Liang Wang @ Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

Update

2018.01.15: "Privacy-preserving Personal Model Training" is accepted by ACM/IEEE Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2018, USA.
2018.01.01: "Privacy-preserving Machine Learning Based Data Analytics on Edge Devices" is accepted by AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES), USA.
2017.12.15: I will give a presentation on "Owl - Functional Numerical Software" at Bloomberg, London UK.
2017.10.28: "User-centric Composable Personal Data Analytics" will be presented in the poster session at SOSP 2017, Shanghai China.
2017.09.07: I will give a tutorial "Owl - Data Science in OCaml" at CUFP 2017, Oxford UK.
2017.07.01: "Owl: A General-Purpose Numerical Library in OCaml" is accepted in OCaml 2017 Meeting, Oxford UK.
2017.04.28: Our paper "Milking the Cache Cow with Fairness in Mind" has been accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN).
2017.03.14: Our paper "I(FIB)F: Iterated Bloom Filters for Routing in Named Data Networks" won the Best Paper Award in NetSys'17.
2016.10.12: Our paper "Fast Nearest Neighbor Search through Sparse Random Projections and Voting" got accepted in IEEE BigData 2016.
2016.10.06: Owl - An OCaml Math Library publishes its first alpha version online.
2016.08.18: Our paper "C3PO: Computation Congestion Control (PrOactive)" got accepted in ACM ICN 2016 workshop on 5G.
2016.07.28: Our paper "Bandwidth-aware Service Placement in Community Network Clouds" got accepted in IEEE LCN 2016. The work is led by Mennan Selimi.
2016.07.27: I will give a talk on our mobile computation offloading system - INFv at Mobile Services and Edge Computing Workshop in Helsinki, Finland.
2016.07.20: Both Kvasir (with University of Helsinki) and Array Resolution (with University of Oxford) are selected as semi-finalists in Cambridge Postdoc Enterprise Competition!
2016.07.12: Our paper "FairCache: Introducing Fairness to ICN Caching" got accepted in IEEE ICNP 2016.
2016.06.30: Our paper "On Content Indexing for Off-Path Caching in Information-Centric Networks" got accepted in ACM ICN 2016.
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Research

Information-centric and service-centric networking
Big data @ Cambridge and machine learning
Distributed system, P2P system, web system
System measurement and evaluation
Complex system/network @ Cambridge, high-frequency trading, financial market, etc.

