Purdue University Department of Computer Sciences 305 N. University Street West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907-2107 Office Phone: +1 765-494-9027 FAX: 765-494-0739
Dr. Yau's research aims to improve the robustness and predictability of complex large-scale networks (e.g., today's Internet and tomorrow's pervasive wireless networks). He designs network systems and algorithms to give enhanced quality of service for heterogeneous users. A current focus is towards enabling seamless cooperation of many wirelessly connected small devices each having limited computing and battery power. Beyond efficiency, David is interested in making large-scale networks fundamentally more attractive as platforms of work, by ensuring the availability of network services and the quality of information being exchanged.
David's research group has developed CROSS, a software-programmable router architecture capable of per-flow resource management, in open source Linux. We have used J-Sim components for CROSS system services, and built various applications related to multimedia streaming and network security.
Professor Yau serves on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He serves as Steering Committee member (2007--2009) and TPC co-chair (2006) of IEEE IWQoS, and as TPC co-chair (2007) and Vice General Chair (2006) of IEEE ICNP. He has been a TPC member of many IEEE/ACM conferences, and has served as panelist and reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and the Research Council of Norway, among others. His research has been funded by NSF, ONR/ORNL, IBM, DoE/NWICG, CERIAS, the Purdue Research Foundation, and the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund. He directs the Laboratory for Advanced Network Systems (LANS). In 2004, he was on sabbatical leave at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he served as Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He has also given summer teaching at Tsinghua University (Beijing) and Zhejiang University (Hangzhou) in China.
I have had the privilege to work with these people at Purdue and CUHK:
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