Wenchao Zhou    (

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PhD Candidate
Computer and Information Science Department
University of Pennsylvania

613 Levine Hall
3330 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389

Email: wenchaoz [at] seas.upenn.edu

Short Biography

My name is Wenchao Zhou, a.k.a. Steven. I am currently a 3rd-year PhD student in Computer and Information Science Department at University of Pennsylvania, supervised by Prof. Boon Thau Loo. My primary research interest is distributed systems. In particular, I study the application of database technologies to networked systems, and declarative approaches to enforce secure distributed systems.

I am a member of the NetDB@Penn research group, and I have been mainly involved in the projects Declarative Secure Networking and Distributed Monitoring and Checking (DMaC).

I was born and grew up in Shanghai, a metropolitan in eastern China. After finishing high school, I went to Beijing for college study. I received B.S.E. degree from Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. From Oct. 2005 to Jan. 2007, I was working as a visiting student at Microsoft Research Asia.

Here are my Curricum Vitae and Personal Statement.

Publications

  • A3: An Extensible Platform for Application-Aware Anonymity

    • Micah Sherr, Andrew Mao, William R. Marczak, Wenchao Zhou and Boon Thau Loo
    To appear in 17th Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Feb 2010.

  • Maintaining Recursive Views of Regions and Connectivity in Networks

    • Mengmeng Liu, Nicholas E. Taylor, Wenchao Zhou, Zachary Ives, and Boon Thau Loo
    In IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) Journal, Special Issue on Best Papers of ICDE 2009.

  • DMaC: Distributed Monitoring and Checking
    • [paper] [talk]
    Wenchao Zhou, Oleg Sokolsky, Boon Thau Loo, and Insup Lee
    In the 9th International Workshop on Runtime Verification (RV), Grenoble, France, Jun 2009.

  • Unified Declarative Platform for Secure Networked Information Systems
    • [paper] [talk]
    Wenchao Zhou, Yun Mao, Boon Thau Loo, and Martín Abadi
    In the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Shanghai, China, Apr 2009.

  • Recursive Computation of Regions and Connectivity in Networks
    • [paper]
    Mengmeng Liu, Nicholas E. Taylor, Wenchao Zhou, Zachary G. Ives, and Boon Thau Loo
    In the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Shanghai, China, Apr 2009.

  • Declarative Reconfigurable Trust Management
    • [paper] [talk]
    William R. Marczak, David Zook, Wenchao Zhou, Molham Aref, and Boon Thau Loo
    In the 4th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), Pacific Grove, CA, Jan 2009.

  • Provenance-aware Secure Networks
    • [paper] [talk]
    Wenchao Zhou, Eric Cronin, and Boon Thau Loo
    In the 4th International Workshop on Networking meets Databases (NetDB), in conjunction with ICDE, Cancun, Mexico, Apr 2008.

Honors and Awards

  • Excellent Graduate of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2006
  • 4th Place, the 2nd National Business Management Competition, Beijing, China, 2006
  • 2nd Place, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Asia Division, Beijing, China, 2004
  • Dongfeng Motor Group Co. Scholarship, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2004
  • Gold Medal, the 18th National Olympiad in Informatics, Xi'an, China, 2001

Teaching Experience

Professional Activities

  • Reviewer, Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2009
  • Reviewer, Conference on Computer Communications (InfoCom), 2009
  • Reviewer, International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2009
  • Reviewer, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2007/2008/2009
  • Reviewer, Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS), 2007