Assistant Professor at Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida Area
- Current
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- Assistant Professor at Florida State University
- Past
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- Research Assistant at University of California, Los Angeles
- Lecturer at University of California, Los Angeles
- Teaching Assistant at University of California, Los Angeles
- Summer Intern at IBM Almaden Research Center
- Education
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- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of California, Berkeley
- Alhambra High School
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Andy Wang’s Summary
Andy Wang received his Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from UCLA in 2003 and 1998, and his B.S. from UC Berkeley in 1995. He joined the Department of Computer Science at Florida State University as an Assistant Professor in 2003. His research interests include file systems, optimistic peer replication, performance evaluation, ad hoc network routing, operating systems, and distributed systems.
Andy Wang's research theme revolves around the management of data flows. His research on energy-efficient storage (Conquest-2) involves redirecting requests to data replicated at unused portions of disks, thereby creating opportunities to power down disks and save energy. His invention of electric-field-based routing allows mobile computers to form disjointed communicated paths without explicit coordination and global knowledge. The Conquest disk-persistent-RAM file system uses specialized data paths to memory and disk storage to achieve drastic performance improvements. His invention of permutes states offers a compact representation of distributed systems with an exponential number of states and thus can be applied to analyze optimistic replication systems with an exponential number of ways to propagate data updates. His work in real-time storage domain involves throttling the data flow to meet timing constraints.
Andy Wang’s Specialties:
file systems, optimistic peer replication, performance evaluation, ad hoc network routing, operating systems, and distributed systems
Andy Wang’s Experience
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Assistant Professor
Florida State University
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2003 — Present (4 years 10 months)
Selected Publications:
PARAID: A Gear-Shifting Power-Aware RAID, ACM Transactions on Storage, 3(3), 2007 [invited paper].
Using Permuted States and Validated Simulation to Analyze Conflict Rates in Optimistic Replication. SCS Simulation, 83(3), pp. 551-569, 2007.
Modeling Device Driver Effects in Real-Time Schedulability Analysis: Study of a Network Driver, Proceedings of the 13th IEEE RTAS, 2007.
The Conquest File System: Better Performance Through a Disk/Persistent-RAM Hybrid Design, ACM Transactions on Storage, 2(3), pp. 309-348, 2006.
Electric-Field-Based Routing: A Reliable Framework for Routing in MANETs, ACM SIGMOBILE MC2R, 8(2), pp. 35-49, 2004 -
Research Assistant
University of California, Los Angeles
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
July 1995 — June 2003 (8 years)
Dissertation: Conquest: An Affordable, Fast, and Practical Disk/Persistent-RAM Hybrid File System (advisor: Professor Gerald Popek)
Thesis: A Simulation Evaluation for Optimistically Replicated (Peer-to-Peer) Filing Environments (advisor: Professor Gerald Popek) -
Lecturer
University of California, Los Angeles
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2003 — April 2003 (4 months)
Undergraduate Operating Systems Principles
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Teaching Assistant
University of California, Los Angeles
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2000 — June 2000 (6 months)
Undergraduate Operating Systems Principles
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Summer Intern
IBM Almaden Research Center
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
June 1994 — September 1994 (4 months)
Andy Wang’s Education
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University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., Computer Science, 1998 — 2003
Major: operating systems Minors: computer vision and queueing theory
Dissertation: Conquest: An Affordable, Fast, and Practical Disk/Persistent-RAM Hybrid File System (advisor: Professor Gerald Popek)
Committee: Rajive Bagrodia, Stott Parker, Deborah Estrin, and Babak Daneshrad -
University of California, Los Angeles
M.S., Computer Science, 1995 — 1998
Thesis: A Simulation Evaluation for Optimistically Replicated (Peer-to-Peer) Filing Environments (advisor: Professor Gerald Popek)
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University of California, Berkeley
B.S., Computer Science, 1991 — 1995
Summa cum Laude
Dean’s Honors List, School of Letters and Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1992 -
Alhambra High School
1987 — 1991
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Andy Wang’s Honors:
Planning Grant, FSU Research Foundation, PI, “Exploring Opportunities between RAIDs and Storage Components”, 2007, ($11,999)
Nominee, University Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2006
NSF Grant: CNS-0509131, Co-PI (with Ted Baker and Kartik Gopalan) Next-Generation Real-Time Device Architecture, 2005. ($547,324)
NSF Grant: CNS-0410896, PI, Collaborative Research. Conquest-2: Improving Energy Efficiency and Performance Through a Disk/RAM Hybrid File System, 2004. ($267,338/$450,000)
First Year Assistant Professor Award, Council on Research and Creativity, FSU, Conquest-2—Combining Battery-Backed RAM and Threshold-Based Storage Scheme to Conserve Power, 2004. ($13,000)
NSF Grant (PI: Professor Peter Reiher): CCR-0098363, Improving Operating Systems by Replacing Hard Disks with Persistent Solid State Memory, 2001, ($100,000)
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