Yi-Min Wang's Curriculum Vitae

YI-MIN WANG (王逸民)

Managing Co-Director

Microso= ft Research, Redmond, Washington

= Last Updated: May 16, 2013

Internet technology leader seeking executive position in cloud computing, data eCommerce, and web search businesses

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign= , Urbana, Illinois
Jan. 1990 -- Aug. 1993
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
Aug. 1988 -- Jan. 1990
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Aug. 1982 -- May. 1986
B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Work Experience

Managing Co-Director, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

November 2012 – Present

· Management of basic research, applied research, mission-focused research, and disruptive technologies

Gaia Program Director—= Skunkworks Projects, Microsoft Res= earch, Redmond, WA

March 2012 – Present

·<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> = MinuteSort World Record [link], May 2012

o Flat Datacenter Storage (FDS) technology broke both the Daytona and Indy records

·<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> = Gu= inness World Records, May 2013

o “Fastest time to type a text mess= age (SMS) on a touch-screen mobile phone”—20.53 seconds (broke the existing record)

o “Fastest time to type a text mess= age (SMS) on a touch screen mobile phone while blindfolded”—25.90 seconds (set a new record)

Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

August 2011 – November 2012

· As one of the three members of the new Office of Directors (OOD) which manages the 300+ researchers and engineers in the world’s best Computer Science industrial research lab

Director, Internet Services Research Center (ISRC), Microsoft, Redmond, WA

July 2009 – July 2011

· Bing Search Quality

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; Serving as Director of Search Quality for Microsoft’s US$5-billion Bing Search= business, leading the design and implementation of a division-wide, customer feedback-driven search quality process

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; Led ISRC search quality team to develop and = deploy an end-to-end system for collecting, diagnosing, dispatching, and triaging = tens of millions of customer feedback reports

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; ISRC’s search quality work is widely recognized as one of the most critical factors contributing to Bing’s significant search quality improvement over the past two years

· Web= -Scale Language Model

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; Led ISRC language model team to develop Microsoft Web-Scale N-gram – statistical analysis of tens of billions= of web documents and queries

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; Released Web-Scale N-gram Services, sustaining a load of 4 billion queries per day

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; Also deployed in Bing Search production as a foundation for web-scale document and query understanding

· Str= uctured-Data Answers

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; Led ISRC structured data team to develop and ship structured-data answers on Bing based on Wolfram|= Alpha and other data sources – a tens-of-millio= n-US-dollar effort with rapid growth

Director, Search Quality & Cyber-Intelligenc= e Lab (SQ-CIL), ISRC, Microsoft= , Redmond, WA
July 2007 – June 2009

·<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> = Web= -Scale Dynamic Crawling

o Invented Dynamic Crawler – using browser engine to crawl dynamic web pages so that crawlers truly see exactly what users see

o Led ISRC advanced development team to develop Web-Scale Dynamic Crawler (with Server-Side Internet Explorer) – now runnin= g in Bing production crawling tens of millions of URLs per day for advanced docu= ment analysis

Manager, Cybersecurity and Systems Management Research Group, Microsoft, Redmond, WA
May 2005 -- July 2007

· Web= -Scale Search Spam Detection

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; Invented Strider Search Ranger – started an industry-wide movement that wiped out a large-scale redirection-spam business

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; See my interview with the New York Times: “Researchers Track Down a Plague of Fake Web Pages”

· Web= -Scale Malicious Website Detection

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; Invented Strider HoneyMonkey - using Virtual Machine (VM) ne= tworks to detect malicious websites that exploit unknown vulnerabilities

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; Became an industry-wide de facto standard for both the security industry and the search engine industry

· Spy= ware and Rootkit Detection

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; Invented Strider Gatekeeper spyware manageme= nt and Strider GhostBuster rootkit detection technologies

<= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>o&nb= sp; Jumpstarted Microsoft’s anti-spyware a= nd anti-rootkit product efforts

Manager, Systems Management Research Group, Mi= crosoft, Redmond, WA
March 2004 – May 2005

· = Flight Data Recorder (FDR) – shipped in Microsoft Windows

o Hi= ghly efficient and highly compressed always-on tracing of persistent-state acces= ses for configuration monitoring

· = Patch Impact Analyzer – shipped as part of Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT)

o   In= tersecting always-on persistent-state access trace with patch manifest to predict potential stability impact due to patch installation

·      =    Strider Security Tracer – shipped as part of Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT)

o   A black-box tracing technique that identifies the causes for application dependencies on Admin privileges

Senior Researcher, Systems and Networking Research Group, Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Sep. 2003 – March 2004=

Researcher, Systems and Network= ing Research Group, Mi= crosoft, Redmond, WA
Jan. 1998 – Aug. 2003

Principal Technical Staff Member, Distr= ibuted Systems Group, AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NJ
Jan. 1996 -- Jan. 1998

Member of Technical Staff, Reliable Distributed Systems Group, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
Aug. 1993 -- Jan. 1996

Research Assistant, Fault-Tolerant Computing Group, University= of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Jan. 1990 -- Aug. 1993

Research Assistant, Digital Signal Processing Group, Universit= y of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Aug. 1988 -- Jan. 1990

Hardware Engineer, Long Shine Electronics, Taipei, T= aiwan
Mar. 1986 -- Oct. 1986

Honors and Awards<= /o:p>

IEEE Fellow, Class of 2010 - for contribution= s to Dependable Computing and Web Security

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2007 ~ 2= 010

Microsoft Partner Early Stock Award, 2006

Microsoft Achievement Award, 2005

Microsoft Gold Star Aw= ard, 2000, 2004, 2005

Best Paper Award, = 17th Usenix Large Installation System Administr= ation (LISA) Conference, 2003.

Robert T. Chien Memorial Award for excellence in resea= rch, Graduate College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993
Best Student Paper Awa= rd, 12th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 1993

Invited Talks

·<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      =    Keynote Speaker, “Security Challenges i= n An Increasingly Connected World,” IEEE International Sympos= ium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), September 28, 2009
·<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      =    Keynote Speaker, “Adversarial Web Crawling with Strider Monkeys,” Microsoft Research Asia · Tsinghua University Workshop on Internet Services and Cloud Comput= ing, November 2008

·<= span style=3D'font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>      =    Keynote Speaker, “Online Advertising: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”, International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS), 2006

In The News<= /span>

·         Researchers Track Down a Plague of Fake Web Pages, by Johnson = Markoff, The New York Times, March 19, 2007

·         The Web's Million-Dollar Typos, by Leslie Walker and Brian Krebs, The Washington Post, April 30, 2006

·         VM Rootkits: The Next Big Threat?, eWeek, Marc= h 10, 2006

·         MS Research: Typo-Squatters Are Gaming Google, December 19, 2005

·         Microsoft's "monkeys" find first zero-day exploit, S= ecurityFocus, August 8, 2005

·         Strider HoneyMonkey: Trawling for Windows Exploits,= eWeek, May 19, 2005

·         RSA: Microsoft on 'rootkits': Be afraid, be very afraid, ComputerWorld, February 17, 2005

·         It was a fishy way = for a scientist to start wiring houses onto Web, Seattle-PI, September 18, 20= 00

Patents<= /o:p>

<= ![if !supportLists]><= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>·         42 patents issued in t= he areas of Dependability, Home Networking, Systems Management, Security and Privacy, Distributed Objects, Distributed Systems, and Web Search<= /h2>

Publications=

<= ![if !supportLists]><= span style=3D'mso-list:Ignore'>·         90 papers published<= /o:p>

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