CV of HAO YUAN

E-mail: hyuan1984(at)gmail.com or yuan3(at)cs.purdue.edu

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EDUCATIONS

2006 - NOW	PhD Program in Computer Science Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
2002 - 2006	Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

HONORS & AWARDS

Best Student Paper Award at ISAAC 2005
( The 16^th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation )

Best Undergraduate Thesis Award
( at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University )

( as a contestant and team leader )
The 27^th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - World Finals	6^th Place
The ACM Asia Programming Contest - Beijing Site 2003	Champion
The ACM Asia Programming Contest - Beijing Site 2002	Champion
"AMD Tsinghua-Tongfang Cup" National Collegiate Programming Contest	Champion
"Northern Bright Pearl Cup" National Collegiate Programming Contest	Champion

China Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Shanghai Region)	Second Prize
The 18^th National Olympiad in Informatics	Second Prize

SCHOLARSHIPS

Ross Fellowship at Purdue University

IBM Scholarship for outstanding students in China

Citigroup Scholarship for Finance and Information Technology

China Merchants Bank Scholarship

Computer World Magazine Scholarship

Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) Scholarship

Excellent Academic Scholarship ( First Class ) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Mandarin : Native Speaker
Cantonese : Native Speaker
English : Fluent

COMPUTER SKILLS

Programming Languages: C/C++, JAVA, PASCAL, C#, Excel VBA, PERL
I started programming 14 years ago, and have more than 300,000 lines of codes programming experience.

EMPLOYMENTS

2007 July - August
    Summer Intern @ Ortus Capital Management Limited,    Hong Kong, China
    Job Duties:
        Quantitative Research on Optimal Execution (Liquidity Trading) Strategy in FX Market
        Develop Information Retrieving and Processing Tools for Trading Desk and Back Office

2005 February - July
    Research Intern @ Apex Data & Knowledge Management Lab
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
    Research Work:
        Probabilistic Modeling for Collaborative Filtering;
        Apply the probabilistic model to movie rating predictions;
        Design model inference algorithms for large-scale data set.

2005 July - September
    Research Intern @ Wireless & Networking Group
    Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
    Research Work:
        Model resource allocation problem in wireless networks;
        Design distributed algorithms to maximize resource utilizations;

TEACHINGS

2006 August - 2006 December
Teaching Assistant of "CS590I Information Retrieval" (Graduate Level)
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States

2005 September - 2006 January
Teaching Assistant of "Introduction to Programming" (Undergraduate Level)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

2005 February - 2005 July
Teaching Assistant of "Algorithm Design & Analyze II" (Undergraduate Level)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Luo Si, Jamie Callan, Suleyman Cetintas and Hao Yuan, "An effective and efficient results merging strategy for multilingual information retrieval in federated search environments", Information Retrieval, Volume 11, Number 1 / February, 2008. [ DOI LINK ]

Erdong Chen, Linji Yang and Hao Yuan, "Longest Increasing Subsequences in Windows based on Canonical Antichain Partition", Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 378, Issue 3, 9 June 2007, Pages 223-236. [ DOILINK, DRAFT ]

Erdong Chen, Linji Yang and Hao Yuan,"Improved Algorithms for Largest Cardinality 2-Interval Pattern Problem", Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Volume 13, Number 3 / April, 2007. [ DOI LINK, DRAFT ]

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

Hao Yuan and Mikhail J. Atallah, "Efficient Distributed Third-Party Data Authentication for Tree Hierarchies", to appear in The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008).

Erdong Chen, Hao Yuan and Linji Yang,"Longest Increasing Subsequences in Windows based on Canonical Antichain Partition", In Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, volume 3827 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1153-1162, Springer-Verlag, 2005.( ISAAC 2005 Best Student Paper). [ DOI LINK ]

Hao Yuan, Linji Yang and Erdong Chen,"Improved Algorithms for Largest Cardinality 2-Interval Pattern Problem",In Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, volume 3827 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 412-421, Springer-Verlag, 2005. [ DOI LINK ]