Yu Zhang

Academic Experience

Ph.D. Computer Sciences, Purdue (In Progress)

M.S. Computer Sciences, Purdue, 2006

B.E. Special Class for Gifted Young (SCGY), Univ of Sci and Tech of China (USTC), 2004

Honors: 1st class scholarship, SCGY, USTC

Industry Experience

Intern Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (Web Search)

Intern Google Inc. Research Division, Mountain View, CA (Google Translate Team)

Intern Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, CA (Cisco Content Distribution Team) Talk: Experiences on porting Linux kernel to high-end computers

Joint research project with Microsoft Research Asia

It has been my privilege to work with these very bright people: Karel Driesen, Zhengzhu Feng, Dmitriy Genzel, Changhua He, Kevin He, Shankar Kumar, Chris Lambert, Dan Li, Jon McAlister, Jay Ponte, Ashok Popat, Valentin Spitkovsky, Daisy Stanton, Tiejun Wang, Peng Xu, and Jiang Zhu.

Recent Papers

WIMOB P. Hurni, T. Braun, B. Bhargava, and Y. Zhang, Multi-Hop Cross-Layer Design in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Case Study, IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), to appear, Avignon, France, Oct. 2008. [PDF]

CS-TR Y. Zhang and B. Bhargava, Fibonacci Modeling of Worm Propagation, Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, Technical Report, TR-08-017. [PDF]

TKDE Y. Zhang and B. Bhargava, Self-Learning Disk Scheduling, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), accepted for publication. [PDF]

ICSM C. Liu, X. Zhang, J. Han, Y. Zhang and B. Bhargava, Indexing Noncrashing Failures: A Dynamic Program Slicing-Based Approach, the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), Paris, France, Oct. 2007. [PDF] [SLIDES]