Lin Quan

Office: Room 1132, USC/ISI 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Phone: (310)448-9135 Email:

Publications

• "On the Characteristics and Reasons of Long-lived Internet Flows", Lin Quan, John Heidemann. (IMC 2010)
• "An Automatic Scheme to Categorize User Sessions in Modern HTTP Traffic", Xiaozhu Lin, Lin Quan, Haiyan Wu.
  (GLOBECOM 2008)
• "An Automatic and Scalable Testing Tool for Workflow Systems", Lin Quan, Xiaozhu Lin, Jianmin Wang.
  The 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management and Applications in Grid Environments (WaGe08, collocated
  with GPC 2008, EI indexed)
• "Test Data Loading and Real-time Display of Performance Test based on TPC-App Benchmark", Lin Quan.
  Bachelor's Thesis (in Chinese)

Working Experiences

• Google Inc, Kirkland, WA. Software Engineer Summer Intern. May 2010 - August 2010
Worked on the crash report system, aggregating and analyzing all of Google's client software bugs (GTalk, Chrome, Android, etc.)
• Google Inc, Mountain View, CA. Software Engineer Summer Intern. May 2009 - August 2009
Worked on some cool applications of YouTube backend

Research and Projects

• Fall 2010 - Present : Routing Outage Detection.
• Fall 2008 - Summer 2010 : Network traffic analysis on large scale IP flow characterization, with emphasis
  on long-lived flows.
• Summer 2007 - Summer 2008: A Category-based HTTP Traffic Analyzer
  Focused on novel methods to categorize different types of web traffic from existing web traces, including P2SP,
  robot and human traffic.
• Spring 2007 - Summer 2008: Workflow Systems Performance Evaluation
  Research on workflow performance metrics. Implemented a testing tool (SWEET, Scalable Workflow systEm Evaluation
  Tool) using high concurrency method and control theory to assess workflow engines.
• Spring 2006: A Database Performance Evaluation Software
  Extensively studied the TPC-App benchmark, as well as related papers and specifications. Implemented testing
  software tools for database servers in Java platform.
• Summer 2004: The Assets Information Management System for the Finance Bureau of Xiamen (Amoy) City, Fujian, China
  Achieved smooth migration from traditional paper-based workflow processes to fully automated electronic processes.

Education

• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California:
  Ph.D. student in Computer Science, under Prof. John Heidemann
• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China:
  MS, Computer Science and Technology, 09/2006 - 07/2008
• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China:
  BS, Computer Software, 09/2002 - 07/2006

Skills

• Programming Languages: Python, Java, C/C++, Shell, C#, Matlab, SQL, etc.
• Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows
• Tools: Vim, Emacs, Eclipse, Gdb, Latex, VS.Net, etc.

Real Life

• Proficient in Billiards

Last updated Sep-2010