I was a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science, Duke University. I graduated in May 2012 and now work for Google. My research interest was in database
systems, particularly those supporting statistical/scientific computing.
My advisor was Prof. Jun Yang.
My Curriculum
Vitæ: [PDF] (updated on 3/15/2012).
Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Science, Duke University, May 2012
Dissertation: Transparent and Efficient I/O for Statistical Computing.
- M.S. in Computer Science, Duke University, December 2009
- B.E. in Computer Software, summa cum laude, Tsinghua University, July 2006
Projects
- RIOT: Transparently bringing scalability and I/O-efficiency to
statistical computing with R
- Optimal design of sensor networks under communication and energy budget
constraints
- Failure-aware spatiotemporal suppression in wireless sensor networks
Publications
I/O-efficient statistical computing (
RIOT)
- Yi Zhang and Jun Yang. "I/O and Data Layout Optimization for Big Array Analytics." Technical report, Duke University, February 2012.
- Yi Zhang and Jun Yang. "Optimizing I/O for Big Array Analytics." In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2012), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2012.
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Yi Zhang, Kamesh Munagala, and Jun Yang. "Storing Matrices on Disk:
Theory and Practice Revisited." In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2011), Seattle, Washington, USA, August 2011. [paper]
[technical
report] [bibtex]
- Yi Zhang, Weiping Zhang, and Jun Yang. "I/O-Efficient Statistical
Computing with RIOT." In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010), Los Angeles, California, USA, March 2010. System demonstration description. [paper] [poster] [bibtex]
- Yi Zhang, Herodotos Herodotou, and Jun Yang. "RIOT: I/O-Efficient
Numerical Computing without SQL." In Proceedings of the
4th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2009), Asilomar, California, USA, January 2009. [paper] [slides] [bibtex]
Data processing in wireless sensor networks
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Yi Zhang, Kristian Lum, and Jun Yang. "Failure-Aware Cascaded
Suppression in Wireless Sensor Networks." IEEE Transaction on
Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 25(5):1042-1055. [Publisher site]
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Zhengyuan Zhu, Jun Yang, Yi Zhang, and Xuanlong Nguyen. "Optimal Design of Sensor Networks Under Communication and Energy Budget Constraints. In the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings (JMS 2009), Washington, DC, USA, August 2009. Poster.
Work Experience
- RSDE Intern, Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab, Summer 2010
- IT Consultant, International
Society for Bayesian Analysis,
Summer 2009
- Intern, Spirent Communications,
Summer 2007
- Intern, Xiamen Municipal
Bureau of Finance, Fujian, China,
Summer 2005
Teaching Experience
- Fall 2007: Teaching Assistant of CPS116 Introduction to Database Systems
- Spring 2007: Teaching Assistant of CPS1 Principles of Computer Science
Professional Service
- Reviewer for International Journal of Data Engineering (IJDE) 2011
- External reviewer for SIGMOD 2008, 2009
- External reviewer for VLDB 2008, 2010
- External reviewer for ICDE 2009
- External reviewer for EDBT 2010
- External reviewer for Middleware 2009
- External reviewer for WAIM 2008
Courses
- Spring 2009
- Fall 2008
- CPS 216 Advanced Database Systems
- STA 214 Probability and Statistical Modeling
- Spring 2008
- ECE 256
Wireless Networking & Mobile Computing
- CPS 399.28
Research Seminar and Project in Databases
- Fall 2007
- Spring 2007
- CPS 240 Computational Complexity
- CPS 296.1 Sensor Data Processing
- CPS 296.3 Computational Economics
- Fall 2006
- CPS 220 Advanced Computer Architecture
- CPS 270 Artificial Intelligence
