Yang Zhang

I’m a graduate student working with Prof. Sam Madden in CSAIL at MIT. I graduated from UC Berkeley in 2005 with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

• JOSMP: an exokernel operating system for many-core systems.
• H-Store: a distributed main-memory relational database management system for on-line transaction processing workloads.
• WebTables: web-scale information retrieval over structured data.
• Scalable Resilient Overlay Networks: distributed algorithms and systems to enable RONs to scale to thousands of nodes.
• Collaborative Filtering Techniques for the NetFlix Prize: an exploration of low-rank matrix factorization, and of maximum-likelihood estimation of a flexible mixture model using EM.
• CarTel: vehicular sensor network platform that uses open Wi-Fi networks for data delivery opportunistically.
  • Intermittently Connected Embedded Database (ICEDB): adaptive continuous query processing system for environments with intermittent and highly variable network connectivity.
  • CafNet: delay-tolerant carry-and-forward networking stack that enables mobile data muling and provides reliable transport on intermittently connected networks.
• Guarded Atomic Actions for Haskell: a Haskell implementation of the parallelism paradigm known as guarded atomic actions, a form of transactional memory (used in Bluespec System Verilog).
• Data Triage in the TelegraphCQ stream query processing system: an adaptive architecture for load shedding.
• Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions (TIER): communications infrastructure based on delay-tolerant data muling, and spoken and written natural language computer interfaces.
• 802.15.4 Simulation Platform in TinyOS/TOSSIM.
• Recovery-Oriented Computing (ROC).
• Microsoft Search and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server.

• Assorted Projects: my code dump
• Simple Publications Manager: publication management web application
• gbookmark2delicious: Python script to migrate/sync Google Bookmarks to del.icio.us

• Michael Cafarella, Alon Halevy, Daisy Wang, Eugene Wu, Yang Zhang. WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web. VLDB 2008. PDF

• Michael Cafarella, Nodira Khoussainova, Daisy Wang, Eugene Wu, Yang Zhang, Alon Halevy. Uncovering the Relational Web. WebDB 2008. PDF

• Yang Zhang. ICEDB: Intermittently-Connected Continuous Query Processing. MS Thesis, January 2008. PDF

• Yang Zhang, Bret Hull, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden. ICEDB: Intermittently-Connected Continuous Query Processing. ICDE 2007. PDF Slides PPTX

• Bret Hull, Vladimir Bychkovsky, Yang Zhang, Kevin Chen, Michel Goraczko, Allen Miu, Eugene Shih, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden. CarTel: A Distributed Mobile Sensor Computing System. Sensys 2006. PDF

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