Curriculum Vitae for Wang Lam

Education

• Stanford University, Computer Science Department
  M.S. 2000; Ph.D., 2004
  Dissertation: Multicast Data Dissemination
  Professor Hector Garcia-Molina, advisor
  
• University of California, Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Honors Program)
  Bachelor of Science with High Honors, 1998
  Minor in Mathematics, 1998
  Final GPA: 3.925 of 4.000
  

Publications

• Wang Lam and Hector Garcia-Molina. Multicasting a Web Repository. Fourth International Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), pages 25-30, 2001.
• Wang Lam and Hector Garcia-Molina. Multicasting a Changing Repository. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2003), pages 215-226, March 2003. (ISBN 0-7803-7665-X)
• Wang Lam and Hector Garcia-Molina. Reliably Networking a Multicast Repository. Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2003), pages 5-14, October 2003. (ISBN 0-7695-1955-5)
• Wang Lam and Hector Garcia-Molina. Slicing Broadcast Disks. In submission; extended technical report available, 2003.
• Wang Lam and Hector Garcia-Molina. Implementing Multicast Data Dissemination. Technical report, Stanford University, 2004.
• Junghoo Cho, Hector Garcia-Molina, Taher Haveliwala, Wang Lam, Andreas Paepcke, Sriram Raghavan, and Gary Wesley. Stanford WebBase Components and Applications. Pending publication; technical report available, 2004.

Work Experience

• 2004&en;present - Cosmix Corporation
  Member of technical staff - Performed various duties toward design, creation, and launch of Kosmix, the Web search for health topics.
• Fall 2003 - Stanford CS276 Information Retrieval and Web Mining
  Teaching assistant - Crafted homework and examination problems, and answered student questions for topics including text indexing, Web trawling, latent semantic indexing (LSI), clustering, classification, and Web search (such as PageRank and hubs and authorities). Course instructors Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze.
• Spring 2003 - Stanford CS145 Introduction to Database Systems
  Teaching assistant - Conducted help sessions, crafted homework problems, and answered questions for topics including SQL, relational algebra, schema design, OLAP, and temporal databases. Course instructor Jennifer Widom.
• Fall 2002 - Stanford CS347 Distributed Databases and Transaction Processing
  Teaching assistant - Reviewed homework and exam problems, and answered questions for topics including distributed database design, query optimization, and transaction-synchronization protocols. Course instructor Anand Rajaraman.
• Summer 1996 and 1997 - IBM Almaden Research Center
  Internship - Investigated and developed a prototype for user-accessible DCE/DFS storage management through a Web interface, as an add-on facility for users of IBM's storage management product, ADSM. This work done with researcher Leo Luan.
• Fall 1996 - International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley
  Undergraduate research experience - Assisted Michael Luby, building and running simulations as part of the Priority Encoded Transmission (PET) project, verifying probabilistic error recovery results for a bipartite-graph-based forward-error-correcting code.
• 1995&en;1996 - Open Computing Facility at the Univ of Calif, Berkeley
  Volunteer staff - Assisted in maintaining the OCF and its Unix machines, which provide free Unix shell accounts to the campus community.

Honors

• Honorable mention, NSF Graduate Fellowship Program
• Chancellor's Scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley
• Member, Eta Kappa Nu

Random Computing-Related Buzzwords

• C, C++, Java; shell-scripting for sh (and csh), Perl
• Windows NT, 2000; Unix flavors including FreeBSD and GNU/Linux