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Guang Yang
Member of Research Staff
Palo Alto, California, US
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Guang Yang joined Nokia Research Center Palo Alto in 2007. He is currently a member of the Social and Physical Proximity Interactions (SPPI) team working on user behavior modeling and activity recognition with mobile devices. Previously he has also worked on Social Proximity Networks (SPN) and Wireless Grids and Collaborative Services (WGCS), helping Nokia to transform to an Internet company.

Prior to Nokia, Guang worked as a Technical Yahoo (software engineer) at Yahoo! Mobile in Sunnyvale, California. He was a key member in the engineering team designing and developing the then-next-generation mobile platform for Yahoo! worldwide. He was also responsible for several properties on the Yahoo! Mobile home page which are still in production.

Guang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in 2006, and M.Eng./B.Eng. in Computer Science from Tsinghua Univesity, Beijing, China in 2000 and 1998, respectively.

(last updated: 7/29/09)

Research Interests

User Behavior Modeling

Activity Recognition and Inference

Location-Based Services

Mobile Social Networks and Applications

Research Projects

Collectively Learning Activity Inference and Recognition Engine (Claire)

Social Proximity Networks (SPN)

Wireless Grids and Collaborative Services (WGCS)

Publications

Journal Publications and Book Chapters:

1. Ling-Jyh Chen, Tony Sun, Guang Yang, M. Y. Sanadidi and Mario Gerla, “AdHoc Probe: End to end Capacity Probing in Ad Hoc Networks,” in Wireless Networks, Vol. 15(1): 111-126, 2009;

2. Guang Yang, Tony Sun, Mario Gerla, M. Y. Sanadidi and Ling-Jyh Chen, “Smooth and Efficient Real-time Video Transport in Presence of Wireless Errors,” in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, Vol. 2(2): 109-126, 2006;

3. Ling-Jyh Chen, Tony Sun, Guang Yang, M. Y. Sanadidi and Mario Gerla, “Monitoring Access Link Capacity Using TFRC Probe,” in Computer Communications Journal, Special Issue on Monitoring and Measurements on IP Networks, Vol. 29(10): 1605-1613, 2006;

4. Guang Yang, Ren Wang, Mario Gerla and M. Y. Sanadidi, “TCP Bulk Repeat,” in Computer Communications Journal, Vol. 28(5): 507-518, 2005;

5. Mario Gerla, Ling-Jyh Chen, Yeng-Zhong Lee, Biao Zhou, Jiwei Chen, Guang Yang and Shirshanka Das, “Dealing with Node Mobility in Ad Hoc Wireless Network,” in Formal Methods for Mobile Computing (ISBN: 3540256970): 69-106, M. Bernardo and A. Bogliolo (Eds.), Springer-Verlag LNCS 3465, 2005;

6. Mario Gerla, Ling-Jyh Chen, Tony Sun and Guang Yang, “Ubiquitous Video Streaming: A System Perspective,” in Advances in Pervasive Computing and Networking (ISBN: 0387230424): 197-212, B. Szymanski and B. Yener (Eds.), Springer-Verlag LNCS, 2004;

Conference Publications:

1. Guang Yang, “Discovering Significant Places from Mobile Phones – a Mass Market Solution,” to appear in the 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking in GPS-less Environments (MELT'09, in conjunction with Ubicomp 2009), Orlando, FL, 2009;

2. Zhigang Liu, Hawk Yin Pang, Jun Yang, Guang Yang and Peter Boda, “WebCall – A Rich Context Mobile Research Framework,” to appear in the 1st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2009), San Diego, CA, 2009;

3. Guang Yang, Zhigang Liu, Karim Seada, Hawk-Yin Pang, August Joki, Jun Yang, Daniela Rosner, Manish Anand and Peter Boda, “Social Proximity Networks on Cruise Ships,” in the Proceedings of the Mobile Interaction with the Real World Workshop 2008 (MIRW'08, in conjunction with MobileHCI 2008), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008;

4. Ling-Jyh Chen, Ting-Kai Huang and Guang Yang, “PPWeb: A Peer-to-Peer Approach for Web Surfing On the Go,” in the Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Peer-to-Peer for Handheld Devices Workshop (P2PHD'08, in conjunction with IEEE CCNC'08), Las Vegas, NV, 2008;

