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EDUCATION

Ph.D. candidate, Applied and computational Mathematics, Caltech, USA, Sep. 2005-present

Course Emphasis: Statistics, Optimization, Probability and Stochastic Modeling, Numerical Partial Differential Equations, Stochastic Differential Equations, Markov Chains

M.S., Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, Peking University, China, Sep. 2002 - Jul. 2005

Course Emphasis: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, Nonlinear Dynamics, Modern Control Theory

B.S., Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, Peking University, China, Sep. 1998 - Jul. 2002

Course Emphasis: Fluid Mechanics, Elastic Mechanics, Algorithm and Data Structure, Computer Graphics, Assemble Language and Microcomputer.

Exchange Student, Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsinghua Univ., Taiwan, China, Jul. 2001 - Sep. 2001

CFD & CAE software: Fluent, ICEM, Ansys, Star-CD, SolidWorks, Powerflow, Model-frontier, Pro-Am
Programming languages: C++, C, Matlab, Simulink, SQL, Java, FORTRAN, CSS, Html
Parallel Programming: Shared-Memory (Multi-threaded), Distributed-Memory (MPI, PETSC), GPU (cuda, cublas, cufft)
Packages and Libraries: MPI, PETSC, FFTW, Lapack, Linpack

Research Assistant, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA,2006 - present
- Applied stochastic variational numerical integrator to large-scale noisy circuits with fast switches.
- Used Monte Carlo Methods for comparisons, Multi-scale computation and Homogenization for acceleration.
- Implemented the computation-intensive parts by C++ which are linked to main program written in matlab.
Research Assistant, Computational Fluid Mechanics Lab, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2002-2005
- Modeled and designed numerical algorithm to simulate insect flight. Based on this work, two papers were published and the 10th Peking University Challenge Cup was awarded for excellence.
- Combined the Genetic algorithm and Fluent software to optimize the airfoil with 16% increase on performance.
- Customized Fluent software by Parallel C code to handle body-fluid interaction problem such as transonic airfoil vibration and Completed massive parallel computations on IBM RS6000.
Honored Exchange Student, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, Summer 2001
- Set up Linux cluster and tuned the parallel environment for high-performance computing.
- Designed fast parallel algorithm for heat conduction problem and implemented via MPI on Linux cluster.

Application Developer, Oracle Inc., Redwood Shores, California, USA, Sep 2008 - May 2009
- Develope and integrate two solution components into Oracle Fusion Procurement by using PLSQL/SQL, JAVA with in JDEV IDE
- Develope a script to automatically refresh database schema, build and deploy Fusion Procuement Application to the target application server from the latest developing code line, which help developers avoid breaking the code line and managers monitor code quality
Software Designer, Founder Space Time Co., Beijing, China, Summer 2004
- Collaborated with hardware group, designed and implemented multithreaded software for a plane-based probing system and achieved real-time data acquisition, processing and visualization. Customers are impressed by the code robustness in flight test and continued to invest on the second stage of development.
CFD Consultant and Software Engineer, CD-adapco Co., Beijing, Chian, 2001-2003
- Tested Star-CD software on engineering problems such as car internal and external flows, turbo-machine.
- Worked on train air conditioner consulting cases, prepared reports and presented to industrial customers.

LiMing Scholarship at Caltech, Summer 2007
Special Institute Fellowship at Caltech, 2005-2006
Exellent Student on Mechanics, The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2002
"Chun-Tsung Scholar", Organizing Committee of the "Chun-Tsung Endowment", 2001
Canon Scholarship for Excellent Student, Peking University, 2001

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