Curriculum Vitae

 

I-Ling Yen

Computer Science Department

University of Texas at Dallas

MS EC-31, P.O.Box 830688

Richardson, TX 75083

[email protected]

 

 

Education

 

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Houston, 1992

Dissertation: Modularity and Resilience for High Performance Parallel Programs

 

M.S. in Computer Science, University of Houston, 1985

Thesis:� The Role of Parallel Processing in Application Programs

 

B.S. in Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, 1979

 

Work Experience

 

1997 --���� Associate Professor

present������������ Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas

 

�          Teaching courses and supervising students

�          Conducting research in the areas of distributed systems, fault-tolerant computing, object-oriented concurrent programming, multimedia systems, web and internet technologies, and electronic commerce

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1992 --������������ Assistant Professor

1997�������������� Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University

 

�          Teaching courses and supervising students

�          Conducting research in the areas of parallel and distributed operating� systems, fault-tolerant computing, object-oriented concurrent programming, and parallel algorithms

 

1990 --������������ Seismic Data Processing Programmer

1991�������������� Western Geophysical, Houston, Texas

 

�          Designed an interactive seismic data processing package, OMEGA;��� implemented a control program that coordinates and efficiently delivers a large amount of data traces or gathers among components

 

1986 --���� Software Quality Assurance Engineer

1988����� Valid Logic Systems, Inc., San Jose, California

 

�          Developed an automated test suite for quality assurance; also developed a path analyzer that instruments the program to analyze the test set coverage and correspondingly improve the testing

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1985 --���� Systems Programmer

1986�������������� COINS, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.

 

�          Developed network packages for monitoring various network activities

�          Developed an Ethernet protocol to achieve a transparent distributed system environment

Service to the Profession

 

�          Reviewer for NSF.

�          Reviewer for IEEE-TC, IEEE-TKDE, IEEE-TSE, JPDC, and Acta Informatica journals, and many conferences.

�          Finance Chair for the 13th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'94).

�          Program Committee member for the 1994 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Tools with AI (ICTAI'94).

�          Vice-Chair for the 1995 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Tools with AI (ICTAI'95).

�          Vice-Chair for the 1996 IEEE High Assurance System Engineering Workshop (HASE'96).

�          Panel Mediator for the 1996 IEEE High Assurance System Engineering Workshop (HASE'96).

�          Program Committee member for the 1997 IEEE Workshop on Object-Oriented Reliable and Dependable Systems.

�          Program Chair for the 1997 IEEE High Assurance System Engineering Workshop (HASE'97).

�          Program Committee member for the 1998 IEEE Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Computing.

�          Program Committee member for the 1998 IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'98).

�          Program Committee member for the 1998 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE'98).

�          Program Committee member for the 1998 IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Workshop (HASE'98).

�          Guest Editor for a theme issue of IEEE Computer, April, 1998, devoted to High-Assurance Systems.

�          Program Chair for the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Software and System Engineering & Technology (ASSET�99).

�          Program Committee member for the 1999 IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Workshop (HASE'98).

�          Program Chair for the 23rd Annual International Conference on Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC�99).

�          Program Committee Member for the 24th Annual International Conference on Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC�2000).

�          Program Committee member for the 2000 IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE'2000).

�          Program Committee member for the 2000 IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Software and System Engineering & Technology (ASSET�2000).

 

Awards

 

�          I-Ling Yen, �Support for Adaptive Multi-Criteria Transaction Processing in E-Commerce Applications,� Texas Advanced Technology Program, 1/2000 � 12/2001, $117,800.

�          Farokh Bastani and I-Ling Yen, �Assessing Y2K Compliance for Mission-Critical Systems,� Army Research Laboratory, 9/1/1999 � 8/31/2000, $105,465.

�          I-Ling Yen, �A Courseware Tool for the Development of Web-Based, On-Line Courses for ECRC,� ECRC, 9/1/1999 � 5/31/2000, $4,950.

�          I-Ling Yen, Biao Chen, D. T. Huynh, Ravi Prakash, and Si Qing Zheng, �Hardware-Software Co-design for IP Component Implementation,� Alcatel, 1/1999 � 12/1999, $50,000.

