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YU (CATHY) JIAO

 


Applied Software Engineering Research Group
 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 1 Bethel Valley Rd , Bldg. 5700, MS 6085
 Oak Ridge , TN 37831

 

Telephone: (865) 574-0647
Fax: (865) 576-0003
Email: jiaoy@ornl.gov
Homepage: http://computing.ornl.gov/cse_home/staff/jiao
 Visa Status: F1

EDUCATION

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

Ph. D. in Computer Science and Engineering  (08/2005)

Thesis Proposal: "Application of Mobile Agents in Efficient and Secure Global Information System Design"

Advisor: Dr. Ali R. Hurson

 GPA: 3.85/4.0

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

M.S.  in Computer Science and Engineering    (05/2002)        

GPA: 3.88/4.0

Civil Aviation Institute of China, Tianjin, China

B.S. in Computer Science  (07/1997)

GPA: 85.2/100

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Software Engineering Research Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge , TN

(09/2005 – present)

Projects:

  • Explored the application of semantic-based information retrieval in the biomedical research domain.

  • Ongoing project: Improve the performance of software agents on high performance computing platforms.

  • Ongoing project: Develop document clustering techniques that can handle large volume, dynamic, and incremental data sets.

  • Ongoing project: Implement realistic user mobility patterns in supporting wireless network simulators such as NS2 and GlomoSim ( in collaboration with Dr. Ali R. Hurson at PSU).

The Global Information Systems Research Lab, Penn State University

(08/2002 - 08/2005)

Projects:

  • Proposed and prototyped a mobile agent-based information retrieval system.

  • Implemented a simulator for a large-scale multidatabase integration model, the summary-schemas model, to provide a test bed for multidatabase performance evaluation.

  • Quantitatively studied the client/server-based and the mobile agent-based computation paradigms in global information retrieval system design.

  • Augmented the network simulator NS2 to support detailed WLAN simulations. This extension allows researchers to implement and evaluate power management strategies at different levels in a WLAN environment.

  • Implemented a dynamic power management (DPM) protocol library that includes commonly used protocols in DPM performance comparisons.

  • Proposed and evaluated an adaptive application-driven dynamic power management scheme.

  • Proposed a security architecture for MAMDAS.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University                             2002-2003

School of Information Science and Technology, Penn State University                                   2000-2002

 

       Duties: give lectures, assist students with course projects, prepare online quizzes, maintain

       course website, grade homework and exams, and answer students’ questions

      

       Assisted Courses: Heterogeneous and Mobile Databa ses (CSE598C), Advanced Computer

       Architecture (CSE 530), Database Management System (IST 210), Business Data

       Communication (IST 220)

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

The University Club Inc., University Park, PA, USA

Assistant Manager  ( 2003-present)

 

       Duties: design and maintain the University Club website, screen and interview prospective

       residents, prepare contract and interpret policies, assist international students in transition to

       the United States, mediate and assist with resolutions when conflict arises, organize social

       functions, and co-chair meetings with residents and the Board of Directors

 

Beijing METSTAR Meteorological Radar Co., Ltd., Beijing, China

Customer Service Division (01/1999-10/1999)

 

       Duties: mediate between the client and government agencies, maintain software and

       documentation, and provide on-site technical support

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • System Administration: Windows 2000 server, MS IIS Server, and MS SQL Server

  • Operating Systems: Windows XP,  Sun Solaris, and Mac OS X

  • Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, JavaScript, ASP (ADO), SQL, XML, and WML

  • Database Management Systems: MS SQL Server and Oracle

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

  • Mandarin, Cantonese, English: fluent in speaking, reading, and writing.

  • Spanish, French: intermediate level proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Published Book Chapters

  • Hurson, A.R., Jiao, Y., and Shirazi, B.A. (2005). Broadcasting as a means to disseminate public data in a wireless environment – issues and solutions.  Advances in Computers. (to appear)

  • Jiao, Y., Hurson, A.R., and Potok, T.E. (2005). Mobile agent-based information systems and security.  The Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 2nd ed. (to appear)

  • Jiao, Y. and Hurson, A.R. (2005). MAMDAS – a mobile agent-based secure mobile data access system framework.  Advanced Topics in Database Research, vol 5.  (to appear)

  • Hurson, A.R., Ploskonka, J., Jiao, Y., and Haridas, H.  (2004). Security Issues and Solutions in Distributed Heterogeneous Mobile Database Systems.  Advances in Computers, vol. 61, pp.107-198.

  • Hurson, A.R. and Jiao, Y. (2004). Chapter 4: Data broadcasting in a mobile environment.  Wireless Information Highway, IRM Press, pp.96-154.

Published Journal Papers

  • Hurson, A.R. and Jiao, Y. (2005) Power-aware data retrieval protocols for indexed broadcast parallel channels.  Pervasive and Mobile Computing. (to appear)

  •  Jiao, Y. and Hurson, A.R. (2004). Application of mobile agents in mobile data access systems – a prototype.  Journal of Database Management, 15(4), pp. 1-24.

  • Jiao, Y. and Hurson, A. R. (2004). Performance analysis of mobile agents in mobile distributed information retrieval systems – a quantitative case study.  Journal of Interconnection Networks, 5(3), pp. 351-372, Special Issue.

