Resume::Ying Hu

Profile

A current UBC M.A.Sc candidate majored in Electrical and Computer Engineering, specialized in machine learning and data mining. (GPA: 89.2/100 )
A NSERC postgraduate scholarship holder with a research project of "Data Mining for Decision Making".
4 years of working experience as a software developer in development of ERP System. Exposure to full software lifecycle development including analysis, design, implementation, integration and testing.
Solid skills in Object Oriented programming especially PowerBuilder, client/server database application. Working knowledge in a variety of programming languages including C/C++, Java

Professional Experience

05/2001 - Present	Research Assistant
	Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC
07/1996 - 04/2000	Developer/Analyst
	Fortuna Information Technology Co. Ltd, China

Research Assistant

Research focused on machine learning, especially data mining techniques in the area of classification, association rule mining. Working on new algorithms of treatment learning.

Achievements:

Wide range literature review in machine learning, data mining.
Algorithm design, implementation and optimization. Delivery of two data mining packages.
Active maintenance of software's user manual and online distribution.
Large scale data experiments.

Publications:

T. Menzies and E. Chiang and M. Feather and Y. Hu and J.D. Kiper (2002); Condensing uncertainty via Incremental Treatment Learning; in Annals of Software Engineering.
Ying Hu and Tim Menzies (2001); Reusing models for requirements engineering; In proceedings of First International Workshop on Model-based Requirements Engineering.
T. Menzies and Y. Hu (2003); Data Mining for Busy People; Submitted to IEEE Computer.
T. Menzies and D. Raffo and Y. Hu and S. Setamanit and S. Tootoonian (2002); Model-based Tests of Truisms; In proceedings of IEEE ASE.

Skill highlights:

C programming
Gnu utilities: gnuplot, gawk, shell programming
Type setting utilities: LaTeX, LaTeX2html, Perl

Software Developer/System Analyst

Initial design and incremental development of commercial ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems for large supermarkets and store chains.

Achievements:

The following 8 modules for the ERP system (YTPOS 2.0 - 3.0). System currently installed in 3 major public retail/whole-sale chains in China and numerous regional commercial enterprises nation-wide.
1. Merchandise Categorization and Encoding
2. Bar-code Reading/Generation/Printing
3. Daily Sales Terminal (POS) Data Processing
4. Sales/Stock Query and Statistics Analysis
5. Monthly Inventory Data Processing
6. Storage Dispatch Management
7. Corporate Headquarter and Chain Store Management
8. Cost/Profit Calculating and Analysis
Accounting System Modules
Documentation and Client Training

Skill highlights:

OO programming with Powerbuilder 5-6.5
Database application with Client/server architecture and Sybase 11.
Database adminstration, efficient SQL query and server-side programming (stored procedures).
Customized Report writer
Bar code encryption, printing and processing
Mixed environment of DOS,Win 9x, Win NT and Unix

Education

Master of Applied Science (expected 05/03)
University of British Columbia (09/2001 - present)
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship Holder
ASI (Advanced System Institute) Graduate Scholarship

Bachelor of Engineering
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (09/1992 - 07/1996)
Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Awarded 'Scholarship for Excellence' for 4 years
Graduated with honor standing

Professional Certification and Training

Certificate for Sybase training, (04/1997). By Sybase (China) Co. Chengdu Office, China
General Accounting Training, (10,1997)
Business Management Training, (3,1998)

Technical Skill Set Summary

Programming Language

Powerbuilder (ver5, 6)	3.5 years extensive use in professional environment
SQL (Sybase T-SQL, Oracle PL/SQL)	3.5 years extensive use in professional environment
C	2 years academic use for thesis research project
C++/Java	1 year academic use for course work
Perl/Python/VB	6 months academic use for course work
HTML/CSS	personal use for homepages

Software and Tools

Windows	everyday use
Unix/Linux	academic use
Sybase Adaptive Server	professional environment
MS Office software package	everyday use

Reference

Available upon request