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

· Transaction Support for Log-Based Middleware Server Recovery (to appear)

in IEEE ICDE Conference 2009,

with B. Salzberg and D. Lomet

· Log-Based Recovery for Middleware Servers

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 DEXA 2008

· 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