�          Biao Chen, G. R. Dattatreya, Ravi Prakash, I-Ling Yen, and Si Qing Zheng, �A Study of Strategies for IP Quality of Service,� Alcatel, 1/1999 � 12/1999, $50,000.

�          Si Qing Zheng, Biao Chen, and I-Ling Yen, �Implementation Issues in Hardware-Software Co-Design for Burst Switching,� Alcatel, 1/1999 � 12/1999, $25,000.

�          Si Qing Zheng, Biao Chen, and I-Ling Yen, �Algorithmic Aspects of Hardware-Software Co-Design for Burst Switching,� Alcatel, 1/1999 � 12/1999, $25,000.

�          I-Ling Yen, Research Experience for Undergraduates, National Science Foundation, 9/1998 � 8/1999, $5,000.

�          I-Ling Yen and Biao Chen, �Establishing a Computer-Aided Education Environment using the Web Lecture System,� TxTEC, 7/1998 � 8/1999, $21,650.

�          I-Ling Yen, etc., �Establishing a Computer-Aided Education Environment using the Web Lecture System,� Nortel, 7/1998 � 8/2000, $138,000.

�          I-Ling Yen, �Processor Specialization in Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems,� National Science Foundation, 9/1997 � 2/2000, $115,343.

�          I-Ling Yen, �Systematic Integration of Fault Tolerance in High Performance Parallel Programs,� National Science Foundation, 9/1995 � 6/1997, $17,985.

�          I-Ling Yen, �A Run-Time Support System for Scalable Object-Oriented Parallel Programming,� GE Foundation, 1/1994 � 8/1995, $20,000.

 

Research Interests

 

Parallel and distributed systems, electronic commerce, multimedia software systems, web and internet technologies, parallel algorithms, self-stabilizing programs, object-oriented concurrent programming, software tools, fault tolerance for parallel and distributed systems, fault tolerance for real-time process-control systems.

 

Teaching Interests

 

Operating systems, fault tolerant systems, software engineering, parallel and distributed systems, multimedia systems, real-time systems, networking.

 

 

Journal Papers

 

1.        I.-L. Yen, F.B. Bastani, and D. Taylor, �A systematic approach for developing fault-tolerant programs in multiple server systems,� accepted by IEEE Trans. Software Engineering.

2.        I-Ling Yen, Iftikhar Ahmed, Ramanujam Jagannath, and Sreeparna Kundu,� �The Design and Implementation of a Customizable Fault Tolerance Framework,� accepted by International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.

3.        I-L. Yen, R. Paul, and K. Mori, �Guest editors' introduction: Integrated design, development, and evaluation methods for high assurance systems,� IEEE Computer, April 1998.

4.        I-L. Yen and I.-R. Chen, �Reliability assessment of multiple-agent cooperating systems,� IEEE Trans. Reliability, Sep. 1997.

5.        I-Ling Yen, �A highly safe self-stabilizing mutual exclusion algorithm,� Information Processing Letters, 57, 1996, pp. 301-305.

6.        I.-R. Chen and I.-L. Yen, �Analysis of probabilistic error checking procedures on storage systems,� Computer Journal, vol. 38, No. 5, 1995, pp. 348-354.

7.        I.-L. Yen and F.B. Bastani, �Parallel hashing: Collision resolution strategies and performance,� Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 31, Dec. 1995, pp. 190-198.

8.        I.-L. Yen, E.L. Leiss, and F.B. Bastani, �Exploiting redundancy for performance speed-up in parallel systems,� IEEE Parallel and Distributed Technology, Nov. 1993, pp. 51-60.

9.        F.B. Bastani, I.-L. Yen, and I.-R. Chen, �A class of inherently fault-tolerant distributed programs,� IEEE Trans. Soft. Eng., Oct. 1988, pp. 1432-1442.

10.     Moitra, S.S. Iyengar, F.B. Bastani, and I.-L. Yen, �Multilevel data structures: Models and performance,� IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng. June 1988, pp. 858-867.

11.     F.B. Bastani, I.-L. Yen, and S.S. Iyengar, �Concurrent maintenance of data structures in a distributed environment,� The Comp. Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2, 1988, pp. 165-174.

12.     I-Ling Yen, Hitesh Kapoor, and Kimberly Wilkinson, �Specialized N-modular redundant processes for efficient fault tolerance in distributed systems,� submitted to Information Processing Letters, currently under revision.

