Ming Kin (Malcolm) Lai 黎名建
My name is Ming Kin Lai, a.k.a. Malcolm Lai. I was a graduate student in the PhD program at the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine. I earned my doctoral degree in 2009.
Research Interest
I have general interest in distributed and parallel computing, and also databases and cryptography. I am in the MESSENGERS research group.
My Work
A term paper I wrote in April 2001: Knapsack Cryptosystems: The Past and the Future
Some notes I wrote in March 2001: Mobile Agents Standards
My presentation in May 2003: Open Source Software and Free Software
My presentation in July 2004: A Taxonomy of Application Scheduling Tools for High Performance Computing
My presentation in Oct 2004: Thread Migration Research at Purdue
My presentation in June 2005: Recent Trends in High Performance Computing and Clusters vs MPPs
My presentation in Dec 2006: Mobile code, Mobile agents, and Mobility - I
My presentation in Feb 2007: Queueing theory and Simulation of queueing models
My presentation in March 2007: Mobile code, Mobile agents, and Mobility - II
My presentation in May 2007: Communication latency in distributed memory systems
My presentation in Nov 2007: MESSENGERS 3.1
MESSENGERS 3.1.4 User’s Manual
Publication:
Lei Pan, Lubomir F. Bic,
Michael B. Dillencourt, and Ming Kin Lai, Mobile Agents
- The Right Vehicle for Distributed Sequential Computing, Proceedings, 9th
International Conference on High Performance Computing --- HiPC2002, Bangalore,
India, Dec 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2552, pp. 18-21
Lei Pan, Lubomir F. Bic,
Michael B. Dillencourt, Javid
J. Huseynov, and Ming Kin Lai, Distributed
Parallel Computing using Navigational Programming: Orchestrating Computations
around Data, Proceedings of the 14th IASTED International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Cambridge, Mass., Nov 2002, pp.
458-463
Lei Pan, Ming Kin Lai, Javid J. Huseynov,
Lubomir F. Bic, and Michael
B. Dillencourt, Facilitating
Agent Navigation using DSM - High Level Designs, Proceedings, The Seventh
World Conference on Integrated Design & Process Technology (IDPT03),
Austin, Texas, Dec 2003
Lei Pan, Lubomir F. Bic,
Michael B. Dillencourt, and Ming Kin Lai, From
Distributed Sequential Computing to Distributed Parallel Computing,
Proceedings, The 5th Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering
Computing with Applications (HPSECA-03), Kaohsiung,
Taiwan, ROC, Oct 2003, pp. 255-262
Lei Pan, Lubomir F. Bic,
Michael B. Dillencourt, and Ming Kin Lai, NavP versus SPMD: Two Views of Distributed Computation,
Proceedings, Int'l Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems
(PDCS 2003), Marina del Rey, Calif., Nov 2003, pp.
666-673
Lei Pan, Ming Kin Lai, Koji Noguchi, Javid J. Huseynov, Lubomir F. Bic, and Michael B. Dillencourt, Distributed
Parallel Computing using Navigational Programming, International Journal of
Parallel Programming, Vol. 32, No. 1, Feb 2004, pp. 1-37
Lei Pan, Lubomir F. Bic,
Michael B. Dillencourt, and Ming Kin Lai, Distributed
Sequential Computing, Applied Parallel and Distributed Computing: Practice
and Experience, Advances in Computation: Theory and Practice, Vol 16, Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2005, pp. 3-19
Lei Pan, Wenhui Zhang, Arthur Uy
Asuncion, Jr., Ming Kin Lai, Michael B. Dillencourt,
and Lubomir F. Bic,
Incremental Parallelization using Navigational Programming: A Case Study, UCI
ICS Technical Report 05-04, Mar 2005
Lei Pan, Wenhui Zhang, Arthur Uy
Asuncion, Jr., Ming Kin Lai, Michael B. Dillencourt,
and Lubomir F. Bic, Incremental Parallelization
Using Navigational Programming: A Case Study, Proceedings of the 2005
International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-05), Oslo, Norway, Jun
2005, pp. 611-620
Lei Pan, Ming Kin Lai, Michael B. Dillencourt, and Lubomir F. Bic, Mobile Pipelines:
Parallelizing Left-looking Algorithms Using Navigational Programming, UCI ICS
Technical Report 05-12, Jul 2005
Lei Pan, Ming Kin Lai, Michael B. Dillencourt, and Lubomir F. Bic, Mobile Pipelines: Parallelizing Left-looking Algorithms Using Navigational Programming, Proceedings, 12th International Conference on High Performance Computing --- HiPC 2005, Goa, India, Dec 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3769, pp. 201-212
Lei Pan, Wenhui Zhang, Arthur Uy Asuncion, Jr., Ming Kin Lai, Michael B. Dillencourt, and Lubomir F. Bic, Laurence T. Yang, Toward Incremental Parallelization Using Navigational Programming, The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Transaction on Information and Systems, Vol. E89-D, No.2, Special Issue on Parallel/Distributed Computing and Networking, Feb 2006, pp. 390-398
Lei Pan, Jingling Xue, Ming Kin Lai, Michael B. Dillencourt, and Lubomir F. Bic, Toward
Automatic Data Distribution for Migrating Computations, Proceedings of the
2007 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-07),
Ming Kin Lai, Michael B. Dillencourt, and Lubomir F. Bic, A Comparative Study of Parallel Programming Models Using Performance-Targeted Relations, submitted to 3rd International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High End Computing (P2S2), Sept 2010
Dissertation
State-Migration Shared-Variable Programming and its Runtime Support for Fine-Grained Cooperative Tasks, March 2009
Service
Reviewer of papers submitted for the Fifth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA07)
You can e mail me at mklai at uci dot edu.
Donald Bren
School of Information & Computer Sciences, UC