Yang Wang Assistant Professor Office: DL689 Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University Email: wang dot 7564 at osu dot edu

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My research interests are in distributed systems, in particular fault tolerance and scalability.
My CV can be found here.

Orientation slides

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2014. The University of Texas at Austin. Advisors: Dr. Lorenzo Alvisi and Dr. Mike Dahlin (now at Google).
  
• Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology, 2008. Tsinghua University. Advisor: Dr. Jiwu Shu.
• Bachelor of Engineeing in Computer Science and Technology, 2005. Tsinghua University.

Awards and Honors:

• Google Ph.D. fellowship in Distributed Computing, 2013.
• Best paper award. Systor 2014.

Teaching:

• 2017 Fall: CSE6431 Advanced Operating System.
• 2017 Spring: CSE2431 System II (Operating System).
• 2016 Fall: CSE2431 System II (Operating System).
• 2016 Spring: CSE 5439 Large-scale Data Processing.
• 2015 Fall: CSE2431 System II (Operating System).

Publications:

• "Accurate Timeout Detection Despite Arbitrary Processing Delays", S. Ma, and Y. Wang. To appear in USENIX ATC 2018.
• "wPerf: Identifying Critical Waiting in Multi-threaded Applications", F. Zhou, Poster in ACM Student Research Competition (SRC 17), held in conjuction with SOSP 17.
• "Cheap and Available State Machine Replication", R. Shi, and Y. Wang, in USENIX ATC 2016.
• "High-Performance ACID via Modular Concurrency Control". C. Xie, C. Su, C. Littley, L. Alvisi, M. Kapritsos, and Y. Wang, in SOSP 2015.
• "Salt: Combining ACID and BASE in a Distributed Database". C. Xie, C. Su, M. Kapritsos, Y. Wang, N. Yaghmazadeh, L. Alvisi, and P. Mahajan, in OSDI 2014.
• "Lazy Means Smart: Reducing Repair Bandwidth Costs in Erasure-coded Distributed Storage". M. Silberstein, L. Ganesh, Y. Wang, L. Alvisi, and M. Dahlin, in Systor 2014. Best paper award
• "Exalt: Empowering Researchers to Evaluate Large-Scale Storage Systems". Y. Wang, M. Kapritsos, L. Schmidt, L. Alvisi, and M. Dahlin, in NSDI 2014.
• "Robustness in the Salus scalable block store". Y. Wang, M. Kapritsos, Z. Ren, P. Mahajan, J. Kirubanandam, L. Alvisi, and M. Dahlin, in NSDI 2013.
• "All about Eve: Execute-Verify Replication for Multi-Core Servers". M. Kapritsos, Y. Wang, V. Quema, A. Clement, L. Alvisi, and M. Dahlin, in OSDI 2012.
• "Gnothi: Separating Data and Metadata for Efficient and Available Storage Replication". Y. Wang, L. Alvisi, and M. Dahlin, in USENIX ATC 2012.
• "SOPA: Selecting the Optimal Policy Adaptively". Y. Wang, J. Shu, G. Zhang, W. Xue, W. Zheng, ACM transactions on storage, Volume 6 Issue 2, July 2010.
• "UpRight Cluster Services". A. Clement, M. Kapritsos, S. Lee, Y. Wang, L. Alvisi, M. Dahlin, T. Riche, in SOSP 2009.

Services:

• 2018: ICDCS
• 2017: SOSP Student Grant Committee
• 2016: SoCC 2016, SysTOR 2016, DCOSS 2016

Resources:

• Learning materials for new students: here
• Cluster guidline: here
  
• Public testbeds: Utah Emulab, PRObE