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Dong Lu (Curriculum Vitae)
Department of Computer Science
Northwestern University
1890 Maple Avenue Suite 300
Evanston, IL 60201, U.S.A
+1(847)467-1006 (Office)
+1(847)491-5258 (Fax)
donglu AT cs.northwestern.edu
http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~donglu
Research Interests: Grid computing; Peer-to-Peer systems; End system multicast; Empirical queuing models for computer systems; Performance analysis; Internet measurement, statistical characterization and prediction; High performance networking; Incentives in wireless Ad-Hoc networks.
 

Academic Background
School
Major
Dates
Degree
Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA. Computer Science Sept. 2000 ~ Jun. 2005 Ph.D.
Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA. Computer Science Sept. 2000 ~ Jun. 2002 Master of Science
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. Mechanical Engineering Sept. 1997 ~ Jan. 2000 Master of Science
Central South University, Changsha, China. Material Science & Engineering Sept. 1993 ~ Jun. 1997 Bachelor of Science
Ph.D. Information: Thesis Title: A Decentralized Relational Information System for Large Scale Distributed Computing
Thesis Committee: Peter A. Dinda (Chair); Fabian E. Bustamante; Yan Chen; Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago)
 
Employment History
Dates
Place
Position
Responsibilities
Jun. 2005 ~ now Ask Jeeves, Inc., Offline Development Group Senior Software/Research Engineer Design and Implementation on next generation high performance web crawler
Jun. 2004 ~ Sept. 2004 Microsoft Research Asia, Wireless & Networking Group Research Intern Research on incentives in wireless Ad-Hoc networks
Jun. 2003 ~ Sept. 2003 Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics & Computer Science Division Research Intern Research on Quality of Service for Grid services and service composition
Sept. 2000 ~ Now

Northwestern University, Department of Computer Science

Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant Research assistant on several projects. Teaching assistant for “Introduction to Computer Systems” three times
Jan. 2000 ~ Jun. 2000 Alcatel China, R&D center Research & Development Software Engineer Research and development on the Operation and Maintenance Center of the Alcatel GSM cell phone network
 

Publications in Computer Science
Dong Lu, Yi Qiao, Peter Dinda, Fabian Bustamante, "Characterizing and Predicting TCP Throughput on the Wide Area Network", In Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2005), June 2005, Columbus, Ohio. To appear. [PDF]
Dong Lu, Yi Qiao, Peter Dinda, Fabian Bustamante, "Modeling and Taming Parallel TCP on the Wide Area Network", In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), April 2005, Denver, Colorado. To appear. [PDF]
Dong Lu, Haitao Wu, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu, "PARS: Stimulating Cooperation for Power-Aware Routing in Ad-Hoc Networks", In Proceedings of the 40th annual IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2005), May 2005, Seoul, Korea. To appear. [PDF]
Dong Lu, Huanyuan Sheng, Peter Dinda, "Size-Based Scheduling Policies with Inaccurate Scheduling Information", In Proceedings of 12th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), October 2004, Volendam, The Netherlands. [PDF]
Dong Lu, Peter Dinda, Yi Qiao, Huanyuan Sheng, Fabian Bustamante, "Applications of SRPT Scheduling with Inaccurate Scheduling Information", In Proceedings of 12th Annual Meeting of the IEEE / ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), October 2004, Volendam, The Netherlands. [PDF]
Stefan Birrer, Dong Lu, Fabian Bustamante, Yi Qiao, Peter Dinda,"FatNemo: Building a Resilient Multi-Source Multicast Fat-Tree", In Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW 2004), Beijing, China. [PDF] Also appeared in Springer LNCS.
Yi Qiao, Dong Lu, Fabian Bustamante, Peter Dinda, "Looking at the Server-Side of Peer-to-Peer Systems", In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-time Systems for Scalable Computers (LCR 2004), October 2004, Houston, Texas. [PDF]
Bin Lin, Peter Dinda, Dong Lu, "User-driven Scheduling of Interactive Virtual Machines", In Proceedings of 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2004), PITTSBURGH, PA, November, 2004. [PDF]
Dong Lu, P. Dinda "Synthesizing Realistic Computational Grids", In proceedings of 15th ACM/IEEE SuperComputing (SC 2003), Phoenix, AZ. [PDF]
P. Dinda, Dong Lu "Nondeterministic queries in a relational Grid information service",
In proceedings of 15th ACM/IEEE SuperComputing (SC 2003), Phoenix, AZ. [PDF]
Dong Lu, P. Dinda, Jason Skicewicz "Scoped and Approximated queries in a relational Grid Information Service", In Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Grid Computing (Grid 2003), Phoenix, AZ. [PDF]
Dong Lu, P. Dinda "GridG: Generating Realistic Computational Grids",
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 30, Number 4, 2003. [PDF]
Dong Lu, P. Dinda "Virtualized Audio: A Highly Adaptive Interactive High Performance Computing Application", In Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Languages, Compilers, and Run-time Systems for Scalable Computers, Washington, DC, 2002. Also to appear in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. [PDF]
Non-refereed Technical Reports
Dong Lu, Y. Qiao, Peter Dinda, and F. Bustamante, Characterizing and Predicting TCP Throughput on the Wide Area Network, Technical Report NWU-CS-04-34, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, April, 2004.
Dong Lu, Yi Qiao, Peter Dinda, and F. Bustamante, Modeling and Taming Parallel TCP on the Wide Area Network, Technical Report NWU-CS-04-35, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, April, 2004.
Yi Qiao, Dong Lu, F. Bustamante, and Peter Dinda, Looking at the Server Side of Peer-to-Peer Systems, Technical Report NWU-CS-04-37, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, March, 2004.
Dong Lu, H. Sheng, and Peter Dinda, Effects and Implications of File Size/Service Time Correlation on Web Server Scheduling Policies, Technical Report NWU-CS-04-33, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, April, 2004.
Peter Dinda, Dong Lu, Nondeterministic Queries in a Relational Grid Information Service, Technical Report NWU-CS-03-15, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, April, 2003.
 
