Yong Yang

Ph.D. Pre-candidate
Address	3107 SC 201 N. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL 61801
E-mail	yang25 AT uiuc dot edu
Phone	(217) 244-0431

Looking for an internship (resume)

Biography

I am a Ph.D. pre-candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Research Interests

• Solar-powered Cyber-physical Systems
• Power Control and Carrier Sense Adjustment in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
• Wireless Mesh Networks

Publications

1. Nageswara Rao, Charles Glover, Mallikarjun Shankar, Jren-Chit Chin, David Yau, Chris Ma, Yong Yang and Sartaj Sahni, "Improved SPRT Detection Using Localization with Application to Radiation Sources", to appear in FUSION 2009, Seattle, WA, July 2009.
2. Tae-Suk Kim, Yong Yang, Jennifer C. Hou and Srikanth Krishnamurthy, "Joint Resource Allocation and Admission Control in Wireless Mesh Networks", to appear in WiOpt 2009, Seoul, Korea, June, 2009.
3. Dong Kun Noh, Lili Wang, Yong Yang, Hieu Le and Tarek Abdelzaher, "Minimum Variance Energy Allocation for a Solar-Powered Sensor System", to appear in DCOSS 2009, Marina Del Rey, CA, June 2009 (acceptance rate = 23%).
4. Yong Yang, Lili Wang, Dong Kun Noh, Hieu Khac Le and Tarek Abdelzaher, "SolarStore: Enhancing Data Reliability in Solar-powered Storage-centric Sensor Networks", to appear in MOBISYS 2009, Krakow, Poland, June 2009 (acceptance rate = 20%).
5. Yong Yang, I-Hong Hou, Jennifer C. Hou, Mallikarjn Shanka and Nageswara S. Rao, "Sensor Placement for Detecting Propagative Sources in Populated Environments", to appear in INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009 (acceptance rate = 19.65%).
6. Jren-Chit Chin, David Yau, Nageswara Rao, Yong Yang, Chris Ma and Mallikarjun Shankar, "Accurate Localization of Low-level Radioactive Source under Noise and Measurement Errors", in Proc. of SENSYS 2008, Raleigh, NC, November 2008.
7. Nageswara Rao, Mallikarjun Shankar, Jren-Chit Chin, David Yau, Yong Yang, Jennifer C. Hou, Xiaochun Xu and Sartaj Sahni, "Localization Under Random Measurements with Application to Radiation Sources", in Proc. of FUSION 2008, Cologne, Germany, June 2008.
8. Nageswara Rao, Mallikarjun Shankar, Jren-Chit Chin, David Yau, Srinivasan Srivathsan, Sitharama Iyengar, Yong Yang and Jennifer C. Hou, "Identification of Low-Level Point Radiation Sources Using a Sensor Network", in Proc. of IPSN 2008, St. Louis, MO, April 2008 (acceptance rate = 18.75%).
9. Zheng Zeng, Yong Yang and Jennifer C. Hou, "How Physical Carrier Sense Affects System Throughput in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, AZ, April 2008 (acceptance rate = 20%).
10. Yong Yang, Jennifer C. Hou, and Lu-Chuan Kung, "Modeling the Effect of Transmit Power and Physical Carrier Sense in Multi-hop Wireless Networks", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, AK, May 2007 (acceptance rate = 25%) (pdf) (slides) .
11. Yong Yang, Rocky Dunlap, Michael Rexroad and Brian F. Cooper, "Performance of Full Text Search in Structured and Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems", in Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, April 2006 (acceptance rate = 18%).
12. Wanxia Xie, Shamkant B. Navathe, Sushil K. Prasad, David Fisher and Yong Yang, "Optimizing Peer Virtualization and Load Balancing", in Proc. of DASFAA 2006, Singapore, 2006 (acceptance rate = 24.5%).

Demos

1. Jren-chit Chin, I-Hong Hou, Jennifer C. Hou, Chris Ma, Nageswara S. Rao, Mohit Saxena, Mallikarjun Shankar, Yong Yang, David K. Y. Yau (alphabetical order), "A Sensor-cyber Network Testbed for Plume Detection, Identification, and Tracking", INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, AK, May 2007
2. Jren-chit Chin, I-Hong Hou, Jennifer C. Hou, Chris Ma, Nageswara S. Rao, Mohit Saxena, Mallikarjun Shankar, Yong Yang, David K. Y. Yau (alphabetical order), "A Sensor-cyber Network Testbed for Plume Detection, Identification, and Tracking", in Proc. of IPSN 2007, Cambridge, MA, April 2007.

Selected Awards

• Vodafone Graduate Fellowship 2007-2008
• MOBISYS 2007 Student Travel Grant Award
• INFOCOM 2007 NSF Student Travel Grant Award
• IBM Fellowship for Excellent Student of China, 2003
• INTEL Fellowship, 2000
• Excellent Student of Beijing, 2001
• Excellent Student of Peking University, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004

Professional Activities

• Reviewer, IEEE ICC 2008, ACM MOBICOM 2007, IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, ACM MOBIHOC 2007, IPSN 2007, IEEE ICDCS 2007, IEEE WCNC 2007, IEEE PERCOM 2007, IEEE INFOCOM 2007, ACM MOBICOM 2006, CHINACOM 2006, MASS 2006, International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) 2006
• Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication
• Reviewer, IEEE TransactionS on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
• Reviewer, Compauter Networks
• Reviewer, Wireless Networks

Coursework

Spring 2008 at UIUC

• CS598TAR Distributed Sensor and Cyber-Physical Systems
• CS599 Thesis Research with Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher

Fall 2007 at UIUC

• MATH580/CS571 Combinatorial Mathematics
• CS599 Thesis Research with Prof. Jennifer Hou

Spring 2007 at UIUC

• CS591SN New Systems and Networking Seminar
• CS599 Thesis Research with Prof. Jennifer Hou

Fall 2006 at UIUC

• CS597 Individual Study with Prof. Jennifer Hou
• ECE567 Communication Network Analysis

Spring 2006 at UIUC

• CS597 Individual Study with Prof. Jennifer Hou
• CS598 Advanced Topics in Wireless Networks
• CS473G Algorithms (graduate section)

Fall 2005 at UIUC

• CS597 Individual Study with Prof. Kevin Chang
• CS511 Design of Database Management Systems
• CS412 Introduction to Data Warehousing and Data Mining
• CS591 Advanced Seminar in CS

Summer 2005 at Georgia Tech

• CS8903 Special Problems with Prof. Brian Cooper

Spring 2005 at Georgia Tech

• CS6290 High Performance Computer Architecture
• CS6400 Database System Concepts Design
• CS8903 Special Problems with Prof. Brian Cooper

Fall 2004 at Georgia Tech

• CS6250 Computer Networks
• CS7001 Introduction to Graduate Studies
• CS8801 Graduate Teaching Workshop

Others

• Webmaster, Networking Research Group, UIUC
• Webmaster, INDEX group, UIUC

My homepage at Georgia Tech

Last Modified: March 25th, 2009