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
Professor 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.
Dr. Yau directs the Purdue Laboratory for Advanced Network Systems (PLANS). His research group has developed CROSS, a software-programmable router architecture capable of per-flow resource management and service composition using modular protocol elements, in open source Linux. Using the component-based software and in collaboration with Purdue Civil Engineering researchers, he has designed and implemented a low-cost sensor network for structural health monitoring. (See article in Purdue/Industry Partnerships, Winter 2008--09.) Under SensorNet, he and his students are working on the design and prototyping of a sensor-cyber network for plume detection, localization, and tracking. The network's operation is designed to be robust under uncertainty, noise, and measurement errors, and is optimized for information capture considering real-world event dynamics and the temporal and spatial dimensions of sensing.
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. He has served as panelist and reviewer for the Department of Energy (DoE), National Science Foundation (NSF), the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the Research Council of Norway, University of Cyprus, U.S. Army Research Office, Qatar National Research Fund, 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. In 2004, he was on sabbatical leave at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he was Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He serves as Guest Professor of Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China), and has given summer teaching at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China).
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