Zhen Xiao

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University
4157 Upson Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: (O) 607-255-1164
E-mail: xiao@cs.cornell.edu
Homepage: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/xiao

Research Interests

• Scalable Reliable Multicast on the Internet
• Fault Tolerant Distributed Computing
• Computer Network
• Security

Education

• August 1996 - present, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University.
  Ph.D. candidate, GPA 4.12/4.00, Research Advisor: Prof. Kenneth P. Birman
  Degree expected: Ph.D., January 2001
  Degree earned: M.S. in Computer Science, May 1999
  Minor: Electrical Engineering

• September 1991 - July 1996, Department of Computer Science, Peking University, China.
  Degree earned: B.S. in Computer Science, GPA 3.72/4.00

Publications

• Zhen Xiao, Kenneth P. Birman. "A Randomized Error Recovery Algorithm for Reliable Multicast", Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, April 2001.

• Kenneth P. Birman, Mark Hayden, Oznur Ozkasap, Zhen Xiao, Mihai Budiu, and Yaron Minsky. ``Bimodal Multicast'', ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, May 1999.

• Zhen Xiao, Kenneth P. Birman. "Providing Efficient, Robust Error Recovery Through Randomization", International Workshop on Applied Reliable Group Communication, April 2001

• Zhen Xiao, Kenneth P. Birman, and Robbert van Renesse. "Optimizing Buffer Mangement for Reliable Multicast", TR2000-1815, Cornell University

• Oznur Ozkasap, Robbert van Renesse, Kenneth P. Birman, and Zhen Xiao. ``Efficient Buffering in Reliable Multicast Protocols'', International Workshop on Networked Group Communication, November 1999.

• Mark Hayden and Zhen Xiao. ``A Multicast Flow Control Protocol'', TR99-1739, Cornell University.

• Oznur Ozkasap, Zhen Xiao, and Kenneth P. Birman. ``Scalability of Two Reliable Multicast Protocols'', TR99-1748, Cornell University.

• Ohad Rodeh, Kenneth P. Birman, Mark Hayden, Zhen Xiao, and Danny Dolev. ``The Architecture and Performance of Security Protocols in the Ensemble Group Communication System'', TR98-1703, Cornell University.

Research Intern

• AT&T Research Lab, summer 2000. Worked on fault tolerant distributed computing. Mentor: Christof Fetzer

• AT&T Research Lab, summer 1998. Worked on quorum systems. Mentor: Dahlia Malkhi and Michael Reiter

Computer Skills

• Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Pascal, Tcl, OTcl, Awk, ML. Familiarity with POSIX standards.

• Systems: UNIX system/network programming, UNIX shell programming, System performance test.

• Software: Network Simulator(NS2), Matlab, Gnuplot, Emacs, Latex, HTML.

TA Experience at Cornell

• CS 400: Science of Programming Spring 1998

• CS 218: Discrete Mathematics Spring 1997

• CS 314: Introduction to Digital Systems and Organization Fall 1996

References:

• Prof. Kenneth P. Birman
  Department of Computer Science
  Cornell University
  Tel: (607)255-9199
  Email: ken@cs.cornell.edu

• Dr. Robbert van Renesse, Senior Research Associate
  Department of Computer Science
  Cornell University
  Tel: (607)255-1021
  Email: rvr@cs.cornell.edu

• Prof. Zygmunt Haas
  Department of Electrical Engineering
  Cornell University
  Tel: (607)255-3454
  Email: haas@anise.ee.cornell.edu