Lei Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Address: 401 Eagle Hts, Apt I, Madison, WI, 53705 Email: chenl@cs.wisc.edu URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~chenl/ Tel: (608)-345-7581 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUALIFICATIONS * Strong algorithm design and implementation ability, achieved high standings in various international programming contests * Strong communication skills and management ability, acted as the team leader for the contest group twice. * Extensive knowledge of scalable data mining and decision support algorithms and systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION 2001 -- current University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI * Major: Computer Sciences (GPA: 4.0/4.0) * Research Area : Database Management System * Intended Degree: Ph.D. of Computer Sciences (expected graduation date, June 2006) 1997 -- 2001 Tsinghua University, Beijing P.R.China * Major: Computer Sciences (GPA:3.7/4.0, top 10%) * Degree: Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Sciences and Technology * Honors: - Outstanding Undergraduate Student, 2001 - IBM Scholarship, 2001 - Outstanding Student Fellowship, 1997-2000 - Outstanding Freshman Fellowship ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AWARDS 1996 Gold Medal, International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI'96) 2000 Fourth Place & Asian Champion, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, World Finals, Orlando, USA 2001 First Place, ACM North Central North America Programming Contest 2002 Eleventh Place, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, World Finals, Hawaii, USA 1997 Bronze Medal, International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI'97) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXPERIENCE May. 2006 Google China -- * Technical Co-op (Summer Intern) Aug. 2006 * Named entity extraction in massive web page repository Jun. 2003 IBM Almaden Research Center -- * Technical Co-op (Summer Intern) Aug. 2003 * Integration of Websphere and XML content management system Jan. 2002 University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI -- * Research assistant in "Condor" high throughput computing project Jul. 2002 * Software package distribution system over grid Jul. 1999 IBM China Research Lab - Beijing China -- * Summer Research Intern Aug. 1999 * Univerisal Chinese input system over Internet ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELEVANT COURSES Fall, 2002 CS760 Machine Learning Fall, 2002 CS784 Advanced Data Models and Language Spring, 2002 CS764 Advanced Topics in Database Management System Spring, 2002 CS752 Advanced Computer Architecture Fall, 2001 CS736 Advanced Operating System Fall, 2001 CS564 Database Management System ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SKILLS & STRENGTHS * C/C++,Java,Pascal,VB,SQL,JDBC,JSP,HTML,Assembly,Perl * Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Unix/Linux, DOS * Excellent at algorithm design and optimization ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- REFERENCES * Professor Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin (raghu@cs.wisc.edu) * Professor Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin (jha@cs.wisc.edu) * Hui-I Xiao, IBM Almaden Research Center (hhsiao@almaden.ibm.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PUBLICATIONS * Lei Chen, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Paul Barford, Bee-Chung Chen, Vinod Yegneswaran: Composite Subset Measures. VLDB 2006: 403-414 * Bee-Chung Chen, Lei Chen, Raghu Ramakrishnan, David R. Musicant: Learning from Aggregate Views. ICDE 2006: 3 * Lei Chen, Zheng Huang, Raghu Ramakrishnan: Cost-Based Labeling of Groups of Mass Spectra. SIGMOD Conference 2004: 167-178 * Zheng Huang, Lei Chen, et. al.: Mass Spectrum Labeling: Theory and Practice. ICDM 2004: 122-129 * Bee-Chung Chen, Lei Chen, Yi Lin, Raghu Ramakrishnan: Prediction Cubes. VLDB 2005: 982-993 * Raghu Ramakrishnan, James J. Schauer, Lei Chen, Zheng Huang, Martin M. Shafer, Deborah S. Gross: The EDAM project: Mining atmospheric aerosol datasets. Int. J. Intell. Syst. 20(6): 759-787 (2005)