RESUME

Minwen Ji
Department of Computer Science, 35 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08540
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mji

RESEARCH INTERESTS

·        Cluster-based Internet infrastructures

·        Distributed computing: file/database/operating systems

·        Mobile computing and wireless networking

·        Performance modeling and software engineering

EDUCATION

·        Ph.D. (expected), Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, October 1997 - 2000
Dissertation: Availability and Scalability of Cluster-Based Internet Infrastructures
Advisor: Edward W. Felten

·        M.A., Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, September 1996 - October 1997

·        B.S. with honors, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, September 1989 - July 1994

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

·         Research assistant, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 1997 - present
Advisor: Edward W. Felten

o        Designed and implemented an affinity-driven data and query distribution strategy in aggregate in-memory databases for Internet application servers.

o        Designed and implemented Archipelago, an island-based file system that provides highly available and scalable data storage and access to Internet applications by isolating failures and reducing communications across islands, the building blocks of the file system.

o        Designed and implemented Tmon, a performance tool, that identifies performance bottlenecks in multithreaded programs by tracing waiting relations among threads.

·         Research intern, Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, July 1999 - September 1999
Mentors: Alistair Veitch and John Wilkes

o        Designed Seneca, a remote storage mirroring protocol, and implemented a tool based on input/output automata to test Seneca.

·         Research intern, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, July 1998 - September 1998
Mentor: Mike Salisbury

o        Designed and implemented an efficient event dispatch system in the Placeless document managing system.

PUBLICATIONS

·        Minwen Ji, Edward W. Felten, Jaswinder Pal Singh, and Mao Chen, "Managing Dynamic Content for Cluster-Based Application Servers", Technical Report TR-621-00, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, May 2000.

·        Minwen Ji, "Atomicity, Serialization and Recovery in the Island-Based File System", to appear in Proceedings of 1st IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, November 2000. Extended abstract/poster. Full paper.

·        Minwen Ji, Edward W. Felten, Randolph Wang, and Jaswinder Pal Singh, "Archipelago: An Island-Based File System for Highly Available and Scalable Internet Services", in Proceedings of 4th USENIX Windows Systems Symposium, August 2000. Best student paper award.

·        Minwen Ji, and Edward W. Felten, "Design and Implementation of an Island-Based File System", Technical Report TR-610-99, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, December 1999.

·        Minwen Ji, Edward W. Felten, and Kai Li, "Performance Measurements for Multithreaded Programs", in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance, June 1998.

·        Minwen Ji, Changgui Yang, and Jiaguang Sun, "A Fast Triangulation Algorithm for Trimmed Free-Form Surfaces", Journal of Computers, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp450-457, Beijing, China, 1996.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

·        Preceptor and teaching assistant, Operating Systems (COS 318), Princeton University, Spring 1998.

·        Preceptor and teaching assistant, General Computer Science (COS 126), Princeton University, Spring 1997.

·        Teaching assistant, Computer Graphics (COS 426) and Human-Computer Interface (COS 496), Princeton University, Fall 1996.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

·        Referee for CASCON99, SIGMETRICS2000, EUROPAR2000, and ICPP2000 conferences.

AWARDS

·        Best Student Paper, USENIX Windows Systems Symposium, August 2000.

·        Motorola Scholarship, November 1993.

·        Tsinghua Guanghua Scholarship, October 1992.

·        Tsinghua "December 9" Scholarship (the highest honored scholarship of Tsinghua University), October 1991.

·        Tsinghua First-Class Excellent Student Scholarships, 1990-1992, three times.

·        Second-Class Award in Physics Contest (12 out of 20,000 undergraduate students in Beijing), December 1990.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

·        Gender:                  Female

·        Citizenship: Canadian

REFERENCES

·        Available upon requests