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Brief Bio

Yijun Lu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in August 2007. He completed his dissertation "Improving Data Consistency Management and Overlay Multicast in Internet-scale Distributed Systems" under supervision of Prof. Hong Jiang and Prof. Ying Lu.

His research interests are broadly in networks and distributed systems with a focus on data consistency management in large-scale distributed systems, overlay multicast, and cluster/grid computing. He is a member of the ACM, the IEEE, and the IEEE computer society.

He is currently a software development engineer with Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s Database Services group in Seattle. Before moving to AWS, he was with Amazon's Global Financial Systems group. He was one of the original devs who, in Spet. 2010, launched Order-to-Cash (OTC), a Cloud-based highly scalable finance controllership program that reconciles every shipment with cash in the bank. OTC processes tens of millions of transactions per day in North America and Europe combined as of mid 2011.

Prior to that, he has worked at Asankya, Inc, an Atlanta-based start-up that specializes in data transport optimization for Cloud Computing services. Asankya was later acquired by EMC.

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