Qing (Ken) Yang 杨  庆

Title

 

 

Distinguished Engineering Professor,

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Rhode Island

 

Experiences

 

 

1997–Present        Dept. of ECE, University of Rhode Island                             Kingston, RI

Professor

 

 

1993–1997        Dept. of ECE, University of Rhode Island                            Kingston, RI

Associate Professor

 

1988–1993       Dept. of ECE, University of Rhode Island                             Kingston, RI

Assistant Professor

Education

 

 

Ph.D. with honor, Computer Engineering, The Center for Advanced Computer Studies,  University of Louisiana, Lafayette,  USA, June 1988.

Dissertation Title: Analysis of Cache-based Multiple-bus Multiprocessors.

M.A.Sc., Dept. of Elec. Engin., University of Toronto, Canada, Nov.1985.  Thesis Title: Communication Performance in Multiple-bus Systems.

B.Sc., Dept. of Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China, Feb. 1982. Ranked First in the graduating class.

 

Awards and honors

 

1.          Outstanding Interlectual Property Award, University of Rhode Island. 2008

2.          Faculty Excellence Award for Outstanding Entrepreneureship, University of Rhode Island, 2007;

3.          Outstanding Interlectual Property Award, University of Rhode Island. 2007

4.          Outstanding Interlectual Property Award, University of Rhode Island. 2005

5.          Aurelio Lucci Faculty Excellene Award, 2005, for excellence in teaching, research and services, 1993, University of Rhode Island.

6.          Outstanding Interlectual Property Award, University of Rhode Island. 2001

7.          Distinguished Engineering Professor, College of Engineering, URI, since Jan. 1998.

8.         NSF (National Science Foundation) Research Initiation Award, RIA Award 1989

9.          Outstanding Young Man of America, 1992.

10.       Aurelio Lucci Faculty Excellene Award, 1993, for excellence in teaching, research and services, 1993, University of Rhode Island.

11.       Listed in "Who Is Who Among Asian-Americans," 1993 and "Who Is Who in America," 1994.

12.       10 Best HUST alumni overseas

13.       "A novel cache on data storage" A news article on Horizons, Spring 1999.

14.       "Yellow Crane Friendship Award" for Outstanding work on scholar activities and technology transfers, Wuhan, China, Sept. 2002.

15.       Cover story on International Talent Magzine June 2002, a national magzine published worldwide.

16.       Keynote Speech at 2002 Shen Zhen HI-TECH Fair, Oct. 2002.

17.      On the National News of China, People's Daily (oversea's edition)

 

US Patents and techNOLOGY TRANSFERS

Note: 7 of the following patents have resulted in license income to URI for over hundreds of thousands of dollars.

1.           “Prime-Mapped Cache----A new cache memory system for vector processings,”  US Patent  No. 5,379,393 Issued on Jan. 3, 1995.

2.           “Disk Caching Disk---A new architecture for high performance disk I/O systems,”  US Patent and Trademark Office, PTO No. 5,754,888

3.          “RAPID-Cache (Redundant, Asymmetrically Parallel, Inexpensive Disk Cache), A new cache structure for RAID systems,'' U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, No. 6,243,795, June 5th, 2001. (with Yiming Hu).

4.           “STICS--SCSI-To-IP Cache Storage,” US Patent and Trademark Office, US Patent No. 7,275,134. (with Xubin He).

5.           “RORIB--A cost effective approach for real-time, online and remote information backup,'' US Patent No. 7,177,887. (with Jian Li).

6.           “HELP---Hardware Environment for Low-overhead Profiling/Optimization and Security Functions,” Provisional Patent Application Filed with US Patent and Trademark Office on Nov. 13th, 2003. File #7378.

7.           “BUCS—Bottom Up Cache Structure for networked storage servers,”  Patent Application Filed with US Patent and Trademark Office on Oct. 20, 2003. Serial Number 60/512,728.

8.            “DRALIC---A webserver architecture based on distributed RAID and location independence caching,'' File pending. (with Ben (Xubin) He).

