Zuoru Yang (杨祚儒)

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Ph.D.
Room 118, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
E-mail: yzr95924@gmail.com

About me

Zuoru Yang currently is a senior research engineer in Storage Product Line at Huawei. He received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2022. At CUHK, he was a member of Applied Distributed System Lab (ADSLab), supervised by Prof. Patrick P. C. Lee. Previously, he got his B.Eng. degree from Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 2018. At XJTU, he worked with Prof. Peng Zhang in Software-Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) (e.g. design debug/verification tools in SDN and NFV).

His research interest is in storage systems, specifically applying data reduction techniques (e.g., deduplication, delta compression, and local compression), data protection techniques (e.g., encryption and trusted computing), and fault tolerance techniques (e.g., erasure coding) in various storage systems for storage efficiency, security, and fault tolerance.

Favourite Motto
'Be rigorous in your work'
'Work hard - keep a regular habit'
'No personal feeling'
'No pain, no gain'

Education

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Aug.2018 ~ Sep.2022), Ph.D. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Supervised by Prof. Patrick P. C. Lee

  • Xi'an Jiaotong University (Sep.2014 ~ July.2018), B.E. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science & Technology, Supervised by Prof. Peng Zhang

  • University of British Columbia, Canada (July.2016 ~ Aug.2016), Visiting Student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Selected Award

  • CUHK Postgraduate Studentship: 2018 ~ 2022

  • ICDCS Student Travel Grant Award: 2018

  • Outstanding Bachelor's Thesis Award of Xi'an Jiaotong University: 2018 link

  • Outstanding B.E. Graduate of Xi'an Jiaotong University: 2018 link

  • China Computer Federation Elite Collegiate Award (ECA): 2017

  • Chinese National Shcolarship*2: 2016, 2017

  • “Seagate Technology” Technology and Innovation Scholarship: 2017

  • The Titile of “Annual Excellent Student” of Xi'an Jiaotong University*3: 2015, 2016, 2017

  • Mathematical Contest in Modeling of US (MCM): Meritorious Award (2016), Honorable Mention Award*2 (2017, 2018)

  • “Si Yuan” Scholarship: 2015

  • 2013 Dongrun-Yau Science Award (Math track), Silver Award (with Runda Ji and Hongyuan Fu), reported by “People's Daily”: link

Publications

  1. Jia Zhao, Zuoru Yang, Jingwei Li, and Patrick P. C. Lee. "Encrypted Data Reduction: Removing Redundancy from Encrypted Data in Outsourced Storage."
    Accepted in ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2024. (CCF-A)
    [pdf] [software]

  2. Zuoru Yang, Jingwei Li, and Patrick P. C. Lee. "Secure and Lightweight Deduplicated Storage via Shielded Deduplication-Before-Encryption."
    Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), Carlsbad, CA, USA, July 2022. (AR: 64/393=16.3%, CCF-A)
    [pdf] [slides] [tech report] [software] (Awarded with USENIX artifact badges: Available, Functional, Results Reproduced)

  3. Zuoru Yang, Jingwei Li, Yanjing Ren, and Patrick P. C. Lee. "Tunable Encrypted Deduplication with Attack-Resilient Key Management."
    Accepted in ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2022. (CCF-A)
    [pdf] [software]

  4. Yanjing Ren, Jingwei Li, Zuoru Yang, Patrick P. C. Lee, and Xiaosong Zhang. "Accelerating Encrypted Deduplication via SGX."
    Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC), Virtual, July 2021. (AR: 64/341=18.8%, CCF-A)
    [pdf] [slides] [software]

  5. Jingwei Li, Suyu Huang, Yanjing Ren, Zuoru Yang, Patrick P. C. Lee, Xiaosong Zhang, and Yao Hao. "Enabling Secure and Space-Efficient Metadata Management in Encrypted Deduplication."
    Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2021. (CCF-A)
    [pdf] [doi] [software]

  6. Xiaolu Li, Zuoru Yang, Jinhong Li, Runhui Li, Patrick P. C. Lee, Qun Huang, and Yuchong Hu. "Repair Pipelining for Erasure-Coded Storage: Algorithms and Evaluation."
    Accepted in ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS), 2021. (CCF-A)
    [pdf] [doi] [software]

  7. Peng Zhang, Fangzheng Zhang, Shimin Xu, Zuoru Yang, Hao Li, Qi Li, Huanzhao Wang, Chao Shen, and Chengchen Hu. "Network-Wide Forwarding Anomaly Detection and Localization in Software Defined Networks."
    Accepted in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2020. (CCF-A)
    [pdf] [doi]

  8. Jingwei Li, Zuoru Yang, Yanjing Ren, Patrick P. C. Lee, and Xiaosong Zhang. "Balancing Storage Efficiency and Data Confidentiality with Tunable Encrypted Deduplication."
    Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, April 2020. (AR: 43/234=18.4%, CCF-A)
    [pdf] [slides] [software]

  9. Peng Zhang, Shimin Xu, Zuoru Yang, Hao Li, Qi Li, Huanzhao Wang, and Chengchen Hu. "FOCES: Detecting Forwarding Anomalies in Software Defined Networks."
    Proceedings of the IEEE 38th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Vienna, Austria, July 2018. (AR: 78/378=20.6%, CCF-B)
    [pdf] [slides]

  10. Runda Ji, Hongyuan Fu, Zuoru Yang, and Min Wei. "The Geometrical Analysis of the Path of Free Kick."
    In Archive of Yau Mathematical Science Center, Tsinghua University.
    [pdf]

Teaching Assistant

  • 2018-2020 ENGG1110: Problem Solving By Programming (C)

  • 2018-2019 CSCI4190: Introduction to Social Networks

  • 2019-2020 CSCI1530: Computer Principles and Java Programming (Java)

  • 2020-2021 CSCI4180: Introduction to Cloud Computing and Storage

  • 2020-2021 CSCI4430: Data Communication and Computer Networks

  • 2020-2021 AIST3020: Introduction to Computer Systems