YAN LUO

EDUCATION

• 08/2004 - present
• Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, US
• Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, GPA: 4.0/4.0
• Advisor: Prof. Ouri Wolfson

• 09/2002 - 07/2004
• Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Master Degree in Computer Science, 07/2004, GPA: 4.0/4.3
• Advisor: Prof. Wenyin Liu

• 09/1998 - 07/2002
• Computer Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, 07/2002, GPA: 83.5/100
• Advisor: Prof. Zhen Ye

PUBLICATION

• Yan Luo, Ouri Wolfson, "Mobile Peer-to-Peer Databases", accepted to appear in the
  Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science, to be published by Springer, July 2007.
  
  
• Yan Luo, Ouri Wolfson, Bo Xu, "A Spatial-Temporal Approach for Selective Data
  Dissemination in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks", in Proc. of Intl. Conf. of Wireless and
  Mobile Computing (ICWMC), Mar 2007.
  
  
• E. Valveny, P. Dosch, Adam Winstanley, Yu Zhou, Su Yang, Yan Luo, Wenyin Liu, Dave
  Elliman, Mathieu Delalandre, Eric Trupin, Sébastien Adam and Jean-Marc Ogier, "A General
  Framework for the Evaluation of Symbol Recognition Methods", International Journal on
  Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), Nov 2006.
  
  
• Wenyin Liu, Wan Zhang, and Yan Luo, "An Interactive Example-Driven Approach to Graphics
  Recognition in Engineering Drawings", International Journal on Document Analysis and
  Recognition (IJDAR), Aug 2006.
  
  
• Yan Luo, and Jeffrey. J.P. Tsai, "A Graphical Simulation System for Modeling and Analysis of
  Sensor Networks", in Proc. of Seventh IEEE Intl. Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), Dec 2005.
  
  
• Yan Luo, Guanglin Hunag, Yin Liu, and Wenyin Liu "A Novel Constraint-Based Approach to
  Online Graphics Recognition", in LNCS, vol. 3138, Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern
  Recognition (SSPR), Oct 2004.
  
  
• Yan Luo, and Wenyin Liu, "Interactive Recognition of Graphic Objects in Engineering Drawings",
  in LNCS, vol. 3088, Graphics Recognition, Oct 2004.
  
  
• Yan Luo, and Wenyin Liu, "Engineering Drawings Recognition Using a Case-based Approach",
  in Proc. of Seventh Intl. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Aug 2003.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• 08/2006 - present, Database and Mobile Computing Labotory, UIC, Chicago, US
• Research Student, Advisor: Prof. Ouri Wolfson
• Associate of IGERT on Computational Transportation Science
• Conducted research on mobile peer-to-peer (MP2P) databases
• Proposed a spatio-temporal approach for data dissemination in MP2P networks
• Published a paper in ICWMC'07
  
  
• 05/2005 - 08/2006, Distributed Real-time Intelligent Systems Labotory, UIC, Chicago, US
• Research Student, Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey J.P. Tsai
• Proposed the Space Time Petri Nets (STPN) for modeling and analysis of sensor networks
• Designed and implemented a graphical simulation system based on the STPN

o Published a paper in ISM'05 and presented the paper on ISM'05

• 09/2002 - 07/2004, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Research Student, Advisor: Prof. Wenyin Liu
• Designed and implemented a case-based graphics recognition for engineering drawings
• Published three papers and attended two international conferences, ICDAR'03 and GREC'03.

• 07/2002 - 09/2002, IBM China Research Laboratory, Beijing, China
• Research Intern, Advisor: Dr. Zhepeng Wang
• Designed and implemented a plug-in to IE to facilitate web browsing on PDA.
• Conducted research and improved an embedded handwriting recognition system.

• 08/2001 - 07/2002, State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and System, Tsinghua, Beijing, China
• Research Student, Advisor: Prof. Zhen Ye
• Designed and implemented a management system for the National Air Force Products.
• Designed and implemented a multi-point video conference system using H.263 and G.721.

• 11/2001 - 04/2002, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
• Research Intern, Advisor: Dr. Yufei Ma
• Designed and implemented a system for classification of news video using SVM.
• Designed and implemented a system for tracking camera motion and object motion.

• 09/1999 - 09/2000, Chinaren Networks Inc., Beijing, China
• Part-time Software Engineer
• Designed and maintained the database for managing users' profiles and different services.
• Designed and implemented web pages for alumni communication association.

COURSES

• Fall 2004
• CS401 Computer Algorithms I, Prof. Bhaskar DasGupta, Grade: A
  
• CS450 Introduction to Networking, Prof. Jon Solworth, Grade: A
  
• CS480 Database Systems, Prof. Prasad Sistla, Grade: A

• Spring 2005
• CS541 Software Engineering Environments, Prof. Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, Grade: A
  
• CS583 Data Mining and Text Mining, Prof. Bing Liu, Grade: A

• Fall 2005
• CS503 Applied Graph Theory, Prof. Tadao Murata, Grade: A

• Spring 2006
• CS588 Security and Privacy in Networked and Distributed Systems, Prof. Jon A. Solworth, Grade: A

TA EXPERIENCE

• Fall 2004
• CS426 Multimedia Computing by Prof. Jason Leigh

• Spring 2005
• CS440 Introduction to Software Engineering by Prof. Ugo Buy

• Fall 2005
• CS100 Computer Literacy by Dr. John T. Bell
  
• CS441 Distributed Object Programming using Middleware by Dr. Patrick A. Troy

• Spring 2006
• CS469 Computer Systems Design by Prof. Florin Balasa
  
• Fall 2006
• CS491 Secure Computer Systems by Prof. V.N. Venkatakrishnan

SKILLS

• Solaris, Unix/Linux, Windows

• Assembly, C, C++, Java, Perl, Python

• Oracle, SQL, MySQL

• Php, Asp, Jsp, Javascript, HTML