Lili Qiu One Microsoft Way Bldg. 112, Rm. 2138 Redmond, WA 98052 Homepage: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/lqiu/ E-Mail: liliq@microsoft.com RESEARCH INTEREST * Computer network o Web workload characterization and performance enhancement techniques o Content distribution o Adaptive applications o Packet classification o TCP, active queue management, and congestion control in general o Wireless networking EDUCATION * Cornell University, 08/1996 - 01/2001 Ph.D. major in Computer Science, minor in EE Research advisors: Prof. George Varghese and Dr. Robbert van Renesse Cumulative G.P.A.: 4.06/4.00 * Cornell University, 08/1996 - 05/1998 M.S. in Computer Science Research advisor: Prof. Srinivasan Keshav Cumulative G.P.A.: 4.06/4.00 * University of Bridgeport, 08/1993 - 05/1996 B.S. in Computer Science, and B.S. in Physics Cumulative G.P.A.: 3.96/4.00, CS Major G.P.A.: 4.00/4.00, Physics G.P.A.: 4.00/4.00 RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE * Researcher. Microsoft Research, 02/2001 - present. * Research Assistant. Cornell University CS Department, 08/1998 - 01/2001 Worked on: o Web replication o Packet classification o TCP/Spand: Investigate techniques to improve TCP start-up performance o TCP performance analysis: Study individual and aggregate TCP performance using extensive simulation o Built a semi-automatic C to C++ translator * Research Intern. AT&T Labs , Summer 2000 Mentor: Sandeep Sibal. Worked on server selection techniques in content distribution networks. * Research Intern. Microsoft Research, Summer 1999 Mentor: Venkata N. Padmanabhan. Worked on characterizing web workload and web replication. The work appeared in SIGCOMM'2000. * Research Intern. Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Summer 1998 Mentor: Jonathan Rosenberg. Worked on integrating FEC into adaptive audio playout algorithms. The work appeared in INFOCOM'2000. * Intern. Sun Microsystem, Menlo Park, CA, Summer 1997 Mainly involved in developing WebNFS client and NFSTool. * Intern. Coopers & Lybrand, New York, NY, Summer 1996 Worked on Fads & Fashion Project. It is an X-window application written in C++ which uses mathematical modeling to predict CD market. This project was presented in the annual conference of Santa Fe Institution in August 1996, and got very good response. * Intern. Dictaphone, Summer 1995 Wrote a SCSI-device control program in C using Adaptec's adaptor and its assembly software interface to monitor and automate testing the DAT tape-drivers. TEACHING EXPERIENCE * Teaching Assistant. Cornell University CS Department, 1997 Fall and 1998 Spring Course: CS314 (Introduction to Digital System and Computer Organization) * Teaching Assistant. University of Bridgeport, 9/1994 - 5/1996 Courses: different levels of mathematic courses, including calculus, differential equation, discrete structure. REFEREED PAPERS * L. Qiu, G. Varghese, and S. Suri. Fast Packet Classification on Multiple Dimensions. Accepted as extended abstract in SIGMETRICS 2001. * L. Qiu, Y. Zhang, and S. Keshav. Understanding the Performance of Many TCP Flows. Accepted by Computer Networks Journal. * L. Qiu, V. N. Padmanabhan, G. M. Voelker. On the Placement of Web Server Replicas. To appear in INFOCOM 2001. * V. N. Padmanabhan and L. Qiu. The Content and Access Dynamics of a Busy Web Server: Findings and Implications. Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2000, Stockholm, Sweden, August - September 2000. * Y. Zhang, L. Qiu, and S. Keshav. Speeding Up Short Data Transfers: Theory, Architectural Support, and Simulation Results. Proceedings of NOSSDAV 2000, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, June 2000. * V. N. Padmanabhan and L. Qiu. The Content and Access Dynamics of a Busy Web Server. Extended abstract in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2000, Santa Clara, CA, USA, June 2000. * J. Rosenberg, L. Qiu, and H. Schulzrinne. Integrating Packet FEC into Adaptive Voice Playout Buffer Algorithms on the Internet. Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2000, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000. * L. Qiu, Y. Zhang, and S. Keshav. On Individual and Aggregate TCP Performance. 7th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 99), Toronto, Canada, October 1999. * L. Qiu and L. Li. Contour Extraction of Moving Objects. 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Australia, 1998. TALKS * "The Content and Access Dynamics of a Busy Web Ser ver: Findings and Implications". ACM SIGCOMM 2000, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2000. * On Individual and Aggregate TCP Performance". 7th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'99), Toronto, Canada, October 1999. HONORS AND AWARDS * McMullen Fellowship, 1996-97, Cornell University * Dan Drew Scholarship, 1996, US National award in computer science * All American Scholar, 1996 * Dean's Award, 1996, University of Bridgeport, offered to 1 senior each year * Academic Achievement in Physics, 1996, University of Bridgeport * Charles E. Reed Award, 1995, University of Bridgeport, offered to 1 junior each year * President's List, 1993 - 1996, University of Bridgeport * Dean's List, 1993 - 1996, University of Bridgeport * Academic Excellence and Leadership Scholarship, 1993 - 1996, University of Bridgeport COMPUTER SKILLS * Programming Languages: C, C++, Java and Java Beans, Perl, PASCAL, Tcl/Tk, OTCL, ML, Scheme, Fortran, Forth, SQL * Operating System Experience: Unix (SunOS/Solaris, Linux), DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, OS/2 * Networking: Familiarity with TCP/IP protocol stack, HTTP, RPC, NFS protocols. Working experience with Network Simulator (NS) and Entrapid, CGI programming. * System Knowledge: Unix system programming, Unix shell programming, X-windows programming in XView and Motif, Database, compiler, basic system administration. * Document preparation language: Latex, HTML * Hardware VHDL, FPGA implementation PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES * Referee for submissions to the following professional conferences and journals: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE IPDPS, NOSSDAV, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), and Computer Comunnication Review (CCR). * Student member, IEEE Computer Society * Student member, IEEE Communication Society * Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon National Honor Society REFERENCE * Professor George Varghese (Thesis advisor) Computer Science and Engineering, MS 0114 University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92040-0114 Tel: 619-822-0424 Email: varghese@cs.ucsd.edu * Dr. Robbert van Renesse (Thesis advisor) Department of Computer Science 4118 Upson Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 Tel: 607-255-1021 Email: rvr@cs.cornell.edu * Dr. Venkata N. Padmanabhan (Internship supervisor) Systems and Networking Research Group Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 Tel: 425-705-2790 Email: padmanab@microsoft.com * Jonathan Rosenberg (Internship supervisor) Dynamicsoft 72 Eagle Rock Avenue First Floor East Hanover, NJ 07936 Tel: 973-952-5000 Email: jdrosen@dynamicsoft.com