Bo Yan
Hey folks, I am a Software Engineer at the Uber infrastructure team - uMetal. I currently work on automating the configuration and monitoring of tens of thousands of devices in various zones at Uber to serve our customers across the world.
Before joining Uber, I completed my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at New York University. During my graduate study, I worked at the High-Speed Networking Lab led by Professor H. Jonathan Chao and Prof. Yang Xu at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. I work closely with Prof. Yong Liu at NYU Wireless, Dr. Shu Shi and Dr. Rittwik Jana at AT&T Labs Research.
Before joining NYU, I received my Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. During my undergraduate study, I am a research member advised by Professor Wei Guo at State Key Lab of Advanced Optical Communication Network.
Email: yanbo AT uber DOT com
Office Address: 555 Market St, San Francisco
Resume (Last Updated Dec. 2021)
Research Interest:
My research focuses on Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and Live Streaming Systems.
Publications and Talks:
Bo Yan, Yang Xu, and H.Jonathan Chao “BigMaC: Reactive Network-wide Policy Caching for SDN Policy Enforcement." IEEE Journal on Selected Area of Networking - Special Issue on Scalability Issues and Solutions for Software Defined Networks (JSAC'19) [PDF]
Bo Yan, Yang Xu, and H.Jonathan Chao “Adaptive Wildcard Rule Cache Management for Software-Defined Networks.“ IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON’18) [PDF].
Bo Yan, Shu Shi, Yong Liu, Weizhe Yuan, Haoqin He, Rittwik Jana, Yang Xu, and H.Jonathan Chao "LiveJack: Integrating CDNs and Edge Clouds for Live Content Broadcasting", in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2017 [PDF].
Bo Yan, Shu Shi, Rittwik Jana, Yang Xu, Bo Han, Lusheng Ji, Vijay Gopalakrishnan and H. Jonathan Chao "Architecting Multimedia Conferencing Service using SDN". In Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Cloud-Assisted Networking 2016 [PDF].
Bo Yan, Shu Shi, Rittwik Jana, Yang Xu, and H. Jonathan Chao: “OpenLive: Agile Live Content Delivery with Media Function Virtualization". Poster and Talks at AT&T Academic Research Summit 2016 [PDF].
Bo Yan, Yang Xu, and H. Jonathan Chao: “BigMaC: Enabling Reactive Policy Enforcement for SDN". Poster and Talks at AT&T Academic Research Summit 2016 [PDF].
Bo Yan, Yang Xu, Hongya Xing, Kang Xi, and H. Jonathan Chao: “CAB: A Reactive Rule Caching System for Software-defined Networks”., Proceedings of 3rd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Defined Networking (HotSDN). Aug. 2014 [PDF]
Bo Yan, Wei Guo, Yaohui Jin, and Weisheng Hu: “A Novel Dynamic Wavelength Bandwidth Allocation Scheme for OFDMA PON”. In Proceedings of IEEE Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), Nov. 2011
Patents:
Shu Shi, Rittwik Jana, Bo Yan. "Synchronizing and dynamic chaining of a transport layer network service for live content broadcasting" Published US Patent US10271077B2
Rittwik Jana, Bo Yan, Shu Shi, Bo Han, Lusheng Ji, Vijay Gopalakrishnan. "Method and Apparatus for Architecting Multimedia Conferencing Service using SDN" Published US Patent US10264035B2.
Ying Chen, Bo Yan, Zhiguang Zhang, Kenneth Duell. "Implementing provider edge with hybrid packet processing appliance" Published US Patent US10484233B2
Shu Shi, Bo Yan, Rittwik Jana, Yang Xu, H. Jonathan Chao. "Transport Layer Network Service for Live Content Broadcasting" Filed 2017, US Patent App. US20190007475A1
SDN & VMF Research Group:
I led a compact SDN & VMF Research Group at NYU High-Speed Networking Lab. For years, I feel fortunate to work closely together with the industry as well as many distinguished students at NYU to develop SDN and Virtualized Media Function (VMF) solutions.
As I have graduated from NYU, I would like to extend my best wishes to all the students who had worked with me for years. Hope to see you soon in the near future!
Alumni:
Jiaren Hu M.S. 2018 Google
Weizhe Yuan M.S. 2018 Mixpanel
Haoqin He M.S. 2017 Google
Wen Yang M.S. 2017 Turbonomic
Vishlesh Patel M.S. 2015 Cisco
Junan Dang M.S. 2015 Juniper Networks.
Zishuo Wang M.S. 2015 Fortinet
Teaching:
EL6383 High-Speed Networks Lecturer, TA Spring'18, Fall'17, Spring'17, Spring'16, Fall'15
EL7373 High-Performance Switches and Routers TA Fall'16
EL9333 Data Center and Cloud Computing TA Spring'15, Fall'14
Misc.:
"See you later" greetings by Mazin Gilbert (VP) and Igal Elbaz (VP) from AT&T Innovation Center on my 3-yr collaboration with AT&T.
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