Yongen Yu Ph.D. Candidate Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, 60616, IL, USA E-mail: yyu22 AT iit DOT edu

Introduction

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Computer Science at IIT. I have received my BS and MS degrees both from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Before joining IIT, I worked in China System and Technology Lab of IBM as a software engineer.

Education

• Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 2009~ present
• M.S. Telecommunications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, Sep 2004~ April 2007
• B.S. Automation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecomunications, Beijing, China, Sep 2000~ July 2004

Publications

• W. Tang, Z. Lan, N. Desai, D. Buettner, Y Yu ''Reducing Fragmentation on Torus-Connected Supercomputers,'' to appear in Proc. of IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '11) , Anchorage, AK, USA, 2011.

Research Projects

• PetaART: Toward Petascale Cosmological Simulations using the Adaptive Refinement Tree (ART) Code

Awards and Assistantship

• Research Assistant IIT fall 2009
• Research Assistant IIT spring 2010
• Research Assistant IIT fall 2010
• Research Assistant IIT spring 2011

Activities

• Volunteer, High Performance Distributed Computing 2010

Skills

• C/C++: GNU C/C++, MPI, pthread, OpenMP
• Java/J2EE: EJB, JMS, Web Service, Spring, Hibernate, Ibatis, Struts, JSF, Ajax.
• Database: SQL-Server, Oracle (PL-SQL), DB2, MySQL
• Miscellaneous: Object Oriented design patterns, python, shell, ant, PHP