I'm a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science in University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, working with Professor Indranil Gupta in the Distributed Protocols Research Group (DPRG).

My research interests mainly includes all aspects of distributed system. My recent projects focus on the fault tolerance for IoT system and smart home automation. My resume is shown here.

Before joining UIUC, I completed my undergraduate study in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, majored in Computer Science and Technology.

In my spare time, I'd like to play competitive ultimate frisbee. I'm a member of UIUC Women's Ultimate team.

Publications

  • S. B. Ahsan, R. Yang, S. A. Noghabi, I. Gupta, "Home, SafeHome: Smart Home Reliability with Visibility and Atomicity." Eurosys 2021 (Conditionally Accepted).
  • R. Yang, S. Zhu, Y. Li, and I. Gupta, "Medley: A Novel Distributed Failure Detector for IoT Networks." 20th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference (Middleware), 2019. (pdf)
  • S. B. Ahsan, R. Yang, S. A. Noghabi, I. Gupta, "Home, SafeHome: Ensuring a Safe and Reliable Home Using the Edge." Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Edge Computing (HotEdge), 2019. (pdf)
  • X. Gao, R. Yang, F. Wu, G. Chen, Optimization of Full-View Barrier Coverage with Rotatable Camera Sensors, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2017. (paper)
  • R. Yang, X. Gao, F. Wu, G. Chen, Distributed Algorithm for Full-View Barrier Camera Coverage with Rotatable Camera Sensors, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2015. (pdf)

    • Industrial Experience

  • May 2020 - Aug. 2020      Google Nest Team, Software Engineer Intern
  • May 2019 - Aug. 2019      Alibaba Damo Academy, Data Analytics and Intelligence Lab, Research Intern
  • May 2018 - Aug. 2018      Google Analytics Team, Software Engineer Intern
  • May 2017 - Aug. 2017      Cisco CTAO - Innovation Labs, Research Intern

    • Honors & Awards