Di received his B.Engr. degree from the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering in Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, P. R. China, in July 2005. Starting from September 2006, Di has been a member of the iQua research group at the University of Toronto, first working towards a M.A.Sc. degree, and currently a third-year Ph.D. student in the group.
During his master’s studies, Di mainly worked on exploring the benefits and tradeoffs of applying network coding in P2P content distribution systems in light of peer dynamics and the application of network coding to large-scale measurement collection. Di’s intellectual curiosity lies in using mathematics as a tool to facilitate novel system designs, which are often hard to be achieved through intuition. He is also a fervent advocate of the application of technology in real life.
Chen is currently a third-year Ph.D. student in the iQua research group, jointly supervised by Professor Frank R. Kschischang. He received his B.Engr. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2006, and a M.A.Sc. degree in the iQua group in September 2008.
Chen’s research focuses on using advanced mathematical models to provide new insight into the design of real-world networked systems. He has a particular interest in adapting tools from various fields of applied mathematics such as coding theory, stochastic processes, and machine learning to address practical research challenges. During his master’s studies, Chen worked on the theoretical analysis of peer-to-peer streaming systems by applying the theory of network coding and Markov processes.
Henry did his undergraduate work in Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, and was awarded the B.Engr. degree with first class honour, and a minor in Business Administration in 2007. He joined the iQua group in September 2007, and completed his M.A.Sc. degree in October 2009. He is currently continuing to pursue his Ph.D. degree in the group.
In his undergraduate years, Henry achieved excellent academic performance both departmental-wide and university-wide. He was consistently placed on the Dean’s List of Faculty of Engineering and New Asia College from 2004 to 2007. His undergraduate thesis focuses on the performance of network coding in wireless peer-to-peer networks, under supervision of Professor Robert Li. Besides course work, he has also worked as a committee member of mainland undergraduate association, and did a summer internship at HP Singapore.
Zimu did his undergraduate program at the Department of Computer Science at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, P.R. China, and received his B.Engr. degree in July 2007. In September 2007, Zimu joined the iQua research group, and he has completed his M.A.Sc. degree in December 2009, and is continuing to pursue his PhD degree in the group.
During his undergraduate life, Zimu kept excellent academic records, especially in math and computer science courses and ranked top 3% in his department. Based on his solid background, Zimu worked on various programming and research projects, such as “Research and Implementation of Automatic Meta-Information Extraction for Chinese Documents without Dictionary Support” (Jiangsu Province Science Research Fund Candidate). His undergraduate thesis, which won an Excellent Thesis Award at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, focused on secure data transmission in the Internet.
Currently, his research interests focus on statistical study on the large-scale peer-to-peer applications and design of algorithms for distributed systems. In particular, he is interested in deriving insights from extensive measurements and statistical studies of real-world commercial live streaming applications, and improving performance and quality of peer-to-peer video-on-demand systems.
In his spare time, he devotes his efforts on the maintenance of iQua’s computing resources, and enjoys writing code in various scripting and programming languages.
Yuan joined the iQua research group at the University of Toronto in September 2008, and obtained her M.A.Sc. degree in January 2011. She is currently in her first year working towards her Ph.D. degree. Yuan received her B.Engr. degree from the School of Telecommunications in Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in July 2008.
In her undergraduate years, Yuan achieved excellent academic performance, especially in mathematics and communications courses, and held the top-level scholarship (top 25 of the 5000 students in a grade) for three years. Her solid mathematical background and dedication to courses has led to a ranking of top 1 of 115 students in her major. As part of her undergraduate research experience, Yuan joined an undergraduate research project on the topic of wireless underground sensor networks. She also worked as the Vice President of her major.
Wei joined the iQua research group as the fresh Ph.D. student in 2010, jointly supervised by Professor Ben Liang. He received his B. Engr. degree with graduate honor and M. Engr. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2007 and 2010, respectively, both in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Wei has a general research interest in wireless and P2P networks, with special focus on network algorithm design and performance analysis. He enjoys applying mathematical tools in neighboring fields such like economics, game theory and machine learning to model open network problems and propose feasible solutions.
Wei also loves to see how technology is delivered to the industry to benefit real world. He has been actively involved in technology incubation and enjoyed his time at Microsoft Research Asia and Microsoft Server and Tool Business.
Lilin joined the iQua research group as a Ph.D student in September 2010. She received her M.Sc. degree in Department of Computer Science at University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, under the supervision of Professor Peter Marbach, and her B.Engr. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China.
During her Master’s studies, Lilin mainly worked on exploring the behavior and effects of influence propagation on social networks. In particular, she uses graph models to investigate the expected size of influence propagation and individuals’ threshold strategy. She explores mathematical models that can resemble real-world influence propagation patterns. In her PhD studies, she started to work in the recent advocated field of cloud computing as a McLean Graduate Fellow, exploring concerns, including availability and performance, associated with both cloud users and cloud providers.
Yiwei is currently a first-year M.A.Sc student in the iQua research group. He received his B.Engr. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R.China in July 2010.
During his undergraduate studies, Yiwei has held the Excellent Academic Scholarship for a period of three years. His undergraduate thesis focused on the topic of physical-layer network coding in the Institute of Wireless Communication and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has also been working on 3GPP/LTE during his internship at Spreadtrum Communications Co., Ltd, which is one of the largest IC designing companies in China.
Currently, Yiwei focuses on the study of multi-party video conferencing applications. His interests are to derive insights from extensive measurements in a real-world environment, and to explore the feasibility of using network coding in conferencing applications, in order to improve overall application performance.
Yuefei is currently a first-year M.A.Sc. student in the group. He received his B. Engr. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in July 2010, and then joined the iQua group in September 2010.
In his undergraduate years, Yuefei achieved excellent academic performance both in courses and projects, and ranked top 5% in the department. He joined the Institute of Wireless Communication Technology of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2009, and worked on a research project to apply compressive sensing into wireless communications. Currently, his research focuses on auction design in networks, especially for efficient and practical resource allocation problems.
In his spare time, Yuefei would like to swim at the Hart House on campus, play table tennis, and listen to classical and pop music.
