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Yicheng Tu
215-09, Nimitz Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47906
(765) 496-4388 (H) (765) 426-8481 (Cell)
[email protected]
URL: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/tuyc
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Emphasis: Multimedia/Streaming data management systems
Expected: May 2007
GPA: 3.81/4.0
Certificate of Applied Management Principles (mini-MBA), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Date: May 2004
M.S., Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Date: May 2003
GPA: 3.84/4.0
M.S., Horticulture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Date: December 2000 GPA: 3.9/4.0
B.S., Horticulture, Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Date: July 1993
GPA: 4.57/5.0
Rank: 2nd /45
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, CS Department, Purdue University, 9/2001- present
Project 1: Quality of Service Control in Emerging Data Management Systems.
Design, analysis, and implementation of QoS control frameworks for multimedia DBMS and streaming
data management systems.
Project 2. Knowledge Projection - A Dynamic Maintenance System for Navy Warships.
Significantly contributed to design and development of HPKB, an interactive tool for preventative and
corrective maintenance of naval ships. Environment and skills required: Java, J2EE, XML DB, XSL.
Winner of 2005 TechPoint MIRA award – one of the most prestigious research/education awards in Indiana
Project 3: VDBMS: A Video DBMS with Content-based Retrieval Capabilities.
Tertiary storage support of active video data and relevant pre-fetching/caching algorithms. Research
resulted in top journal (ACM Multimedia Systems) and conference (ICDE 02) publications.
Project 4: Cost-effective Media Streaming: A Peer-to-peer Approach.
Mathematical analysis of a peer-to-peer media streaming service; P2P streaming protocol design and
evaluation. Results published in MMCN 04.
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
Summer Intern, R&D division, Micro Data Bases, Inc., West Lafayette, IN, 5/2001 - 8/2001
Project: Fiji - Supporting large objects in DBMS
Extensive core DBMS development and performance evaluation.
Co-founder and Manager, Hunan Wilson Consultants, Ltd., Changsha, China, 12/1993 – 7/1997
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
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Y. Tu, S. Liu, S. Prabhakar, and B. Yao. Load Shedding in Stream Databases – A Control-Based Approach.
In Proceedings of International Conference of Very Large DataBases (VLDB) 2006.
Y. Tu and S. Prabhakar. Control-Based Load Shedding in Data Stream Management Systems. PhD
Symposium/Workshop, in conjunction with ICDE 2006.
L. Qu and Y. Tu. Change Point Estimation of Bi-Level Functions. To appear in Journal of Modern Applied
Statistical Methods.
Y. Tu, J. Sun, M. Hefeeda, and S. Prabhakar. An Analytical Study of Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming
Systems. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP).
1(4):354-376, November 2005.
Y. Tu, J. Yan, and S. Prabhakar. Quality-Aware Replication of Multimedia Data. In Proceedings of Intl.
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Conf. of Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) 2005, pp.240-249
Y. Tu, M. Hefeeda, Y. Xia, S. Prabhakar, and S. Liu. Control-based Quality Adaptation in Data Stream
Management Systems. In Proceedings of Intl. Conf. of Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA)
2005, pp.746-755
R. Cheng, B. Kao, S. Prabhakar, A. Kwan, and Y. Tu. Adaptive Stream Filters for Entity-Based Queries
with Non-Value Tolerance. Proceedings of Intl. Conf. on Very Large Databases (VLDB), pp.37-48.
L. Qu and Y. Tu. Change Point Estimation of Bar Code Signals. In Proceedings of International
Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC) 2005, pp.109-114
Y. Tu, S. Prabhakar, A. Elmagarmid and R. Sion. QuaSAQ: An Approach to Enabling End-to-End QoS for
Multimedia Databases. Proc. Intl. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2004, pp. 694-711.
Y. Tu, J. Sun and S. Prabhakar. Performance Analysis of A Hybrid Media Streaming System. In Proc.
ACM/SPIE Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN) 2004, pp. 69-82
W. Aref, A. Catlin, A. Elmagarmid, J. Fan, M. Hammad, I. Ilyas, M. Marzouk, S. Prabhakar, Y. Tu and X.
Zhu. VDBMS: A Testbed Facility for Research in Video Database Benchmarking. ACM/Springer
Multimedia Systems Journal. 9(6):575-585, June 2004.
W. Aref, A. Catlin, A. Elmagarmid, J. Fan, M. Hammad, I. Ilyas, M. Marzouk, S. Prabhakar, Y. Tu and X.
Zhu. VDBMS: A Testbed Facility for Research in Video Database Benchmarking. In Proc. Intl. Conf. on
Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS) 2003, pp. 160-166.
W. Aref, A. Elmagarmid, J. Fan, J. Guo, M. Hammad, I. Ilyas, M. Marzouk, S. Prabhakar, A. Rezgui, A.
Teoh, E. Terzi, Y. Tu, A. Vakali, X. Zhu. A Distributed Database Server for Continuous Media. In Proc.
Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2002, pp. 490-491.
DRAFTS UNDER REVIEW
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Y. Tu, S. Liu, S. Prabhakar, B. Yao, and W. Schroeder. Improving database performance using control theory.
