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Illinois Network Design and Experimentation

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 in Spring or Summer 2010. (resume)

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

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

Yong Yang, Lu Su, Yan Gao and Tarek Abdelzaher, "SolarCode: Utilizing Erasure Codes for Reliable Data Delivery in Solar-powered Wireless Sensor Networks," to appear in IEEE INFOCOM 2010 (mini conference), San Diego, CA, March 2010 (acceptance rate = 24.25%).
Lili Wang, Yong Yang, Dong Kun Noh, Hieu Le, Tarek Abdelzaher and Michael Ward, "AdaptSens: An Adaptive Data Collection and Storage Service for Solar-Powered Sensor networks," to appear in RTSS 2009, Washington, D.C., December 2009.
Lu Su, Bolin Ding, Yong Yang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Guohong Cao and Jennifer C. Hou, "oCast: Optimal Multicast Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proc. of ICNP 2009, Princeton, NJ, October 2009.
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", in Proc. of FUSION 2009, Seattle, WA, July 2009.
Tae-Suk Kim, Yong Yang, Jennifer C. Hou and Srikanth Krishnamurthy, "Joint Resource Allocation and Admission Control in Wireless Mesh Networks", in Proc. of WiOpt 2009, Seoul, Korea, June, 2009.
Dong Kun Noh, Lili Wang, Yong Yang, Hieu Le and Tarek Abdelzaher, "Minimum Variance Energy Allocation for a Solar-Powered Sensor System", in Proc. of DCOSS 2009, Marina Del Rey, CA, June 2009 (acceptance rate = 23%).
Yong Yang, Lili Wang, Dong Kun Noh, Hieu Khac Le and Tarek Abdelzaher, "SolarStore: Enhancing Data Reliability in Solar-powered Storage-centric Sensor Networks", in Proc. of MOBISYS 2009, Krakow, Poland, June 2009 (acceptance rate = 20%).
Yong Yang, I-Hong Hou, Jennifer C. Hou, Mallikarjn Shanka and Nageswara S. Rao, "Sensor Placement for Detecting Propagative Sources in Populated Environments", in Proc. of INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009 (acceptance rate = 19.65%).
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.
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.
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%) (6+ citation).
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%).
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 (mini conference), Anchorage, AK, May 2007 (acceptance rate = 25%) (pdf) (slides) (27+ citations).
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%) (31+ citations).
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%) (2+ citations).

Jren-chit Chin, I-Hong Hou, Chris Ma, Mohit Saxena and Yong Yang (alphabetical order), "A Sensor-cyber Network Testbed for Plume Detection, Identification, and Tracking", MOBICOM 2007, Montreal, Canada, September 2007.
Jren-chit Chin, I-Hong Hou, Jennifer C. Hou, Chris Ma, Nageswara S. Rao, Mohit Saxena, Mallikarjun Shankar, Yong Yang and David K. Y. Yau (alphabetical order), "A Sensor-cyber Network Testbed for Plume Detection, Identification, and Tracking", INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, AK, May 2007
Jren-chit Chin, I-Hong Hou, Jennifer C. Hou, Chris Ma, Nageswara S. Rao, Mohit Saxena, Mallikarjun Shankar, Yong Yang and 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.

Yong Yang, Lu Su, Yan Gao and Tarek Abdelzaher, "Towards Reliable Data Delivery in Solar-Powered Wireless Sensor Networks," MOBICOM 2009, Beijing, China, September 2009.

MOBICOM 2009 NSF Student Travel Graint Award
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

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

Spring 2008 at UIUC