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Yang Wang is looking for students who are interested in distributed systems, including fault tolerance, large-scale storage systems, big data processing, etc. The applicants are expected to be self-motivated and have strong programming skills in Java or C. Two to three RA positions will be provided to students starting at 2015 fall.
Yang is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin working with Drs Lorenzo Alvisi and Mike Dahlin. He will be joining the Ohio State University in 2015 spring. He has published multiple papers in top conferences including OSDI/SOSP, NSDI, and USENIX ATC. He is the recipient of the 2013 Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Distributed Computing. Previously he got both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tsinghua University. Please see his homepage http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~yangwang/ for more information.
The CSE department of OSU has a strong system group including the chair Dr. Xiaodong Zhang working on storage systems, database, etc, and Dr. Feng Qin working on storage systems and system reliability. The department is also strong in related areas such as networking, computer architecture, and high performance computing. The students will have plenty of opportunities and flexibilities to join collaborating projects with others.
OSU is located in downtown of Columbus, the capital of Ohio and the 15th largest city in the US, with a population of about 800,000 including a pretty large Chinese community (and as a result, quite a lot of Chinese restaurants). Unlike a college town, Columbus also has a prosperous industry in banking, insurance, and retail. The weather here has clear four seasons. Although located in the north, winter snowfall here is relatively light, since the city is not in the typical path of strong winter cold air. For sports fans, the football and basketball teams of OSU are always among the top in NCAA, and Columbus is about two hours drive from Cleveland.
If you are interested, please send your CV to yangwang@cs.utexas.edu.
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