(Jethro) Shuwen Sun
594 Cambridge St, Allston
Great Boston Area, MA, 02134
Updated May 20, 2016
shwsun@cs.bu.edu
617-816-1771 (mobile)
Education
• Boston University
Department of Computer Science, Master in Computer Science
– Selected Courses: Computer Networks, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems
Boston, MA
Sep. 2015–Present
• Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, China
School of Software, B.Eng in Software Engineering
Sep. 2011–Jul. 2015
– Selected Courses: Compilers, Database Management Systems, Data Structure, Object-Oriented
Software Principles
– Undergraduate research on Cloud and Networking
Research Interests
• Systems and Networking
– Computer Networks, Cloud Computing, Virtualization
Selected Research Experience
• Computer Network and Information Security Lab, Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou, China
Research Assistant
Feb. 2014–Jun. 2015
– Description: Research on application of networking, especially Software Defined Networking and
OpenStack. Also, assisted in deployment and development of cloud desktop application.
Selected Course Projects
• DISCOS over FIFOS over MEMOS
Jan. 2016 - Apr. 2016
CS 552, Boston University
– Description: A full operating system built from the ground includes: a bootloader that probes the
system BIOS and reports the amount of physical memory, a non-preemptive or preemptive kernel,
virtual memory, and abstraction of files and directories on top of ram disk.
• Cloud vSwitch
Jan. 2016 - Apr. 2016
CS 591, Boston University
– Description: A virtual switch in the cloud providing a LAN between widely separated machines.
• Splay Tree - Self-adjusting BST
Sep. 2015 - Dec. 2015
CS 520, Boston University
– Description: Using ATS to implement a self-adjusting binary search tree based splay tree. Functional
programming language features like dependent types and type-checking are adopted.
• Trust-level Model with Tolerance based Secure Routing in
Ad-hoc Network
Feb. 2014 - May 2014
– Description: Design of a secure routing protocol in Ad-hoc Network.
• Attack Experiments on the Security Procedures of Juyere
Sep. 2013 - Jan. 2014
– Description: Reflect Cross-site Scripting Attack, Stored Cross-site Scripting Attack, Client-State
Manipulation Attack, Path Traversal Attack, Denial of Service and Code Execution.
Honors and Awards
Student Grant awarded to attend USENIX ATC’16, Denver, CO
Jun. 2016
Second-class Scholarship for Outstanding Students in Sun Yat-sen University(Top 10%).
Sep. 2014
Certificate of Advanced Level in the Application Development of Corporate Server
(IBM University Program).
May 2014
Third Prize in Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
Apr. 2014
Award of Excellence in the 9th Software Innovation and Application Competition, School of Software, Sun
Yat-sen University.
Jan. 2014
Skills
• Programming Languages:
– C/C++, Python, Bash, SQL
• IDE or Develop tools:
– Emacs, Git, Eclipse, Pycharm, Visual Studio
• Operating Systems
– Linux/UNIX, Virtualization (Oracle VirtualBox, VMWare, and QEMU), OpenStack
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, School of Software, Sun Yat-sen University
Assisted in checking the attendance, grading and evaluating students performance in Probability and
Statistics.
Tutor, School of Software, Sun Yat-sen University
Tutored one sophomore student in Probability and Statistics, one sophomore student in Operating
Systems, and another sophomore student in Database Management System.