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Highlights

Passion for computer science.
Outstanding technical skills and academic experiences.
Strong logical and analytical ability.
High adaptability to new environments with several experiences of studying abroad.

Objective

A position in software development area which needs innovations and strong technical skills.

• Web Development
• Databases & Information Systems

Hobbies

In my spare time, I like to

• Write some small programs to make it more convenient to use computers and the Web.
• Watching movies.
• Go travelling with friends.
• Taking photos.

Education

08/2010-Present

M.S. in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

• Overall GPA: 4.0/4.0
• Graduation Expected in May, 2011

09/2006-06/2010

B.S. in Software Engineering, School of Software, Nanchang University (NCU), P.R.China

• Major GPA: 93.11/100         Overall GPA: 91.69/100
• Ranking: 1/269 (in whole department)

09/2009-02/2010

Exchange in Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan

• Overall GPA: 4.0/4.0 (91.91/100)
• Opportunity only offered to 7 top-students (5 undergraduates) in NCU.
• The first group of undergraduate exchange students in Taiwan.

Training

03/2010-04/2010

Certification Program for Microsoft .NET (C#), Appin Knowledge Solutions, Delhi, India

• Training for ASP.NET, ADO, LINQ, MVC, fully funded by NCU.
• Finish the program with a grade of A+ and get a certificate.
• Stay in Delhi, India for one month.
• Opportunity offered to 3 top-students in software school of NCU.

07/2007-08/2007

Summer Session in Nottingham Castle College, U.K.

• Training for improving English language skills.
• Travelling fees were covered by Nanchang University.
• Opportunity offered to 5 top-students in software school of NCU.

Project & Academic Experience

01/2011-05/2010

Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616

• Teaching Assistant of CS495/595 Geospatial Vision & Visualization

12/2010-Presents

Software Developer Intern, Dynasty Group Inc., Chicago, IL 60606

• Project Topic: Developing Geo-based system for infrastructure data management
• Targeting on managing huge amount of point data in construction engineering projects
• Using Google Map Ajax API v3.0
• ASP.NET MVC 3 with Razor

11/2010-12/2010

Team Member, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616

• Project Topic: Web-based Indoor Virtual Tour System
  
• Display indoor panoramic view of a specific building with floor map like Google StreetView
• Automatically generate hotspots on the view that direct user to nearby panoramic views
• Using Silverlight technology to provide compatibility for different platforms.
• Presented the project at NAVTEQ Headquarters

02/2010-06/2010

Worked independently, School of Software, Nanchang University, P.R.China

• Project Topic: Fee Calculating and Charging System
  
  for Property Management
• Design and implement the system for a property management company in Nanchang.
• Deal with complicated business logic for fee calculating.
• Using latest .NET technologies in the project (ASP.NET MVC 2, LINQ, jQuery, Web Service).
• Resulted in thesis of bachelor's degree.

09/2009-02/2010

Research Assistant, Prof. Pei-Chann Chang's Lab, Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan

• Research Topic: A new Artificial Immune System approach to solve grid scheduling problem
• Helped to optimize methods, wrote scheduling algorithms for Heterogeneous Computing Environments in C++
• Quickly accommodated to the new team and the research.

06/2008-12/2008

Worked independently, School of Software, Nanchang University, P.R.China

• Project Topic: Online Contribution System
  
  for Journal of Nanchang University
• Responsible for the whole project.
• The work resulted in two research papers (one published).
• Innovated comprehensive methods to enhance Web system security.

09/2007-06/2008

Team Member, Compute Center, Nanchang University, P.R.China

• Research Topic: Intelligent Online Monitoring System
  
  for Large-scale Electric Equipment
• Designed and implemented the B/S based system using ASP.net
• Co-optimized Fault Diagnosis methods using stream data mining.
• Innovated a hybrid-programming method and resulted in a paper.
• The only undergraduate in this Province sponsored project.

09/2007-11/2007

Team Leader, Young Volunteers Association, Nanchang University, P.R.China

• Project Topic: Design and Build Portal Website
  
  for the Association
• Responsible for project management and designing of the website.
• Organized team members to develop and maintain the website.

Publications

◇ RAO Hong, ZHOU Xiaolan, ZHAO Qi, “Remote signal analysis based on the hybrid-programming between ASP.NET and MATLAB”. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Management and Service Science (MASS) 20-22 September, 2009.
(Ei Accession number: 10954650) [PDF]

◇ LIU Yuhong, ZHAO Qi, "Designing and Implementation of Online Contributions Management System Based on Three-tier Structure of .net Technology",
Journal of Nanchang University (Natural Science) (2008, Volume32, Issue6) [PDF]

Selected Honors & Awards

Date	Title	Honored By	Note
07/2010	Outstanding Graduate Design (Thesis)	Nanchang University	Top 1%
06/2010	Outstanding Graduates	Nanchang University	Top 5%
2006-2009	Grade 1 Outstanding Student Scholarship	Nanchang University	6 times
10/2009	Baosteel Scholarship	Baosteel Education Foundation	Top 1%
10/2008	National Scholarship	Ministry of Education of P.R.C	Top 1%
12/2008	Copper Medal in 2008 'Red Flag Cup' National University Open Source Software Technology Competition	China E-Commerce Association
06/2008	Excellent Volunteer	Nanchang University
2007-2008	Excellent Student Cadre	Nanchang University	4 times
2007-2008	"Three Good" Student	Nanchang University	2 times

Extracurricular Activities

03/2007-06/2008

Department Leader of Young Volunteers Association of Nanchang University.

• Organized several social voluntary activities.
• Helped to coordinate the whole Association.
• Led a team to build and maintain the portal website.

05/2008

Volunteer at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Torch Relay, Nanchang

• Organized students to watch the torch relay and kept them in order.

01/2008

Organizer and performer in New Year's Party of Software School, Nanchang University.

Skills

Network

• Qualified as "Network Engineer" with national certificate (May, 2008)
• Web information system & website development and management
• Ajax, ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, JavaScript (jQuery), XML, CSS, HTML, SQL Server, MySQL

Software Engineering

• Qualified as "Software Designer" with national certificate (Nov., 2007)
• Experienced in Project Management and System Analysis

Programming

• Qualified as "Programmer" with national certificate (May, 2007)
• C/C++, MFC, VB, C#, Java, skilled in debugging and testing
• Good Programming Style, proper use of Data Structure.

Operating System

• Proficient in using MS-DOS, Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
• Experienced in Windows Server configuration and management
• Able to solve most problems and breakdowns of OS.

Software

• Microsoft Visual Studio, Netbeans, Microsoft Office, Matlab, Mathematica, Weka