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.

Selected publications

2026

  1. Performance Analysis of the Randomized SIEVE/CLOCK Cache Replacement Algorithm
    Yirong Wang, Peter Desnoyers, and Benny Van Houdt
    Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst., Jun 2026
    Article 49, 26 pages
    preprint
  2. 2DIO: Configurable and Cache-Accurate Trace Generation for Storage Benchmarking
    Yirong Wang, Isaac Khor, and Peter Desnoyers
    In European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys ’26), Apr 2026
    April 27–30, 2026. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages
    preprint

News

Mar 24, 2026 Good news: Ran-CLOCK has been accepted to Sigmetrics 2026 🎉🎉🎉
Jan 8, 2026 I’m interning at Google Sunnyvale this summer on the TCMalloc team within Core Systems Infrastructure.
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 work on high-fidelity trace synthesis for storage benchmarking. Hope to see you there!