Publications

  • Robert LiKamWa, Zhen Wang, Aaron Carroll, Xiaozhu Lin, and Lin Zhong, "Draining our Glass: an energy and heat characterization of Google Glass," in Proc. ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSYS), June 2014. (PDF, Technical Report)
  • Xiaozhu Lin, Zhen Wang, and Lin Zhong, "K2: A mobile operating systemfor heterogeneous coherence domains," in Proc. ACM Int. Conf. Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2014. (PDF) (Best Paper Award)
  • Zhen Wang, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lin Zhong, and Mansoor Chishtie, "Guadalupe: a browser design for heterogeneous hardware," Technical Report 2012-12-19, Rice University, December 2012. (arXiv)
  • Xiaozhu Lin, Zhen Wang, and Lin Zhong, "Supporting distributed execution of smartphone workloads on loosely coupled heterogeneous processors," in Proc. the 2012 Workshop on Power-Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower), October 2012. (PDF)
  • Zhen Wang, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lin Zhong, and Mansoor Chishtie, "How far can client-only solutions go for mobile browser speed?" in Proc. the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), April 2012. (PDF, Slides, arXiv)
  • Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Zhen Wang, Robert LiKamWa, and Lin Zhong, "Reflex: Using low-power processors in smartphones without knowing them," in Proc. ACM Int. Conf. Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2012. (PDF, Technical Report)
  • Zhen Wang, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lin Zhong, Mansoor Chishtie, "How Effective is Mobile Browser Cache?", in Proc. ACM workshop on Wireless of the students, by the students, for the students (S3), September 2011. (PDF) (Best Systems Session Talk)
  • Ahmad Rahmati, Clayton Shepard, Chad Tossell, Mian Dong, Zhen Wang, Lin Zhong, and Philip Kortum, "Tales of 34 iPhone Users: How they change and why they are different," Technical Report TR-2011-0624, Rice University, June 2011. (arXiv)
  • Zhen Wang, Felix Xiaozhu Lin, Lin Zhong, Mansoor Chishtie, "Why are Web Browsers Slow on Smartphones?", in Proc. ACM Int. Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), March 2011. (PDF, Slides)
  • Jiayang Liu, Zhen Wang, Lin Zhong, Jehan Wickramasuriya, and Venu Vasudevan, "uWave: Accelerometer-based personalized gesture recognition and its applications," in IEEE Int. Conf. Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom), March 2009. (PDF, Demo, Technical Report) (Best Paper Award)

Thesis

  • Zhen Wang, "Speeding Up Mobile Browsers without Infrastructure Support", M.S. Thesis, Rice University, April 2012. (PDF)