Yu (Jason) Gu    

I am a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. My research interests include networked embedded systems, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), cyber-physical systems, wireless networks, real-time and embedded systems, distributed systems, vehicular ad-hoc networks and related areas. I'm a member and co-founder of Minnesota Embedded Sensor System(MESS) Group and affiliated with Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Digital Technology Center (DTC) and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI). My advisor is McKnight Land-Grant Prof. Tian He .

News:

Oct. 2009		I received SenSys'09 Travel Grant and will attend the conference at Berkeley, CA from 11/3/09 to 11/6/09.
Oct. 2009		I received ICNP'09 Travel Grant and will present our ESC paper there on 10/14/09 at Princeton, NJ.
Sep. 2009		I'll give an invited talk on Low-Duty-Cycle Networking at CEWIT 2009 at Stony Brook University on 10/01/09.
August 2009		I received MobiCom'09 Travel Award and will attend MobiCom'09 in Beijing, China from 9/19/09 to 9/27/09.
May 2008		I received Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota.
April 2008		From May 2008 to November 2008, I'll be on-leave and intern at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Jan. 2008		Passed the Ph.D. Preliminary Oral Exam.

Education

• 09/2005-present               PhD Candidate in Computer Science
• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• Dissertation: Sleipnir: A Versatile Extremely Low Duty-Cycle Sensor Network
• Committee members: Tian He, Zhi-Li Zhang, Yongdae Kim and Nihar Jindal
• GPA: 3.968/4.0

• 09/2001-07/2005             BE with honor in Computer Science
• School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, China
• GPA: 3.8/4.0

• 09/1999-06/2000            Tumwater High School, Tumwater, WA, USA
  • Exchange Student
  • GPA: 3.9/4.0

Research

• Software Design Principles for Resource-Constrained Systems
• Communication in Low-Power Systems
• Energy-Centric Computing Frameworks for Distributed Systems
• Energy Synchronized Computing for Energy-Harvesting Embedded Systems
• Mobile Delay-Tolerant Networks
  

Teaching

• CSci1113 Introduction to C/C++ Programming for Scientists and Engineers (Fall 2005) 
  

Selected Awards and Honors

• SenSys'09 Travel Grant Award, National Science Foundation, 2009
• ICNP'09 Travel Grant Award, National Science Foundation, 2009
• MobiCom'09 Travel Grant Award, National Science Foundation, 2009
• Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2008
• Nominee for IBM PhD Fellowship, Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng., University of Minnesota, 2007
• Excellence in Research Award Fellowship, Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng., University of Minnesota, 2007
• ICDCS'07 Travel Grant, IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP), 2007
• SenSys’06 Student Travel Award, National Science Foundation, 2006
• MobiCom Travel Award for ACM Student Research Competition, Microsoft Research, 2006
• General Dynamics Research Fellowship Award, Advanced Information Systems, General Dynamics Corporation, 2006
• Academic Excellence Fellowship Award, Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng., University of Minnesota, 2006
• CSE Department Summer Support, Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng., University of Minnesota, 2006
• Nominee for Graduate School Fellowship, Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng., University of Minnesota, 2005
• Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award, Wuhan University of Technology, 2005
• University Excellent Student Scholarship, Wuhan University of Technology, 2002-2005
• Second Prize Winner in National Olympiad in Informatics, China, 1999
  

Publications

Wireless Networking

1. [ICNP] Yu Gu, Ting Zhu and Tian He. ESC: Energy Synchronized Communication in Sustainable Sensor Networks, In The 17th International Conference on Network Protocols, Princeton, NJ, October, 2009 (18.3% Acceptance Ratio) [PDF][PPT][Bibtex]


2. [MobiCom] Shuo Guo, Yu Gu, Bo Jiang and Tian He. Opportunistic Flooding in Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks with Unreliable Links, In The 15th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Beijing, China, September, 2009 (10.6% Acceptance ratio) (This work was included in the graduate courses at Korea University) [PDF][Bibtex]


3. [SenSys] Yu Gu and Tian He. Data Forwarding in Extremely Low Duty-Cycle Sensor Networks with Unreliable Communication Links, In The 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Sydney, Australia, November, 2007 (16.8% Acceptance Ratio) [PDF][PPT][Bibtex] (This work was included in the graduate courses at Texas A&M University, the University of Cincinnati, Ohio State University, the University of Minnesota, Lamar University and the University of California at Los Angeles, SUNY Buffalo) (23+ Citations)



Real-Time and Embedded Systems

4. [MobiSys] Ting Zhu, Ziguo Zhong, Yu Gu, Tian He and Zhi-Li Zhang. Leakage-Aware Energy Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks, In The 7th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, Krakow, Poland, June, 2009 (20% Acceptance ratio) [PDF][Bibtex]


5. [TECS] Ting Yan, Yu Gu, Tian He and John A. Stankovic. Design and Optimization of Distributed Sensing Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM Transaction on Embedded Computing System, Vol. 7 (No. 3), 2008. [PDF][Bibtex]

