Wei Gao

I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. My advisor is Prof. Guohong Cao. I got my bachelor degree in University of Science and Technology of China in 2005.

My research focuses on the design, analysis and implementation of emerging opportunistic mobile networking systems, which comprise various mobile platforms spanning smartphones, vehicles and medical healthcare devices. Through percolation of social behavior patterns of mobile users, my research seeks to provide prompt, efficient and secure data access to mobile users without support of Internet or cellular network infrastructure.

News

Apr. 2012: I will be graduating this summer, and will join the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Feb. 2012: Our paper titled "Distributed Maintenance of Cache Freshness in Opportunistic Mobile Networks" has been accepted to the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2012.

Dec. 2011: Our paper titled "Social-aware Multicast in Disruption Tolerant Networks" has been accepted to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

Contact Information

343D IST Building
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802

Email: weigao at cse.psu.edu

Professional Highlights

• I have authored more than 20 publications in books, journals, conferences and workshops, of which I am first author on 9.
• My work has appeared in many top-tier academic venues, including ACM MobiHoc, IEEE Infocom, IEEE ICNP, ICDCS, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
• I am the award finalist of IBM Ph.D. fellowship for 2010-2011. I am also a recipient of Graduate Research Assistant Award of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University for 2010-2011.
• I worked as a research intern at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. My work during the internships has been filed as US patent and been published at top-tier academic conferences.
• I have been invited to and served on technical program committees of academic conferences and workshops, and have been a reviewer for more than 20 conferences and journals.
• I am the lead graduate student of the Mobile Computing and Networking Laboratory.
• I have instructed multiple advanced courses for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State.