Yung-Chih Chen Department of Computer Science University of Massechusetts at Amherst 140 Governors Drive University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-9264 email: yungchih {AT} cs.umass.edu phone: (413)230-4248

• Delay Tolerant Networks and Opportunistic Networks
• Wireless Personal Area Networks
• Network Protocols

• Ling-Jyh Chen, Yung-Chih Chen, Tony Sun, Paruveli Sreedevi, Kuan-Ta Chen, Chen-Hung Yu, and Hao-hua Chu, "Finding Self-Similarities in Opportunistic People Networks," in Proceedings of the 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'07), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2007. (mini-symposium) [Slides] (Acceptance Rate: ~21%)
• Ling-Jyh Chen, Tony Sun, and Yung-Chih Chen, "Improving Bluetooth EDR Data Throughput Using FEC and Interleaving," in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN'06), Springer LNCS 4325, pp. 725-736, Hong Kong, 2006. [Slides] (Acceptance Rate: 31.8%)
• Ling-Jyh Chen, Chen-Hung Yu, Tony Sun, Yung-Chih Chen, and Hao-hua Chu, "A Hybrid Routing Approach for Opportunistic Networks," in Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS'06), pp. 213-220, Pisa, Italy, 2006. [Slides]

• Yung-Chih Chen, Paruvelli Sreedevi, Kuan-Ta Chen, and Ling-Jyh Chen, "Analysis of Opportunistic Networks based on Realistic Network Traces," Technical Report TR-IIS-06-009, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, 2006. [PDF]
• Chen-Hung Yu, Yung-Chih Chen, and Ling-Jyh Chen, "Effective File Transfer for Opportunistic Networks," Technical Report TR-IIS-06-010, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, 2006. [PDF]

Projects

• 01/2007 - 12/2007: Resilient Data Transmission in Wireless Netowrks.
  • Principle Investigator: Dr. Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica
  • Funded by National Science Council. (NSC 96-2623-7-001-004-D)
  • To enhance the resilience of data communication in challenged networking environment using both data link layer and netwrok layer approaches.

• 08/2006 - 07/2007: Effective Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks.
  • Principle Investigator: Dr. Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica
  • Funded by National Science Council. (NSC 95-2221-E-001-025-)
  • To investigate effective routing schemes, evaluate them through analysis/ simulation, and to model generic DTN scenarios by analyzing network trace of realistic DTNs.

• 03/2003 - 06/2004: Internet Mobile Computing Technology (Program for Promoting the Excellence of Universities)
  • Principle Investigator: Dr. Wen-Tsuen Chen, National Tsing Hua University
  • Granted by Ministry of Education
  • To achieve ubiquitous mobility and seamless roaming by integrating WLAN/GPRS/Ad-Hoc Networks (Mobile IP based structure).

• Finding Self-Similarities in Opportunistic People Networks. The 26th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'07), Anchorage, USA, May 7, 2007.[PPT]
• Improving Bluetooth EDR Data Throughput Using FEC and Interleaving. The Second International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN'06), Hong Kong, China, Dec. 13, 2006. [PPT]

Research Experience

• Setp.'07 - present: Research Assistant, Computer Networks Research Group, UMass-Amherst
• Jan.'06 - July'07 : Research Assistant, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Mar.'03 - June'04 : Intern of Program for Promoting Academic Excellence of Universities, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Working Experience

• Aug.'04-Dec.'05; Network Information Officer, Department of Information and Culture Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affaris, Taiwan
  • Maintained information systems/ servers securely connected with embassies and representative offices over 190 countries.

• Executive Leader of Tennis Club, National Tsing Hua University (2002,2003)
• Class Representative of CS Department, National Tsing Hua University (2001)
• Vice Director of CS Orientation Camp, National Tsing Hua University (2001)
• Summer College Students' Culture Service Team, Taiwan (2001)

• Languages: C/ C++, Perl, JAVA, Assembly, HTML, Java Script
• Applications: R (S-Plus), MATLAB, LaTeX
• Operation Systems: Linux, UNIX, MS-Windows

• Madarin Chinese: native, English: fluent, German: fair, Spanish: basic

I help maintain the website of Taiwanese Students Association (TSA) of University of Masschusetts at Amherst. My personal blog is avaliable here (in traditional Chinese).