Yu (Jason) Gu

Assistant Professor
Pillar of Information System Technology and Design
Singapore University of Technology and Design

Research Scientist
Advanced Digital Sciences Center
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

20 Dover Drive
Singapore, 138682 Office phone: +65 6303 6661
Fax: +65 6468 9256
Email:

News:

May 2012		I'm looking for outstanding PhD students for the 2013 school year. The position is fully funded with excellent compensation package.
April 2012		We have been awarded IPSN'12 Best Demo Award - Runner Up!
Mar. 2012		We have been awarded the IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award!
Dec. 2011		We have been awarded the best paper award at MSN'11!
June 2011		Multiple Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Researcher and visiting Graduate Student positions with immediate opening are available in my group.
Jan. 2011		I'm currently on leave and visiting MIT for the year of 2011.
Nov. 2010		Two papers are accepted by INFOCOM'11 Mini-Conference.
Nov. 2010		Our paper on energy sharing network is among the highest ranked papers at SenSys'10, and fast tracked to ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN) for future publication.
June 2010		After graduating from MESS group at UMN as its co-founder, I'll start another adventure at the newly established Singapore University of Technology and Design as its founding faculty member!
June 2010		Thanks for everyone's help, I had a wonderful job hunting season! I received 6 tenure-track/research scientist offers in total, including IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, UIUC Advanced Digital Sciences Center, National University of Singapore and Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Research Interests

My research aims to invent fundamental enabling technology to build energy efficient, reliable and large-scale cyber-physical systems. My current areas of interest include wireless sensor networks (WSNs), cyber-physical systems, wireless networks, mobile computing, vehicular ad-hoc networks and related areas.

Information for Perspective Students

I have several openings for Research Fellow/Postdoctoral Researcher positions in my group. Those works will focus on cyber-physical systems, mobile computing and RFID systems. Preference will be given to applicants with hands-on system building experiences. Please email me with your CV if interested. The compensation package is highly competitive internationally.

Group Members:

Jung Hyun (Peter) Jun, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD from University of Cincinnati, USA, 2011
Liang He, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD from Nankai University (joint PhD student at the University of Victoria, Canada 2009-2011), China, 2011
Peng Cheng, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD from Zhejiang University, China, 2009. Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University, China, 2012
Long Cheng, Postdoctoral Researcher, PhD from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (joint PhD student at the University of Texas, Arlington) , China, 2012
Yuanchao Shu, Visiting Graduate Student, Zhejiang University
Lingkun Fu, Visiting Graduate Student, Zhejiang University
Sunardi, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Lijuan Wang, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, July 2010 to present
- Pilliar of Information System Technology and Design
- Singapore University of Technology and Design

Research Scientist, October 2010 to present
- Advanced Digital Sciences Center
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Visiting Assistant Professor, January 2011 to January 2012
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Intern, May 2008 to November 2008
- Messaging and Event Systems Group
- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2010
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA

B.E. in Computer Science with honor, 2005
- School of Computer Science and Technology
- Wuhan University of Technology, China

High School Exchange Student, 1999 to 2000
- Tumwater High School
- Tumwater, WA, USA

Selected Awards and Honors

Best Demo Award -Runner Up, IPSN, 2012
IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Innovation Award, 2012
Best Paper Award, The 7th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN'11), 2011
Best Paper Award Candidate, SenSys'10, 2010 (3 out of 164 submissions)
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
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
Nominee for Graduate School Fellowship, Dept. of Computer Sci. & Eng., University of Minnesota, 2005
Travel Grant Award for: ICDCS'10, SenSys'09, ICNP'09, MobiCom'09, ICDCS'07, SenSys'06, MobiCom'06

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Journal Publications

[TPDS] Shibo He, Jiming Chen, Peng Chen, Yu Gu, Tian He and Youxian Sun. Maintaining Quality of Sensing with Actors in Wireless Sensor Networks, In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Special issue-Cyber Physical Systems, 2012. [PDF][Bibtex]