 

 

Refereed Conferences Proceedings

 

1.        I-Ling Yen, Ing-Ray Chen, and Biao Chen, �Real-time atomic transaction processing using multi-invariant data structure,� IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium, Washington D.C., Nov. 1999.

2.        F.B. Bastani, V.L. Winter, and I-.L. Yen, �Dependability of relational safety-critical programs,� IEEE Intl. Symp. on Software Reliability Engineering, Boca Raton, Florida, Nov. 1999. (c)

3.        Biao Chen, Jiang Zhang, I-Ling Yen, Bing Liu, �Study of traffic interactions in queue sharing to support differentiated services,� Intl. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nov. 1999. (c)

4.        Farokh Bastani, Vikram Reddy, Punarvasu Srigiriraju, I-Ling Yen, �A relational program architecture for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system,� IEEE Conf. on High-Integrity Systems, Albuquerquq, New Mexico, Nov. 1999.

5.        I-Ling Yen and Hitesh Kapoor, �A 2-Phase N-Modular Redundancy Algorithm,� Workshop on Object-Oriented Reliable and Dependable Systems (WORDS'99), Newport Beach, California, Jan. 1999.

6.        I-Ling Yen, Iftikhar Ahmed, Ramanujam Jagannath, and Sreeparna Kundu, ``Implementation of a Customizable Fault Tolerance Framework,'' IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-Time Distributed Computing, Kyoto, Japan, April, 1998.

7.        I-L. Yen and K. Karun, ``Implementation and performance assessment of multilevel data structures,'' 21st International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'97), Bethesda, Maryland, August, 1997.

8.        I-Ling Yen, ``An Object-Oriented SNMR Framework for Dependable Systems,'' Workshop on Object-Oriented Reliable and Dependable Systems (WORDS'97), Newport Beach, California, Feb. 1997.

9.        I.-L. Yen, ``Fault Tolerance via Specialization: An Efficient Approach for Tolerating General Failures,'' Intl. Design and Technology Processing Conference, Austin, Texas, Dec. 1996.

10.     I.-L. Yen, ``Specialized N-Modular Redundant Processors in Large-Scale Distributed Systems,'' 15th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 1996.

11.     I.-L. Yen, ``Multiple invariant system design for fault-tolerant real-time applications,'' Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems, Laguna Beach, California, Feb. 1996.

12.     I.-L. Yen and I.-R. Chen, ``Quality assessment for multiple server cooperating systems,'' Proceedings COMPSAC, Dallas, TX, Aug. 1995, pp. 218-223.

13.     I.-L. Yen and F.B. Bastani, ``A highly safe self-stabilizing mutual exclusion algorithm,'' 2nd Workshop on Self-Stabilizing Systems, Las Vegas, NV, May 28-29, 1995.

14.     I.-L. Yen and F.B. Bastani, ``Robust parallel resource management in shared memory multiprocessor systems,''

15.     International Parallel Processing Symposium, Santa Barbara, CA, April 1995, pp. 458-465.

16.     I.-L. Yen and F.B. Bastani, ``On efficiently tolerating general failures in autonomous decentralized multiserver systems,'' International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, Phoenix, AZ, April 1995, pp. 288-296.

17.     I.-L. Yen and I.-R. Chen, ``A systematic approach for integration of multimedia capabilities in consulting systems,'' Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems, Hawaii, March 1995.

18.     Y.-K. Chu, I.-L. Yen, and D. Rover, ``Guiding processor allocation with estimated execution time for mesh connected multiple processor systems,'' Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, Jan. 1995.

19.     I.-L. Yen, I.-R. Chen, and F.B. Bastani, ``Reliability assessment for the design of dependable soft real-time cooperating systems,'' Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems, Oct. 1994, Dana Point, CA, pp. 134-139.

20.     Y.-Y. Fang, I.-L. Yen, R.M. Dubash, ``Improving the performance of Lee's maze routing algorithm on parallel computers,'' Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 1994.

21.     Y.-K. Chu, I.-L. Yen, and D. Rover, ``Incorporating job scheduling for processor allocation on two-dimensional mesh-connected systems,'' Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Las Vegas, NV, Oct. 1994.

