Yi Cui

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Institute for Software Integrated Systems
Vanderbilt University

Welcome! I am currently an assistant professor in the Department of EECS at Vanderbilt University. Before joining Vanderbilt, I graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2005. Here is my CV.

EECS Office Address
379 Jacobs Hall
400 24th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37212

Phone: (615) 936-8153
Fax: (615) 343-5459
Email:

ISIS Office Address
2015 Terrace Place
Nashville, TN 37203

Phone: (615) 322-3162
Fax: (615) 343-7440

Surface Mail
EECS Department
Vanderbilt University
Box 1824, Station B
Nashville, TN 37235

Research

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Frank Tibolt

My research interest includes distributed systems and computer networks with a focus on overlay network, peer-to-peer system, multimedia system, ubiquitous computing and wireless network.

I won the NSF Career Award 2007: "Achieving Self-Tunability of Peer-to-Peer Streaming Service through User-Level QoS Inference"

See media coverage about my research: ACM TechNews, Tennessean, Nashville Post, Vanderbilt Register

I am a faculty member of the VANETS Research Group

Publications

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Paul Dirac

Liang Dai, Yi Cui, and Yuan Xue, Maximizing Throughput in Layered Peer-to-peer Streaming, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, UK, 2007.
Yi Cui, Yuan Xue, and Klara Nahrstedt, Optimal Distributed Multicast Routing using Network Coding, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, UK, 2007.

complete list can be found here.

Teaching

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. Latin Proverb

Fall 2005: CS395-1 - Special Topics in Multimedia Systems and Applications
Spring 2006, 2007: CS201 - Program Design and Data Structure
Fall 2006: CS251 - Intermediate Software Design (videos of the lectures)

Open Source Teaching: I serve on the board of directors at Sage Leadership, a non-profit organization focused on knowledge management and new media strategies for learning.

For Students

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. George Bernard Shaw

Service

Program Co-Chair

Workshop on Recent Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming, in conjunction with International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine), 2006
Special Track on Next-Generation Peer-to-Peer Services, International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), 2006

TPC Member

IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2007
International Workshop on Ambient Intelligence, Media, and Sensing, in conjunction with International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2007
Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2007IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2006, 2007.
International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2006, 2007.

Old Stuff

If you are interested with the research projects I've been involved in, software I've written, see my old homepage in Illinois.

Last updated Feb 2007.