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Wei Chen
Wei Chen is a Lead Researcher in the Theory group of Microsoft Research Asia. His main research interests include theory of distributed computing, fault tolerance, and peer-to-peer protocols. He has a number of papers published in leading computer science journals and conferences. He has also served as PC member for a number of technical conferences in the area of distributed computing, fault tolerance, and peer-to-peer systems. He is the winner of 2000 William C. Carter Award at 2000 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), because of the paper "On the quality of service of failure detectors" based on his Ph.D. dissertation. Wei Chen obtained his bachelor and master degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University in 1991 and 1993, and his Ph.D degree from the Department of Computer Science, Cornell University in 2000. Wei Chen was the captain of Tsinghua University Varsity soccer team, which won Beijing Inter-collegiate Championship twice during his tenure. He was also the captain of the "Tsinghua Veterans" soccer team in North America, which won the championship title of the Annual North America Chinese Soccer Tournament twice. Publications
Journal Articles 1. Wei
Chen, Sam Toueg, and Marcos K. Aguilera. On the quality
of service of failure detectors. IEEE Transaction on Computers, 51:5, May 2002, pp. 561-580. 2. Marcos
K. Aguilera, Wei Chen, and Sam Toueg. On quiescent reliable
communication. 3. Marcos
K. Aguilera, Wei Chen, and Sam Toueg. Failure detection and consensus in
the crash-recovery model. Distributed Computing,
Springer-Verlag, 13:2, April 2000, pp. 99-125. 4. Marcos
K. Aguilera, Wei Chen, and Sam Toueg. Using the heartbeat failure
detector for quiescent reliable communication and consensus in partitionable
networks. Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier Science, invited
paper in the special issue on distributed algorithms, 220:1, June 1999, pp.
3-30. 5. Yiqi
Dai, Jie Shang, Wei Chen, and Zhongmin Su. New key management scheme in
database encryption. Journal of 6.
Wei Chen.
Techniques of key distribution and management in database encryption. Journal of Refereed Conferences and workshops
1.
Wei Chen, Jialin Zhang, Yu Chen, and Xuezheng Liu.
Failure detectors and extended paxos for k-set agreement.
In
Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing
(PRDC'2007),
Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2007.
2.
Yu Chen and Wei Chen.
Decentralized, connectivity-preserving, and cost-effective structured overlay maintenance.
In
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems
(SSS'2007),
Paris, France, Nov. 2007.
3.
Ming Chen and Wei Chen.
An analytical framework and its applications for studying brick storage reliability.
In
Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
(SRDS'2007),
Beijing, China, Oct. 2007.
4.
Wei Chen, Jialin Zhang, Yu Chen, and Xuezheng Liu.
Weakening failure detectors for k-set agreement via the partition approach.
In
Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Distributed Computing
(DISC'2007),
Lemesos, Cyprus, Sept. 2007.
5.
Wei Chen, Jialin Zhang, Yu Chen, and Xuezheng Liu.
Partition approach to failure detectors for k-set agreement (Brief Announcement).
In
Proceedings of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
(PODC'2007),
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., Aug. 2007.
6.
Yu Chen and Wei Chen.
Decentralized, connectivity-preserving, and cost-effective structured overlay maintenance (Brief Announcement).
In
Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Distributed Computing
(DISC'2006),
Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 2006.
7.
Wei Chen and Xuezheng Liu. Enforcing routing consistency in structured peer-to-peer
overlays: Should we and could we? In Proceedings
of the 5th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'2006), Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A., Febrary, 2006.
8.
Wei Chen, Shiding Lin, Qiao Lian, and Zheng Zhang. Sigma: A fault-tolerant mutual
exclusion algorithm in dynamic distributed systems subject to process crashes and memory losses. In Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on
Dependable Computing(PRDC'2005), Changsha, Hunan, China,
December 2005. 9.
10.
11.
Wei Chen,
Sam Toueg, and Marcos K. Aguilera. On the quality of service of failure
detectors. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and
Networks (DSN'2000), 12.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Wei Chen,
and Sam Toueg. Failure detection and consensus in the crash-recovery model. In Proceedings of
the 12th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC'98),
13.
Marcos K. Aguilera, Wei Chen,
and Sam Toueg. Heartbeat: a timeout-free failure detector for quiescent
reliable communication. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on
Distributed Algorithms (WDAG'97), Saarbruecken, Germany, Lecture
Notes on Computer Science 1320, Springer-Verlag, September 1997, pp. 126-140. 14.
Wei Chen,
Techniques of key distribution and management in database encryption. In Proceedings of
the 3rd Annual Symposium on Computer Information Security,
Chinese Computer Association, November 1992, pp. 97-101. 15.
Wei Chen,
Yiqi Dai. Key transformation through transformation table. In Proceedings of
the 3rd Annual Symposium on Computer Information Security,
Chinese Computer Association, November 1992, pp. 91-96. 16.
Wei Chen.
Pseudo-random number generators and the analysis of their strengths. In Proceedings of
the 2nd Annual Symposium on Computer Information Security,
Chinese Computer Association, 1991. Others
1.
Zheng Zhang, Qiao Lian, Shiding Lin, Wei Chen, Yu Chen, and Chao Jin.
BitVault: a highly reliable distributed data retention platform.
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 41:2, April 2007, pp. 27-36. 2.
Wei Chen.
Abortable consensus and its application to probabilistic atomic broadcast.
Technical Report MSR-TR-2006-135, Microsoft Research, September 2007. Book 1.
Yiqi Dai, Guanzhang Hu, and Wei
Chen, Graph Theory and Algebraic Structure (text book). Doctoral Dissertation On the quality of service of failure detectors [gzipped ps] Patents 1.
Failure
detector with consensus protocol. US patent 6,687,847.
February 3, 2004. (With Marcos Aguilera and Sam Toueg) 2.
The heartbeat failure detector
method and apparatus. US patent 6,728,781.
April 27, 2004. (With Marcos Aguilera and Sam Toueg) Professional Services
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Program committee member for the 28th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2008
(ICDCS'08) -
Program committee member for
the 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management,
2008 (AAIM'08)
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Program committee member for the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 2007
(SRDS'07) -
Program committee member for the first ACM Workshop on
Scalable Trusted Computing, 2006 (STC'06) -
Program committee member for the
12th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, 2006
(PRDC-12) -
Program committee member for the
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2006
(DSN'06) -
Program committee member for the
International Workshop on Applications and Economics of Peer to Peer Systems, 2005 (AEPP'05) -
Program committee member for the
11th Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, 2005
(PRDC-11) -
Program committee member for the
25th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
(ICDCS'2005) -
Ad hoc referee for IEEE Transactions
on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Distributed Computing, Journal of Parallel
and Distributed Computing, IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, IEEE International Symposium on Reliable and Distributed Systems, International Symposium on Distribute
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