Rui Wang

 

Ph.D.

Graduated from

Database Research Group

College of Computer and Information Science

Northeastern University

 

466 West Village H

360 Huntington Avenue

Boston, Massachusetts 02115

 

617-373-4605

bradrui AT ccs DOT neu DOT edu

 

Always work on important problems.

                                             --- Thomas Jefferson

 

Research Interests     

·        Application Recovery

studying how to recover applications, including its in-memory state,

consistency among distributed applications and consistency with

transactional resources, upon computer crashes

 

·        Online Reorganization

studying how to migrate data and update indexes due to load

balancing and system scaling up or down in parallel database systems

 

·        Access Method

studying index structures considering access performance,

concurrency control and recovery

 

Advisor     Prof. Betty Salzberg

 

Publications

·        Log-Based Recovery for Middleware Servers (to appear)

in ACM SIGMOD Conference 2007,

with B. Salzberg  and D. Lomet

·        Transaction Time Support Inside a Database Engine

in Proc. IEEE ICDE Conference 2006,

with D. Lomet, R. Barga, M. Mokbel, G. Shegalov and Y. Zhu

·        Online B-Tree Merging in Proc. ACM SIGMOD Conference 2005,

with X. Sun, B. Salzberg and C. Zou [PDF]

·        Immortal DB: Transaction Time Support for SQL Server

in ACM SIGMOD Conference Demo 2005,

with D. Lomet, R. Barga, M. Mokbel, G. Shegalov and Y. Zhu [PDF]

·        Explorer: A Recovery Framework for Platforms with Commercial Features

Tech Report  NU-CCIS-03-06  with B. Salzberg [PDF]

 

Research Experience

·        Northeastern University, Boston, MA                           Sept. 2001 to Aug. 2006

                             Research Assistant, Database Group

·        Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA                             Sept. 2003 to Dec. 2003

                             Research Intern, Database Group

·        Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA                             June 2002 to Sept. 2002

                             Research Intern, Database Group

·        Fudan University, Shanghai, China                                 July 1996  to  June1998

Research Assistant, Database Research Center

 

Teaching Experience

·        instructor for CSU430 (undergraduate): Database Design, summer II 2005

·        TA for

§        CSU430 (undergraduate): Database Design, fall 2004 & fall 2002

§        CSU380 (undergraduate): Computer Organization, spring 2001

§        COM3351 (graduate): Principles of Programming Languages,

winter 2000 & spring 2001

§        COM1100 (undergraduate): Fundamentals of Computer Science, fall 2000    

 

Industry Experience

·        Microsoft, redmond, WA                                                      Oct. 2006 to present

Software Development Engineer, SQL Server Group

·        iMonitor Corp.,  Lexington, MA                                    June 2001 to Sept. 2001

Software Development Intern

·        Jinhua Software Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China                   Mar. 2000 to Aug. 2000

Project Manager

·        Microsoft Global Technique Support Center Center,

Shanghai, China July 1998 to July 1999

Technique Support Engineer, SQL Server, MTS and MSMQ Group

 

Education          

·        Northeastern University, Boston, MA                           Sept. 2000  to  Aug. 2006

Ph.D. in Computer Science (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

·        Fudan University, Shanghai, China                                 Sept. 1995  to  June 1998

Master of Computer Science (GPA: 3.9/4.0)

·        Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China           Sept. 1991 to June 1995

Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering (GPA: 3.6/4.0)

 

Professional Activities                                    

·        external referee for VLDB 2006

·        external referee for SIGMOD 2005

·        external journal reviewer for Software: Practice and Experience 2005

·        student volunteer for ICDE 2004

 

Awards

·        Excellence of Teaching Award, CCIS, Northeastern University, 2006

·        Northeastern University Outstanding TA Award, nominated, 2006

·        Huawei Scholarship, Fudan University, 1997

·        Motorola Scholarship, Fudan University, 1996

·        Outstanding Undergraduate Award, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1995

·        Dateng Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1994

·        People Scholarhship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1991~1995