Yushi Shen

Yushi Shen is an outstanding scholar and social activist. He has over 15-year of research, development and management experiences in the IT industry, and leadership experiences in various influential international and local organizations. With five books and over twenty research papers published, Dr. Shen is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of cloud computing, wireless communications and video coding. He has served as reviewers, associate editors, technical program committee chairs / members for numerous international conferences and core journals. He is the recipient of various awards and recognitions. Dr. Shen is currently Microsoft’s Cloud Business Development, Government Affairs and Strategy Director in the China region. He has joined Microsoft headquarter in Redmond, WA since year 2006, and worked on the design and serviceability for general Windows Media (WM) techniques and the WM platform. From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Shen has served as the Chair of Chinese Microsoft Employee Network (CHIME). Since late 2012, he has stepped up as the Chair of entire Microsoft Asian Employee Resources Group (ERG), overseeing the 17 Asian ethnicity groups with more than 10,000 Microsoft employee members. Dr. Shen received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China, in 2001, and Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering, from the Univ. of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, in 2006, and MBA degree from the Univ. of Washington (UW), Seattle, in 2012.

Publications

Trusted Cloud Initiative Reference Architecture
Trusted Cloud Initiative Reference Architecture
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2018. 18 pages.
The Trusted Cloud Initiative helps cloud providers develop industry-recommended, secure, and interoperable identity, access, and compliance management configurations and...
Big Data Overview
Big Data Overview
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2016. 29 pages.
This chapter provides an overview of big data and its environment and opportunities. It starts with a definition of big data and describes the unique characteristics, structure...
Cloud Computing Overview
Cloud Computing Overview
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2015. 24 pages.
Cloud Computing is deemed the main trend of IT development for the coming decades, and it is to have a profound impact on the development of the human society and the world...
Cloud Computing Networks: Utilizing the Content Delivery Network
Cloud Computing Networks: Utilizing the Content Delivery Network
Yale Li, Yushi Shen, Yudong Liu. © 2015. 12 pages.
Cloud Computing has the potential to trigger a major computing model transformation for the IT industry. This chapter briefly describes the business and technical benefits of...
Main Components of Cloud Computing
Main Components of Cloud Computing
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2015. 26 pages.
Cloud-era Information Technology (IT) contains three main themes: The information hub (cloud), network communications (pipes), and intelligent terminals. In this chapter, the...
Impact of Cultural Differences on the Cloud Computing Ecosystems in the USA and China
Impact of Cultural Differences on the Cloud Computing Ecosystems in the USA and China
Yushi Shen, Jie Yang, Tayfun Keskin. © 2015. 15 pages.
The IT industry is both fundamental and strategic to a nation's economy. It continues to play a critical role in the industry's upgrade and economic development in the...
Enabling the New Era of Cloud Computing: Data Security, Transfer, and Management
Enabling the New Era of Cloud Computing: Data Security, Transfer, and Management
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 336 pages.
Cloud computing is becoming the next revolution in the IT industry; providing central storage for internet data and services that have the potential to bring data transmission...
Cloud Computing Overview
Cloud Computing Overview
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 24 pages.
Cloud Computing is deemed the main trend of IT development for the coming decades, and it is to have a profound impact on the development of the human society and the world...
Main Components of Cloud Computing
Main Components of Cloud Computing
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 26 pages.
Cloud-era Information Technology (IT) contains three main themes: The information hub (cloud), network communications (pipes), and intelligent terminals. In this chapter, the...
Cloud Infrastructure: Virtualization
Cloud Infrastructure: Virtualization
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 26 pages.
This chapter focuses on the different aspects of cloud computing virtualization. It introduces the fundamental concepts of computer virtualization, storage virtualization...