 
Publications in Mechanical Engineering and Material Science
Dong Lu, Dannong He, Yongqing Zhang, Dashu Peng, "Artificial Neural Network Based Intelligent System for the Prediction of Drawing Load", Transactions of Nonferrous Metal Society of China, Volume 10, Number 3, 2000. (In Chinese)
Dongzhe Wang, Dong Lu, Yongqing Zhang, "Research on the Blank Holder Force close-loop control system", Forging and Stamping Technology, Number 4, 2000. (In Chinese)
Dong Lu, Dannong He, Yongqing Zhang, "Physical simulation based intelligent system for the prediction of sheet metal drawing capability", ACTA METALLURGICA SINICA, Volume 13, Number 2, 1999. (In English)
Xiangjun Bao, Dannong He, Dong Lu, "Optimization of Autobody Panel Stamping Process Based on Dynamic Explicit Finite Element Method", ACTA METALLURGICA SINICA, Volume 13, Number 1, 1999. (In English)
Dong Lu, Dannong He, "Theoretical analysis on the modified criterion for sheet metal drawing capability--TLDR", Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong (Chiao Tung) University, Volume 34, Number 3, 1999. (In Chinese)
Dong Lu, Dannong He, "Application of Neural Network in the selection of lubricants", Die & Mold Technology, Number 4, 1998. (In Chinese)


Academic Activities
Referee for conferences and Workshops: ACM/IEEE SuperComputing; IEEE HPDC; IEEE IWQoS; IEEE Cluster Computing; IEEE MASCOTS; IEEE ICDCS; IEEE INFOCOM
 


Software Released
GridG: An extensible toolkit for generating realistic synthetic computational Grids
TameParallelTCP: A Parallel TCP throughput and impact prediction tool
 


Honors
Nominated by the Computer Science department for the Presidential Fellowship of Northwestern University, which is the most prestigious scholarship awarded to the graduate students by Northwestern University. USA, 2003.
Global Grid Forum (GGF5) student travel grant, 2002.
Sigmetrics student travel grant, 2001.
Walter P. Murphy Fellowship, Northwestern University, USA, 2000.
Scholarship of National Excellence, the most prestigious scholarship awarded to the graduate students by Shanghai Jiao Tong (Chiao Tung) University, China, 1999.
Scholarship of SME Educational Foundation, Central South University, China, 1997.
Torch Scholarship, Central South university, China, 1995.
Six times semester scholarship, Central South University, China, Sept. 1993 ~ Jun. 1997.
Three times the title of Excellent Student, Central South University, China, Sept. 1993 ~ Jun. 1997
 


References
Dr. Peter A. Dinda, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University
Dr. Fabián E. Bustamante, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University
Dr. Yan Chen, Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University
Dr. Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago
Dr. Qian Zhang, Research Manager, Microsoft Research Asia
Contact Information is available upon request.