[TMC] Jaehoon Jeong, Shuo Guo, Yu Gu, Tian He and David Du. Trajectory-based Statistical Forwarding for Multi-hop Infrastructure-to-Vehicle Data Delivery, In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear. [PDF][Bibtex]

[TOSN] Ting Zhu, Yu Gu, Tian He and Zhi-Li Zhang. Achieving Long-Term Operation with a Capacitor-Driven Energy Storage and Sharing Network, In ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, to appear. [PDF][Bibtex]

[TMC] Yu Gu and Tian He. Dynamic Switching-based Data Forwarding for Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks, In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 10 (No. 12), 2011. [PDF][Bibtex]

[TPDS] Jaehoon Jeong, Shuo Guo, Yu Gu, Tian He and David Du. Trajectory-Based Data Forwarding for Light-Traffic Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 22 (No. 5), 2011. [PDF][Bibtex] (This work was the spotlighted paper for the May 2011 issue)

[TPDS] Jaehoon Jeong, Yu Gu, Tian He and David Du. Virtual Scanning Algorithm for Road Network Surveillance, In IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 21 (No. 12), 2010. [PDF][Bibtex]

Ting Zhu, Ziguo Zhong, Yu Gu, Tian He and Zhi-Li Zhang. Feedback Control-based Energy Management for Sustainable Sensor Networks, IEICE Transactions on Communications, Special section on Fundamental Issues on Deployment of Ubiquitous, Sensor Networks, Vol. E93B (No. 11), 2010. [PDF][Bibtex]

[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]

[MC2R] Yu Gu and Tian He. Asymmetric Sensing by Decoupling Scheduling from Switching, In Mobile Computing and Communications Reviews, Vol. 11 (No. 2), 2007 [PDF][Bibtex]

Conference Publications

[SECON'12] Liangyin Chen, Yu Gu, Shuo Guo, Tian He, Yuanchao Shu, Fan Zhang and Jiming Chen. Group-based Discovery in Low-Duty-Cycle Mobile Sensor Networks, In The 9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, Seoul, Korea, June, 2012 (19% Acceptance ratio) [PDF][Bibtex]

[IPSN'12-Demo] Jung-Hyun Jun, Sunardi, Lijuan Wang, Joel W. Matthys, Simon Lui and Yu Gu. Sensor-enabled Yo-yos as New Musical Instruments, In The 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Beijing, China, April, 2012 [PDF][Bibtex] (Best Demo Award -Runner Up)

[MSN'11] Qingquan Zhang, Yu Gu, Lin Gu, Qing Cao, and Tian He. Collaborative Scheduling in Highly Dynamic Environments Using Error Inference, In The 7th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, Beijing, China, December, 2011[PDF][Bibtex] (Best Paper Award, 1 out of 135)

[SenSys'11-Demo] Yuanchao Shu, Fachang Jiang, Zhiyu Dai, Jiming Chen, Yu Gu and Tian He. WISP-based Access Control Combining Electronic and Mechanical Authentication, In The 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Seattle, WA, November, 2011 [PDF][Bibtex]

[SenSys'11-Demo] Manchun Zheng, Jun Sun, David Sanan, Yang Liu, Jin Song Dong and Yu Gu. Towards Bug-free Implementations for Wireless Sensor Networks, In The 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Seattle, WA, November, 2011 [PDF][Bibtex]

[SenSys'11-Poster] Liangyin Chen, Shuo Guo, Yuanchao Shu, Fan Zhang, Yu Gu, Jiming Chen and Tian He. Group-based Neighbor Discovery Design in Mobile Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks, In The 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Seattle, WA, November, 2011 [PDF][Bibtex]

[SenSys'11-Poster] Desheng Zhang, Tian He, Yunhuai Liu, Yu Gu, Fan Ye, Raghu K. Ganti and Hui Lei. dQuorum: Neighbor Discovery With Distributed Quorum System, In The 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Seattle, WA, November, 2011 [PDF][Bibtex]