Refereed Conference Papers

  • Yan, P., Jiao, Y. Hurson, A.R., and Potok, T.E. (2006). Semantic-based information retrieval of biomedical data. In Proc. of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing – Semantic-Based Resource Discovery, Retrieval and Composition (RDRC). (to appear) [acceptance rate: 23%] 

  • Jiao, Y., Hurson, A.R., and Shirazi, B.A. (2005) Online adaptive application-driven WLAN power management”.  In Proc. of the 48th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GlobeCom’05). (to appear)

  • Jiao, Y. and Hurson, A.R. (2005) Adaptive power Management for mobile agent-based information retrieval.  In Proc. of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’05), pp. 675-680. [acceptance rate: 33%]

  • Jiao, Y. and Hurson, A.R. (2004). Mobile agents and energy-efficient multidatabase design.  In Proc. of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’04), pp. 255-260. [acceptance rate: 26.4%]

  • Jiao, Y. and Hurson, A.R. (2004). Modeling and performance evaluation of agent and client/server-based information retrieval systems - a case study.  In Proc. of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference (CNDS’04), San Diego , CA , pp. 1-6.

  • Jiao, Y. and Hurson, A.R. (2004). Mobile agents in mobile heterogeneous database environment – performance and power consumption analysis.  In Proc. of the Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference (ASTC’04), pp. 185-190.

  • Jiao, Y. and Hurson A.R. (2003). Performance analysis of mobile agents in heterogeneous mobile database systems.  International Conference on Emerging Technology (ICET’03).

  • Haridas, H., Hurson, A.R., and Jiao, Y. (2003). Security aspects of wireless heterogeneous databases - protocol, performance, and energy analysis.  In Proc. of the 1st ICPP International Workshop on Wireless Security and Privacy, pp. 417-424.

  • Jiao, Y. and Hurson A.R. (2002). Mobile Agents in Mobile Data Access Systems.  In Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS’02), pp. 144-162, 2002. [acceptance rate: 25%]

Invited Papers

  • Hurson, A.R. and Jiao, Y. (2005). Keynote address: database system architecture – a walk through time: from centralized platform to mobile computing.  In Proc of the 5th IEEE International Symposium and School on Advance Distributed Systems (ISSADS’05).

  • Jiao, Y. and Hurson, A.R. (2004). Application-driven dynamic wireless network power management.  In Proc. of the IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology (ACST’04), pp. 291-296.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

  • I served as the Chair in my research group for two years. I organized weekly research meetings and acted as a coordinator among my colleagues.

  • Reviewer for ACS/IEEE ICCSA’05, IEEE Trans. on Computers, IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Computing

  • PC member of CSICC'06

 

REFERENCES

Dr. Thomas E. Potok Ph.D. (Mentor)

Applied Software Engineering Research Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1 Bethel Valley Rd , Bldg. 5700, MS 6085
Oak Ridge , TN 37831

Email Address: potokte@ornl.gov

Telephone: 1-865-0834

Fax: 1-865-576-0003

 

Dr. Ali R. Hurson (Ph. D. Thesis Advisor)

Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University

360F Information Sciences and Technology Building

University Park, PA 16802 USA

Email Address: hurson@cse.psu.edu

Telephone: 1-814-863-1187

Fax: 1-814-865-3176

 

 

Dr. John J. Hannan

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University

360C Information Sciences and Technology Building

University Park, PA 16802 USA

Email Address: hannan@cse.psu.edu

Telephone: 1-814-863-0702

Fax: 1-814-865-3176

 

 

Dr. Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

The Pennsylvania State University

354D Information Sciences and Technology Building

University Park, PA 16802 USA

Email Address: vijay@cse.psu.edu

Telephone: 1-814-863-0392

Fax: 1-814-865-3176

 

 

Dr. Eva J. Pell

Vice President for Research, Dean of the Graduate School

The Pennsylvania State University

304 Old Main

University Park, PA 16802-1504 USA

Email Address: ejp@psu.edu

Telephone: 1-814-863-9580

Fax: 1-814-863-9659

 

 

Dr. Behrooz Shirazi

Professor and Chairperson

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

The University of Texas at Arlington

Box 19015, 416 Yates St., Room 320, Nedderman Hall

Arlington, TX 76019-0015 USA

Email Address: shirazi@cse.uta.edu

Telephone: 1-817-272-3605

Fax: 1-817-272-3784

 

 

Mr. Fred Brenner

Deputy General Manager

Beijing Metstar Radar Co., Ltd.

Fudao Building No.11 Kaituolu

Shangdi Information Industry Base

Haidian District, Beijing 100085 China

Email Address: fred.brenner@metstar.net

Telephone: 86-10-62978495

Fax: 86-10-62981251

 

 

Ms. Marilyn A. Quethera

Vice President, Financial Advisor

Global Private Client Group

Merrill Lynch Inc.

120 Regent Court, Suite 200

State College, PA 16801 USA

Email Address: marilyn_quethera@ml.com

Telephone: 1-814-231-8915

Fax: 1-814-238-6130

 

 

Ms. Beth Maass

General Manager

The University Club Inc.

331 West College Avenue

State College, PA 16801 USA

Telephone: 1-814-237-6576

Fax: 1-814-237-6576