Ding Yuan is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  He is also a visiting student 
in the University of California at San Diego.  His research interests span the areas of systems, programming languages, 
compilers, and software engineering, with a focus on practical approaches for failure diagnosis.  He has received two 
ASPLOS best paper nominees, an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award, an Outstanding Teaching Assistant award, and a 
Saburo Muroga Fellowship.  His research on failure diagnosis has been requested for release by large vendors including 
Cisco, EMC, Huawei, NetApp, Qualcomm, etc.