Kai Chen (now on Job Market) CV, Research statement, Teaching statement Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60201-3150, USA Office#: 847-467-6341 Mailing: 2145 Sheridan Road, Tech L359, Evanston, IL 60208-3118 E-mail: kch670 AT eecs.northwestern.edu

Kai keeps himself:)

News

Education

Research

Publications

Patents

Talks

Teaching

Honors

Services

Miscellanea

News

4/25/2012		WaveCube gets into ACM SIGCOMM 2012 !
2/7/2012		Happy to know that two student papers I mentored get accepted by ICDCS 2012.
12/13/2011		Our paper OSA is accepted by USENIX/ACM NSDI 2012 .
6/2010-9/2011		Design scalable optical DCNs in NEC Labs China and Tsinghua University, work with Dr. Yong Xia.
10/2010-2/2011		Explore optical data centers with Dr. Yueping Zhang, Atul Singh, Lei Xu, Kishore Ramachandran, at NEC Labs, Princeton.
8/31/2010		Give a talk on ACM SIGCOMM in New Delhi, India.
6/13/2010		Travel San Francisco for NANOG'49 Conference.
5/4/2010		Yes, our paper DAC gets into ACM SIGCOMM 2010 !
3/15/2010		Give a talk on IEEE INFOCOM in San Diego, CA, USA.
12/2/2009		Give a talk on ACM CoNEXT in Rome, Italy.
8/2009-10/2009		I spent summer 2009 in MSRA studying data center networking with Dr. Chuanxiong Guo.

Education

Ph.D.		Computer Science		Northwestern University		06/2012(Expected)		Advisor: Prof. Yan Chen
M.S.		Computer Science		University of Science & Technology of China		07/2007		Advisor: Prof. Fan Jiang
B.S.		Computer Science		University of Science & Technology of China		07/2004

Research Interests

• Data center networking, Cloud computing
• Networked systems
• Internet routing, measurement, and reliability
• Wireless sensor networks

Representative Publications (Full List)

• OSA: An Optical Switching Architecture for Data Center Networks with Unprecedented Flexibility
  Kai Chen, Ankit Singla, Atul Singh, Kishore Ramachandran, Lei Xu, Yueping Zhang, Xitao Wen, Yan Chen
  USENIX/ACM NSDI 2012, San Jose, CA, April 2012.
  
  
• DAC: Generic and Automatic Address Configuration for Data Center Networks
  Kai Chen, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Jing Yuan, Zhenqian Feng, Yan Chen, Songwu Lu, Wenfei Wu
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2011.
  
  
• Generic and Automatic Address Configuration for Data Center Networks
  Kai Chen, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Jing Yuan, Zhenqian Feng, Yan Chen, Songwu Lu, Wenfei Wu
  ACM SIGCOMM 2010, New Delhi, India, August 2010 (Nominated Best Paper, selected fast-tracked to ToN, 3/276=1.1%)
  
  
• Where the Sidewalk Ends: Extending the Internet AS Graph Using Traceroutes From P2P Users
  Kai Chen, David Choffnes, Rahul Potharaju, Yan Chen, Fabian Bustamante, Dan Pei, Yao Zhao
  ACM CoNEXT 2009, Rome, Italy, December 2009.
  
  
• A New Method of Generating Synchronizable Test Sequences that Detect Output-shifting Faults Based on Multiple UIO Sequences
  Kai Chen, Fan Jiang, Chuandong Huang
  ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) 2006, Dijon, France, April 2006. (My first paper:)
  

Patents

• Generic and Automatic Address Configuration for Data Center Networks
  Kai Chen, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, US patent, being filed through Microsoft Corporation, 2010.
  
  
• A Flexible All-optical Switching Architecture for Data Center Networks
  Kai Chen, Ankit Singla, Atul Singh, Kishore Ramachandran, Lei Xu, Yueping Zhang, US patent, being filed through NEC Labs America, 2011.
  
  
• A Method for Network Load Balancing using Virtual Machine Migration
  Yongqiang Liu, Xitao Wen, Kai Chen, Yan Chen, Yong Xia, US patent, being filed through NEC Labs China, 2011.
  

Talks

• "A Flexible Data Center Architecture", IBM Research Labs, Beijing, China, September 2011.
• "A Flexible Data Center Architecture", Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China, August 2011.
• "Where the Sidewalk Ends: Extending the Internet AS Graph Using Traceroutes From P2P Users", NEC Labs, Princetion, NJ, USA, October 2010.
• "Generic and Automatic Address Configuration for Data Center Networks", ACM SIGCOMM, New Delhi, India, August 2010.
• "Evaluating Potential Routing Diversity for Internet Failure Recovery", IEEE INFOCOM, San Diego, CA, USA, March 2010.
• "Where the Sidewalk Ends: Extending the Internet AS Graph Using Traceroutes From P2P Users", ACM CoNEXT, Rome, Italy, December 2009.

Teaching

2010		Teaching Assistant, Computer Networking, EECS Department, Northwestern University
2009		Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computer Programming, EECS Department, Northwestern University
2006		Teaching Assistant, Advanced Computer Networks, CS Department, University of Science & Technology of China
2005		Teaching Assistant, Data Structure and Algorithms, CS Department, University of Science & Technology of China

Honors

2010		ACM SIGCOMM Best Paper Candidate, paper fast-tracked to IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
2009		Nominee for Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, EECS Dept, Northwestern University
2008		Nominee for Microsoft Research Fellowship, EECS Dept, Northwestern University
2007		Murphy Fellowship, EECS Dept, Northwestern University
2007		Chinese Academy of Sciences President Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2007		Excellent Graduate Student, Anhui Province
2007		Excellent Graduate Student, USTC
2006		Spaceflight Graduate Scholarship, USTC
2006		USTC Graduate Student Innovation Research Funding Award, USTC
2005		Winner of USTC Graduate Innovation Research Foundation, USTC

Professional Services

• Conference Reviewer
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM) 2007
Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2010/2011/2012
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2008/2011
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2011
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2010
IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS) 2008/2009/2010
• Program Committee
IEEE INFOCOM workshop on Cloud Computing 2011
IEEE Internationl Conference on Systems 2007/2008

Miscellanea

• Userful links
• Networking Conferences and Statistics
• Hong-Lou-Meng. Click the pictures and characters, enjoy the beautiful melody and Chinese art.
• Music
• Travelling

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