Xiao Luo Home address: 903-1094 Wellington Street Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2Z9 E-mail: luo@cs.dal.ca Homepage: http://www.cs.dal.ca/~luo/ Nationality: Canada Education Dalhousie University, Canada 09/2002-05/2009 Degree: Ph.D. of Computer Science GPA: 3.81/4.3 Thesis topic: Exploring a Hybrid Intelligent System for Document Analysis and Word Tracking Areas of interest: Text Mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, Temporal Data Prediction and Mining Dalhousie University, Canada 05/2001-08/2002 Degree(uncompleted): Master of Computer Science Took Master courses of computer science and then transferred to the Ph.D. program. Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST), China 09/1999-12/2000 Degree(uncompleted): Master of Computer Science GPA: 82/100 Areas of interest: Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST), China 09/1995-07/1999 Degree: Bachelor of Computer Science GPA: 85/100 Thesis topic: Design and implementation of a management information system (MIS) Employment National Research Council Canada, Moncton, NB, Canada Research Officer 07/2009-present * Working on the Personal Learning Environment(PLE) project GenieKnows.com Halifax, NS, Canada Software Engineer 10/2007-06/2009 * Researched and developed on personalized local search engine * Joined the group and develop the user’s profile management system * Designed and developed the query recommendation system for a specific user * Joined the group and developed the personalized ranking algorithm for local search * Wrote the computer programs in C++, python and SQL McCain Food Ltd Florenceville, NB, Canada Software Engineer 05/2007-09/2007 * Worked in a data warehouse / Business Intelligence environment as a development role * Database problem trouble shooting and problem solving * Analyzed existing business data flow * Developed ETL processes between operational systems and enterprise data warehouse * Interacted with business users for requirements gathering , perform analysis and design for some enhancement projects using OLAP modeling * Employed data analysis skills in solving problems the process of ETL and building the data cubes using T - SQL ( SQL server ) , Oracle Sales Analyzer , Oracle Batch Manager Configured the OLAP report settings in Crystal Report XI / Business Objects XI . Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, Canada Research Assistant 05/2001-08/2007 Worked on research projects: * Design and implement hybrid intelligent system for text document word tracking and categorization. * Design and implement recurrent linear GP models for control and predictive problems. * Comparative study of dimension reduction techniques for text document clustering. * Analyze word-based and word co-occurrence based sequence analysis for text categorization. Wrote computer programs in C, C++ and Matlab Published and presented research papers in major computer conferences Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, Canada Teaching Assistant 05/2001-05/2005 Courses: * CSCI 1101 Computer Science II (JAVA programming level I) * CSCI 1200 Introduction to Computing for Non-Majors * CSCI 2110 Computer Science III (JAVA programming level II) * CSCI 3120 Operating Systems * CSCI 3130 Software Engineering School of Physiotherapy, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS, Canada Computer Programmer and Analyst 04/2003-08/2003 * Developed a computer based research simulation system with a research team in school of Physiotherapy * Set up network environment * Installed and configured server (IIS) * Designed and implemented database objects (MS Access) * Designed and implemented web retrieval objects (HTML,ASP,JAVA script,SQL) School of Computer Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, China Research Assistant 09/1999-12/2000 * Designed and implemented interfaces for a Network Attached Storage system * Participated in a team to install and configure a Storage Area Network, which consists of HP workstations, Sun Solaris server, PC, and Exchange Publications Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications * Personalization of Content Ranking in the Context of Local Search, Philip O'Brien, Xiao Luo, Tony Abou-Assaleh, and Shujie Li, 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI'09), 2009 * Incorporating Temporal Information for Document Classification, Xiao Luo, A. Nur Zincir-Heywood, Workshop on Text Data Mining and Management (TDMM) with ICDE 2007 * Evolving Recurrent Linear-GP for Document Classification andWord Tracking, Xiao Luo, A. Nur Zincir-Heywood, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence(WCCI’06), Vancouver, Canada, 2006 * Benchmarking a Recurrent Linear GP Model on Prediction and Control Problems, Xiao Luo, Malcolm Heywood, and A. Nur Zincir-Heywood, 2006 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC’06), Springer-Verlag LNCIS 344, Yunan, China, 2006 * Comparison of a SOM Based Sequence Analysis System and Naive Bayesian Classifier for Spam Filtering, Xiao Luo, Nur Zincir-Heywood, IEEE Joint Conference on Neural Network (IJCNN’05), Montreal, Canada, 2005 * Evolving Recurrent Models Using Linear GP, Xiao Luo, M., Heywood and Nur Zincir- Heywood, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’05), Washington, D.C. USA, 2005 * Evaluation of Two Systems on Multi-class Multi-label Document Classification, Xiao Luo, Nur Zincir-Heywood, 2005 International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS’05), Springer Verlag LNAI 3488, New York, USA, 2005 * Comparing Dimension Reduction Techniques for Document Clustering,Bin Tang, Michael Shepherd, Malcolm I. Heywood, and Xiao Luo, Eighteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI’05), Victoria, BC, Canada, 2005 * Combining Word-based and Word Co-occurrence Based Sequence Analysis for Text Categorization, Xiao Luo, Nur Zincir-Heywood, IEEE Third International conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC’04), Shanghai, China, 2004 * Capturing Temporal Sequences for Text Representation Using Hierarchical SOMs, Xiao Luo, Nur Zincir-Heywood, 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning, Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA’04), Las Vegas, USA, 2004 * Analyzing Temporal Sequences for Text Categorization, Xiao Luo, Nur Zincir-Heywood, Eighth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES’04), Wellington, New Zealand, 2004 * Evaluation of Three Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Document Classification, Xiao Luo, Nur Zincir-Heywood, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE’04), Niagara Falls, Canada, 2004 * A Comparison of SOM Based Document Categorization Systems, Xiao Luo, Nur Zincir- Heywood, IEEE Joint Conference on Neural Network (IJCNN’03), Portland, USA, 2003 Technical Reports * A Comparative Study of Dimension Reduction Techniques for Document Clustering, Bin Tang, Xiao Luo, Malcolm I. Heywood, and Michael Shepherd, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University CS-2004-14, 2004 Other Conference Contributions * Effect of work pace on sitting behavior during short term computer tasks: A development study, Anne Fenety, Xiao Luo, Diane Sullivan Compton, Holly Kaye, Reid Ralph, Marilyn Clark, Andrea Sullivan, Canadian Physiotherapy Association Congress Abstracts, Victoria BC, May, 2005 Technical Certificate Expert Certificate of IBM DB2 Universal Database v6.1 Administration Professional Memberships and Activities * Student member of IEEE * Member of Dalhousie Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) Project * Reviewer of Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL’04) * Reviewer of 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) * Reviewer of IEEE World Congress of Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2008 Honors and Awards * Scholarship of Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dalhousie University 2001 - 2006 * Graduate Thesis Student Conference Travel Grant, Dalhousie University 2003 * Honor of Excellent student, HUST 2000 * Honor of Excellent graduate student, HUST 1999 * Honor of Excellent student, HUST 1998 * Excellent Academic Scholarship, HUST 1997-1998 * Fellowship of HUST 1996-1997