Yi Wei

  Email: ywei1 at nd dot edu

  244 Fitzpatrick Hall

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  University of Notre Dame

  [Full CV]

• Recent News

  • I am actively seeking paper reviewing opportunities. If you are looking for reviewers for a journal/conference/workshop, please contact me!
  • I passed my Ph.D defense on April 11th! : D   [Defense Presentation]
  • I will start my employment at Microsoft on July 15th, working as a Software Development Engineer in the Windows Azure Cloud team (The rock hard Azure!).

• Introduction

    Yi Wei (a.k.a. David) is a Ph.D at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in University of Notre Dame. His advisors are Prof. M. Brian Blake and Prof. Greg Madey.

• Education

  • Ph.D in Computer Science (Defense date 4/11), University of Notre Dame, May 2013
    Advisor: Prof. M. Brian Blake
    Co-Advisor: Prof. Greg Madey
    Dissertation committee: Prof. M. Brian Blake, Prof. Greg Madey, Prof. Douglas Thain and Prof. Raul Santelices
    Dissertation title: Monitoring, Configuration and Resource Management of Service Workflows in Virtualized Clusters and Clouds
    
    
  • M.S. in Computer Science, University of Delaware, June 2010
    Advisor: Prof. Stephen F. Siegel
    
    
  • B.E. in Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, June 2007
    
    

• Research Interest

    Yi's research interest spans the areas of Service-oriented Computing, Distributed and Cloud Computing, Energy aware and green computing, Agent-base technology and multi-agent systems.

• Publications

  Journals and Magazines

  1. Yi Wei and M.B. Blake, Proactive Virtualized Resource Management and Provisioning for Service Workflows in the Cloud, IEEE Transactions on Service and Network Management, under review, 2013.
  2. Yi Wei and M.B. Blake, Spanning Web Service Workflows across Virtual Resources in Cloud Environments, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, under review, 2013.
  3. M.B. Blake, I. Saleh, Yi Wei, I. Schlesinger, A.L. Yale and X. Liu, Service Recommendations from Software Specifications: A Hybrid Syntactic and Semantic Toolkit, Elsevier Journal of Information and Software Technology, under review.
  4. Yi Wei and M.B. Blake, Adaptive Web Services Monitoring in Cloud Environments, International Journal on Web Portals, IGI Global, 2013. (invited and refereed from the Best Papers of WETICE 2012) (PDF)
  5. M.B. Blake, S.L. Remy, Yi Wei and A.M. Howard, Robots on the Web: Service-Oriented Computing and Web Interfaces, Special Issue: Towards a WWW for Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation, Vol. 18, No 2., pp 33-43, 2011. (PDF)
  6. Yi Wei and M.B. Blake, Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing: Challenges and Opportunities, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol.14, No.6, pp. 72 - 75, Nov./Dec. 2010. (Top 3 Most Accessed from Nov 2010 - Jan 2011, cited by 80 since 2011) (PDF)

  Conferences and Workshops

  1. I. Saleh, G. Kulczycki, M.B. Blake and Yi Wei, Static Detection of Implementation Errors Using Formal Code Specification, 11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2013), Madrid, Spain, September 2013, under review.
  2. I. Saleh, G. Kulczycki, M.B. Blake and Yi Wei, Formal Methods for Data-Centric Web Services: From Model to Implementation, IEEE 20th International Conference on Web Services, Santa Clara CA, June 2013, accepted.
  3. Yi Wei and M.B. Blake, Decentralized Resource Coordination across Service Workflows in a Cloud Environment, 22nd IEEE International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures (WETICE 2013), Tunisia, July 2013. (PDF)
  4. Yi Wei, M.B. Blake and G. Madey, An Operation-time Simulation Testbed for UAV Swarm Configuration and Mission Planning, International Conference on Computational Sciences (ICCS 2013), Barcelona, Spain, June 2013. (PDF)
  5. Yi Wei, M.B. Blake and G. Madey, Agent-based Simulation for UAV Swarm Mission Planning and Execution, 2013 Agent-directed Simulation Symposium (ADS 2013), San Diego CA, April 2013. (PDF)
  6. Yi Wei and M.B. Blake, Adaptive Service Workflow Configuration and Agent-based Virtual Resource Management in the Cloud, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), San Francisco, CA, March 2013. (acceptance rate 28%) (PDF)
  7. Yi Wei, M.B. Blake and I. Saleh, Adaptive Resource Management for Service Workflows in Cloud Environments, 2nd International Workshop on Workflow Models, Systems, Services and Applications in the Cloud (CloudFlow 2013), accepted. (PDF)
  8. G. Madey, M.B. Blake, C. Poellabauer, H. Lu, R. McCune and Yi Wei, Applying DDDAS Principles to Command, Control and Mission Planning for UAV Swarms, International Conference on Computational Sciences (ICCS 2012), Omaha, Nebraska, Procedia Computer Science (Elsevier), Volume 9, pp. 1177–1186. (PDF)
  9. Yi Wei and M.B. Blake, Agent-based Services Framework with Adaptive Monitoring in the Cloud Environments, 21st IEEE International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures (WETICE 2012), pp. 4 - 9. (Best Student Paper Award) (PDF)
  10. S.F. Siegel, T. Zirkel and Yi Wei, A Functional Equivalence Verification Suite for High-Performance Scientific Computing, 3rd International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification (NSV), Edinburgh, UK, Jul. 2010.
  11. S.F. Siegel, Yi Wei and T. Zirkel, The Toolkit for Accurate Scientific Software, 3rd International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification (NSV), Edinburgh, UK, Jul. 2010.

• Awards and Honors

  • Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures (2012)
  • Top 100 Most Downloaded Paper in IEEE Digital Library for the Month (Nov 2010, Dec 2010)
  • Top 3 Most Downloaded Paper in IEEE Internet Computing (Nov 2010 – October 2011, April/May2012 (#1), January 2013 (#1))

• Professional Services

  PC Member

  • International Workshop on Cloud and Service Engineering (CSE 2013)
  • International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Infrastructures (WETICE 2013)

  Reviewer

  • Journal of Grid Computing (2013)
  • IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (2012)

• Work Experience

  • Software Development Engineer Intern, Microsoft, Remond WA
    June - September 2012
    Division: Windows Azure Cloud Platform
    
    
  • Computational Intern, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore CA
    September 2009 - January 2010
    Supervisor: Dr. Daniel Quinlan
    Project: the ROSE compiler infrustructure
    
    

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University of Notre Dame

South Bend, IN 46556

Last modified: 03/19/2013