Education

• Ph.D. Computer Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, Univesity Park, PA (1993)
• M.S. Computer Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (1989)
• B.S. Computer Science, Southwestern Jiaotong University, Sichuan, China (1983)

EXPERIENCE - ACADEMIC Experience

• Associate Professor
  
  
  • Computer Science Department, Salem State College, Salem , MA (2001- present except one year leave of absence working in Computer Science Department at California State University, Fresno)
    
    
    • Taught Computer Networking, Computer Organization and Architecture, Database Systems, Algorithm Design and Implementation I, Algorithm Design and Implementation II (in Java), Digital System Design, Survey of Computer Science I, and Survey of Computer Science II.
    • Served as chairperson of the Computer Science Department
    • Developed a graduate course on spatial database analysis and development
    • Provided academic advising to students in the major
    • Coauthored two books entitled Computer Organization: Principles, Analysis and Design (English version and Chinese version)
    • Participated in and made presentations at international conferences
    • Published refereed conference papers
    • Served as the faculty supervisor of the computer science department ACM student chapter

• Associate Professor
  
  
  • Computer Science Department, California State Univesity, Fresno, CA (AY 2006 - 2007)
  • Taught graduate level courses: Advanced Database Systems and Introduction to Research in Computer Science; Taught upper-division undergraduate level course: Introduction to Computer Organization; Taught general education course: Critical Thinking and Computer Science
  • Collaborated with Professor William Mallios in interdisciplinary research projects that deal with stochastic modeling – both in space and time domains – with application to exploiting periods of inefficiency in financial markets.
  • Supervised one master student on her master project as the last phase to own the University Distinguished Graduate Student Award.
  • Supervised two graduate students on their independent study projects
  • Supervised one graduate student doing research work in my research area

• Associate Professor



• Computer Science Department, Salem State College, Salem , MA (1999- 2000)
• Taught Computer Networking and Survey of Computer Science
• Provided academic advising to students in the major
• Participated in and made a presentation at an international conference
• Published a refereed conference paper


• Assistant Professor



• Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Meredith College, Releigh , NC (1995- 1999 with one semester working as design engineer for Motorola Inc.)


• Taught Operating Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Advanced Programming Languages, Software Engineering, Parallel Computing and Programming, Foundations of Computer Science, Introduction to Computer Organization, Programming Language (in Pascal and C++).
• Provided academic advising to students in the major
• Worked on key issues of CS curriculum development and finalized the CS curriculum in the department
• Participated in and made presentations at international conferences
• Published refereed conference papers
• Promoted to Associate Professor

• Assistant Professor



• Department of Physics and Computer Science, Chrisopher Newport University, Newport News , VA (1993- 1995)


• Taught Microcomputer Architecture, Computer Organization, Digital System Design, Programming Language (Pascal), Microprocessor Assembly Language (Intel 80x86)
• Served on the 1994 and 1995 ISMM International Conference on Intelligent Information Management System program committee
• Participated in and made presentations at international conferences
• Published refereed conference papers
• Published a refereed journal paper

EXPERIENCE - INDUSTRIAL Experience

• Design Engineer

North Carolina Design Center, Motorola Inc., Research Triangle Park , NC (1997-1998)

• Worked on microcontroller design
• Worked on cost-reduction related redesign
• Logic design verification and system-level verification

• Senior Software Engineer

Spectel-MultiLink Incorporated, Andover , MA (2000- 2001)

Participated in the design and development of software for multi-tiered, client-server, database-intensive Web-based teleconferencing systems.

Gained knowledge and hands-on experience with network software development, Java, Microsoft Visual C++, TCP/IP, and telephony.

Worked on projects:

Web-based Client/Server Computing

Involved in the development and maintenance of IMM (Internet Meeting Manager), a Web-based client/server system that holds Web-based meetings at a distance. Gained knowledge and hands-on experience of software development for Microsoft Windows NT Server with JavaScript, Visual C++ and Java.

Conference Security Administration Package

Involved in the development and maintenance of PIN Code Administration software for teleconferencing bridge. Gained knowledge and hands-on experience with TCP/IP and object-oriented design and programming with Java.

HONOR SOCIETY

Upsilon Pi Epsilon (the Honor Society for Computing and Information Disciplines)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

IEEE Computer Society

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)