Senior Software Engineer @ From November 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Greater New York City AreaSoftware Engineer @ Ads optimization From March 2012 to October 2014 (2 years 8 months) Greater New York City AreaResearch Assistant @ Research projects: RIOT: Transparently bringing scalability and I/O-efficiency to statistical computing with R Optimal design of sensor networks under communication and energy budget constraints Failure-aware spatiotemporal suppression in wireless sensor networks From September 2006 to March 2012 (5 years 7 months) Research Software Development Engineer Intern @ Worked with the Jim Gray Systems Lab on optimized query execution in parallel databases. From May 2010 to July 2010 (3 months) Madison, Wisconsin AreaIT Consultant @ Provided Customer Relation Management solutions to ISBA. From June 2009 to July 2009 (2 months) Software Engineer Intern @ Worked on networking testing infrastructure and tools. From June 2007 to August 2007 (3 months) Intern @ From June 2005 to July 2005 (2 months)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science @ Duke University From 2006 to 2012 Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Software, summa cum laude @ Tsinghua University From 2002 to 2006 Yi Zhang is skilled in: Algorithms, Databases, MapReduce, Distributed Systems, C++, C, Java, Python, C#, ASP.NET, R, Git, Linux, Windows, Computer Science