Curriculum Vitae
Wai Gen Yee
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 West 31st Street, Office 226C
Chicago, IL 60616
Voice: 312-567-5205, Fax: 312-567-5067
yee AT iit.edu

Appointments | Educational Background | Experience | Publications | Informal Student Supervision | Service and Affiliations | Awards | References

Appointments:Top

Assistant Professor, Aug. 2003 to Present
Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology

Educational Background:Top

Ph.D., Computer Science, Aug. 2003
Thesis: Scalability and Performance Issues in Mobile Database Applications.
Database Group, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Advisor: Shamkant B. Navathe

M.S., Computer Science, 2000
Georgia Institute of Technology

B.S., Mathematics/Computer Science, 1995
University of Chicago

Experience:Top

Teaching Assistant, Sept. 1999 to Aug., 2003
Database Research Group, Georgia Institute of Technology
Courses: All graduate and undergraduate database topics
Advisors: Shamkant B. Navathe, Edward Omiecinski, Leo Mark

Research Assistant, Sept. 1997 to June. 1999
Georgia Research Alliance and Synchrologic, Inc.
Project Topic: Scalable Update Generation for Intermittently Synchronized Databases
Advisors: Shamkant B. Navathe, Mostafa Ammar

Visiting Researcher, Jun. 2002 to Aug. 2002
Database Group, Swiss Federal Technological Institute, Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland
Project Topic: Metadata Management for Mobile Users in a Clustered Database
Advisors: Can Tuerker, Hans-Joerg Schek

IAESTE Visiting Researcher, Jun. 1999 to Aug. 1999
Database Group, L'Ecole de Mines, St. Etienne (EMSE), France
Project Topic: Design and Implementation of a Semantic Web Crawler
Advisors: Bich Lien Doan, Michel Begbeder

NSF Visiting Researcher, Jun. 1998 to Aug. 1998
Systems Group, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), Yokosuka, Japan
Project Topic: The Function and Performance of Networked File Systems
Advisor: Hiroshi Inamura

Freelance Web Page Designer, Jun. 1997 to Aug. 1997
New York, NY

Programmer, Jun. 1995 to Jun. 1997
Lakeshore Technologies, Inc, Chicago, IL
Some Projects: GIS Data Analysis, PDA Sync Firmware, Medical Simulation
Supervisors: Gregory Crawford, Adam Birnbaum, Richard Samsel

Publications1:Top


Bridging a Gap in the Proposed Personal Health Record.
W. G. Yee and B. Trockman.
In Proc. Wkshp. Health Care Inf. Sys., 2006.

The Partitioned Exponential File for Database Storage Management.
C. Jermaine E. Omiecinski and W. G. Yee.
In VLDB Journal, ISSN 1066-8888, Springer, 2006.

Clustering high-dimensional data using an efficient and effective data space reduction.
R. Orlandic, Y. Lai, W. G. Yee.
In Proc. CIKM, 2005.

Efficient data access to multi-channel broadcast programs.
W. G. Yee and S. B. Navathe.
In Proc. ACM Conf. Inf. and Knowl. Mgt. (CIKM), 2003.

Fast data access on multiple broadcast streams.
W. G. Yee and S. B. Navathe.
In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Data Eng. (ICDE), 2003.
Poster paper.
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Scalability issues in mobile database applications.
S. B. Navathe and W. G. Yee.
In Proc. High Perf. Comp. Asia (HPC-Asia), December 2002.
Invited paper.
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Efficient data allocation over multiple channels at broadcast servers.
W. G. Yee, S. B. Navathe, E. Omiecinski, and C. Jermaine.
IEEE Trans. Computers, Special Issue on Mobility and Databases, 51(10):1231-1236, October 2002.
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Bridging the gap between response time and energy efficiency in broadcast schedule design.
W. G. Yee, S. B. Navathe, E. Omiecinski, and C. Jermaine.
In Proc. Intl. Conf. on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), March 2002.
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Out from under the trees.
C. Jermaine, E. Omiecinski, and W. G. Yee.
In Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Data Eng. (ICDE), February 2002.
Poster paper.

Scaling replica maintenance in intermittently synchronized databases.
W. G. Yee, M. J. Donahoo, and S. B. Navathe.
In Proc. ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Mgt. (CIKM), pages 450-457, November 2001.
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Design considerations for mobile database applications.
W. G. Yee and S. B. Navathe.
In NSF Wkshp. on an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Sys., October 2001.
Forthcoming.
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Maintaining a large spatial database with t2sm.
C. Jermaine, E. Omiecinski, and W. G. Yee.
In Proc. ACM Symp. on Adv. in Geo. Inf. Sys. (ACM-GIS), pages 82-87, November 2001.
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Framework for server data fragment grouping to improve scalability in intermittently synchronized databases.
W. G. Yee, M. J. Donahoo, and S. Navathe.
In Proc. ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Mgt. (CIKM), pages 54-61, November 2000.
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Informal Student Supervision:Top

Alex Pivoshenko, M.S., Computer Science, 2002
Topic: Server-side Scalability Issues in Mobile Databases

Dare Obasanjo, B.S., Computer Science, 2001
Topic: The Pros and Cons of Object Oriented Database Management Systems

Daniel Rocco, B.S., Computer Science, 2000
Topic: Databases Replication in Theory and Practice

Service and Affiliations:Top

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, WINET Journal, and various computer science conferences.

Manager of Georgia Tech Database Lab Facilities and Web page.

Member of ACM and IEEE.

Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, WINET Journal, VLDB Journal and various computer science conferences.

U.S. Citizen

Awards:Top

National Science Foundation/Japanese Intl. Science and Technology Exchange Center Summer Research Fellowship, 1998

College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology Dean's Award, 1997

References:Top

Dr. Shamkant B. Navathe (Advisor)
Professor
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
Voice: +1-404-894-0537
Fax: +1-404-894-9846
Email:
sham@cc.gatech.edu
Web: www.cc.gatech.edu/~sham

Dr. Edward Omiecinski
Associate Professor
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
Voice: +1-404-894-3160
Fax: +1-404-894-9846
Email: edwardo@cc.gatech.edu
Web: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/Database/faculty/omiecinski.html

Dr. Leo Mark
Associate Professor
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
Voice: +1-404-894-2746
Fax: +1-404-894-9846
Email: leomark@cc.gatech.edu
Web: www.cc.gatech.edu/~leomark

Dr. Michael J. Donahoo
Assistant Professor
Baylor University
PO Box 97356
Waco, TX 76798-7356
Voice: +1-254-710-6836
Fax: +1-254-710-3889
Email: Jeff_Donahoo@Baylor.edu
Web: cs.baylor.edu/~donahoo

Ling Liu
Associate Professor
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
801 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
Voice: +1-404-385-1139
Fax: +1-404-894-9846
Email: lingliu@cc.gatech.edu
Web: www.cc.gatech.edu/~lingliu

Christopher Jermaine
Assistant Professor
P.O. Box 11612
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-6120
Voice: +1-352-392-2691
Fax: +1-352-392-1220
Email: cjermain@cise.ufl.edu
Web: www.cise.ufl.edu/~cjermain

Updated December, 2002
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Wai Gen Yee 2004-01-02