Jinyang Li 715 Broadway Room 708 New York, NY 10003 Fax: 212-9954123 Phone: 212-9983098 Contact: firstname at cs nyu edu

I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at NYU. My research interests are in distributed systems and computer networks. Specifically, I am building storage and communication infrastructures that are fast, reliable and easy to use.

I am teaching G22.3033-001 Distributed Systems in the Fall 09 semester.

Current Projects

• SumUp / Kaleidoscope / Friendstore:
  We are exploiting the real world social relationships among users to improve the reliability of open distributed systems. We have built a number of systems including online content voting, cooperative storage and web censorship circumvention systems.
• Flexible storage infrastructures:
  We are collaborating with colleagues from MIT to build WheelFS, a wide-area file system that simplifies the construction of many distributed applications.
• High performance wireless networks:
  We are building a multi-radio protocol that can achieve much higher throughput than their single radio counterparts.

Past projects:

• The OverCite cooperative digital library.
• Distributed Hash Tables.
• Grid multihop mesh networks.

Current:
• Nguyen Tran, Ph.D. student
• Yair Sovran, Ph.D. student
• Aditya Dhananjay, Ph.D. student
• Bonan Min, Ph.D. student

Alumni:
• Yoshihisa Abe, M.S. (Ph.D. @CMU)
• Hui Zhang, visting from Tsinghua
• Alana Libonati, M.S. (Ph.D. @UNC)
• Frank Chiang, M.S. (Microsoft)

Software

• Kaleidoscope, a decentralized system to advertise and find proxy relays. It can be used for to circumvent content blocking.
• Friendstore, a cooperative backup system
• p2psim, a simulator for distributed hash tables
• searchy, a fast and flexible search engine

Miscellaneous

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.