Engineer
Resume:
Yaxiong Zhao
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Homepage: http://astro.temple.edu/ tuc21021/ 1805 N Broad St., Wachman Hall 108,
Expected graduation date: August 18, 2012 Philadelphia, PA 19122
JOB OBJECTIVE
A full-time position as a Software Engineer.
TECHNICAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Programming Language: C/C++, Bash Shell scripting, TCL, PERL, Matlab, Python, JavaScript.
Software system: NS2, MapReduce, Windows multi-threading, pThread, OpenMP, TinyOS, Linux,
Windows, operating system, computer architecture.
Networking: Socket APIs, Linux network internals, TCP/IP protocols.
Methodologies: Design patterns, algorithm design and analysis.
Research: Expert in content-based networking, publish/subscribe systems, embedded sensor
networks,
mobile wireless networks, TCP/IP protocols. Strong publications in leading technical
conferences.WORK EXPERIENCE
SDE InternAmazon.com Inc. (Seattle, WA) 05/2011-08/2011
Implemented a web-based tool for the review of the scheduled network configuration
changes. The tool
is used in the daily maintenance of the data center networks of the Amazon Web Service
(AWS). Wrote
the code (using PERL, HTML, Java, Javascript)and the documents, and performed the
deployment.
Teaching AssistantTemple Univ. & Florida Atlantic Univ. 09/2008-present
Worked as TA and lab-instructor for courses: Introduction to C Programming Language,
Foundation of
Computer Science, Statistics and Probability Theory with Lab.
Research AssistantTemple University (Philadelphia, PA) 09/2010-11/2010
Designed and implemented a content-based event-matching engine for large-scale
distributed publish/
subscribe networks using C++. Published a paper in the ICDCS 2011 conference.
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Project leader Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) 04/2010
Led a team of 3 Ph.D. students work on a project on the privacy-preserving fake user
detection in
online social networks. The project won the \Most Popular Project" award of ACM \The
Future of
Computing" competition. Developed idea, wrote project proposal and poster, and conducted
simulation
results analysis.
Research AssistantTemple University (Philadelphia, PA) 10/2009-12/2009
Designed and implemented a distributed content distribution system for mobile
smartphones, using C++.
Published a paper in the ICDCS 2010 conference.
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Research AssistantTemple University (Philadelphia, PA) 06/2009-09/2009
Designed a sleep scheduling algorithm for wireless sensor networks. Implemented the
algorithm using
C++ and conducted simulations. Published a paper in the Infocom 2010 conference.
[6]
Research AssistantFlorida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL) 02/2009-05/2009
Analyzed and optimized a video coding program for coastal video surveillance using
profiling tools (gprof
and VTune), assembly language (Intel SSE) and multithreading (pThread and Windows
multithreading,
OpenMP).
QA Engineer InternGemini Mobile Technologies (Beijing) 04/2007-05/2007
Performed system test of a multimedia messaging service system for the telecommunication
networks.
Summer
InternDocomo Beijing Laboratory (Beijing) 07/2006-09/2006
Designed a fast content dissemination protocol for mobile wireless networks. Performed
simulations using
C++ and NS2 network simulator. Wrote a technical report.
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EDUCATION
2008-present, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL & Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. GPA: 3.89/4.02005-2008, Tsinghua University, Beijing China
Master of Engineering in Software Engineering. GPA: 83/100
2001-2005, Tongji University, Shanghai China
Bachelor of Engineering in Transportation Engineering. GPA: 3.62/5.0
PUBLICATIONS
[1] ZigZag: A Content-based Publish/Subscribe Architecture for Human Networks
Yaxiong Zhaoand Jie Wu
2011 International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), Maui, Hawaii,
USA.
[2] Towards Approximate Event Processing in a Large-Scale Content-Based Network
Yaxiong Zhaoand Jie Wu
2011 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Minneapolis,
Min-
nesota, USA.
[3] On the Optimal Construction of Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Overlays
Yaxiong Zhaoand Jie Wu
2011 IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Salt
Lake
City, Utah, USA
[4] B-SUB: A Practical Bloom-filter-based Publish/Subscribe System for Human Net-
works[pdf] One of the two papers of the final list of the Best Paper Award
Yaxiong Zhaoand Jie Wu.
2010 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Genova,
Italy.
[5] Stochastic sleep scheduling for large scale wireless sensor networks[pdf]
Yaxiong Zhaoand Jie Wu.
2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cape Town, South Africa.
[6] Socially-Aware Publish/Subscribe System for Human Networks[pdf]
Yaxiong Zhaoand Jie Wu.
2010 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Sydney, Australia.
[7] VBS: Maximum Lifetime Sleep Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Networks Using
Virtual Backbones[pdf]
Yaxiong Zhao, Jie Wu, Feng Li and Sanglu Lu.
2010 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Diego, CA.
[8] A Density Adaptive Routing Protocol for Large-Scale Ad Hoc Networks[pdf]
Zhizhou Li, Yaxiong Zhao, Yong Cui and Dong Xiang.
2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Student travel grant awardsof the SECON 2011 and ICDCS 2011 & 2010 conferences.
Most popular project awardof the ACM \The Future of Computing" competition: 2010.
Outstanding student scholarshipof Tongji University: 2002.
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Technical Contactof the PlanetLab site of Temple University.
Student Memberof the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Student Memberof the professional groups of the ACM: Sigcomm (Data Communication),
Sigmobile
(Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing), Sigops (Operating Systems).
Student Memberof the USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association.
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