Luke Logan

> Director of Engineering @ Gnosis Research Center // Assistant Professor @ Illinois Tech

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Education

Publications

21 publications, 11 as first author. Searchable versions with abstracts are on the Projects page.

Dissertation 1

  1. Luke Logan.

    Recombinant: A Composable, Extensible, Intelligent I/O Platform for Integrated High-Performance I/O Management

    PhD Dissertation, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, Dec 2025. First author

Conference Papers 9

  1. Keith Bateman, Neeraj Rajesh, Jaime Cernuda, Luke Logan, Bogdan Nicolae, Franck Cappello, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas.

    DTIO: Data Stack for AI-driven Workflows

    Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM ’25), Jun 2025.

  2. Luke Logan, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun.

    MegaMmap: Blurring the Boundary Between Memory and Storage for Data-Intensive Workloads

    SC24: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Nov 2024. First author

  3. Jaime Cernuda, Luke Logan, Ana Gainaru, Scott Klasky, Jay Lofstead, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun.

    Hades: A Context-Aware Active Storage Framework for Accelerating Large-Scale Data Analysis

    2024 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid ’24), May 2024.

  4. Keith Bateman, Neeraj Rajesh, Jaime Cernuda, Luke Logan, Jie Ye, Stephen Herbein, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun.

    LuxIO: Intelligent Resource Provisioning and Auto-Configuration for Storage Services

    2022 IEEE 29th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC ’22), Dec 2022.

  5. Luke Logan, Jaime Cernuda, Jay Lofstead, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas.

    LabStor: A Modular and Extensible Platform for Developing High-Performance, Customized I/O Stacks in Userspace

    SC22: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Nov 2022. First author

  6. Luke Logan, Jay Lofstead, Scott Levy, Patrick Widener, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas.

    pMEMCPY: A Simple, Lightweight, and Portable I/O Library for Storing Data in Persistent Memory

    2021 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER ’21), Sep 2021. First author

  7. Jaime Cernuda, Hariharan Devarajan, Luke Logan, Keith Bateman, Neeraj Rajesh, Jie Ye, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun.

    HFlow: A Dynamic and Elastic Multi-Layered I/O Forwarder

    2021 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER ’21), Sep 2021.

  8. Neeraj Rajesh, Hariharan Devarajan, Jaime Cernuda, Keith Bateman, Luke Logan, Jie Ye, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun.

    Apollo: An ML-assisted Real-Time Storage Resource Observer

    Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC ’21), Jun 2021.

  9. Hariharan Devarajan, Anthony Kougkas, Luke Logan, Xian-He Sun.

    HCompress: Hierarchical Data Compression for Multi-Tiered Storage Environments

    2020 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS ’20), May 2020.

Workshop Papers 3

  1. Jaime Cernuda, Shazzadul Islam, Isa Muradli, Luke Logan, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas.

    Towards AI-Driven Interfaces for Scientific Data Management

    Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW ’25), Work-in-Progress session, held with SC25, Nov 2025.

  2. Luke Logan, Jay Lofstead, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas.

    An Evaluation of DAOS for Simulation and Deep Learning HPC Workloads

    Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS ’23); also in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 2024, May 2023. First author

  3. Luke Logan, Carol Davids, Cary Davids.

    Determining the Indoor Location of an Emergency Caller in a Multi-story Building

    2020 IEEE International Workshop Technical Committee on Communications Quality and Reliability (CQR ’20), May 2020. First author

Preprints 1

  1. Samuel Taiwo Fatunmbi, Om Amit Gandhi, Luke Logan.

    VaultxGPU: GPU-Accelerated Blockchain Consensus

    arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.14007, Jun 2026.

Posters, Presentations & Abstracts 7

  1. Isa Muradli, Jie Ye, Luke Logan, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun.

    Insights into GPUDirect Data Transfer through NIXL Benchmarking

    2025 IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience ’25), Sep 2025.

  2. Jaime Cernuda, Luke Logan, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun.

    Why Wait!? Hades: An Active, Content-Aware System for Precalculating Derived Quantities

    SC23 Research Posters, Nov 2023.

  3. Luke Logan, Jay Lofstead, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas.

    A Comparative Analysis of DAOS for Simulation and Deep Learning HPC Workloads

    Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2023-01820C, May 2023. First author

  4. Luke Logan, Jay Lofstead, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas.

    Re-architecting Storage Systems for Modern Hardware: Is It Worth It?

    Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2022-11373C, Aug 2022. First author

  5. Luke Logan, Jay Lofstead.

    pMEMCPY: An Efficient I/O Library for PMEM

    Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2021-8666C, Jul 2021. First author

  6. Luke Logan, Jay Lofstead, Scott Levy, Patrick Widener, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas.

    Utilizing Persistent Memory in Parallel I/O Libraries

    Extended Abstract, 2021. First author

  7. Luke Logan, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun.

    Quantifying the Overheads of the Modern Linux I/O Stack

    Extended Abstract, 2020. First author

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