Software Engineer Assistant

CHUANGANG REN

*** *** ********, **** ***** University

University Park, PA, 16802

*******@***.***.*** 718-***-****

E DUCATION

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering, Pensylvanian State University, State College, PA

Advisor: Prof. Anand Sivasubramaniam

Research Interest: Data center power management Jan 2011 - Now

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA

Concentration: Signal and image processing May 2009

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China Jul 2007

E XPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Systems Lab, Penn State University Jan 2011 Now

Power management and power provisioning in data centers

Integration of energy storage device and renewable energy in large-scale data centers

Software Engineer, Lab of Computational Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mar 2010 Dec 2010

Co-developed computer vision algorithms and independently developed and released the published techniques

as software series (using MATLAB and C)

Released software including Biosensor, plusTipTracker and u-Track, with hundreds of downloads by cell

biology research community (http://lccb.hms.harvard.edu/software.html)

Software Engineer Intern, Novus Laurus LLC, Boston Oct 2009 Feb 2010

Developed JAVA/J2EE-based web applications (using JAVA)

Graduate Research Assistant, Boston University, Boston Jan 2008 May 2009

Designed image and video processing algorithms including object detection and video condensation

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University

CSE 511: Operating Systems Design, Fall 2012

CMPEN 362: Communication Networks, Spring 2011

P UBLICATION

Chuangang Ren, Di Wang, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Anand Sivasubramaniam, "Carbon-Aware Energy

Capacity Planning for Datacenters", in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling,

Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2012).

Acceptance Ratio: 36.6%. Winner of Best Paper Award (1 out of 48 accepted papers)

Di Wang, Chuangang Ren, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Hosam K. Fathy, Energy

Storage in Datacenters: What, Where, and How much?, in the Proceedings of the ACM International

Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2012).

Acceptance Ratio: 15.3%. Nominated for Best Paper Award (4 nominations out of 36 accepted papers)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Integration of Renewable Energy in Data Center Environment Dec 2011 - Now

Pursue power management solutions to match power demand with intermittent renewable energy supplies

Make economic analysis and feasibility study of various green energy solutions in data center environment

including on-site renewable generation, renewable-based grid wheeling, renewable energy certificate, etc.

Data Center Power Provisioning using Centralized/Distributed Hybrid Energy Storage Device

May 2011 Nov 2011

Developed a theoretical framework for capturing important characteristics of different energy storage devices

Pursued possibilities of cost-effective power provisioning in data centers by using hybrid energy storage

devices within centralized and distributed hierarchy

Multi-Camera Visual Sensor Network based on Imote2 (wireless sensor node platform) Jan 2009 May 2009

Designed and implemented image/video processing algorithms for object detection and enumeration (using C)

S KILLS

Programming Languages: C/C++ (advanced), MATLAB (expert), JAVA (basic), Python (basic)

Operating Systems: Linux, Solaris, Macintosh OS X, MS Windows

AWARDS & C OMMUNITY SERVICE

Best Paper Award, IEEE MASCOTS 2012

Nominated for Best Paper Award (1 of 4 nominations), ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance, 2012.

Social Chair of Boston University Chinese Student and Scholar Association (BUCSSA) Sep 2008 May 2009

Advisor of Class 05 undergraduate students of Dalian University of Technology Sep 2005 Jun 2007

Undergraduate Student Scholarship, Dalian University of Technology, China 2004 2006

Reference

Prof. Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State Univerisity, State College, PA

Email: *****@***.***.*** Relationship: Current advisor

Prof. Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Penn State Univerisity, State College, PA

Email: ******@***.***.*** Relationship: Current Co-advisor

Prof. Gaudenz Danuser, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Email: ***************@***.*******.*** Relationship: Full-time job supervisor

Prof. William Oliver, Boston University, Boston, MA

Email: ***@**.*** Relationship: Previous advisor

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