Yu Zhang

Academic Experience

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

M.S. Purdue University

B.E. Special Class for Gifted Young (SCGY), Univ of Sci and Tech of China (USTC), received at the age of 19

Honors: 1st class scholarship, SCGY, USTC

Industry Experience

Google Inc., Mountain View, California

Google Inc. Research Division, Mountain View, California

Cisco Systems Inc. San Jose, California

Received 80 out of 80 in Optiver 8-minute Numerical Test

Technical training in Linux Fundamentals, University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) Silicon Valley Extension

Technical training in Embedded Linux, UCSC Silicon Valley Extension

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]

Links

Coldplay -- Clocks & Speed of Sound .

Final Fantasy VIII, X -- Eyes on Me, To Zanarkand

Cheer Chen -- Various Titles

SCGY classmates: Liang Pi

Ziyu Zhang

My Constellation is Virgo

Email: zhang106@purdue.edu (zhangyu@cs.purdue.edu)