Yanjun Yao
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Tennessee (UTK)
Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
Phone:
Email:
(865) 951-9433
yyao9@utk.edu
Education
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
expected in Spring 2014
Ph.D. candidate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
GPA: 3.83
Coursework: Operating System; Computer Architecture; Algorithms; Computer Networks
Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland
July 2008
Master of Science, Security and Mobile Computing
GPA: 3.73
Coursework: Mobile Networks; Network Security; Advanced Network Protocols; Embedded System
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
Master of Science, Security and Mobile Computing
Coursework: Cryptography; Graph Theory
July 2008
GPA: 3.71
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering
Coursework: Object Oriented Programming; Data Structure; Programming Languages; Database
July 2006
GPA: 3.45
Intern Experience
Doing research in the area of distributed database systems in Oak Ridge National Lab with Dr. James Horey,
May - August, 2012
Publications
Under Review Papers
1. Yanjun Yao, Qing Cao, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. EDAL: an Energy-efficient, Delay-aware, and Lifetimebalancing Data Collection Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks. Submitted to IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking.
2. Yanjun Yao, Lipeng Wan, Qing Cao and Rukun Mao. PhoneCon: Voice-driven SmartPhone Controllable
Wireless Sensor Networks. Submitted to Journal of Mobile Networks and Applications.
3. Xiaodong Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Yanjun Yao, Kefa Lu, Qing Cao. Correlation-Aware Traffic Consolidation
for Energy Savings in Data Center Networks. Submitted to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
4. Yanjun Yao, Sisi Xiong, Jilong Liao, Qing Cao, and Michael Berry. Identifying Frequent Flows in Large
Traffic Sets through Probabilistic Bloom Filters. Submitted to the 34th International Conference on Distributed
Computing Systems (ICDCS’14).
Journal Papers
1. Xiaodong Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Guoliang Xing, and Yanjun Yao. Minimum Transmission Power Configuration in Real-Time Sensor Networks with Overlapping Channels. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks,
9(3): 1-31, December 2012, (accepted to appear).
Book Chapter
1. Yanjun Yao, Lipeng Wan, and Qing Cao. System Architecture and Operating Systems for Wireless Sensor
Networks. To appear in the Art of Sensor Networks. Springer.
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Conference Papers
1. Sisi Xiong, Yanjun Yao, Qing Cao, and Tian He. kBF: a Bloom Filter for Key-Value Storage with an Application on Approximate State Machines. the 33rd Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’14). Toronto, Canada, March 2014. (Acceptance rate: 320/1645 = 19.4%).
2. Yanjun Yao, Qing Cao. EDAL: Energy-efficient, Delay-aware, and Lifetime-balancing Data Collection Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE MASS, 2013.
3. Seung-Hwan Lim, James Horey, Yanjun Yao, Edmon Begoli, and Qing Cao. Performance Implications from
Sizing a VM on Multi-core Systems: A Data Analytic Application’s View. High-Performance Grid and Cloud
Computing Workshop (with IPDPS), 2013.
4. Yanjun Yao, Lipeng Wan, Qing Cao, Rukun Mao. PhoneCon: Voice-driven SmartPhone Controllable Wireless
Sensor Networks. IEEE IPCCC, Austin, Texas, December, 2012.
5. Xiaodong Wang, Yanjun Yao, Xiaorui Wang, Kefa Lu, and Qing Cao, CARPO: Correlation-Aware Power
Optimization in Data Center Networks. The 31st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
(INFOCOM’12), Orlando, Florida, March 2012. (Acceptance rate: 278/1547 = 18%).
6. Xiaodong Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Guoliang Xing, and Yanjun Yao. Dynamic Duty Cycle Control for End-toEnd Delay Guarantees in Wireless Sensor Networks. The 18th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service
(IWQoS’10), Beijing, China, June 2010.
7. Xiaodong Wang, Xiaorui Wang, Guoliang Xing, and Yanjun Yao. Exploiting Overlapping Channels for
Minimum Power Configuration in Real-Time Sensor Networks. The 7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor
Networks (EWSN’10), Coimbra, Portugal, February 2010.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant of CS461 Compiler, teach supplementary courses and grade homework, 2012
Teaching Assistant of CS140 Data Structures & Algorithms I, lead labs and grade homework, 2009 - 2010
Teaching Assistant of CS302 Data Structures & Algorithms II , lead labs and grade codes, 2008 - 2009
Special Skills
Language: C/C++ (expert), Java (proficient), Python (conversant), Matlab (conversant), HTML (conversant), XML (prior experience), SQL (prior experience).
Software: Code Blocks, Eclipse, Linux, AVR Studio, Matlab, Mathematica.
Certificates
UML certificate of IBM, in 2005
XML certificate of IBM, in October 2005
The Eighth Taekwondo Yellow Belt certificate, in December 2004
Awards and Honors
Graduate Researching Assistantship, University of Tennessee, 2011-Now
Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Tennessee, 2008-2011
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, Helsinki University of Technology and University of Tartu, September 2006June 2008
Excellent Students Scholarship, Zhejiang University, March 2006