[ICNP'11] Shuo Guo, Song Min Kim, Ting Zhu, Yu Gu and Tian He. Correlated Flooding in Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks, In The 19th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Vancouver, Canada, October, 2011 (16% Acceptance ratio) [PDF][Bibtex]

[RTSS'11] Junkun Li, Jiming Chen, Shibo He, Tian He, Yu Gu and Youxian Sun. On Energy-Efficient Trap Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks, In The 32nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Vienna, Austria, November, 2011 (21% Acceptance ratio) [PDF][Bibtex]

[ICFEM'11] Manchun Zheng, Jun Sun, Yang Liu, Jin Song Dong and Yu Gu. Towards a Model Checker for NesC and Wireless Sensor Networks, In The 13th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, Durham, United Kingdom, October, 2011 (30% Acceptance ratio) [PDF][Bibtex]

[INFOCOM'11-Mini] Yongle Cao, Ziguo Zhong, Yu Gu and Tian He. Safeguarding Schedule Updates in Wireless Sensor Networks, In The 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications-Mini Conference, Shanghai, China, April, 2011 (23% Acceptance ratio) [PDF][Bibtex]

[INFOCOM'11-Mini] Fulong Xu, Shuo Guo, Jaehoon Jeong, Yu Gu, Qing Cao, Ming Liu and Tian He. Utilizing Shared Vehicle Trajectories for Data Forwarding in Vehicular Networks, In The 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications-Mini Conference, Shanghai, China, April, 2011 (23% Acceptance ratio) [PDF][PPT][Bibtex]

[SenSys'10] Ting Zhu, Yu Gu, Tian He and Zhi-Li Zhang. eShare: A Capacitor-Driven Energy Storage and Sharing Network, In The 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, Zurich, Switzerland, November, 2010 (17% Acceptance ratio) [PDF][Bibtex]

[ICDCS'10] Yu Gu and Tian He. Bounding Communication Delay in Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks, In The 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Genoa, Italy, June, 2010 (14% Acceptance ratio) [PDF][PPT][Bibtex]

[ICDCS'10] Yu Gu, Zhe Zhang, Fan Ye, Hao Yang, Minkyong Kim, Hui Lei and Zhen Liu. A Hybrid Approach to High Availability in Stream Processing Systems, In The 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Genoa, Italy, June, 2010 (14% Acceptance ratio) [PDF][PPT][Bibtex]

[ICDCS'10] Jaehoon Jeong, Shuo Guo, Yu Gu, Tian He and David Du. TSF: Trajectory-based Statistical Forwarding for Infrastructure-to-Vehicle Data Delivery in Vehicular Networks, In The 30th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Genoa, Italy, June, 2010 (14% Acceptance ratio) [PDF][Bibtex]

[RTSS'09] Yu Gu, Tian He, Mingen Lin and Jinhui Xu. Spatiotemporal Delay Control for Low-Duty-Cycle Sensor Networks, In The 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Washington, DC, December, 2009 (12% Acceptance ratio for the Sensor Network Track) [PDF][PPT][Bibtex]

[Middleware'09] 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][Bibtex]

[ICNP'09] 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]

[MobiCom'09] 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, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Rutgers University, National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan), University of Tennessee, Harbin Institute of Technology (China) ) [PDF][Bibtex]

[MobiSys'09] 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]

[ICDCS'09] 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]

[INFOCOM'09] 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](This work was included in the graduate courses at Harbin Institute of Technology (China), National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) )

[INFOCOM'08] 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, California Institute of Technology)

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]

[SenSys'07] 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, Johns Hopkins University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Lamar University, the University of California at Los Angeles, SUNY Buffalo, Seoul National University (Korea), University of Houston-Clear Lake, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Nebraska–Lincoln)

[ICDCS'07] 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, the University of Tennessee, Aristotle University (Greece) )

[INFOCOM'07-Mini] 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]

[SenSys'06-Poster] 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]

[MobiCom'06-Poster] 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]

Professional activities

Brief bio

I received my Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in June 2010, under the guidance of Tian He. Before joining Singapore University of Technology and Design, I was 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 wife, Likun Zheng, is a visiting assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine.