Lifeng Zhang

abmysf@r.postjobfree.com, **** Connecticut Ave NW 307, Washington DC, 20008, 515-

***-****

Career Objective:

Obtain a co-op, intern or full time position (software

engineer, programmer, developer, computer scientist, bioinformatician,

research scientist). Need H1B Sponsorship

Education

Iowa State University

Ames, IA

Doctor of Philosophy Candidate: Computer

Engineering, Graduation: Spring 2010

Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST)

Wuhan, China

Master of Science: Computer Science, Graduation:

June 2003

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science, Graduation:

June 2000

Research Experience

In PhD study, completed multifaceted projects in text mining, natural

language processing, information retrieval, machine learning, statistics

for research, advanced protocols and TCP/IP network security.

. Text Mining in Bioinformatics

. 2005 - present: PathBinder, an open source biological text mining

system over millions of documents

(http://metnet.vrac.iastate.edu/MetNet_PathBinder.htm)

o Explored text empirics in millions biological publications

(MEDLINE) by statistical analysis

o Designed a statistics (Bayesian) and information retrieval

theory-based (tf-idf) algorithm to extract, evaluate

biomolecular interactions and construct an interaction

network from millions of biomedical texts

o Designed and constructed the whole system including java

applications for text (millions of citations, XML)

collection, natural language in scientific papers processing,

entity extraction, phrase segmentation, syntactic analysis,

database (mysql, hundred GB size) design, creation and

update, and an java application serving interaction query

interface

. 2006 - present: PubmedAssistant, a more friendly searching tool for

PubMed system (http://metnet.vrac.iastate.edu/browser/)

. Information visualization for system biology

. 2006 - present: BirdsEyeView, an open source data

visualization java software graphically mapping biological

entities on cell map, pathway tree, Gene Ontology hierarchy

structure based on information stored in Mysql database

(http://metnetdb.org/MetNet_BirdsEyeView.htm)

. Human computer interaction improvement

. Jan 2005 - summer, 2005: Website Usability Improvement for

Invitrogen Corporration

. 2001 - 2003: Virtual Lab in Distance Learning System, Visual C++

and MS SQL Server system

Computer Skills

. Programming: C/C++, JAVA, ASP, PASCAL, Perl, PHP, Assembly

Language, Visual C++, PowerBuilder, HTML, XML, SAS, MySQL, MS

SQL Server, JMP, SVN, ANT, Lucene, Apache, Tomcat

. System: Windows, Linux

. Software: Microsoft office, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop,

Dreamweaver

Working Experience

. Jan., 2010 - present: Financial software engineer intern,

Fannie Mae, Washington, DC

o Apply computer technology as well as mathematical and

statistical knowledge to implement financial models and

improve desktop and web based user interfaces

. Fall, 2008: Teaching Assistant for Computer & Internet

Security, Iowa State University

. Fall, 2004: Teaching Assistant for Java Programming, Iowa State

University

. Summer, 1999: Database system administrator intern in China

Telecom, Wuhan branch.

. 2001 - 2003: Intern in Wuhan Cyber Ltd. Distance Learning System

(c++, socket)

o Constructed the database for the whole Distance Learning

Virtual Lab system (MS Sql Server)

o Constructed the server program managing the client

connection and the database

o Constructed the service program for clients and server

managers

Activities

. Member of Transportation Club, Secretary, Club Vice President,

Toastmaster International

Honors

. 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Excellent Academic Awards in HUST

. Advanced Communicator Certificate (Silver), Toastmasters

International

Publications

. Zhang L, Berleant D, Ding J, Cao T, Wurtele E (2009) PathBinder-

Text empirics and automatic extraction of biomolecular

interactions. BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 11):S18

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