I
am a graduate student in the Laboratory for Information and Decision
Systems (LIDS) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supervised by Professor John
N. Tsitsiklis. I graduated from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in May 2009 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering
(ECE) and a minor in
Technology & Management (T&M).
I completed my undergraduate thesis under the supervision of
Professor Bruce
Hajek.
Research:
I am interested in the design
and analysis of large-scale stochastic networks (queuing networks,
the Internet, Cloud clusters and server-farms), and in general,
problems in engineering, operations research, and management
sciences which involve decision making, dynamics and probability.
Work
experience
Honors
and awards
CV
[updated January 2013]
Dept.
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
77
Massachusetts Ave., 32-D666
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email:
{full name} at mit dot edu
Journal Papers
Queueing with future information, with J. Spencer and M. Sudan, submitted. [paper]
Go
viral or not: Rate-optimal control of resource-constrained branching
processes,
with S. Mannor, submitted.
[paper]
On
the power of (even a little) resource pooling,
with J. N.
Tsitsiklis, Stochastic
Systems,
2: 1-66, 2012. [paper]
First
Place, INFORMS George E. Nicholson 2011 Student Paper Competition.
[link]
Beamforming
MISO-OFDM PAPR reduction: A Space-user perspective,
with T.
Thomas and D. L. Jones, submitted.
[paper]
Conference
Papers
Queueing
system topologies with limited flexibility,
with J. N.
Tsitsiklis, accepted
to ACM SIGMETRICS,
Pittsburg, June 2013.
[extended
technical report]
On
the power of (even a little) centralization in distributed
processing,
with J. N. Tsitsiklis, Proceedings
of ACM SIGMETRICS,
San Jose, June 2011.
[paper]
[extended
technical report]
Self-synchronizing
properties of CSMA wireless multi-hop networks,
with O. Dousse
and P. Thiran, Proceedings
of ACM SIGMETRICS,
New York, June 2010. [paper]
PAPR
reduction for beamforming OFDM via constellation-beam
modification,
with D. L. Jones, Proceedings
of the 43rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers,
Pacific Grove, November 2009. [paper]
Promoting
undergraduate research in ECE (PURE): Connecting undergraduates with
graduate research mentors, with E. Van Ruitenbeek, American
Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual
Conference & Exposition,
June 2009.
[paper][PURE's
website] [news
articles: 1,
2,
3]
Theses
On
the power of centralization in distributed processing,
S.M.
Thesis,
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology,
June 2011,
supervised by John
N. Tsitsiklis. [thesis]
First
Place, Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Award for Best S.M. Thesis in
Electrical Engineering
Modeling
and analysis of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) live video streaming,
Undergraduate
Thesis,
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
May 2009,
supervised by Bruce
Hajek. [thesis]
Kuang Xu 许匡
Activities
For the 2012 - 2013 academic year, I am a graduate representative on the MIT Council on Educational Technology (MITCET), and the Institute-Wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education [link]. Earlier, I served as co-Chair of the 2010 MIT Graduate Orientation during 2010 - 2011, a legislative advocate in the MIT Graduate Student Legislative Action Subcommittee during 2010 - 2011, and a graduate representative on the MIT Corporation Joint Advisory Committee on Institute-Wide Affairs (CJAC) during 2011 - 2012.
I enjoy rock climbing, and was a member of the MIT Ballroom Dance Team (MITBDT), where I competed in the international Latin style.
