois Institute of Technology
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
GPA: 3.85/4.0
Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering (specialized in Electrical Engineering)
Polytechnic University of Madrid
GPA: 3.2/4.0
Experience
Research Assistant
Gnosis Research Center (GRC), Illinois Tech
- Research Assistant in the Gnosis Research Center (GRC) at the Illinois Institute of Technology where I worked on a variety of NSF-funded projects, including Hermes, ChronoLog, and IOWarp.
- Managed the research of junior Ph.D. students, as well as Master students partaking in HPC and Distributed Systems classes.
Guest Lecturer
Illinois Tech
- Guest Lecturer at the Illinois Institute of Technology for CS550: Advance Operating Systems and CS553: Cloud Computing.
Intern Computer Researcher
HDF Group
- Internship at the HDF Group exploring and developing new interfaces for the HDF5 library supporting log-data semantics and in-transit computational capabilities.
Teaching Assistant
Illinois Tech
- Teaching assistant for Operating Systems and Cloud Computing.
- Managed classes of 40-60 graduate students.
- Duties include grading and providing support for all the students queries.
Junior Software Engineer
Everis
- Used Blue Prism to develop two successfully deployed automation projects for multi-national companies.
- Joined a team of 3 people and left with 15. Helped in the education of the new members.
- Developed the company procedures for documentation, testing, deployment, etc. for automation projects.
Publications
Accelerating Multi-Agent Orchestration with Speculative Dispatching
Jie Ye, Shazzadul Islam, Jaime Cernuda, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas
Poster • GCASR'26 • 2026
Acropolis: A Portable, AI-Driven Semantic Search System for HPC
Rajni Pawar, Luke Logan, Jaime Cernuda, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas
Conference • eScience'26 • 2026
Agent Error Simulator: Fault Injection for Testing Recovery in Agentic Workflows
Keith Bateman, Jaime Cernuda, Luke Logan, Bogdan Nicolae, Franck Cappello, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas
Conference • eScience'26 • 2026
Agentic Search Efficiency for Scientific Data Discovery
Shazzadul Islam, Jaime Cernuda, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas
Poster • GCASR'26 • 2026
Correct Is Not I/O Efficient: Characterizing I/O Behavior of LLM Agents on Scientific Data
Izzet Yildirim, Jie Ye, Jaime Cernuda, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas
Poster • GCASR'26 • 2026
Pre-RoPE versus Post-RoPE: Trading Per-Step Compute for KVCache Survivability
Zia Uddin Chowdhury, Jaime Cernuda, Jie Ye, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun
Poster • GCASR'26 • 2026
Rich I/O-centric Derived Quantity Operators for Advanced In Situ Processing
Hua Xu, Jaime Cernuda, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun, Ana Gainaru, Scott Klasky, M. Taufer, N. Tan, K. Assogba, M. Rafique, Bogdan Nicolae, J. Teves, C. Brinker, L. Pouchard, Jay Lofstead
Conference • eScience'26 • 2026
Characterizing the Behavior and Impact of KV Caching on Transformer Inferences under Concurrency
Jie Ye, Jaime Cernuda, Avinash Maurya, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas, Bogdan Nicolae
Conference • IPDPS'25 • 2025
DTIO: Data Stack for AI-driven Workflows
Keith Bateman, Neeraj Rajesh, Jaime Cernuda, Luke Logan, Bogdan Nicolae, Franck Cappello, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas
Conference • SSDBM'25 • 2025
Rich Operators for Advanced In Situ Processing
H. Xu, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun, Jaime Cernuda
Poster • SSDBM'25 • 2025
Towards an AI-driven scientific workflow
S. Islam, Jaime Cernuda, I. Muradli, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun
Poster • eScience'25 • 2025
DaYu: Optimizing Distributed Scientific Workflows by Decoding Dataflow Semantics and Dynamics
Meng Tang, Jaime Cernuda, Jie Ye, Luanzheng Guo, Nathan R. Tallent, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun
Conference • CLUSTER'24 • 2024
Hades: A Context-Aware Active Storage Framework for Accelerating Large-Scale Data Analysis
Jaime Cernuda, Luke Logan, Ana Gainaru, Scott Klasky, Jay Lofstead, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun
Conference • CCGRID'24 • 2024
HStream: A hierarchical data streaming engine for high-throughput scientific applications
Jaime Cernuda, Jie Ye, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun
Conference • ICPP'24 • 2024
Jarvis: Towards a Shared, User-Friendly, and Reproducible, I/O Infrastructure
Jaime Cernuda, Luke Logan, Nicholas Lewis, Suren Byna, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas
Workshop • PDSW'24 • 2024
Viper: A High-Performance I/O Framework for Transparently Updating, Storing, and Transferring Deep Neural Network Models
Jie Ye, Jaime Cernuda, Neeraj Rajesh, Keith Bateman, Orcun Yildiz, Tom Peterka, Arnur Nigmetov, Dmitriy Morozov, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas
Conference • ICPP'24 • 2024
LabStor: A Modular and Extensible Platform for Developing High-Performance, Customized I/O Stacks in Userspace
Luke Logan, Jaime Cernuda Garcia, Jay Lofstead, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas
Conference • SC'22 • 2022
LuxIO: Intelligent Resource Provisioning and Auto-Configuration for Storage Services
Keith Bateman, Neeraj Rajesh, Jaime Cernuda Garcia, Luke Logan, Jie Ye, Stephen Herbein, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun
Conference • HiPC'22 • 2022
Apollo: An ML-Assisted Real-Time Storage Resource Observer
Neeraj Rajesh, Hariharan Devarajan, Jaime Cernuda Garcia, Keith Bateman, Luke Logan, Jie Ye, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun
Conference • HPDC'21 • 2021
HFlow: A Dynamic and Elastic Multi-Layered Data Forwarder
Jaime Cernuda, Hariharan Devarajan, Luke Logan, Keith Bateman, Neeraj Rajesh, Jie Ye, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun
Conference • CLUSTER'21 • 2021
ChronoLog: A Distributed Shared Tiered Log Store with Time-based Data Ordering
Anthony Kougkas, Hariharan Devarajan, Keith Bateman, Jaime Cernuda, Neeraj Rajesh, Xian-He Sun
Conference • MSST'20 • 2020
Efficient Data Eviction across Multiple Tiers of Storage
Jaime Cernuda, H. Trivino, Hariharan Devarajan, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun
Poster • SC'19 • 2019
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