Willis Lang
w l a n g at w i s c dot e d u
Willis Langw l a n g at w i s c dot e d u |
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| Sep 2008 to Present | Ph.D. Candidate
Computer Sciences - Databases Advisor: Jignesh M. Patel University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Sep 2006 to Apr 2008 | Master of Science
Computer Science and Engineering - Databases Advisor: Jignesh M. Patel University of Michigan |
| Sep 2001 to May 2006 | Bachelor of Mathematics
Honours Computer Science - Bioinformatics option (co-operative program) w/ Distinction University of Waterloo |
| Under Submission | On Designing Energy-Efficient Database Clusters
Willis Lang, Stavros Harizopoulos, Jignesh M. Patel, Mehul A. Shah, Dimitis Tsirogiannis |
| 2012 ICDE (to appear) | Towards Multi-Tenant Performance SLOs
Willis Lang, Srinath Shankar, Jignesh M. Patel, Ajay Kalhan |
| 2011 TPCTC | When Free is Not Really Free: What Does It Cost To Run a Database Workload in the Cloud Avrilia Floratou, Jignesh M. Patel, Willis Lang, Alan Halverson |
| 2011 IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin |
Rethinking Query Processing for Energy Efficiency: Slowing Down to Win the Race
Willis Lang, Ramakrishnan Kandhan, Jignesh M. Patel |
| 2010 VLDB | Energy Management for MapReduce Clusters
Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel |
| 2010 DaMoN | Wimpy Node Clusters: What About Non-Wimpy Workloads?
Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel, Srinath Shankar Best Paper Award, J. Hamilton's Blog, GIGAOM article |
| 2009 SIGMOD Record, 2010 Technical Report |
On Energy Management, Load Balancing and Replication (Extended)
Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel, Jeffrey F. Naughton |
| 2009 CIDR, IBM Almaden - Invited Talk |
Towards Eco-Friendly Database Management Systems
Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel |
| 2009 TKDE | Dictionary-Based Compression for Long Time-Series Similarity
Willis Lang, Michael Morse, Jignesh M. Patel |
| 2008 ICDE | Scalable Rule-Based Gene Expression Data Classification
Mark A. Iwen, Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel |
| 2012 NEDB - Presentation | Energy-Conscious Data Management Systems: The Need for a Closer Hardware and Software Synergy Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel |
| 2008 ISMB - Poster | Periscope/SQ: Fast Interactive Querying on Biological Sequence Datasets
Willis Lang (Presenter), Satwik Reddy, Sandeep Tata, Jignesh M. Patel |
| 2007 VLDB - Demo | Periscope/SQ: Interactive Exploration of Biological Sequence Databases
Sandeep Tata, Willis Lang (Presenter), Jignesh M. Patel |
| 2007 Midwest Database Research Symposium - Poster |
Periscope/SQ: Interactive Data Exploration for Biological Sequences
Sandeep Tata, Willis Lang (Presenter), You Jung Kim, Jignesh M. Patel Best Presented Award |
| Journal Reviewer | VLDBJ 2011 |
| External Reviewer | VLDB 2008, 2009 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison / Microsoft Madison, Wisconsin Aug 2008 to Present |
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Specializing in data management, power management, and data analysis. |
| Microsoft Research Redmond, Washington May 2011 to Aug 2011 |
Research Intern
Exploring performance-based service level agreements for database-as-a-service in the cloud. |
| HP Labs Palo Alto, California May 2010 to Aug 2010 |
HP Labs Research Associate Intern
Conducting research on energy-efficient database clusters. |
| University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan Aug 2006 to Aug 2008 |
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Specializing in data management, data analysis, and bioinformatics. |
| Michigan State University E. Lansing, Michigan May 2005 to Aug 2005 Sep 2004 to Dec 2004 |
Bioinformatic Research Specialist
Microarray data analysis, visualization. Genomic sequence analysis. Database developer for molecular biology. |
| Arclab Waterloo, Ontario Sep 2003 to Aug 2004 |
Bioinformatic Intern
Human anatomical 3D image processing/analysis. |
| Ontario Cancer Institute Toronto, Ontario Jan 2004 to Apr 2004 |
Biomedical Informatics Intern
E-chart development for NICU at Toronto Sick Children's Hospital and University Health Network. Database developer for various information systems. |
| Hydro One Toronto, Ontario Apr 2003 to Sep 2003 |
Graphical Interface Developer
AutoCAD power system print analysis. Graphical display enhancement (Alstom ESCA). Analysis of power grid database. |
| Environment Canada Ottawa, Ontario Sep 2002 to Dec 2002 |
Software Developer
Development of Canadian Ice Services Tool. Database developer for Canadian weather databases. |
| Polyphalt Inc. Toronto, Ontario Jan 2002 to Apr 2002 |
Database Developer
Centralized database design and development. |