Guozhang Wang Database Research Group Computer Science Department Cornell University 4104 Upson Hall, Ithaca NY 14853 +1 (607) 339-8352 gw222 [at] cornell [dot] edu

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About me

I am a Ph.D student in Computer Science Department of Cornell University since September 2008. My advisor is Johannes Gehrke.

Before my graduate study, I received my Bachelor degree from Fudan University.

My research interests include database systems and cloud computing.

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Publications

Conference

• Making Time-stepped Applications Tick in the Cloud [PDF]
  Tao Zou, Guozhang Wang, Marcos Vaz Salles, David Bindel, Alan Demers, Johannes Gehrke, and Walker White
  In Proc. SOCC 2011.
• Behavioral Simulations in MapReduce [PDF]
  Guozhang Wang, Marcos Vaz Salles, Benjamin Sowell, Xun Wang, Tuan Cao, Alan Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Walker White
  In Proc. VLDB 2010.
• Differential Privacy via Wavelet Transforms [PDF] [TechReport]
  Xiaokui Xiao, Guozhang Wang, Johannes Gehrke
  In Proc. ICDE 2010.

Journal

• Differential Privacy via Wavelet Transforms [PDF]
  Xiaokui Xiao, Guozhang Wang, Johannes Gehrke
  In TKDE Special Issue of "Best Papers of ICDE 2010", 2010.03. Extended version of the ICDE 2010 paper.
• Privacy in Search Logs [PDF]
  Michaela Götz, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Guozhang Wang, Xiaokui Xiao, Johannes Gehrke
  In TKDE, 2009.12.

Workshop, Posters and Demos

• Interactive Anonymization of Sensitive Data [PDF] [Software]
  Xiaokui Xiao, Guozhang Wang, Johannes Gehrke
  In Proc. ACM SIGMOD 2009.

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Talks

• Behavioral Simulations in MapReduce
• Microsoft Research DMX, Redmond, Aug. 2010
• VLDB Conference, Singapore, Sep. 2010 [Slides]
• NTU PDCC, Singapore, Sep. 2010

[More]

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Teaching Experience

2010 Spring	CS 5300 Architecture of Large-Scale Information Systems	Teaching Assistant.
2008 Fall	CS 4320 Introduction to Databas Systems	Teaching Assistant. TA Excellence Award
2008 Fall	CS 4321 Practicum in Database Systems	Teaching Assistant.

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Working Experience

2011 Summer	Microsoft Madison	Jim Gray Systems Lab Mentor: Donghui Zhang, Manager: David DeWitt	Research Intern
2010 Summer	Microsoft Redmond	Data Management, Exploration and Mining Group Mentor: Sanjay Agrawal, Manager: Surajit Chaudhuri	Research Intern
2007 Summer	Microsoft Asia	Machine Learning Group Mentor: Jian-Tao Sun, Manager: Zheng Chen	Research Intern

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Awards

• Cornell University Computer Science Department TA Excellence Award, May. 2009
• Tung Orient Overseas Container Line Scholarship (top 5/140 of the department), Oct.2007
• Chun-Tsung Research Fellowship (supported by Nobel Prize Laureate: Lee, T.D), May.2007
• Fudan University First-class Renmin Scholarship, Oct.2005, Oct.2006
• Chinese Mathematical Olympiad First-class Award, Feb.2004

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Misc

• Course notes I have written.
• Other talks I have given.

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Personal

• My hobbies.
• Places I have visited.
• Books I have read.

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Updated 10/30/2010