Jay Chen

Jay Chen - Projects - Publications
	Visiting Assistant Professor Researcher at Center for Technology and Economic Development CTED Department of Computer Science New York University - Abu Dhabi Office: Sama Tower #1307 Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. jchen@cs.nyu.edu
About Me I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU - Abu Dhabi. I recently received my PhD in Computer Science from New York University (NYU). My research is in the area of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD). I am a researcher at the Center for Technology and Economic Development (CTED) in Abu Dhabi. I have a background in Systems and Networking, and my current focus is on providing affordable information access for clients with low/poor connectivity and sustainable energy. My recent papers include: Analyzing and Accelerating Web Access in a School in Peri-Urban India Jay Chen, David Hutchful, William Thies, and Lakshmi Subramanian Proceedings of the 20th Annual World Wide Web Conference WWW 2011 Hyderabad, India, March 2011. Design and Implementation of Contextual Information Portals Jay Chen, Russell Power, Lakshmi Subramananian, and Jonathan Ledlie Proceedings of the 20th Annual World Wide Web Conference WWW 2011 Hyderabad, India, March 2011. A full list of my publications is available here. Individual project pages may be found here. Prior to NYU, I completed my M.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (2006). There, I worked on Potemkin, a virtualized honeyfarm, and network emulator optimizations with my advisor, Professor Alex Snoeren, and Professors Amin Vahdat, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey Voelker. I also earned my undergraduate degrees at UCSD: a B.S. in Computer Engineering and a B.A. in Applied Mathematics (2004).	Latest October 23 - 26, 2011 @ Cascais, Portugal Poster for Vertical Caching: Web Caching for Challenged Networks at SOSP 2011. October 6, 2011 PhD Thesis nominated by the NYU Computer Science Department for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award!. September 5, 2011 @ NYU-AD Classes begin. July 7, 2011 @ NYU Successfully defended my PhD thesis! June 7 - 11, 2011 @ San Jose, USA Poster for TCP Behavior in Sub-Packet Regimes at SIGMETRICS 2011. March 29 - April 1, 2011 @ Hyderabad, India Presented ELF and CIP work at WWW 2011.
Teaching I am teaching Data Structures Spring 2012 at NYU Abu Dhabi. I taught Discrete Mathematics Fall 2011 at NYU Abu Dhabi. Mentorship I have co-advised several fantastic MS students at NYU: Wei-Chih Lu Faiz Kazi Trishank Karthik Brendan Linn Arvind Kumar

Last Updated: November 30, 2011