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
  • May, 2009: I was just awarded a Sun AEG equipment award. Thanks, Sun! This equipment will go to good use!
  • May, 2009: I just won the 2009 Computer Science Department Teacher of the Year Award! Thanks to all my students again!
  • May, 2009: I just got my first patent allowed: Method for Improving Local Descriptors in Peer-to-Peer File Sharing., Filed by the Illinois Institute of Technology. Pending application number 11/602,039, allowed May 7, 2009 (Co-Inventor: Ophir Frieder).

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    Research InterestsMy 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 | Video Information System

    Recent Papers

  • W. G. Yee, L. T. Nguyen and O. Frieder, "A View of the Data on P2P File-sharing Systems," JASIST, to appear
  • W. G. Yee, L. T. Nguyen and O. Frieder, "Alternatives to Conjunctive Query Processing in Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems," In Proc. ACM SAC, 2009
  • S. Liu, Y. Merhav, W. G. Yee, N. Goharian and O. Frieder, "A Sentence Level Probabilistic Model for Evolutionary Theme Pattern Mining from News Corpora," In Proc. ACM SAC, 2009
    • Courses... Summer, 2009: CS 525 - Advanced Database Organization
    Talks
  • Wednesday, April 1, 2009: Duleepa "Dups" Wijayawardhana, Sun Microsystems, Data and application scaling horizontally, SB238, 1130-1230.

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    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...
  • ACM Sigmod, 2010 (ORG)
  • Scalable Data Intensive Applications (SDIA 2010), part of the 18th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing, 2010 (PC)
  • Peer-to-Peer Networked Virtual Environments, 2009 (PC)

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    Service
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
  • University Faculty Council
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    More Info CV (Updated, Fall, 2003)
    Publications (Updated, Fall, 2003)
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