Hi, my name is Tianyin. I'm a system hacker, an optimistic day dreamer, a modern hippie with the 60s idea, and a crazy fan of FC Barcelona. I'm currently in my 2nd year as a PhD student in Operating System Research (OPERA) Group, UC San Diego (UCSD). My advisor is Yuanyuan Zhou (YY), the coolest advisor I've ever known. 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. I received both my B.Sc. and M.Eng. Degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University, China in 2007 and 2010, respectively. In 2012, I interned in NetApp ATG, where I got the chance to play with real storage systems.

Here're my always out-of-date Curriculum Vitae and Short Biography in 100 Words.

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My research interests are in Computer Systems and Networks, with the goal of making computer systems and networks more manageable, scalable, reliable, and available.

As system people, I'm interested in all kinds of inter-disciplinary black magics and hacks such as compiler techniques, machine learning, statistics, etc. The spirit of system research is problem-oriented. System people should be able to use any kind of weapon to kill the dragon (*NOT* Don Quixote's windmills!).

2011  Outstanding Master's Degree Thesis of Jiangsu Province, China

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  HP Chinese Excellent Student Scholarship (4000 RMB)

2006  Mr. Xue-Ping Pan Scholarship (12000 RMB, the highest honor scholarship in Nanjing U)

2005  Jiangsu Province Government Scholarship (2000 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, 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

Program committee of ICNP PhD Forum 2013

Web chair of HotPOST 2012, 2013

Scribe of ACM SIGCOMM 2010 [Report]

2012-2013 Design and Analysis of Algorithms (CSE 101), Fall quarter, UC San Diego

2010-2011 Advanced Topics in Computer 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...

Mail: 9500 Gilman Drive, M/C 0404, La Jolla, CA 92093-0404

Phone: 1-858-888-3220
Email: xuty1985 AT gmail.com

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