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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

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

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", To Appear in Sensys, 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, 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%).
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 Miniconference 2007, Anchorage, AK, May 2007 (acceptance rate = 25%) (pdf) (slides) .
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%).
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%).

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
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.

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