Engineer Assistant

Yao Xing

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College Station, TX, 77840 ***********@*****.***

EDUCATION BACKGROUND:

Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Sep 2008 ~ May 2013

M.S. in Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai,

China Sep 2005 ~ Mar 2008

B.S. in Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering (minors in International Maritime

Transportation), Tianjin University, Tianjin, China Sep 2001 ~ Jun 2005

RESEARCH and PROJRCT EXPERIENCE:

Dissertation: Vehicle Dispatching Problem at Container Terminal with Tandem Lift Quay Crane

Advisor: Dr. Luca Quadrifoglio

Propose an innovative method to solve the vehicle dispatching problem in container terminals.

The proposed method is able to “tighten” the search space by cutting off feasible solutions based

on the logic consideration. The numerical experiments showed that the method helped the MILP

solver to reduce the computation time up to 90%.

Develop a heuristic on-line vehicle dispatching rule for practical application. It is robust in the

dynamic working environment and it could shorten the ship’s turnaround time by around 10%

compared with the current employed dispatching method.

Thesis: The Hydrodynamic Property of Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH)

Advisor: Dr. Hong Yi

Design the shipform of SWATH using AutoCAD according to the customer requirements.

Analyze the hydrodynamic property of SWATH using software and modify the shipform design to

reduce the wave-making resistance.

Participate the hydrodynamic experiment and conduct the data analysis for continuing research.

Graduate Research Assistant, Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, TX Oct 2008 ~ Aug 2012

Conduct clustering analysis using SPSS to divide the public transit agents in Texas rural area into

peer groups for the performance measurement.

Investigate the vehicle dispatching problem and its effect on the tandem lift quay cranes’

productivities in container terminals.

Propose the mathematical programming method to solve vehicle routing and scheduling problem.

Modeling and coding with C++; ILOG; and CPLEX Concert Technology.

Teaching Experience:

Graduate Teaching Assistant in Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Sep 2012 ~ May 2013

Tutor the students for Engineering Economy, Optimization and Simulation.

Grade the homework and exams.

Graduate Teaching Assistant in Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai Sep 2007 ~ Jan 2008

Tutor the students for Pipeline Transportation.

Prepare the class materials; grade the homework and exams.

Other Work Experience:

Designer in Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute, Shanghai Mar 2008 ~ July 2008

Design the shipform using AutoCAD under the senior engineer’s supervision.

Field work in the laboratory.

Write the report to the supervisor.

SKILLS:

Integer Programming; Discrete Event Simulation; Traffic Simulation; Design and Draft

C++; ILOG-CPLEX; ArcGIS; JMP; SPSS; Matlab; AutoCAD; ARENA; CORSIM; Synchro;

PASSER

PUBLICATION PLAN:

“Dispatch Problem of Automated Guided Vehicles for Serving Tandem Lift Quay Crane”

(Accepted by Journal of Transportation Research Board in Feb, 2012)

“Local Sequence-Cut Method for AGV Dispatching Problem at Automated Container Terminals

with Tandem Lift Quay Cranes” (Submitted to Transportation Science and Under Review)

HONER:

UTCM Fellowship 2008-2012

LANGUAGES:

English: fluent

Chinese: mother language

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Membership (ITE)

CERTIFICATES:

Engineer-In-Training (EIT), Passed the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam in 2009

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