Publication

Privacy-preserving Personal Model Training, ACM/IEEE Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 2018 USA, [ pdf | slides ]
Privacy-preserving Machine Learning Based Data Analytics on Edge Devices, AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 2018 USA, [ pdf | slides ]
Owl: A General-Purpose Numerical Library in OCaml, OCaml 2017 Workshop co-locate with ICFP, Oxford, UK
Milking the Cache Cow with Fairness in Mind, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2017 [ ACM DL | Techreport ]
I(FIB)F: Iterated Bloom Filters for Routing in Named Data Networks, the Best Paper Award in NetSys'17, 2017 [ pdf | slides ]
Fast Nearest Neighbor Search through Sparse Random Projections and Voting, IEEE BigData, 2016 [ arXiv | pdf | slides ]
FairCache: Introducing Fairness to ICN Caching, IEEE ICNP, 2016 [ pdf | slides ]
Resource Pooling for Wireless Networks: Solutions for the Developing World, ACM Computer Communication Review, 2016 [ pdf | slides ]
Personal Data Management with the Databox: What’s Inside the Box?, Cloud-Assisted Networking workshop co-located with ACM CoNEXT, 2016 [ pdf | slides ]
On Content Indexing for Off-Path Caching in Information-Centric Networks, ACM ICN'16, 2016 [ pdf | slides ]
C3PO: Computation Congestion Control (PrOactive), ACM ICN'16, 2016 [ pdf | arXiv | slides ]
Kvasir: Scalable Provision of Semantically Relevant Web Content on Big Data Framework, IEEE Trasactions on Big Data, 2016 [ pdf | slides | website ]
Scalable Bloom-Filter Based Content Dissemination in Community Networks using Information-Centric Principles, IEICE ICTF'16, 2016 [ pdf ]
Bandwidth-aware Service Placement in Community Network Clouds, IEEE LCN (Local Computer Networks), 2016 [ pdf | arXiv ]
Taming Limits with Approximate Networking, ACM LIMITS'16 (Computing within Limits), 2016 [ pdf | arXiv ]
Hybrid Renewable Energy Routing for ISP Networks, IEEE INFOCOM, 2016 [ pdf | arXiv | slides ]
LiteLab: Efficient Large-scale Network Experiments, IEEE CCNC FI4D, 2016 [ pdf | slides | website ]
Understanding Internet Usage and Network Locality in a Rural Community Wireless Mesh Network, the Best Paper Award in ACM AINTEC, 2015 [ pdf | slides ]
Pro-Diluvian: Understanding Scoped-Flooding for Content Discovery in Information-Centric Networking, the Best Paper Award in ACM ICN'15, 2015 [ pdf | slides ]
Kvasir: Seamless Integration of Latent Semantic Analysis-Based Content Provision into Web Browsing, demo paper, in WWW'15, 2015 [ pdf | website ]
SCANDEX: Service Centric Networking for Challenged Decentralised Networks, ACM Mobisys 2015 workshop on DIYNet, 2015 [ pdf | slides ]
Optimal Chunking and Partial Caching in Information-Centric Networks, in Journal of Computer Communications, Elsevier, 2015 [ pdf ]
Enhancing Compact Routing in CCN with Prefix Embedding and Topology-Aware Hashing, ACM MobiCom 2014 workshop on MobiArch 2014, [ pdf | slides ]
Effects of Cooperation Policy and Network Topology on Performance of In-Network Caching, IEEE Communications Letters 2014, [ pdf ]
An Agent-Based Model of the Flash Crash of May 6, with Policy Implications [working paper], SSRN 2013, [ pdf | video | slides | website ]
Measuring Large-Scale Distributed Systems: Case of BitTorrent Mainline DHT, IEEE P2P, 2013 [ pdf | slides | website ]
MobiCCN: Mobility Support with Greedy Routing in Content-Centric Networks, IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, [ pdf | slides ]
Neighborhood Search and Admission Control in Cooperative Caching Networks, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, [ pdf | slides ]
Real-World Sybil Attacks in BitTorrent Mainline DHT, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, [ pdf | slides | website ]
Content, Topology and Cooperation in In-network Caching, PhD thesis, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2015 [ pdf | slides ]

Talk

Tutorial: "Owl - Data Science in OCaml" at CUFP 2017, Oxford, UK.
Diffusing Your Mobile Apps: Extending In-Network Function Virtualisation to Mobile Function Offloading, Mobile Services and Edge Computing Workshop, Helsinki, Finland, 2016 [ slides ]
On the Collaboration Model of In-Network Caching Protocol Design, Lancaster University, UK, June, 2016 [ slides ]
Stweeler: A Framework for Twitter Bot Analysis, WWW 2016, [ abstract | poster ]
Searching Approximate k-Nearest Neighbours in High-Dimensional Data, Big Data Methods for Social Science and Policy, Cambridge, UK, 2015 [ slides ]
Information Discovery in Complex Networks, SRG Seminar, Cambridge, UK, 2015, [ slides ]
Diffusing Knowledge in Complex Networks, SCR talk at Queens' College, Cambridge, UK, 2015 [ slides ]
SCANDEX - An Architecture for Service-Centric Networking, IRTF ICNRG, San Francisco, USA, 2015 [ slides ]
Service-Centric Networking for Developing World, Next Generation Networking Workshop, Oxford, UK, 2015 [ slides ]
Service-Centric Networking, IETF 93, Prague, Czech, 2015, [ slides ]
Kvasir - Knowledge ViA Semantic Information Retrieval, University of Helsinki, Finland, 2014, [ poster | techreport | website ]
Collaborative Caching in Content Networking, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland, 2014, [ slides ]
Multi-Objective In-Network Caching Strategies, IEEE INFOCOM 2013, [ abstract | poster ]
MobiCCN: Mobility Support with Greedy Routing in Content-Centric Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2013, [ abstract | poster ]
Cooperation Policies for Efficient In-Network Caching, ACM SIGCOMM 2013, [ abstract | poster ]

