I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science, Duke University. My research interest primarily lies in database
systems, particularly those supporting statistical/scientific computing.
My advisor is Prof. Jun Yang.
My Curriculum
Vitæ: [PDF] (updated on 12/31/2011).
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
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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), Vol. ??, No. ??, 2012.
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Yi Zhang, Kamesh Munagala, and Jun Yang. "Storing Matrices on Disk:
Theory and Practice Revisited." In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
(PVLDB), 4(11):1075-1086, July 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 '10), 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 '09), Asilomar, California, USA, January 2009. [paper] [slides] [bibtex]
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
Last updated on 06/29/2011
