Yonggang "Young" Wen

LIDS,EECS,MIT

Yonggang Wen

[Curriculum Vitae]

Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Mass. Ave., BLDG 32-D678
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Phone: 617-452-3443
Fax: 617-253-3578

eewyg AT mit DOT edu

Education and Training

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA	Ph.D. Candidate	2001-present	5.0/5.0	EECS
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong	M.Ph.	1999-2001	3.8/4.0	Information Engineering
University of Science and Technology of China, P. R. China	B.S.	1994-1999	4.0/4.0	EEIS

Research Experience

9/2001-present	MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Research Assistant in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) Supervisor: Prof. Vincent W.S. Chan
6/2006-8/2006	Sycamore Networks, Inc. Research Summer Intern in the CTO Office Mentor: Mr. Naimish Patel
5/2005-8/2005	Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Research Summer Intern at Advanced Photonic Research Department Mentor: Dr. Dan Kilper
8/1999-7/2001	CUHK, Information Engineering Department Research Assistant in the Lightwave Communications Laboratory Supervisors: Prof. Lian-Kuan Chen and Prof. Frank Tong
3/1997-7/1999	USTC, Electrical Engineering and Information Science Department, Research Assistant in the Personal Communication Networks and Spread Spectrum Laboratory Supervisors: Prof. Jinkang Zhu and Mrs. Chunwang Wu

Teaching Experience

2/2005-5/2005

Teaching Assistant for 6.041 Probablistic System Analysis & Applied Probability
Lecturer: Prof. Muriel Medard
Instructor: Prof. Moe Z. Win

Awards

2001	Honorary Mentioning for Outstanding Thesis Award, Engineering Faculty, CUHK
1999	The excellent B.S. thesis prize, USTC
1998	The excellent college research thesis prize, USTC
1998	The Oriental Telecommunications Scholarship, USTC
1997	The Zhengxiong Industry Scholarship, USTC
1996	The Zhengxiong Industry Scholarship, USTC
1995	The first class of excellent student Prize, USTC
1994	The second class prize, National Mathematics Competition, Jiangxi
1993	The first class prize, National Mechanics Competition, Jiangxi

Journal Publications
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4)	Yonggang Wen, Vincent W. S. Chan and Lizhong Zheng, "Efficient Fault Diagnosis Algorithms for All-Optical WDM Networks with Probabilistic Link Failures (Invited Paper)," IEEE/OSA JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 23, No. 10, October 2005, pp.3358-3371.
3)	Yonggang Wen and Vincent W. S. Chan, "Ultra-reliable Communication over Unreliable Optical Networks via Lightpath Diversity," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communication - Optical Communications and Networking Series, Vol. 23, No. 8, August 2004, pp.1572-1587.
2)	Yonggang Wen,Yu Zhang and Lian-kuan Chen, "On Architecture and Limitation of Optical Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks Using Optical-Orthogonal-Code (OOC)/Wavelength Label (Invited Paper)," Optical Fiber Technology, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 2002, pp.43-70.
1)	Yonggang Wen, Lian-kuan Chen, Keang-po Ho, Frank Tong and Wai-shan Chan, "Performance Verification of a Variable Bit Rate Limiter for On-Off-Keying (OOK) Optical systems," IEEE/OSA JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, Vol. 18, No. 6, June 2000, pp.779-786.

Letters
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M. Z. Win and Y. G. Wen, "Extreme Power Dispersion Profiles for Nakagami-m Fading Channel with Maximal-Ratio Diversity," IEEE Communication Letters, Vol. 9, NO. 5, May 2005.

Conference Presentations
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10)	Nicholas Harvey, Mihai Patrascu, Yonggang Wen, Sergey Yekhanin and Vincent W. S. Chan, “Non-Adaptive Fault Diagnosis for All-Optical Networks via Combinatorial Group Testing on Graphs,” 2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom) , Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007 (student authors are listed in an alphabetic order).
9)	Yonggang Wen, and Jun Sun, “On Minimum-Delay File Transport over Two-Connected Heterogenous Networks,” 2007 IEEE Wireless Communication and Network Conference, Hong Kong, P. R. China, March 2007.
8)	Yonggang Wen, Vincent W. S. Chan, and Lizhong Zheng, “Efficient Fault Detection and Localization for All-Optical Networks,” 2006 IEEE Global Communications Conference , San Francisco, CA, December 2006.
7)	Yonggang Wen, Vincent W. S. Chan and Lizhong Zheng, “Efficient Fault Diagnosis Algorithms for All-Optical Networks: An Information Theoretic Approach,” 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) , Seattle, WA, July 2006.
6)	T. Ho, B. Leong, Y. Chang, Y. Wen and R. Koetter, "Network monitoring in multicast networks using network coding", International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Alelaide, Australia, September 2005.
5)	Yonggang Wen, Vincent W. S. Chan and Lizhong Zheng, "Efficient Netowrk Diagnosis Algorithms for All-Optical Networks with Independent Failures," CISS 2005, Johns Hopkins University, March 2005.
4)	Yonggang Wen and Vincent W. S. Chan, "Ultra-reliable communication over unreliable optical networks via lightpath diveristy: receiver architecture and performance," ICC-2004,Paris, June 2004.
3)	Yonggang Wen and Vincent W. S. Chan, "Ultra-reliable communication over unreliable optical networks via lightpath diveristy: characterization and optimazation," GlobleCom-2003,San Francisco, Dec. 2003.
2)	Yonggang Wen and Lian-kuan Chen, "Fundamental Limitation and Optimization on Optical Code Conversion for WDM Packet Switching Net", Proceedings of OFC'2001, March 17-22, Anaheim, California, U.S.A., Paper Tuv5.
1)	Yonggang Wen, Lian-kuan Chen, Keang-po Ho and Frank Tong, "An All-optical Code Converter Scheme for OCDM Routing Networks", Proceedings of ECOC'2000, September 3-9, Munich, Germany, Paper P4.5.

Miscellaneous Presentations
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3)	Yonggang Wen,"Efficient Fault Diagnosis Algorithms for All-Optical Networks: An Information Theoretical Approach ," the 11th MIT EECS LIDS student conference, Feb. 2006.
2)	Yonggang Wen,"Ultra-reliable communication over unreliable optical network," the 8th MIT EECS LIDS student conference, Jan. 2003.
1)	Yonggang Wen, "Comparison of Several Categories of Optical CDMA En (De) coders (Invited Talk) ", IEE Hong Kong Association, honored as IEE Hong Kong Speaker, March 2000.