Dr. Xin Yuan received his BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, Florida State University. His research activities are in the general areas of networking and distributed systems, in particular, Internet quality of service and high performance communication for parallel applications.
Research
Dr. Yuan actively participates in the ACES and LENS research groups at FSU. His main research interests are in Computer Networks, Parallel Processing, Compilers, Data Flow Analysis, Compilation Techniques for Distributed Memory Machines, Optical Interconnection Networks, ATM, and WDM/TDM communications. Dr. Yuan’s current research projects are supported by the National Science Foundation and include: High Performance Communication on Clusters of Workstations; Scalable Quality of Service Routing; Wavelength Division Multiplexing Optical Networks; Automatic Validation of Code Improving Transformations and Related Applications.
Selected Publications
- Xin Yuan, Rami Melhem and Rajiv Gupta, "Performance of Multi-hop Communications Using Logical Topologies on Optical Torus Networks," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 61, No. 6, pages 748-766, June 2001.
- Xin Yuan, "Heuristic Algorithms for Multi-Constrained Quality of Service Routing," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 10, No. 2, pages 244-256, April 2002.
- Xin Yuan and Amit Fulay, "Wavelength Assignment to Minimize the Number of SONET ADMs in WDM Rings," Journal of Photonic Network Communications, Volume 5, Number 1, pages 59-68, January 2003.
- Xin Yuan, Rami Melhem and Rajiv Gupta, "Algorithms for Supporting Compiled Communication," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume 14, No. 2, pages 107-118, February 2003.
