FRANK UYEDA fuyeda@cs.ucsd.edu Computer Science & Engineering Department University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0404 La Jolla, CA 92093-0404 Research Interests: Computer Networking, Distributed Systems, Peer-to-peer Technologies Education: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Ph.D in Computer Science, (expected) June 2010. M.S. in Computer Science, June 2006. B.S. in Computer Engineering, June 2004. Honors: Cal-(IT)2 Undergraduate Scholar, 2004. BAE Systems Undergraduate Scholarship Recipient, 2004. Summa Cum Laude, 2004. Provost's Honors, 2000-2004. Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, 2003-2004. Research Experience: U.C. SAN DIEGO September 2006 - present Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Advisor: Prof. George Varghese & Prof. Amin Vahdat September 2005 - June 2006 Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Advisor: Prof. Amin Vahdat July 2004 - September 2005 Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Advisor: Prof. Andrew Chien January 2004 - July 2004 Undergraduate Independent Research, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Advisor: Prof. Andrew Chien MICROSOFT June 2007 - September 2007 Research Intern, Microsoft Research. Cambridge, UK Mentor: Dr. Antony Rowstron June 2006 - September 2006 Research Intern, Microsoft Research. Redmond, WA Mentor: Dr. John Douceur Projects: GrassRoots - Tools to Specify and Build Community-Driven Web Sites. GateKeeper - Allowing Streaming Overlays to Adapt to Aggregate Available Upload Bandwidth DonnyBrook - Scaling Multiplayer Games Arkose - Content Distribution using Network Coding OptIPuter Project / Master's Thesis - "A Comparision of Models of Use for Dynamically Configurable Optical Networks" OptIPuter Project / RobuSTore - Implementing and optimizing erasure coding algorithm. Technical Papers: Frank Uyeda, Diwaker Gupta, Amin Vahdat, George Varghese, "GrassRoots: Socially-Driven Web Sites for the Masses", To appear at the 2nd Workshop on Online Social Networks (WOSN), Barcelona, Spain, August 2009. Simon Schubert, Frank Uyeda, Nedeljko Vasic, Naveen Cherukuri, Dejan Kostic, Antony Rowstron, "Bandwidth Adaptation in Streaming Overlays", EPFL Technical Report, NSL-REPORT-2008-003. Jeffrey Pang, Frank Uyeda, and Jacob Lorch, "Scaling Peer-to-Peer Games in Low-Bandwidth Environments", International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS 2007), Bellevue, WA Nut Taesombut, Frank Uyeda, Andrew Chien, "The OptIPuter: High Performance, QoS-Guaranteed Network Service for Emerging E-Science Applications", IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol 44(5), Pages 38-45, May 2006. Frank Uyeda, Huaxia Xia, Andrew Chien, "Evaluation of a High Performance Erasure Code Implementation", UCSD Technical Report CS2004-0798. Teaching Experience: U.C. SAN DIEGO Instructor - Principals of Computer Operating Systems (CSE120), Summer 2009. Course Tutor - Advanced Data Structures (CSE 100), Spring 2004. Course Tutor - Basic Data Structures and OO Design (CSE 12), Spring 2002. Media Coverage: "Cal-(IT)2 Student Spectrum". California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology, Oct. 27, 2004.