Nan Meng
Buffalo, NY *****
***********@*****.***
KEYWORDS
C/C++, PHP, Software and Web Developer
EDUCATION
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Master of Science, Computer Science and Engineering, June 2009
GPA: 3.89 / 4.0
Beijing University of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering, July 2006
GPA: 3.32 / 4.0
SKILLS
Computer Language: C++, C, PHP, HTML, CSS, LISP, SQL, XML, so forth
Software: MS Visual Studio, MS Office, Flash, Photoshop, MatLab, Emacs, MySQL,
Blender, so forth
Platform: Windows 2K/XP/Vista, UNIX/Linux, Solaris, Mac OS
Language: Mandarin - Simplified Chinese (native), English (fluent)
(note: each in the order from most experienced to familiar)
CURRENT VISA STATUS
F1-Student Visa, with OPT permission
PROJECTS / COURSES
Spring 09 3D Tetris: (personal project)
Implementing the game Tetris in 3D using C++ and Ogre SDK
Mini PHP Community Site: (personal project)
Implementing simple community site with Apache using PHP and MySQL
Fall 08 Advanced Knowledge Representation & Reasoning:
Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition:
Computationally Defining ‘pateroller’ via Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition (A)
Machine Learning:
Classification of Handwritten Digits using Naive Bayes Classifier (86/100)
Supervised/Unsupervised Learning using Neural Network and EM Algorithm (95/100)
Spring 08 Animate Vision Principles:
Graduate Research Project
Saccade and Tracking using a two-camera system with Foveal Vision and Kalman
Filter (A)
Knowledge Representation:
Using SNARK as an Ontology of Educational Institutions (100/100)
Using Prolog as a Knowledge-Based System (104/100)
A SNePS-Based Rescue Agent (97/100)
Modern Network Concepts: (C implementation on Unix)
Simpella: a P2P network resource sharing servant (15/15)
partner: Albert Y.C. Chen
Algorithm Analysis & Design:
Besides working on ordinary coursework, self implemented and tested various (divide-
conquer, greedy, max-flow, etc.) algorithms with C in Linux environment
Fall 07 Computer Vision and Image Processing:
Hough T-shape detector (A)
partner: Wenfeng Sheng
Introduction to Operating System: (C implementation on Unix)
Concurrency using processes and threads (95/100)
Multi-Threaded Programming: Communication and Synchronization (92/100)
Design and Implementation of Secondary Storage System (97/100)
Computational Linguistics:
N-gram Based Analysis to Determine the Epoch of a Given Work of Literature (18/20)
partners: David Roberts, Hersh Nagar, Omar Mukhtar
EMPLOYMENT / INTERNSHIP
Intern Feb ~ Apr 2009
STUDIO llc, Buffalo NY
Designed and implemented mini online community website with PHP, HTML,
CSS, MySQL, Flash, and SVN version control. Also conducted QA /testing.
IT Supervisor Feb ~ Jul 2007
Computer Room Regent Hotel Beijing, Beijing China
Managed and maintained network and domain servers. Hotel public drive structure
management. Food & Beverage devices maintenance. Technical issue communication
with headquarters, and so forth.
Data Editor Feb ~ May 2006
Yahoo China, Beijing China
Managed and processed customer information, self developed supporting automatic
scripting program expediting team performance.
EXPERIENCE
Personal Open Source C++ Project: OGRE – The 3D Game Engine
Feb 2009 ~ Present
Self Learning and development
Learn and work with the OGRE open source 3D game engine.
IT SHADOWING PROGRAM, STUDIO llc
Jan 8th 2009
Shadowed and assisted developers in various areas of web development: HTML, Flash
AS, XML, PHP, testing.