Haochen Pan

Welcome, and thanks for stopping by!

I am a rising fifth-year CS Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago and a proud member of Globus Labs, advised by Dr. Ian Foster and Dr. Kyle Chard. 

My research explores the intersection of distributed systems, cloud computing, and high‑performance computing (HPC), focusing on improving resilience and efficiency in AI‑guided scientific experiments and distributed, time‑sensitive data analysis.

• To this end, we developed Octopus, a Kafka‑based hierarchical event fabric that enables high‑performance exchange of control and metadata events across cloud and HPC facilities, supporting scientific applications and resilience‑enabling policy engines and compute pools.

• Building on this, we designed Icicle (to be released), a system for monitoring Lustre and IBM Storage Scale filesystems metadata updates by integrating Octopus, Apache Flink, and Globus Search (backed by Elasticsearch),  giving system administrators real‑time visibility and enabling comprehensive historical usage evaluations.

• Most recently, we leveraged the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to expose research capabilities in heterogeneous cyberinfrastructure discoverable, invokable, and composable by LLM‑powered agents. See our preprint here.

Email: haochenpan AT uchicago.edu

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