Mai Zheng is an Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Ohio State University in 2015. He was a visiting scholar at HP Labs in summer 2013. His research interests are in the broad areas of computer systems, including storage systems, parallel and distributed systems, cloud computing, and high-performance computing. He is particularly interested in anything related to data storage (e.g., non-volatile memory, file systems, cloud storage, data-intensive computing, etc). He is starting the Data Storage Lab @NMSU, where members play with the latest storage technology and strive to advance the reliability, performance, efficiency, and usability for data, for people.