Tech-Report

The following are working papers. Please do contact me if you have any comments. I really appreciate your feedback. Thanks.

Diffusing Your Mobile Apps: Extending In-Network Function Virtualisation to Mobile Function Offloading ,2016 [ arXiv ]
XBF: Scaling up Bloom-filter-based Source Routing, 2016 [ arXiv ]
Renewable Energy-Aware Information-Centric Networking, 2014 [ pdf | arXiv ]
Measurement Methodology for Information-Centric Systems, 2014 [ pdf | arXiv ]
Inference on BitTorrent Mainline DHT from Network Evolution Time Series, 2014 [ pdf | arXiv ]
In-Network Caching vs. Redundancy Elimination, 2011 [ pdf | arXiv ]
Experimenting with BitTorrent on a Cluster: A Good or a Bad Idea?, 2011 [ pdf | arXiv ]

Software

Owl - an OCaml numerical library. It supports both dense and sparse matrix, and various advanced mathematical and statistical functions. [Github]
Kvasir System, a lightening fast semantic search engine, semi-finalist in Cambridge Enterprise EPOC competition, mentored by Dr. Chris Doran.
Panns, Python Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search in high-dimension space with optimised indexing. [Website] [Github]
LiteLab Platform, a light-weight experiment platform for large-scale network experiments. [Website] [Github]
BitTorrent Mainline DHT project, tools and datasets for monitoring and analysing MLDHT system.
Ukko cluster monitor, a tool for monitoring nodes' load in the cluster.
BitTorrent Experiments on Ukko cluster, a set of tools for performing large-scale BitTorrent experiments on cluster.

Teaching

System-on-Chip Design @ University of Cambridge, UK: 2016
Concurrent and Distributed Systems @ University of Cambridge, UK: 2016
Operating Systems @ University of Cambridge, UK: 2016, 2017
Information Retrieval @ University of Cambridge, UK: 2016
Principles of Communications @ University of Cambridge, UK: 2015, 2016
Distributed System Project @ University of Helsinki, Finland: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, [teaching blog]

Service

In PC of IEEE BigData 2017 Workshop on "Advances in High Dimensional Big Data".
Co-char of Advances in High Dimensional Big Data workshop in IEEE BigData 2016.
In PC of IEEE Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS2016)
In TPC of Demo and Poster session of ACM ICN 2016.
In PC of CrossCloud 2016.
Chair of the workshop on High-Dimensional Big Data Engineering 2016 [ funded by EPSRC and Cambridge BigData ].
In Shadow-Heavy PC of EuroSys 2016.
Co-chair of ICTF 2016 Special Session on Security and Privacy in 5G Networks
In PC of ACM DEV 2015.
In PC of ACM SIGCOMM 2012.
In TPC of IEEE BigData 2015 Workshop on "Advances in High Dimensional Big Data".
In TPC of CCNC 2016 Workshop on "Future Internet Architecture for Developing Regions".
In TPC of ICISA 2016
In TPC of IoTBD 2016.
In TPC of EAI MobiMedia 2016
Review for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
Review for IEEE Communication Letters.
Review for IEEE Network Magazine.
Review for ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.
Review for ACM Information-Centric Networking conference.
Review for Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET).
Review for IEICE Transactions on Communications.
Review for IEEE INFOCOM.