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I am looking for PhD students who are interested in analyzing and designing algorithms for computing systems by using and developing tools in applied probability and stochastic systems.
I am looking for PhD students who are interested in analyzing and designing algorithms for computing systems by using and developing tools in applied probability and stochastic systems.
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Email: weinaw "at" cs "dot" cmu "dot" edu
Office: GHC 9231
I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. My research lies in the broad area of applied probability and stochastic systems, with applications in data centers, cloud computing, and privacy-preserving data analytics. Such applications are the backbone of many ever-developing technologies, especially the emerging big-data technology. Enormous challenges are presented by these new technologies, including scalability to large sizes, coordination of data and computation, ultra-low latency, economic efficiency, etc. The goal of my research is to address these challenges, provide a clear understanding of fundamental limits of systems, and build theoretical foundations for designing new architectures and algorithms.
I am interested in characterizing fundamental limits of large-scale computing systems that address emerging demands from big-data analytics, and designing algorithms with optimality on throughput and latency performance. My research in this area focuses on the following aspects.
I work on data privacy and its intersection with other areas including game theory, information theory and statistics. Our recent focus is a new, market model that we envisage for collecting private data where data subjects (individuals) retain full control of their privacy. I aim to understand the economic fundamentals of collecting private data and design optimal incentive mechanisms.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, I was a postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Arizona State University, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. R. Srikant and Prof. Lei Ying. I received my Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University in 2016, advised by Prof. Lei Ying and Prof. Junshan Zhang. I received my Bachelor's degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University in 2009. My dissertation received the Dean’s Dissertation Award in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University in 2016 (news article). I received the Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award at ACM SIGMETRICS 2016.