5th-year Ph.D. student in CS@UPenn
M.S.E. in CS@UPenn, 2009
B.S. in CS@Tsinghua University, 2007

Advisor: Boon Thau Loo
Memeber: NetDB@Penn research group

Office: 614 Levine Hall, 3330 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
Email: changbl AT seas.upenn.edu
Tel: 215-900-7766

Note: I am completing my Ph.D. and am currently on the job market for a research or industry position. [Curriculum Vitae] [Research Statement]


Research Interests

My research centers around cloud computing and wireless networking, especially the use of data-centric techniques and declarative languages to manage and optimize complex networked systems. I enjoy building real and sophisticated systems, and have collaborated as the lead student on two inter-disciplinary projects with industry (AT&T Labs Research and Raytheon BBN Technologies), resulting in deployed systems and publications across various sub-disciplines of computer science, such as networking, systems, database and cloud.

Selected Publicatoins (Full list)

Cologne: A Declarative Distributed Constraint Optimization Platform.
Changbin Liu, Lu Ren, Boon Thau Loo, Yun Mao, and Prithwish Basu.
Under submission to 38th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB’12).

TROPIC: Transactional Resource Orchestration Platform In the Cloud.
Changbin Liu, Yun Mao, Xu Chen, Mary Fernandez, Boon Thau Loo, and Jacobus Van der Merwe.
Under submission to 2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC’12).

PUMA: Policy-based Unified Multi-radio Architecture for Agile Mesh Networking. (PDF) (Talk)
Changbin Liu, Ricardo Correa, Harjot Gill, Tanveer Gill, Xiaozhou Li, Shivkumar Muthukumar, Taher Saeed, Boon Thau Loo, and Prithwish Basu.
4th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Jan 2012. (27% acceptance)

Declarative Policy-based Adaptive Mobile Ad Hoc Networking. (PDF)
Changbin Liu, Richardo Correa, Xiaozhou Li, Prithwish Basu, Boon Thau Loo, and Yun Mao.
ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (TON), 2011.

Declarative Automated Cloud Resource Orchestration. (PDF) (Talk)
Changbin Liu, Boon Thau Loo, and Yun Mao.
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), Cascais, Portugal, Oct 2011. (16.9% acceptance)

Cloud Resource Orchestration: A Data-Centric Approach. (PDF)
Changbin Liu, Yun Mao, Jacobus Van der Merwe, and Mary Fernandez.
In Proceedings of the biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Asilomar, CA, Jan 2011. (about 20% acceptance)

Declarative Policy-based Adaptive MANET Routing. (PDF) (Talk)
Changbin Liu, Richardo Correa, Xiaozhou Li, Prithwish Basu, Boon Thau Loo, and Yun Mao.
17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Princeton, New Jersey, Oct, 2009. (18.3% acceptance)

Projects

DMF (Data-centric Management Framework towards cloud resource orchestration)
PUMA (Policy-based Unified Multi-radio Architecture for Agile Mesh Networking)
RapidNet (Declarative Toolkit for Rapid Network Protocol Simulation and Experimentation)

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