(Sharon)Xilu Ran

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiluran

EDUCATION

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. M.S. in Computer Science Aug. 2013 – May. 2015

Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

B.S. in Computer Science Sep. 2009 – July. 2013

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Language: Java, C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Eclipse, Unity, Coda2, MySQL Coursework: Algorithms, Database Systems, Web Technologies, AI, Information Integration on the Web, Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines, OS, Software Architectures PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Information Retrieval and Visualization Apr. 2015

•! Crawl and de-duplicate datasets from NASA using Nutch and Tika.

•! Build an indexing system using Apache-Solr and implement a ranking algorithm.

•! Leverage D3.js, Banana and FacetView to visualize data from Apache-Solr. String Similarity & Entity Extraction Mar. 2015

•! Use different function to calculate similarity of two files. Such as Jaro, TF-IDF, edit-distance, etc.

•! Use OpenCalais to get entities in RDF and then use Sesame to load them into a triple store. Mobile Game “Paper Plain” (Android) Sep. 2014 – Dec. 2014

•! Use Unity to build 3D Scenes on which the game runs.

•! Use Javascript to create features in game and control all movement of features. Sudoku Solver (CPS) & Chemical Storage Arrangement (SAT) Apr. 2014

•! Use backtracking search to solve a Sudoku puzzles in either non-heuristic or heuristic approach.

•! Help to find good way to store all chemical in given containers. Some chemical cannot be stored

in one container while some must be stored in the same container. Traders Searching System Apr. 2014

•! Develop a system for trading, use SQL to insert/delete data. Developed queries at large scale using Hadoop MapReduce, which was executed on top of Amazon EC2. Current Weather and Weather Forecast Search (Web Page & Android) Nov. 2013 – Dec. 2013

•! Set up AJAX to send XMLHttpRequest and parsed the JSON string. Built Java Servlet to call PHP script on AWS.

•! Post the result of weather to Facebook using Facebook API. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE!

“Twitter Hot Topics by Map Reduce” May. 2014

“A Contrast Learning based Approach for Customer Reviews Crawling from Dynamic Web Pages”

•! Public in Journal of Computer Research and Development 2012 Oct. 2012

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