Tianyin Xu Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science (Courtesy appointment by ECE ) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 4108 Siebel Center ( direction ) tyxu at illinois dot edu || @tianyin_xu ( huh? ) Assistant: Ruth Anders (rutha at illinois dot edu)
This is Tianyin, a watchman in the cornfields who tries to do relevant systems research. More professionally, I am an ass prof in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) . I'm also affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC.
Before joining UIUC, I spent a year at Facebook 's Core Systems, working on dealing with datacenter failures and eating free food (see my interview by Facebook ). I spent six wonderful years at sysnet at the University of California San Diego until my rock star advisor kicked me out (I wished to be a tenured grad student 1 ). I worked with NetApp to study production data ontap. I had a short experience at Whova where I learned dedication (check out Whova's resources for organizing conferences ). I worked in
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