Trusted Cloud Initiative Reference Architecture
Trusted Cloud Initiative Reference Architecture
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 16 pages.
The Trusted Cloud Initiative helps cloud providers develop industry-recommended, secure, and interoperable identity, access, and compliance management configurations and...
Security Information and Event Management Implementation Guidance
Security Information and Event Management Implementation Guidance
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 22 pages.
This chapter is about guidance and implementation prepared by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Security as a Service (SecaaS) workgroup, which is made up of users and...
Enterprise Security Monitoring with the Fusion Center Model
Enterprise Security Monitoring with the Fusion Center Model
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 16 pages.
In the past few years, we have witnessed cyber-attacks of unprecedented sophistication and reach. These attacks demonstrate that malicious actors have the ability to compromise...
Data Protection in the Cloud Era
Data Protection in the Cloud Era
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 23 pages.
In this chapter, the authors examine a potential enterprise customer’s strategy and scenario to protect its data in the cloud computing era. CorpFort is the name of a...
Big Data Overview
Big Data Overview
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 29 pages.
This chapter provides an overview of big data and its environment and opportunities. It starts with a definition of big data and describes the unique characteristics, structure...
Big Data Techniques, Tools, and Applications
Big Data Techniques, Tools, and Applications
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 28 pages.
This chapter covers big data technologies and tools, including the NoSQL database, HDFS, MapReduce, SMAQ stack, and the Hadoop Ecosystem. It also introduces the appliance...
Cloud Computing Networks: Utilizing the Content Delivery Network
Cloud Computing Networks: Utilizing the Content Delivery Network
Yale Li, Yushi Shen, Yudong Liu. © 2014. 12 pages.
Cloud Computing has the potential to trigger a major computing model transformation for the IT industry. This chapter briefly describes the business and technical benefits of...
Data Transfer and Storage in Cloud Computing
Data Transfer and Storage in Cloud Computing
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 12 pages.
When network bandwidth is no longer a bottleneck for Internet applications, we still face the challenges of how to utilize the bandwidth in full when transferring data. This...
Parallel Data Transfer Protocol
Parallel Data Transfer Protocol
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 18 pages.
Transferring very high quality digital objects over the optical network is critical in many scientific applications, including video streaming/conferencing, remote rendering on...
Border Adaptive Micro-Base-Station for Wireless Communications
Border Adaptive Micro-Base-Station for Wireless Communications
Henry Gao, Yushi Shen. © 2014. 12 pages.
This chapter presents a novel architecture, namely the border adaptive micro-base-station network, which can sufficiently meet the bandwidth requirements for the future wireless...
Impact of Cultural Differences on the Cloud Computing Ecosystems in the USA and China
Impact of Cultural Differences on the Cloud Computing Ecosystems in the USA and China
Yushi Shen, Jie Yang, Tayfun Keskin. © 2014. 15 pages.
The IT industry is both fundamental and strategic to a nation’s economy. It continues to play a critical role in the industry’s upgrade and economic development in the...
Cloud Strategy Leads Innovation in China
Cloud Strategy Leads Innovation in China
Yushi Shen, Yale Li, Ling Wu, Shaofeng Liu, Qian Wen. © 2014. 6 pages.
Cloud computing is a historically significant trend in the development of information technology and applications. The cloud concept and the corresponding series of changes in...
On Uplink Channel Estimation in WiMAX Systems
On Uplink Channel Estimation in WiMAX Systems
Yushi Shen, Pamela C. Cosman, Laurence B. Milstein, Eduardo F. Martinez. © 2012. 9 pages.
In this paper, channel estimation algorithms are proposed and compared for uplink WiMAX systems, which are OFDMA based. These algorithms are investigated based on a dynamic...
On Uplink Channel Estimation in WiMAX Systems
On Uplink Channel Estimation in WiMAX Systems
Yushi Shen, Pamela C. Cosman, Laurence B. Milstein, Eduardo F. Martinez. © 2010. 11 pages.
In this paper, channel estimation algorithms are proposed and compared for uplink WiMAX systems, which are OFDMA based. These algorithms are investigated based on a dynamic...