Curriculum Vitae

Yanyan Wang	Yanyan.Wang@colorado.edu http://serl.cs.colorado.edu/~ywang

Objective

To obtain a full-time research/development position in general area of software engineering, utilizing my research ability and experience in engineering technologies of large-scale distributed systems and database systems.

Research Interests

Experiment evaluation of distributed systems, software engineering techniques for distributed systems, model-driven software development, generative programming, database system, and configuration management

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science	University of Colorado at Boulder, Aug 2001 - Aug 2006

Advisors: Prof. Alexander L. Wolf and Assistant Prof. Antonio Carzaniga
Thesis Title: Automating Experimentation with Distributed Systems Using Generative Techniques
Cumulative GPA: 3.936 out of 4.0

M.S., Computer Science	University of Colorado at Boulder, Aug 2001 - May 2003

Relevant Courses: Software Engineering, Generative Programming, User Interface Design, Workflow Management System, Performance Modeling, Network System, Network Security, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Operating System, Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Cumulative GPA: 3.87 out of 4.0

B.S., Computer Science	Peking University, Beijing, China, Sep 1997 - Jul 2001

Cumulative GPA: 3.47 out of 4.0

Research Experience

Graduate Research Assistant	Software Engineering Research Laboratory (SERL), University of Colorado at Boulder, May 2002 - Aug 2006

Constructed general conceptual models to describe distributed system experiments, applied model-driven software development approach in distributed system experimentation, and designed a generative technique-based experimentation framework for distributed systems.
Released and maintained a software named Weevil, programmed in GNU m4, shell script, Java, and C++, to automate distributed system experimentation process, including the phases of dynamic workload generation, experiment deployment and execution, and data collection.
Successfully applied Weevil in real experiments with six different large-scale distributed systems including publish/subscribe communication systems (Siena, Elvin), peer-to-peer systems (Freenet, Chord), a mobility service (Mobikit), and a tranditional client/server system (Squid-Apache), on the planetary-scale wide-area testbed, PlanetLab, with up to 120 machines around the world involved; Weevil turns out to save much software engineers' work and improve the quality of the experiments.
Successfully applied Weevil in experiments with environment variations on the emulated network testbed, Emulab, to evaluate distributed systems' performance in response to network failures and in mobile network; these experiments verified the expressiveness, composibility, and repeatability for experiments with distributed systems.
Designed and implemented a new workload generation approach for distributed system experiments, namely simulation-based workload generation, and generated realistic workloads for a number of different distributed system usage scenarios with this approach.

Undergraduate Research Assistant	HCI & Multimedia Laboratory, Peking University, Aug 2000 - Jul 2001

Conducted research in the area of graphics and user interface, studied a research work on LOD(Level-of-Detail) display and operation based on Triangle Mesh, implemented it in OpenGL and C++, and applied it to display and edit an object under different level of precision.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computing	University of Colorado at Boulder, Aug 2001 - May 2002

Lectured the recitation sections of an undergraduate course, tutored programming in Java and introduced different areas in computer science, such as artificial intelligence, database and network.

Publications

Yanyan Wang, Antonio Carzaniga, Alexander L. Wolf,
Four Enhancements to Automated Distributed System Experimentation Methods, In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2008) , Leipzig, Germany, May 10-18, 2008. (Acceptance rate = 15%)
Yanyan Wang,
Automating Experimentation with Distributed Systems Using Generative Techniques, Ph.D. Thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, August, 2006.
Yanyan Wang, Matthew J. Rutherford, Antonio Carzaniga, Alexander L. Wolf,
Automating Experimentation on Distributed Testbeds, In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2005) , Long Beach, California, November 7-11, 2005. (Acceptance rate < 10%, nominated for the Best Paper Award)
Yanyan Wang, Matthew J. Rutherford, Antonio Carzaniga, Alexander L. Wolf,
Weevil: a Tool to Automate Experimentation with Distributed Systems, Technical Report CU-CS-980-04, Computer Science Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, October, 2004.

Talks

Yanyan Wang,
Automating Experimentation with Distributed Systems Using Generative Techniques, Ph.D. Thesis Defense, July 6, 2006.
Yanyan Wang,
Automating Experimentation on Distributed Testbeds, In the 20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2005) , Long Beach, California, November 10, 2005.

Academic Projects

Workflow Simulation Generator	University of Colorado at Boulder, Aug 2003 - Dec 2003

Developed a workflow process simulation generator, which generates C++ simulation programs of a workflow system from the system's workflow process model. This model is defined in the XML Process Definition Language, one of the WfMC standards. The translation was implemented through Xalan-Java.

Computer Science Department Web Site Redesign	University of Colorado at Boulder, Jan 2002 - May 2002

Interviewed computer science department students to get feedbacks on the old computer science department website, designed a new web site based on the feedbacks and created its mockup on paper and prototype in VB, applied the techniques of cognitive walkthrough, heuristic evaluation, and think alouds to evaluate the newly designed web site.

Lottery Scheduling Survey and Analysis	University of Colorado at Boulder, Aug 2001 - Dec 2001

Investigated the history, related research projects, advantages and disadvantages of Lottery scheduling, designed test cases, performed the tests in FreeBSD, and evaluated testing results to find out the reasons why lottery scheduling is not popular in current operating systems.

Service Activities

Secondary Reviewer	ICAC 2006, the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, Jun 12-16, 2006
Referee	CMG 2005, the 31st Annual International Conference on Resource Management and Performance Evaluation, Dec 4-9, 2005
Referee	CMG 2004, the 30th Annual International Conference on Resource Management and Performance Evaluation, Dec 5-10, 2004
Student Volunteer	CSCL 2002, 2002 Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Jan 7-11, 2002

Technical Skills

Operating System:	Proficient in Windows, Unix (Gentoo Linux, Redhat Linux, FreeBSD), Sun Solaris; familiar with Macintosh.
Programming and Script Language:	Proficient in C, C++, Java, Pascal(Delphi), m4, shell script, PL/SQL, TCL; familiar with Python, Perl, Basic, OpenGL, Assembly Language, HTML, CSS, XML, PHP.
Engineering Tool:	Proficient in CVS, LaTex, emacs, Doxygen; familiar with automake and autoconf.
Database:	Familiar with Oracle, MySQL.
Networking:	Proficient in TCP/IP, Java RMI, XML-RPC.
Large-Scale Testbed:	Proficient in PlaneLab, Emulab.

Languages

Fluent in English; native speaker of Chinese (Mandarin)

Yanyan Wang