Hi, my name is Tianyin Xu. I am currently a 1st-year PhD student in Operating System Research (OPERA) Group, University of California San Diego (UCSD). My advisor is Prof. Yuanyuan Zhou who is the coolest advisor ever. In OPERA, the biggest lesson I've learned is to be serious to research: to work on real problems and to build useful things that can really make a difference, instead of playing games.

Before joining UCSD, I worked as a research staff in University of Goettingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen). I received both my B.Sc. and M.Eng. Degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University (NJU), China in 2007 and 2010, respectively. In 2007, I was selected for graduate study exempted from the graduate school entrance exam at Nanjing University. In 2010, I was awarded a highly selective fellowship (LiSUM scholarship) from the Chinese National Commitee for Education for graduate exchanging in Europe, and studied at University of Goettingen.

Here is my always out-of-date Curriculum Vitae (CV) and Short Biography in 100 Words.

My research interests are in Computer Systems and Networks, with an emphasis on making computer systems (and networks) more maintainable, scalable, reliable, and available.

2011  Outstanding Master's Degree Thesis of Jiangsu Province

2010  Outstanding Master's Degree Thesis of CS Department, Nanjing University (iPod touch)

2010  LiSUM Scholarship (1000 Euros per month, 6 months in all)

2009  IBM Chinese Excellent Student Scholarship (8000 RMB)

2009  Best Paper Award for International Conference on Communications

2008  Excellent Graduate Student Prize of Nanjing University

2008  HP Chinese Excellent Student Scholarship (4000 RMB)

2006  Mr. Xue-Ping Pan Scholarship (12000 RMB, the highest level scholarship in NJU)

2006  Excellent Undergraduate Student Prize of Nanjing University

2005  Jiangsu Province Government Scholarship (2000 RMB)

2005  People's Scholarship of Nanjing University (The 2nd Prize, 1500 RMB)

2004  People's Scholarship of Nanjing University (The 3rd Prize, 1000 RMB)

I put some previous publications here as a proof of my potential and raw skills. I would suggest you not to take them too serious: they are more or less like game playing.

Tianyin Xu, Yang Chen, Lei Jiao, Ben Zhao, Pan Hui and Xiaoming Fu. Scaling Microblogging Services with Divergent Traffic Demands. The 12th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware'11). Lisbon, Portugal, December 2011. [Paper: pdf] Middleware 2011 Student Scholarship

Tianyin Xu, Yang Chen, Xiaoming Fu and Pan Hui. Twittering by Cuckoo -- Decentralized and Socio-Aware Online Microblogging Services. The 16th ACM SIGCOMM, Demo Session. New Delhi, India, August 2010. [Paper: pdf | Website: http://mycuckoo.org/] SIGCOMM 2010 Travel Grant

Tianyin Xu, Baoliu Ye, Qinhui Wang, Wenzhong Li, Sanglu Lu and Xiaoming Fu. APEX: A Personalization Framework to Improve Quality of Experience for DVD-like Functions in P2P VoD Applications. The 18th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS'10). Beijing, China, June 2010. [Paper: pdf]

Tianyin Xu, Jianzhong Chen, Wenzhong Li, Sanglu Lu, Yang Guo and Mounir Hamdi. Supporting VCR-like Operations in Derivative Tree-Based P2P Streaming Systems. The 44th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'09). Dresden, Germany, June 2009. [Paper: pdf] Best Paper Award

Qifeng Yu, Baoliu Ye, Tianyin Xu, Sanglu Lu and Daoxu Chen. A Skip Graph Based P2P VoD System (the Construction Method). No. 200910026451.1. State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C. 2009.

Tianyin Xu, Zhuzhong Qian, Baoliu Ye and Sanglu Lu. A Context-Aware Service Platform for Intelligent Home Environments. No. 200710190936.5. State Intellectual Property Office of the P.R.C. 2007.

Web Chair of HotPOST 2012 (in conjunction with ICDCS 2012)

Scribe of ACM SIGCOMM 2010 [Report]

Conference Review: ICNP 2010, ICCCN 2010, ICPP 2009, GLOBECOM 2009, MobiCom 2009 (SPC)

Journal Review: ToN, COMNET, ComCom, IET-COM, JCST

2010-2011 Advanced Topics in Computer Networking, Winder Semester, University of Goettingen

2010-2011 Practical Course on Advanced Networking, Winter Semester, University of Goettingen

2010-2011 Seminar on Internet Technologies, Winter Semester, University of Goettingen

2007-2008 Operating System, Fall Semester, Nanjing University

Soccer (Playing career | Album | To be a Barça fan!), Travel (Backpacking), Hiking, Bicycling, The game of Go, Drinking, Reading, Movies, Myth, Amphibians and Reptiles...

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Phone: 1-858-888-3220
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