5. Guang Yang, Ling-Jyh Chen, Tony Sun, Biao Zhou and Mario Gerla, “Ad-hoc Storage Overlay System (ASOS): A Delay-Tolerant Approach in MANETs,” in the Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS'06), Vancouver, Canada, 2006;

6. Nia-Chiang Liang, Ping-Chieh Chen, Tony Sun, Guang Yang, Ling-Jyh Chen and Mario Gerla, “Impact of Node Heterogeneity in ZigBee Mesh Network Routing,” in the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC'06), Taipei, Taiwan, 2006;

7. Ling-Jyh Chen, Tony Sun, Li Lao, Guang Yang, M. Y. Sanadidi and Mario Gerla, “Estimating Link Capacity in High Speed Networks,” in the Proceedings of the IFIP Networking 2006, Coimbra, Portugal, 2006;

8. Ling-Jyh Chen, Tony Sun, Guang Yang and Mario Gerla, “USHA: a simple and practical seamless vertical handoff solution,” in the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2006;

9. Tony Sun, Ling-Jyh Chen, Arbi Sarkissian, Guang Yang, Simon Han and Mario Gerla, “Path Capacity Estimation in IEEE 802.15.4 Enabled Wireless Sensor Network via SenProbe,” in the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2006;

10. Tony Sun, Ling-Jyh Chen, Chih-Chieh Han, Guang Yang and Mario Gerla, “Measuring Effective Capacity of IEEE 802.15.4 Beaconless Mode,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC 2006), Las Vegas, NV, 2006;

11. Guang Yang, Ling-Jyh Chen, Tony Sun, Mario Gerla and M. Y. Sanadidi, “Real-time Streaming over Wireless Links: A Comparative Study,” in the Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2005), Cartagena, Spain, 2005;

12. Tony Sun, Ling-Jyh Chen, Guang Yang, M. Y. Sanadidi and Mario Gerla, “SenProbe: Path Capacity Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks,” in the Proceedings of the 3rd International Work-shop on Measurement, Modeling and Performance Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks (SenMetrics 2005, in conjunction with MobiQuitous 2005), San Diego, CA, 2005;

13. Ling-Jyh Chen, Guang Yang, Tony Sun, M. Y. Sanadidi and Mario Gerla, “Enhancing QoS Support for Vertical Handoffs Using Implicit/Explicit Handoff Notification,” in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine 2005), Orlando, FL, 2005;

14. Tony Sun, Guang Yang, Ling-Jyh Chen, M. Y. Sanadidi and Mario Gerla, “A Measurement Study of Path Capacity in 802.11b based Wireless Networks,” in the Proceedings of the Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modeling Workshop (WitMeMo'05, in conjunction with MobiSys'05), Seattle, WA, 2005;

15. Ling-Jyh Chen, Tony Sun, Guang Yang, M. Y. Sanadidi and Mario Gerla, “AdHoc Probe: Path Capacity Probing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” in the Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Wireless Internet (WICON 2005), Budapest, Hungary, 2005;

16. Ling-Jyh Chen, Tony Sun, Guang Yang, M. Y. Sanadidi and Mario Gerla, “End-to-end Asymmetric Link Capacity Estimation,” in the Proceedings of the IFIP Networking 2005, Waterloo, Canada, 2005;

17. Guang Yang, Mario Gerla and M. Y. Sanadidi, “Adaptive Video Streaming in Presence of Wireless Errors,” in the Proceedings of the 7th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS 2004), San Diego, CA, 2004;

18. Guang Yang, Ren Wang, Mario Gerla and M. Y. Sanadidi, “TCP Bulk Repeat for Heavy Random Losses: A Performance Analysis,” in the Proceedings of the 2004 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'04), San Jose, CA, 2004;

19. Guang Yang, Mario Gerla and M. Y. Sanadidi, “Defense against Low-rate TCP-targeted Denial-of-Service Attacks,” in the Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2004), Alexandria, Egypt, 2004;

20. Ling-Jyh Chen, Guang Yang, Tony Sun, M. Y. Sanadidi and Mario Gerla, “Adaptive Video Streaming in Vertical Handoff: A Case Study,” in the Proceedings of the 1st ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2004), Boston, MA, 2004;

21. Guang Yang, Ren Wang, M. Y. Sanadidi and Mario Gerla, “TCPW with Bulk Repeat in Next Generation Wireless Networks,” in the Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2003), Anchorage, AL, 2003;

Patents

Seven U.S./international patent applications pending.