Ph.D. Candidate in Software Engineering           Sep. 2006- Current
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Master of Engineering in Computer Science           Sep. 2003- Jul. 2006
Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science           Sep.1999- Jul.2003
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

2010 CAS Research Student of the Year                 2010

IBM CAS Ph.D. Research Fellowship                 2010

IBM CAS Ph.D. Research Fellowship                 2009

Queen's Graduate Award           2006-2010

Discretionary Conference Award          2006-2010

Arts and Science Graduate Growth Funding                 2006

Research Assistant, Queen's University, Kingston, ON                 Sept. 2006 - current

• Conduct research with professors and industrial partners
• Enhance the research conducted at IBM Toronto Lab
• Project outcome:3 conference and workshop publications
• Technical skills and tools used: IBM WebSphere Business Modeler, Aspect-Oriented programming, Model-driven development, Java source code analysis, business process monitor and optimization

Summer Visit Student, IBM Toronto Lab, Ontario, Canada                  May 2010 - Aug. 2010

• Designed and developed an approach to automatically extract business process knowledge from the Web
• Project outcome: a conference poster, a paper submitted to conference ICWS 2011
• Involved research areas: information extraction, business process mining and business process recovery
• Technical skills and tools used: Eclipse, Ontology database, Ontology learning tools, Ontology parser, HTML parser, Google Search API, information extraction techniques

Summer Visit Student, IBM Toronto Lab, Ontario, Canada                  May 2009 - Aug. 2009

• Designed and developed algorithms to discover and recommend services based on the context of users
• Project outcome: a paper published in a peer-reviewed international conference, a journal paper is under review, and a conference poster
• Involved research areas: context-awareness techniques, context modeling and personalized service recommendation
• Technical skills and tools used: ontology parser, semantic analysis techniques, FireFox plug-in development, ontology Reasoner

IT Assistant, Queen's University International Centre, Ontario, Canada                  April. 2008 - April. 2009

• Maintained the websites, software and hardware used at the center; migrated the website, online applications and databases from Linux to Windows; migrated the websites from PHP to ASP.Net
• Technical skills and tools used: MySQL database, MS Access database, PHP, ASP, Content Management System, mailing list management system, online payment system

Summer Visit Student, IBM Toronto Lab, Ontario, Canada                  May 2008 - Aug. 2008

• Built an framework to enable non-IT professional end-users to discover and compose services
• Project outcome: a paper published in a peer-reviewed international conference, a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal, a book chapter (peer-reviewed) published in a book, and a conference poster
• Involved research areas: Web service composition, semantic Web, and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
• Technical skills and tools used: Eclipse, Apache Tomcat, Servlet, IBM Lous Mashup center, IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, Sun Java System Application Server, WSDL parser

Summer Visit Student, IBM Toronto Lab, Ontario, Canada                  May 2007 - Aug. 2007

• Designed and implemented a tool to Check the Business Requirement Compliance for business processes by simulating BPEL processes
• Project outcome: Two papers published in peer-reviewed workshops and conferences.
• Involved research areas: model-driven development, business requirement verification, aspect-oriented programming and modeling, business process simulation
• Technical skills and tools used: IBM WebSphere Business Modeler, IBM WebSphere Integration Developer, XML parser, BPEL parser, BPEL simulator, Eclipse Plug-in Development

Research Assistant, Beijing University of Technology                  Sept. 2003 - June 2006

• Conduct research on personalized Web search results and Web page crawler
• Project outcome: a tool to provide personalized Web search results, two peer-reviewed papers
• Technical skills and tools used: Google Search API, Java, C++, IE Browser Help Objects development, Component Object Model (COM), User behavior monitoring, Lucene (a Java tool for content indexing and searching)

Teaching Assistant, Queen's University, Kingston, ON                  Fall Term during 2006 - 2010, Winter Term 2007

• Marked assignments and quizzes, gave tutorial and answered questions from students during office hours
• Courses: (1) Fundamentals of Web Applications; (2) Discrete Mathematics for Computing Science; (3) Data Structures

Teaching Assistant, Beijing University of Technology, China                  2003 - 2005

• Marked assignments and quizzes, gave tutorial and led lab
• Courses: (1) Formal Languages and Automata, (2) Principles of Compiler

Lecturer, Beijing College of Politics and Law                  Sept. 2005 - Dec. 2005

• Taught course "ASP Website Design"
• Responsibilities including designing syllabus and laboratory experiments, as well as leading lab

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