Yang Tang

Yang Tang (Chinese: 汤洋) Ph.D. Candidate Software Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science Columbia University Advisor: Prof. Junfeng Yang

Contact

500 West 120th Street
522 Computer Science Building
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027

Office Tel: +1 (646) 775-6067

Email: \(\mathtt{[email protected] \cdot columbia \cdot edu}\)

Research interests

Reliability and security of software systems (esp. cloud and mobile systems).

Education

• Ph.D. (August 2011 – Present)
  Software Systems Laboratory
  Department of Computer Science
  Columbia University, New York, NY
  Advised by Prof. Junfeng Yang

• M.Phil. (July 2009 – July 2011)
  Advanced Networking and System Research Laboratory
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
  Advised by Prof. Patrick P. C. Lee and Prof. John C. S. Lui

• B.Eng. (August 2005 – July 2009)
  Department of Computer Science and Technology
  Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

• Exchange student (August 2007 – December 2007)
  International Asian Studies Programme
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Work experience

• Software Engineer in Test Intern at Google Inc. (June 2013 – August 2013)

• Software Engineering Intern at Google Inc. (June 2012 – August 2012)

Publications

• Grandet: A Unified, Economical Object Store for Web Applications
  Yang Tang, Gang Hu, Xinhao Yuan, Lingmei Weng, and Junfeng Yang
  The 7th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC ’16), Santa Clara, CA, October 2016.
  (AR: 38/151=25.2%)

• Secure Deduplication of General Computations
  Yang Tang and Junfeng Yang
  The 2015 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC ’15), Santa Clara, CA, July 2015.
  (AR: 47/221 = 21.3%)

• Efficiently, Effectively Detecting Mobile App Bugs with AppDoctor
  Gang Hu, Xinhao Yuan, Yang Tang, and Junfeng Yang
  The 9th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys ’14), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 2014.
  (AR: 27/147 = 18.4%)

• Making Parallel Programs Reliable with Stable Multithreading
  Junfeng Yang, Heming Cui, Jingyue Wu, Yang Tang, and Gang Hu
  Communications of the ACM (CACM), 57(3), pp. 58–69, March 2014.
  

• NCCloud: A Network-Coding-Based Storage System in a Cloud-of-Clouds
  Henry C. H. Chen, Yuchong Hu, Patrick P. C. Lee, and Yang Tang
  IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 63(1), pp. 31–44, January 2014.
  (An earlier version appeared in FAST 2012)

• Effective Dynamic Detection of Alias Analysis Errors
  Jingyue Wu, Gang Hu, Yang Tang, and Junfeng Yang
  The 9th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC-FSE ’13), Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2013.
  (AR: 51/251 = 20.3%)

• Secure Overlay Cloud Storage with Access Control and Assured Deletion
  Yang Tang, Patrick P. C. Lee, John C. S. Lui, and Radia Perlman
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 9(6), pp. 903–916, November 2012.
  (An earlier version appeared in SecureComm 2010)

• CleanOS: Limiting Mobile Data Exposure with Idle Eviction
  Yang Tang, Phillip Ames, Sravan Bhamidipati, Ashish Bijlani, Roxana Geambasu, and Nikhil Sarda
  The 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ’12), Hollywood, CA, October 2012.
  (AR: 25/215 = 11.6%)

• Sound and Precise Analysis of Parallel Programs through Schedule Specialization
  Jingyue Wu, Yang Tang, Gang Hu, Heming Cui, and Junfeng Yang
  The 33rd ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI ’12), Beijing, China, June 2012.
  (AR: 48/255 = 18.8%)

• NCCloud: Applying Network Coding for the Storage Repair in a Cloud-of-Clouds
  Yuchong Hu, Henry C. H. Chen, Patrick P. C. Lee, and Yang Tang
  The 10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST ’12), San Jose, CA, February 2012.
  (AR: 26/137 = 19.0%)

• A Secure Cloud Backup System with Assured Deletion and Version Control
  Arthur Rahumed, Henry C. H. Chen, Yang Tang, Patrick P. C. Lee, and John C. S. Lui
  The 3rd International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (CloudSec ’11) (in conjunction with ICPP ’11), Taipei, September 2011.

• FADE: Secure Overlay Cloud Storage with File Assured Deletion
  Yang Tang, Patrick P. C. Lee, John C. S. Lui, and Radia Perlman
  The 6th International ICST Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2010), Singapore, September 2010.
  (AR: 28/112 = 25.0%)

Software

• Grandet, a unified, economical object store for web applications. The scheme is implemented as described in the SoCC’16 paper.

• AppDoctor, a tool for efficiently and effectively detecting mobile app bugs. The scheme is implemented as described in the EuroSys’14 paper.

• NeonGoby, an alias analysis checker. The scheme is implemented as described in the FSE’13 paper.

• FADE, a secure cloud storage with file assured deletion. The scheme is implemented as described in the SecureComm’10 paper.

• Welly, a Cocoa application on Mac OS X, bringing best user experience for browsing term BBS.

• DynamoRIO, a dynamic instrumentation tool platform.

Teaching

Teaching assistant at Columbia University for:

• Operating Systems I (W4118), Fall 2016

• Operating Systems I (W4118), Summer 2015

• Operating Systems I (W4118), Fall 2013

Teaching assistant at CUHK for:

• Advanced Topics in Internet Technology (CMSC5709), Spring 2011

• Distributed Systems and Networks (CENG4430), Spring 2011

• Computer and Network Security (CSCI5470), Fall 2010

• Data Communication and Computer Networks (CSCI4430), Spring 2010

• Distributed Systems and Networks (CENG4430), Spring 2010

• Introduction to Operating Systems (CSCI3150), Fall 2009

• Principles of System Software (CENG3150), Fall 2009

Awards and scholarships

• Certificate of Merit at CSE, CUHK, 2011

• Merit prize, Professor Charles K. Kao Student Creativity Awards, 2011

• Postgraduate studentship at CUHK, 2009 – 2011

• Excellent graduate of Tsinghua University, 2009

• Apple WWDC student scholarship, 2009

• Three-good student of Beijing, 2009

• Guanghua scholarship, 2008

• Citigroup scholarship for finance and information technology, 2007

• Tsinghua scholarship for outstanding merits, 2006

• Outstanding student leader of the Department of Computer Science and Technology, 2006

• Twelfth place, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Asia regional (Chengdu site), 2005

• Wan Bangru gold scholarship, 2005

• Outstanding student of Beijing, 2005

• Bronze medal, the 21st National Olympiad in Informatics, China, 2004

Selected volunteer services

• Athlete Service Attendant XSW, Games of the XXIX Olympiad, 2008

• Summer program to help students in rural areas of Jiangxi Province, China, 2006

Links

• My curriculum vitae in PDF format

• My Google Scholar page

• My GnuPG public key (0x958C691A) in ASCII armored format