Distributed Systems

6. [Middleware] Yu Gu, Zhe Zhang, Fan Ye, Hao Yang, Minkyong Kim, Hui Lei and Zhen Liu. An Empirical Study of High Availability in Stream Processing Systems, In The ACM/IFIP/USENIX 10th International Middleware Conference, Urbana Champaign, IL, November, 2009 (Industrial Track) [PDF][PPT][Bibtex]


7. [ICDCS] Yu Gu, Joengmin Hwang, Tian He and David Du. uSense: A Unified Asymmetric Sensing Coverage Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks, In The 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Toronto, Canada, June 2007 (13% Acceptance Ratio) [PDF][PPT][Bibtex] (This work was included in the graduate courses at Texas A&M University and the University of Tennessee) (5+ Citations)


8. [MobiCom] Yu Gu and Tian He. Achieving Generic Asymmetric Sensing Architectures, In The 12th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Poster Paper), Los Angeles, CA, September 2006 (Student Research Competition) [PDF]
   


9. [TPDS] Jaehoon Jeong, Yu Gu, Tian He and David Du. Virtual Scanning Algorithm for Road Network Surveillance, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, to appear. [PDF][Bibtex]



Energy-Centric Computing Frameworks

10. [SenSys] Yu Gu and Tian He. uScan: A Lightweight Two-Tier Global Sensing Coverage Design, In The 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Poster Paper), Boulder, CO, November 2006 [PDF][Bibtex] (1+ Citations)


11. [INFOCOM] Jaehoon Jeong, Yu Gu, Tian He and David Du. VISA: Virtual Scanning Algorithm for Dynamic Protection of Road Networks, In The 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April, 2009 (19.7% Acceptance Ratio) [PDF][Bibtex]


12. [INFOCOM] Tian He, John A. Stankovic, Radu Stoleru, Yu Gu and Yafeng Wu. Essentia: Architecting Wireless Sensor Networks Asymmetrically, In The 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Phoenix, AZ, April, 2008 (21% Acceptance Ratio) [PDF][Bibtex] (This work was included in the graduate courses at the University of Minnesota) (1+ Citations)


13. [INFOCOM] Joengmin Hwang, Yu Gu, Tian He and Yongdae Kim. Realistic Sensing Area Modeling, In The 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Minisymposia, Anchorage, AK, May 2007 (25% overall including Minisymposia) [PDF][Bibtex] (2+ Citations)


14. Qingquan Zhang, Yu Gu, Tian He and Gerald E. Sobelman. Cscan: A Correlation-based Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks, In The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, Sanya, China, April, 2008 [PDF][Bibtex] (1+ Citations)



Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

15. [ICDCS] Jaehoon Jeong, Shuo Guo, Yu Gu, Tian He and David Du. TBD: Trajectory-Based Data Forwarding for Light-Traffic Vehicular Networks, In The 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada, June, 2009 (16% Acceptance ratio) [PDF][Bibtex]

Professional Activities

• Student member of ACM, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communication Society and SIAM.
• Reviewer for:
  • ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
  • ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R)
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
  • IEEE Journal On Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
  • Elsevier Computer Networks Journal
  • The 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'10)
  • The 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'09)
  • The 6th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS'09)
  • The 29th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'09)
  • The 28th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'09)
  • The 7th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTN'08) in conjunction with ECRTS'08
  • The 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'08)
  • The 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS'08)
  • The 9th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc'08)
  • The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'08)
  • The 67th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'08-Spring)
  • The 5th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN'08)
  • The 28th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS'07)
  • The 15th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'07)
  • The 4th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS'07)
  • The First International Workshop on Distributed Sensor Systems (DSS'07) in conjunction with IEEE ICCCN 2007.
    

Working Experiences

• Research Intern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, May 2008 to November 2008
• Intern, Johnson & Johnson Medical (Shanghai) Ltd. , Shanghai, China, Summer 2004
• Director, Technology Branch of Student Government, School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Technology, China, 2002-2004
  

Course Work

• CSCI 5103 Operating Systems, Fall 2005
• CSCI 5204 Advanced Computer Architecture, Fall 2005
• CSCI 8970 Computer Science Colloquium, Fall 2005
• CSCI 5302 Analysis of Numerical Algorithms, Spring 2006
• CSCI 5421 Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures, Spring 2006
• CSCI 5980 Wireless Sensor Networks, Spirng 2006
• CSCI 5511 Artificial Intelligence I, Fall 2006
• CSCI 5801 Software Engineering I, Fall 2006
• ENGC 5051 Graduate Research Writing, Fall 2006
• MATH 5707 Graph Theory and Non-enumerative Combinatorics, Spring 2007
• STAT 5021 Statistical Analysis, Spring 2007
• ENGC 5052 Graduate Research Presentations and Conference Writing, Spring 2007
• CSCI 5211 Data Communications and Computer Networks, Fall 2007
• CSCI 5707 Principles of Database Systems, Fall 2007
• PE 1055 Golf, Fall 2007

Links

• My Girlfriend: Likun Zheng