Jinyang Li

Jinyang Li




715 Broadway Rm 705
New York, NY 10003
Fax: 212-9954123
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I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at NYU.

Friendstore v0.1 launched! It helps you backup valuable data on trusted nodes. Welcome to try it out.

Research

My research interests are in distributed systems and computer networks. Currently, I am building storage and communication infrastructures that are fast, reliable and easy to use.

I believe one can leverage real world trust relationships between users to build reliable decentralized systems. My students and I have built Friendstore, a reliable cooperative backup system and are building a decentralized censorship circumvention system.

I am collaborating with folks from MIT to build WheelFS, a wide-area file system that simplifies the construction of many distributed applications. I am also working on routing protocols for multi-hop mesh networks. There are a lot of commonalities in protocol design for robust distributed systems and networks!

In the past, I have worked on a cooperative digital library, designed routing protocols for peer-to-peer systems and multihop mesh networks.

My publications are here.

It is a lot of fun to work with my students:

  • Nguyen Tran, Ph.D. candidate
  • Yair Sovran, Ph.D. student
  • Arthur Meacham, Ph.D. student
  • Hui Zhang, visiting Ph.D. student from Tsinghua
  • Alana Libonati, M.S.
  • Frank Chiang, M.S.

Teaching

Software

  • Friendstore, a cooperative backup system
  • p2psim, a simulator for distributed hash tables
  • searchy, a fast and flexible search engine
Fun

I graduated from the PDOS group at MIT under the guidance of Prof. Robert Morris and Frans Kaashoek. You can still find my old home page there. From 2005-2006, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley with Prof. Scott Shenker. My CV is here.

I like taking pictures, calligraphy, travelling.

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