Cheng Huang (T2) is a researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond. He has worked extensively on erasure coding and invented technologies that have been incorporated in a wide variety of Microsoft products, such as in Lync for smooth video conferencing and in Xbox for bounding communication latency between consoles and the cloud. His latest work is LRC, a new class of erasure codes deployed in Windows Azure Storage, which saves the Microsoft Cloud millions of dollars (see http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/erasurecoding-090512.aspx) and also received the best paper award at USENIX ATC '12.
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