Jia Wang
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-7501
Tel: (607) 255-6835
Fax: (607) 255-4428
E-mail: jiawang@cs.cornell.edu

 
OBJECTIVE  A full-time research position in the area of computer networking and communication
 
CITIZENSHIP  USA
 
GENDER  Female
 
EXPECTED DEGREE  Ph.D. in Computer Science, December 2000
 
ADVISORS  Robbert VanRenesse, Balachander Krishnamurthy, Srinivasan Keshav, and Zygment Haas
 
EDUCATION 
Aug. 1996 - present Ph.D. candidate, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University. 
(Major: Computer Science, Minor: Electrical Engineering, Degree earned: M. S. of Computer Science, May 1999, GPA: 4.0+/4.0)
Jan. 1994 - May 1996 B.S. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton (GPA: 4.0/4.0). 
Sep. 1990 - Oct. 1993 Undergraduate in Numerical Analysis, Department of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China.
 
HONOR AND FELLOWSHIPS  1996 - 1999 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship.
May 1996, Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Baccalaureate Studies, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton.
1995 - 1996 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in Mathematics, Science and Engineering.
Jan. 1994 - May 1996, Dean's Honor List of T. J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton.
1994 - present, Golden Key National Honor Society. 
 
RESEARCH INTEREST  Computer networking:
Network-aware client clustering, Web performance, content distribution, BGP routing, differentiated services, QoS routing, network performance measurement and other Internet related research work
 
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 
May 2000 - present Summer Internship, Software Systems Research Department, Network Services Research Center, AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ (Mentor: Balachander Krishnamurthy). 
  Developing algorithms and experiments to improve network-aware client clustering.
Sep. 1999 - Dec. 1999 Research Consultant, Software Systems Research Department, Network Services Research Center, AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ (Mentor: Balachander Krishnamurthy). 
  Developing algorithms and experiments for network-aware Web client clustering.
May 1999 - Aug. 1999 Summer Internship, Software Systems Research Department, Network Services Research Center, AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ (Mentor: Balachander Krishnamurthy). 
  Developing algorithms and experiments for network-aware Web client clustering.
Jan. 1998 - May 1999 Research Assistant, Cornell Network Research Group (C/NRG), Department of Computer Science, Cornell University.
Developing algorithms and experiments on Web caching, network performance measurement, differentiated service, QoS routing, and network simulation.
Jun. 1998 - Aug. 1998 Summer Internship, High Speed Network Research Department, Bell Labs Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ (Mentor: Fabio Chiussi) 
Developing experiments on performance evaluation of the protocol independent (PI) switch set under IP traffic
Jun. 1994 - Jun. 1996 Undergraduate Research Assistant, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton.
Developing algorithms and experiments on applying neural networks to identify nonlinear integral systems from their input-output data and using genetic algorithms to construct non-additive measures in systems by extension.
 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE 
Jan. 2000 - May 2000 Teaching Assistant of Data Structures, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University. 
Jan. 1997 - May 1997 Teaching Assistant of Computer Graphics, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University. 
Jan. 1996 - May 1996 Teaching Assistant of Principles of Programming Languages, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. 
Jan. 1995 - May 1995  Teaching Assistant of Introduction to Algorithms, Department of Computer Science, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton.
 
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES  Referee for ACM CCR, Software-Practice & Experience, IEEE INFOCOM, NOSSDAV
Student member, IEEE Computer Society
Student member, IEEE Communication Society
Student member, ACM
 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS 
PAPERS IN REFEREED CONFERENCES  1. Yu Zhang, Jia Wang, and Srinivasan Keshav, The implication of network performance on service quality: testbed and applications, submitted for publication. 
2. On Network-Aware Clustering of Web Clients, by Balachander Krishnamurthy and Jia Wang, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM'2000.
3. Efficient and accurate Ethernet simulation, by Jia Wang and Srinivasan Keshav, Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN’99).
4. Genetic algorithms used for determining belief measures and plausibility measures, Proceedings of NAFIPS’97, Syracuse, New York, 1997.
5. Neural networks used for optimization on determining belief measures and plausibility measures from data (extended abstract), Methodologies for the Conception, Design, and Application of Intelligent Systems (Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Soft Computing), Iizuka, Japan, 1996.
6. Determining fuzzy measures by using statistics and neural networks, by Jia Wang, Proceedings of IFSA’95, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1995.
PAPERS IN REFEREED
JOURNALS 
7. A survey of Web caching schemes for the Internet, by Jia Wang, ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Vol. 29, No. 5, October 1999.
8. Using genetic algorithms to determine nonadditive set functions in information fusion, to appear in  International Journal of Intelligent Systems.
9. Fuzzy measures defined by fuzzy integral and their absolute continuity, to appear in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Application
10. Neural networks used for determining belief measures and plausibility measures, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1998.
11. Using neural networks to determine Sugeno measures by statistics, Neural Networks, Vol. 10, No. 1,1997.
TECHNICAL REPORTS  12. On network-aware clustering of Web clients, by Balachander Krishnamurthy and Jia Wang, AT&T Labs--Research Technical Memorandum HA1630000-000101-01TM, January 1, 2000.
13. A scalable efficient robust adaptive architecture for the next generation of Web services, by Jia Wang, Technical Report TR99-1767, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, September 14, 1999.
14. The implication of network performance on service quality, by Yu Zhang, Jia Wang, and Srinivasan Keshav, Technical Report TR99-1754, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, June 30, 1999.
15. Efficient and accurate Ethernet simulation, by Jia Wang and Srinivasan Keshav, Technical Report TR99-1749, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, May 20, 1999.
16. A survey of Web caching schemes for the Internet, by Jia Wang, Technical Report TR99-1747, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, May 13, 1999.
17. Access driven Web caching, by Jiong Yang, Wei Wang, Richard Muntz, and Jia Wang, UCLA CSD Technical Report #990007.
18. Detecting static objects in busy scenes, by Jia Wang and Wei-Tsang Ooi, Technical Report TR99-1730, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Feb. 8, 1999.
19. Image disorientation auto-recovery, by Jia Wang, Yin Zhang, Zhiyuan Chen, and Yu Zhang, Technical Report TR99-1729, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Feb. 8, 1999.
REFERENCES 
 
 

 

Robbert VanRenesse
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
TEL: (607) 255-1021
EMAIL: rvr@cs.cornell.edu
  Balachander Krishnamurthy
Software Systems Research Department
Network Services Research Center
AT&T Labs
Florham Park, NJ 07932
TEL: (973) 360-8648
EMAIL: bala@research.att.com
  Srinivasan Keshav
Ensim Corporation
1366 Borregas Avenue 
Sunnyvale, CA 94089 
TEL: (408) 745-3300
EMAIL: keshav@ensim.com
  Zygment Haas
The School of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
TEL: (607) 255-3454
EMAIL: haas@ee.cornell.edu