Resume
Hongwei Tian
Austin, TX 78745
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Education
**/**** – 12/2012 Ph.D., Department of Computer Science,
University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). GPA: 3.95/4.0
Dissertation: Privacy Preserving Data Mining through Data Publishing and Knowledge
Model Sharing
09/2004 - 06/2006 Master, College of Computer Science and Technology,
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China.
09/1998 - 07/2002 Bachelor, College of Computer Science and Technology,
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China.
Skills
Programming Language (proficient) Java (J2SE/J2EE), SQL;
(prior experience) C++, C, Matlab, HTML, JSP, XML, UML
Professional Data Mining Techniques, Algorithms, Spring Framework,
Agile Software Development (Scrum), Perforce
Database MySQL, SQL Server, DB2
IDE Eclipse, JBuilder, Netbeans
Web Server Weblogic, Tomcat, Websphere
Development Tools EJB, Hibernate, JUnit, Log4j, Ant, Rational Rose
Operating System Windows, Linux (Ubuntu)
Spoken Language English, Chinese
Learning About JavaScript, PHP, CSS, Apache Hadoop, MapReduce, Developer Force, Oracle
Experiences
01/2013 - Present Non-tenure-track Faculty, Instructor, CS4953 Data Mining, CS2233 Discrete Math, UTSA
06/2009 - 12/2012 Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, UTSA
09/2006 - 05/2009 Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, UTSA
12/2005 - 06/2006 Intern, IBM China Development Lab
09/2004 - 11/2005 Research Software Developer, State Key Laboratory of Network and Switch, China
11/2001 - 06/2002 Software Engineer, Beijing Linksquare Intelligence System Ltd., China
Selected Projects
01/2013 - Present Privacy-Preserving Data Storage in Cloud Computing
Research Project, UTSA
Use Java to develop various types of algorithms and experiments to exploit the
potential privacy attacks and protections in the Cloud, especially when the sensitive
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data must be outsourced to an untrustworthy location.
09/2006 - 12/2012 Privacy Preservation in Data Mining
Research Project, UTSA
Use Java, MySQL, and Matlab to develop various types of algorithms to protect
privacy of individuals in the published data or knowledge models, while apply data
mining techniques (Classification and Clustering) to analyze utility in the publication.
12/2005 - 06/2006 Query Execution in DB2 version 9
Internship Project, IBM China Development Lab
Use Java, Swing (Java), and DB2 to develop Eclipse plug-in tools to tune DB2 explain
tables and also perform quality assurance by testing queries in DB2 system.
01/2005 - 11/2005 CNGI Universal Service Platform
Team Project, State Key Laboratory of Network and Switch, China
Use Java, MySQL, Hibernate, JSP, and Tomcat in J2EE architecture to develop the data
management module in universal service platform of Chinese next generation internet.
09/2004 - 12/2004 Intelligent Integrate Service Platform
Team Project, State Key Laboratory of Network and Switch, China
Use Java, EJB, MySQL, and Weblogic in J2EE architecture to develop the data and
control management module in Intelligent Integrate Service Platform which allows
different third-party users to deploy their applications easily.
11/2001 - 06/2002 Soft-Switch System Supporting Mobile & Multimedia
Team Project, Beijing Linksquare Intelligence System Ltd., China
Use C++ to implement Gateway Configuration in Soft-Switch System so that Internet,
Telephone network and Cable television network can conform to the same standard.
Selected Research Publications
Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing Based Utility Specification. PASSAT, 2013.
Improved Dynamic Anonymization to Achieve m-Invariance and e-Equivalence. Under review.
A Knowledge Model Sharing Based Approach to Privacy-Preserving Data Mining. TDP, 2012.
Extending L-Diversity to Generalize Sensitive Data. DKE, 2009.
Extending L-Diversity for Better Data Anonymization. ITNG, 2009.
Balancing Privacy and Utility with Most Beneficial Minimal Generalizations. Technical Report, 2007.
Privacy-Preserving Data Mining Through Knowledge Model Sharing. PinKDD, 2007.
Rewards and Certificates
University Teaching Certificate, UTSA, 2010
IBM Certified Database Administrator (DB2 Universal Database V8.1 for Linux/UNIX/Windows), 2005
IBM Certified Database Associate (DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family), 2005
National Scholarship Award, BUPT, China, 2004-2005
Excellent Graduate, BUPT, China, 2002
Visa Sponsorship
Can start working immediately using OPT
Need H-1B sponsorship