Education:

  • Ph.D: 2008 - present, Computer Science Department, University of California Los Angeles
  • M.S.: 2004 - 2006, Computer Science Department, University of Vermont, USA
  • B.S.: 1999 - 2004, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Department of Computer Science and Technology, China

Working Experience:

  • Research Intern: Micorosoft Research, Redmond, WA. June 2011 -- Sep. 2011
  • Sr. Software Engineer: Plateau Systems LTD., Arlington, VA. Aug 2008 -- Sep. 2008
  • Software Engineer: Plateau Systems LTD., Arlington, VA. Mar 2007 -- Aug 2008
  • Software Developer: Plateau Systems LTD., Arlington, VA. Aug 2006 -- Feb 2007
  • Research Assistant: Computer Science Department, UVM, Burlington, VT, Aug 2004 -- May 2006
  • Part-time Teacher: Computer & EnglishTraining School, Hefei, China, March 2004 -- May 2004. Taught oral English to individual students

Honors and Awards:

  • new awardIBM Invention Plateau Award, 2013
  • new awardIBM First Invention Awared, 2012
  • Outstanding Ph.D Graduate Award 2012 of Computer Science Department, UCLA (One per year for Ph.D Graduates).
  • Northrup-Grumman Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award 2011 of Computer Science Department, UCLA (One per year).
  • Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Chinese Students Overseas, 2010 (An award of $5,000).
  • 5th prize (out of 17 applicants) of CONTEST 2010: So you Think You Can Present, a student presentation competition, sponsored by Northrop Grumman's Future Technical Leaders Program.
  • UCLA Fellowship, UCLA 2008
  • Chancellor Award (for Most Outstanding Applicants, only 2 per year), UCLA 2008
  • Student Scholarship for Young Scientist, GIW 2005, Tokyo, Japan, 2005
  • Vermont EPSCoR Research Scholarship (2005 - 2006)
  • Research Assistantship, UVM (2004 - 2005)
  • Scholarship for outstanding students, USTC (1999,2000,2003)
  • Waived of entrance examination into USTC, 1999
  • Excellent Student of Sichuan Province, China, 1999

Skills:

  • Certification: Sun Certified Java Programmer for Java 5
  • Programming Language: C/C++, Java, Perl, JavaScript, Php, SQL, Matlab/R
  • Technique: JSP, J2EE, HTML, DHTML, AJAX, JQUERY, STRUTS, SPRING, EJB
  • IDE: IntelliJ, MyEclipse, Eclipse, NetBean, Jbuilder, SQLNavigator, CVS, SVN, CBuilder, Visual C++
  • WebServer: Websphere 6, JBoss, Oracle, Weblogic 8, Weblogic 9.

Courses as TA (at UCLA):

  • Spring 2010
    Advanced Algorithms in Bioinformatics
  • Winter 2010
    Introduction to Computer Science
  • Fall 2009
    Operating System

Courses Taken (at UCLA):

  • Spring 2010
    Molecular Biology
  • Winter 2010
    Current Topics in Bioinformatics: Computational Immunology
    Current Topics in Data Mining
  • Fall 2009
    Computational and System Biology
    Reasoning with Partial Beliefs
    TA Training Seminar
  • Spring 2009
    Computational Genetics
    Statistic Models in Finance

  • Winter 2009
    Algorithms in Bioinformatics
    Web Information Management

  • Fall 2008
    Introducation to Bioinformatics
    Current Topics in Bioinformatics

Courses Taken (at UVM):

  • Fall 2004
    Artificial Intelligence
    Database Systems
    Theory of Computation
    Semina on Network Security

  • Spring 2005
    Computer Architecture
    Neural Computation
    Adv Tpcs Database&Knwldg Sys
  • Fall 2005
    Statistical Pattern Recongntn
    Bayesian Inference
    Operating Systems
    Bioinformatics
  • Spring 2006
    Analysis of Algorithms
    Quantum Computation

Course Projects:

  • Support Vector Machine for Text Classification -- Neural Computation
  • Learning Graphical Models -- Statistical Pattern Recognition
  • Efficient Flights Search System -- Artificial Intelligence
  • Soccer League information Managment System -- Database Systems

Hobbies:

  • Guitar, Reading, Fitness(10 years), Soccer, Hiking, Kongfu(Takeondo Green Belt)