Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 West 31st Street, Office 226C
Chicago, IL 60616
Voice: 312-567-5205, Fax: 312-567-5067
yee AT iit.edu
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Wai Gen Yee Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology 10 West 31st Street, Office 226C Chicago, IL 60616 Voice: 312-567-5205, Fax: 312-567-5067 yee AT iit.edu |
| News | September, 2008: Just graduated my first student. Yay! May her career be long and lucrative. September, 2008: The Midwest Database Research Symposium will be held on October 4 at UIC. Please contact me if you are interested in attending! September, 2008: Student-faculty lunch get-togethers are on Wednesdays at 12:40 this semester at Center Court. See you there! August, 2008: The Computer Science Department Employment Seminar will be held on September 15. If you are looking for a job/internship, please attend! June, 2008: I was on the local Fox News station last night (6/18/08), talking about how porn could inadvertantly end up on someone's computer. June, 2008: My students and I just won the Best Paper Award at the recent ACM Infoscale, 2008 Conference! June, 2008: I am advising a Chicago Public School teacher as part of the NSF Research Experiences for Teachers Program. June, 2008: I am advising a student this summer as part of the IIT Undergraduate Research Program. |
| Research Interests | My main research interests are in the performance of mobile and distributed systems. I am also interested in data warehousing, analysis, and mining, as well as information retrieval. Keywords: Database Systems, Mobile Computing, Distributed Computing, Middleware Projects: Mobile Databases | Peer-to-Peer Systems Recent Papers D. Jia, W. G. Yee, O. Frieder, "Spam Characterization and Detection in Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems", In Proc. 2008 ACM Conf. on Inf. and Knowl. Mgt. (CIKM08), 2008. [PDF] L. T. Nguyen, W. G. Yee, O. Frieder, "Adaptive Distributed Indexing for Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks", In Proc. 2008 ACM Conf. on Inf. and Knowl. Mgt. (CIKM08), 2008. [PDF] L. T. Nguyen, W. G. Yee, O. Frieder, "Query Workload Driven Summarization for P2P Query Routing", In Proc. 2008 IEEE Conf. on Peer to Peer Comp. (P2P08), 2008. [PDF] |
| Courses... |
Fall, 2008: CS 525 - Advanced Database Organization | IPRO 327 - Building a News Semantic Search Engine |
| Talks | ... more info... |
| Want to Get Involved? | If you're interested in doing database research and building cool stuff, contact me! Independent research projects are generally unpaid, but if I win a Turing Award for our work, I promise to give you a share of the prize money. |
| Activities... | The Practice of Computer Science slides for the summer NSF RET program. [PPT] Large Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval at ACM CIKM 2008 Trends in Enterprise Information Systems at WorldComp08 (updated May 5, 2008) High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC08) The Seventh International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MOBIDE08) The Ninth International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM08) |
| Service | Undergraduate Curriculum Committee University Faculty Council |
| More Info | CV (Updated, Fall, 2003) Publications (Updated, Fall, 2003) Righteous Room Happy Hour! Play Ultimate! Wikis |