EDUCATION:
Polytechnic Institute of NYU: 09/2007 -- Present
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY. Advisor: Prof.Torsten Suel.   GPA 4.0/4.0

Beihang University: 09/2003 -- 06/2007
Bachelor of Science, Beihang University, Beijing, China. Official Rank: 1/206.  GPA 3.6/4.0

Research Interest:
Web Search Technology
Indexing, data compression, query processing,pruning and caching

Temporal Web Graph and Ranking
Web graph with temporal information, temporal web graph compression, ranking for temporal web graph

GPU-based Computation
GPU-based compression, GPU-based search, GPU-based algorithms

Distributed System
Algorithm under Hadoop framework and its performance issues

SELECTED PROJECTS:

• Scalable Techniques for Document Identifier Assignment in Inverted Indexes
  with Josh Attenberg and Torsten Suel
  The 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'10). (Acceptance rate 14%)
• Using Graphics Processors for High Performance IR Query Processing
  with Jinru He, Hao Yan and Torsten Suel
  The 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'09). (Acceptance rate 11.8%)
• Inverted Index Compression&Query Processing with Optimized Document Ordering
  with Hao Yan and Torsten Suel
  The 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'09). (Acceptance rate 11.8%)
• Compressing Term Positions in Web Indexes
  with Hao Yan and Torsten Suel
  The 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR'09). (Acceptance rate 15.8%)

WORKING EXPERIENCE:
Research Intern, Yahoo Research, Barcelona, Spain. Advisor: Ricardo Baeza-Yates (06/2009-09/2009)

Research Assistant, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. (10/2007-present)

Technical Intern, Infosys, Bangalore, India. (08/2006-04/2007)

Advisor:
Torsten Suel

Other Links:
Yenyu Chen
(Now employee at Yahoo)

Xiaohui Long
(Now employee at Microsoft)

Utku Irmak
(Now employee at Yahoo)

Jiangong Zhang
(Now employee at Amazon)

Qingqing Gan
(Now employee at Microsoft)

Hao Yan

Josh Attenberg

Jinru He

@2008 Yun Xiang