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Wei Tang's Resume



Contact Info

  100 N Sepulveda Blvd. El Segundo, CA 90245
Resume URL: http://www.tangwei.net   [Mirror]
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Email Address: contact AT tangwei DOT net
Former Home Page: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~wtang

Current Post

02/2004-now, Software Development Engineer, NCR Corp. Teradata Division.

Objective

Contribute my expertise in a research and development team that strives to build innovative software systems on databases, cutting edge Web technologies, and middleware.

Education

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), PhD in CS (Minor in Business Management), 2003.
    Thesis: Internet-Scale Information Monitoring: A Continual Query Approach
  • Oregon Graduate Institute (Portland, OR), PhD student in Computer Sci. and Engineering, 1999
  • University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), MS in Computer Science, 1998
  • Peking University (Beijing, China), BS in Computer Science, 1996

    • Research Interests

    Distributed Data Intensive Systems, Information Monitoring (IM), Information Retrieval (IR), Information Filtering (IF), Information Extraction (IE), Data Modeling, Integration and Visualization, Data Mining, Web Services, Mobile Computing.

    Research Projects

  • WebCQ (http://disl.cc.gatech.edu/WebCQ): Principle architect/developer
    Personalized Information Change Monitoring and Notification on the Web
    Implementation Languages: Java, JavaScript
  • Continual Queries (http://disl.cc.gatech.edu/CQ): Principle architect/developer
    Update Monitoring for Structured/Semi-structured Data
    Implementation Languages: Perl, Java, JavaScript
  • XWRAP Elite (http://disl.cc.gatech.edu/XWRAPElite): Minor participation
    an eXtensible Wrapper Generation System
    Implementation Language: Java
  • Omini (http://disl.cc.gatech.edu/Omini): Minor participation
    Object Mining and Extraction System
    Implementation Language: Java
  • AQR (http://disl.cc.gatech.edu/QR): Minor participation
    an Adaptive Query Routing Middleware System
    Implementation Language: Java

    • Research, Teaching, and Work Experience

  • Software Development Engineer
    02/2004-now, Query Optimizer Group, NCR Corp. Teradata Division.
    Outstanding Contribution Award, 2005 and 2004
  • Research assistant
    05/2003-12/2003, Georgia Institute of Technology
    09/1999-08/2002, Georgia Institute of Technology
    09/1998-08/1999, Oregon Graduate Institute
    05/1998-08/1998, University of Alberta
    05/1997-08/1997, University of Alberta
  • Teaching Assistant
    01/2003-05/2003, CS4420: Database Implementation, Georgia Institute of Technology
    08/2002-12/2002, CS8803: Internet Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
    09/1997-04/1998, CMPUT291: Introduction to File and Database Management, Univ. of Alberta
    09/1996-04/1997, CMPUT101: Introductory Pascal, University of Alberta
  • Summer intern
    05/2001-08/2001, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center: Data mining and cost-sensitive learning.

    • Professional Activities

  • Publicity Chair for ICDE'06 (International Conference on Data Engineering), 2006
  • Technical Program Committee Member for ICWI'05 (IADIS International Conference on WWW/Internet), 2005
  • Demo PC member for ICDE'05 (International Conference on Data Engineering), 2005
  • Invited session chair for IEEE ICWS'04 (International Conference on Web Services), 2004
  • Reviewer for WWWJ (World Wide Web Journal), 2004
  • Member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) since 2004
  • Reviewer for ACM CIKM'03 (International Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management), 2003
  • Reviewer for IJCAI-03 (Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), 2003
  • Reviewer for WISE'02 (International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering), 2002
  • Student volunteer for ACM CIKM'01 at Atlanta, GA, 2001
  • Demo team member on Adaptive Query Routing Middleware in ACM SIGMOD 2000
  • Reviewer for IEEE TKDE (Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering), 2000
  • Reviewer for ACM SIGMOD Record, 1999
  • Reviewer for ACM ICDE'99 (International Conference on Data Engineering)
  • Lead demo team member on Continual Queries system in ACM SIGMOD 1998
  • Member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) since 1998

    • Programming Languages and Tools (partial list)

  • Programming: Java, Perl, C, C++, Python, JavaScript, Shell, SQL, XML, DHTML, UML, Latex, Matlab.
  • DB management: Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hsqldb, Instant DB, Cloudscape, PointBase.
  • Favorite IDE's: Eclipse, IBM VisualAge for Java, NetBeans, Delphi.
  • Wireless App. Development: J2ME, Java Servlet/JSP.

    • Community Services

  • VP Programs of 4A-LA (Asian/Pacific American Association for Advancement, LA Chapter), NCR Corp. (year 2006)
  • VP Membership of 4A-LA (Asian/Pacific American Association for Advancement, LA Chapter), NCR Corp. (year 2005)
  • Graduate Student Council member for Distinguished Lecture Series in College of Computing (year 2001)
  • President of the Chinese Friendship Association at Georgia Tech (year 2000)

    • Publications

     

    BizCQ: Using Continual Queries to Cope with Changes in Business Information Exchange (with Kipp Jones, Ling Liu and Calton Pu) In the Proceedings The 13th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW'04), New York City, NY USA, 2004. (poster paper)

     

    Trigger Grouping: A Scalable Approach to Large Scale Information Monitoring (with Ling Liu and Calton Pu) In the Proceedings The 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'03), Cambridge, MA, USA, 2003.

    Information Monitoring on the Web: A Scalable Solution (with Ling Liu, David Buttler, and Calton Pu) World Wide Web Journal (by Kluwer Academic Publishers), Volume 5, No. 4, 2002

     

    WebCQ: Detecting and Delivering Information Changes on the Web (with Ling Liu and Calton Pu) In the Proceedings of Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'00), Washington D.C., 2000.

     

    Supporting Internet Applications Beyond Browsing: Trigger Processing and Change Notification (with Ling Liu and Calton Pu) In the Proceedings of International Computer Science Conference (ICSC'99), Hong Kong, China. (extended abstract)

     

    Continual Queries for Internet Scale Event-Driven Information Delivery (with Ling Liu and Calton Pu) Special issue on Web Technologies, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 1999.

     

    Building an Extensible Wrapper Repository System: A Metadata Approach (with Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Han, and David Buttler) In the Proceedings of IEEE Metadata Conference, Maryland, 1999.

     

    An XML-based Software Toolkit for Constructing Data Wrappers (with Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Han, and David Buttler) In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, 1999. (demo)

     

    Conquer: A Continual Query System for Update Monitoring in the WWW (with Ling Liu, Calton Pu, and Wei Han) Special Issue on Web semantics, International Journal of Computer Systems, 1999.

     

    Personalized Update Monitoring Toolkit Using Continual Queries: System Design and Implementation Master's thesis, University of Alberta, Canada, 1998.

     

    CQ: A Personalized Update Monitoring Toolkit (with Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Dave Buttler, John Biggs, Paul Benninghoff, Wei Han, and Fenghua Yu) In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, 1998. (demo)