Y. Tu, G. Ding, S. Liu, S. Prabhakar, and B. Yao. Using Control Theory for Self-Tuning Databases.
Y. Tu, S. Prabhakar, J. Yan and G. Shen. Multi-quality data replication in multimedia databases.
Y. Tu and S. Lei. Building applications on peer-to-peer networks: a case study of media streaming.
Y. Tu. Quality support in database systems.
H. Fang, Q. Wang, M. F. Horstemeyer, and Y. Tu. A fast and efficient non-dominated sorting algorithm for
evolutionary algorithms.
PRESENTATIONS
1. Load Shedding in Stream Databases – A Control-Based Approach. At Conf. on Very Large Databases
(VLDB), Seoul, Korea, September 12, 2006.
2. Control-Based Load Shedding in Data Stream Management. 3rd Midwest Database Symposium, University of
Illinois, Champagne, IL, USA, April 15, 2006.
3. Load Shedding in Data Stream Management Systems: A Control-based Approach. At PhD Symposium
/Workshop, in Conjunction with International Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE), Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.,
April 3, 2006.
4. Control-Based Load Shedding in Data Stream Management. Sigma-Xi poster session, Purdue University,
February 16, 2006.
5. Crane-Purdue Relationship in Knowledge Projection. ASNE Defense Transformation through Collaboration
Symposium. Bloomington, IN., September 22, 2005.
6. Control-based Quality Adaptation in Data Stream Management. At Intl. Conf. of Database and Expert
Systems Applications (DEXA), Copenhagen, Denmark, September 7, 2005.
7. Quality-Aware Replication of Multimedia Data. At Intl. Conf. of Database and Expert Systems Applications
(DEXA), Copenhagen, Denmark, September 5, 2005.
8. Adaptive Stream Filters for Entity-Based Queries with Non-Value Tolerance. At Conf. on Very Large
Databases (VLDB), Trondheim, Norway, September 2, 2005.
9. Innovation in Shipboard Troubleshooting. Barnes and Thornburg New Economy-New Rules. Indiana
WebCast, July 1, 2005.
10. The Knowledge Projection Project. Purdue University Presentation to NSWC Crane. April 4, 2005.
11. QuaSAQ: Enabling End-to-End QoS for Distributed Multimedia Databases. At Intl. Conf. on Extending
Database Technology (EDBT). Heraklin, Greece, March 17, 2004.
12. Interactive Diagnostics. Smartship program, PEO Ships, US Navy, Washington, DC. March 16, 2004.
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13. Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Media Distribution Systems: a Performance Study. At ACM/SPIE Conf. on Multimedia
Computing and Networking. San Jose, CA, U.S.A., January 20, 2004.
14. VDBMS: A Testbed Facility for Research in Video Database Benchmarking. At Intl. Conf. on Distributed
Multimedia Systems (DMS), Miami, Florida, USA, September 25, 2003
15. A Knowledge-based System for Dynamic Maintenance. ASNE Defense Transformation through
Collaboration Symposium. Bloomington, IN. September 17, 2003.
16. Maintenance Knowledge Base and Data Mining. Smartship program, Program Executive Office (PEO) Ships,
US Navy, Washington, DC. June 8, 2003.
17. Installations and demonstrations of Knowledge Projection, at Distance Support Laboratory at NSWC Crane,
03/23/05, 05/17/05, 07/28/05, 09/12/05
18. A Distributed Database Server for Continuous Media. At Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering. San Jose, CA,
USA, February 28, 2002.
SELECTED IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS
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Minibase – A Relational DBMS
Implemented components including SQL parser, buffer management, indices, relational operators, and
query optimizer using C++. Group leader.
The XINU Operating System
Implementation of core OS components in C.
An IPv4 Router
Design and coding of various network protocols ranging from the IP layer to the application layer in C.
Leader of a group of four.
A Compiler for the TIGER programming language
Implemented consecutive phases (from lexical analysis to register allocation) of a compiler using Java.
AWARDS
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Key member of the team that wins the 2004 MIRA award, a prestigious education/research award in Indiana,
for the technical contribution in the Knowledge Projection project.
Applied Management Principles, a mini MBA program for graduate students and faculty members. Attendance
is based on nomination from the 200+ graduate students in Department of Computer Sciences. Out of 12
nominations, I was one of the 3 attendees chosen by the School of Science.
Graduate Student Body (GSB) travel grant of Purdue CS Department, summer 2006. One $500 award was
given out of 200+ graduate students.
Summer research award, Graduate School, Purdue University, May 2006. Among 200+ graduate students, only
3 awards were given in 2006.
First-class scholarship, Beijing Agricultural University (BAU), 2 winners out of 45, 1990-1993. This
scholarship was awarded to students with the highest academic performance in BAU.
ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
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Full member of Sigma-Xi, the scientific research society
Member of the computer science honorary society Upsilon Pi Epsilon
Student member of ACM, IEEE
Reviewer for Multimedia Tools and Applications, Information Sciences, and Information Systems
External reviewer for NOSSDAV, ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems, ACM Multimedia Conference,
ICDE, VLDB, and ICDCS
Served on the Graduate Student Body (GSB) in CS Department and the Purdue University Chinese Students
and Scholars Association (PUCSSA)
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