Yirong Effy Wang
PhD candidate in Computer Science at Northeastern University.
effywn AT gmail DOT com
Boston, MA
I specialize in performance modeling and simulation of computer systems. My work includes cache/QoS modeling, workload characterization, and cache-accurate, generalizable microbenchmarks.
I am currently working with Prof. Peter Desnoyers in the Systems Research Group.
news
| Mar 24, 2026 | Good news: paper “Performance Analysis of the Randomized SIEVE/CLOCK cache replacement algorithm” has been accepted to ACM Sigmetrics 2026 🎉🎉🎉 |
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| Jan 8, 2026 | I’ll be interning at Google in Sunnyvale this summer, working on TCMalloc within Google’s systems infrastructure team. |
| Nov 24, 2025 | Northeastern Systems Day 2025 is now open for registration! Join us for a day of systems talks and networking with researchers across systems, architecture, formal methods, and security. |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Good news: 2DIO has been accepted to EuroSys 2026 🎉🎉🎉 |
| Feb 2, 2025 |
New England Systems Day 2025 is now open for registration!
Last year I gave a talk on workload characterization with stochastic processes and Markov models. This year I’m excited to build on that with new insights into high-fidelity trace synthesis for storage benchmarking. Hope to see you there!
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