Yi Cui

PhD, Computer Science

Texas A&M University

Yi Cui is a PhD's candidate in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University. Previously, he joined the Search Engine and Web Mining (SEWM) Group at Institute of Network Computing and Information Systems, Peking University. Working with Prof. Hongfei Yan, his main research area was information retrieval, especially index compression in search engines. He graduated with a BS degree in Computer Science from School of Electronics Enginerring and Computer Science (EECS) at Peking University.

Yi Cui joined Internet Research Lab (IRL) at Texas A&M University since Sep 2010 under supervision of Prof. Dmitri Loguinov. His current research focuses on large-scale web crawler development, including extensible crawler architecture, high performance crawler components, and novel frontier prioritization algorithms to avoid spam.