22.     I.-L. Yen and F.B. Bastani, ``Systematic incorporation of efficient fault tolerance in systems of cooperating parallel programs,'' 24th Intl. Symp. Fault-Tolerant Computing, Austin, TX, June 1994, pp. 154-163.

23.     I.-L. Yen, M.-K. Jeng, I.-R. Chen, ``Processor allocation for parallel object-oriented programs,'' 1993 Intl. Conf. Parallel and Distributed Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 1993, pp. 212-216.

24.     I.-L. Yen and F.B. Bastani, ``Robust coordination in distributed multi-server systems,'' Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Systems, Princeton, NJ, Oct. 1993, pp. 133-138.

25.     I.-L. Yen, R.M. Dubash, and F.B. Bastani, ``Strategies for mapping Lee's maze routing algorithms onto parallel architectures,'' Proceedings IPPS, Los Angeles, CA, April 1993, pp. 672-679.

26.     I.-L. Yen and F.B. Bastani, ``Inherent fault tolerance in decentralized process-control systems,'' Intl. Symp. on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, Kawasaki, Japan, Mar. 1993, pp. 267-274.

27.     I.-L. Yen, E.L. Leiss, and F.B. Bastani, ``A repetitive fault tolerance model for parallel programs,'' Hawaii Conf. on System Sciences, Hawaii, Jan. 1993, pp. 447-455.

28.     I.-L. Yen, T. AlMarzooq, F.B. Bastani, and E.L. Leiss, ``Information hiding in parallel programs: Model and experimental evaluation on the Connection Machine,'' Symp. Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computations, McLeans, VA, October 1992, pp. 326-333.

29.     R.M. Dubash, F.B. Bastani, and I.-L. Yen, ``Fault tolerant process planning and control,'' Proceedings COMPSAC, Chicago, IL, Sep. 1992, pp. 188-193.

30.     I.-L. Yen and F.B. Bastani, ``Hash table in massively parallel systems,'' Proceedings IPPS, Los Angeles, CA, March 1992, pp. 660-664.

31.     I.-L. Yen, E.L. Leiss, and F.B. Bastani, ``An inherently fault-tolerant sorting algorithm,'' Proceedings IPPS, Los Angeles, CA, April 1991.

32.     I.-L. Yen, ``Massively parallel hash algorithms and performance,'' Proceedings CSC, San Antonio, TX, March 1991.

33.     I.-L. Yen, F.B. Bastani, and E.L. Leiss, ``High performance massively parallel abstract data type components,'' Proceedings COMPSAC, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1990, pp. 196-201.

34.     I.-L. Yen, D.-R. Leu, and F.B. Bastani, ``Hash table and sorted array: A case study of multi-entry data structures

35.     in massively parallel systems,'' Symp. Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computations, McLeans, VA, March 1990, pp. 51-54.

36.     I.-L. Yen, F.B. Bastani, and Y. Zhao, ``On self-stabilization, nondeterminism, and inherent fault tolerance,'' MCC Workshop on Self-Stabilization, Austin, TX, August 1989.

37.     F.B. Bastani and I.-L. Yen, ``A fault-tolerant replicated storage system,'' Proceedings Data Eng., Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 1987.

38.     F.B. Bastani and I.-L. Yen, ``Impact of parallel processing on software quality,'' Proceedings SuperComputing Systems, Florida, Dec. 1985.

39.     F.B. Bastani and I.-L. Yen, ``Analysis of an inherently fault-tolerant program,'' Proceedings COMPSAC, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1985.

 

 

Other Publications

 

1.        I-L. Yen, ``Panel: High assurance engineering: The good, the bad, and the ugly,'' Proceedings HASE, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 1996.

2.        I.-L. Yen, ``Processor allocation for objects in massively parallel systems,'' Proceedings SETS, Houston, TX, May 1993.

3.        I.-L. Yen, E.L. Leiss, and F.B. Bastani, ``An inherently fault-tolerant sorting algorithm,'' Research Comp. Lab Ann. Prog. Rev., Houston, TX, April 1991.

4.    I.-L. Yen, T. AlMarzooq, E.L. Leiss, and F.B. Bastani, ``Modular programming of massively parallel systems: Towards high performance abstract data types,'' Research Comp. Lab Ann. Prog. Rev., Houston, TX, April 1990.