Yirong Effy Wang

PhD candidate in Computer Science at Northeastern University.

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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.

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Mar 24, 2026 Good news: paper “Performance Analysis of the Randomized SIEVE/CLOCK cache replacement algorithm” has been accepted to ACM Sigmetrics 2026 🎉🎉🎉
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!