9.           “CEO-Cache, A new cache architecture with low power consumption,”  Filed Aug. 1, 2005, File 8013.

10.        “CUP: Coupling Update by Parities, A method and apparatus for maximizing data recovery," Application No. 60/940,831.

11.        “APS: Method and Apparatus for Approximate Positioning System in Personal Area Networks Using ZigBee" Application filed on March 28, 2006.

12.         “Methods for detecting unfair ratings and building trust in raters in online rating systems using signal modeling technique" Application Pending: 60/894,012

13.        “Coherent and active/active redundant storages using sliding window of eager execution transactions (SWEET)," US Patent Application Pending: 60/985,759.

14.        “Data replication method over a limited bandwidth network by mirroring parities," U.S Patent pending and claims allowed: No. 11/017,436.

15.   “Adaptive cache engine for storage area network including systems and methods related thereto," U.S. Patent pending, No. 11/054,933.

16.  “TRAP-Array: A Disk Array Architecture Providing Timely Recovery to Any Point-in-time," US Patent pending, Application No. 60/883,181.

17.  “RINGS: Recover Information from NAND Gates Storages”,  US Patent and Trademark Office, Filed in May 2008. Co-inventor: Weijun Xiao

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

REFERENCED CONFERENCE  PAPERS

 

  1. Weijun Xiao and Qing Yang, “Can We Really Recover Data If Storage Subsystem Fails?” The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Beijing, China,  2008. (ICDCS'08).
  2. X. Li, Changsheng Xie, and Qing Yang, “Optimal Implementation of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) in Linux Kernel,” Proc. Of IEEE Int’l Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, Chongqing, China, June 2008.
  3. Yafei Yang, Yan Lindsay Sun, Jin Ren, and Qing Yang, “Building Trust in Online Rating Systems Through Signal Modeling,”  International Workshop on Trust and Reputation Management in Massively Distributed Computing Systems, June 25-29, 2007, in conjunction with ICDCS 2007
  4. Qing Yang, Weijun Xiao, and Jin Ren ， "TRAP-Array: A Disk Array Architecture Providing Timely Recovery to Any Point-in -time" in The 33rd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2006 (ISCA'06).
  5. Qing Yang, Weijun Xiao, and Jin Ren ，"PRINS: Optimizing Performance of Reliable Internet Storages" The 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 2006. (ICDCS'06).
  6. W. Xiao, Y. Liu, Qing Yang, J. Ren, and C. Xie. "Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Two Snapshot Methods on iSCSI Target Storages"  in NASA/IEEE 14th Conf. on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, College Park, Maryland, May 2006。
  7. Qing Yang "On Performance of Parallel iSCSI Protocol for Networked Storage Systems"  in IEEE 20th Int'l Conf on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Vienna, Austria, April 2006.
  8. Ming Zhang and Qing Yang, "BUCS - A Bottom-Up Cache Structure for Networked Storage Servers", International Conference on Parallel Processing., Montreal, Canada, Aug, 2004, pp.310-317.

9.           Ming Zhang, Yinan Liu, and Qing Yang, "Cost-Effective Remote Mirroring Using the iSCSI Protocol", 21st IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, April, 2004, pp.385-398.

10.        Ming Zhang, Qing Yang, and Xubin He, "SPEK: A Storage Performance Evaluation Kernel Module for Block Level Storage Systems", in Proceedings of  11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Orlando, October 12-15, 2003.

11.        Ming Zhang, Xubin He, and Qing Yang, "A Unified, Low-overhead Framework to Support Continuous Profiling and Optimization", Proc. Of IEEE IPCCC 2003, Apr, 2003.

12.        Ming Zhang and Qing Yang, "Evaluating Availability of Networked Storages Using Commercial Workload",  presented at Sixth Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation using Commercial Workloads (CAECW), Feb, 2003.

13.        Ming Zhang and Qing Yang, "N-SPEK: A Performability Benchmark Tool for Networked Storage Systems", to be presented at Workshop on Parallel I/O in Cluster Computing and Computational Grids., 12-15 May 2003, Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, JAPAN

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