Computer Science Assistant

George Chang, Ph.D. Kean University

Department of Computer Science

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http://www.kean.edu/~gchang/ 908-***-****

Professional Experiences:

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07/08 - present Chair - Kean University, Department of Computer Science, Union, N.J.

07/07 - 06/08 Coordinator - Telecommunication and Information Technology Program, Dept. of CS, Union, N.J.

09/05 - 08/09 Associate Professor - Kean University, Department of Computer Science, Union, N.J.

09/99 - 06/05 Assistant Professor - Kean University, Department of Math. & Computer Science, Union, N.J.

Conducting research and software development in Virtual and Augmented Reality and HCI.

Pending NSF MRI-R2: Acquisition of hardware for data visualization and exploratory analysis

with D. Joiner and P. Morreale, Proposal No. 095904, $593,000.00.

Awarded NSF DUE: Project ASK: Applying Student Knowledge for Success in Computer Science,

with P. Morreale, Proposal No. 0804664, $584,875.00, 2008-2013.

Awarded NSF MRI: Acquisition of Computing Equipment to Enhance Computational Science

Research at Kean University, with D. Joiner, Proposal No. 0722790, $420,000.00, 2007-2009.

Chair of the Computational Science Group and Director of High-Performance Computational

Laboratory (http://csg.kean.edu).

Visiting Researcher at the Center for Applied Genomics at the International Center for Public

Health (ICPH). Designed and implemented an Online Microarry Analysis System. 2002-2003.

Inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (www.phikappaphi.org) in January 2003.

Coached Kean s programming teams for the ACM Regional Programming Contest 2000-2004.

Taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in Databases, Data Structures and Programming

Techniques in Java and C++, and Special Topics.

New courses developed:

Graduate: Web Database Programming (PHP/Perl/Servlet/JSP/JDBC/MySQL)

Graduate: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Graduate: Principles of Informatics: Algorithms and Tools

Graduate: Enterprise Software Development (J2EE/EJB/XML)

Graduate: Component Software Design and Design Patterns

Graduate: High-Performance Computing

Undergrad: New Media Programming I (Flash/Actionscript/Video/Audio)

Undergrad: New Media Programming II (Flash/Actionscript/XML/DB/Components)

Undergrad: Database System Concepts and Applications

Undergrad: Foundations of Information Technology

Undergrad: Game Design and Development

Undergrad: Virtual and Augmented Reality

09/06 - 06/07 Software Engineering Consultant - MobileAware Inc. Cranbury, N.J.

Designed, implemented and maintained Automated Build Procedure for all products.

05/00 - 11/01 Mobile/Wireless Computing Consultant - Mobilocity, Inc. New York. N.Y.

Designed and Implemented Voice Application Framework using Java Design Patterns.

Implemented Voice Alert System for Bookspan.

Integrated Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, WebLogic, OpenSSL,

OpenLDAP, mod_ssl, mod_php, mod_perl, CVS, and Kerberos into Enterprise Mobile/Wireless

Computing Backend Infrastructure at Mobilocity.

01/95 - 08/99 Research Assistant - Knowledge and Data Engineering Lab., NJIT CIS Dept., Newark, N.J.

Designed & implemented a Web-based Approximate Querying System using Java, C, and Perl.

Designed Web-based Approximate Query Language.

Ported Structural Document Comparison Tool to PREDATOR (an ORDBMS).

Designed & implemented Structural Document Comparison Tool using Tcl/Tk and C.

Designed & implemented Document Query Language using Lex/Yacc and C.

Designed & implemented Pattern Matching and Discovery Visual Toolkit for genome data using

Tcl/Tk and C.

Supervised fourteen Master s Projects.

Research Assistantship, from NSF grants IRI-9224602 and IRI-9531548, every summer 1995-1998.

09/95 - 08/99 Special Lecturer (1/99- 8/99) - NJIT CIS Dept., Newark, N.J.

Teaching Assistant (9/95- 12/98) - NJIT CIS Dept., Newark, N.J.

Taught graduate and undergraduate courses in:

CIS631 - Graduate Course in Database Management Systems Design (Summer 98/99).

CIS431 - Introduction to Database Systems (S97/F97).

CIS333 - UNIX Operating System Internals and Programming (F98/S99).

CIS114 Honors - Introduction to Data Structures (S98).

CIS104/106 - Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving (F95/S96).

01/94 - 05/94 Teaching Assistant - NYIT Computer Science Dept., Westbury, N.Y.

Directed programming lab sessions for an undergraduate programming class.

Provided consultation in C++ programming language and data structures.

06/89 - 08/89 Research Assistant - University of Georgia, Entomology Dept., Athens, G.A.

Analyzed the surface lipids of social wasps (Polistes metricus) and their nests using HP GC/MS.

Analyzed the relationship between wasp nestmates and their nest using SPSS.

Performed bioassay on social wasps.

Education:

Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

Dissertation Title: WAQS: A Web-based Approximate Querying System.

Master of Science in Computer and Information Science

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Statistics

State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N.Y.

Computer Skills:

Certification: Redhat Certified Engineer. Certification No:806************

Language/Tool: C/C++, Java/JSP/EJB, Perl, PHP, Actionscript, Tcl/Tk, SQL, bash, Lex/Yacc, LISP, Pascal,

sed/awk, BASIC, XML/HTML/WML/VoiceXML, ASM 80x86, MC680x0, CVS/RCS.

Hardware: PC, Mac, SUN Sparc, Fujitsu AP1000 Multiprocessor, VAX, SBC88, HP 300 PC with HP

5890A Gas Chromatography and HP 5970 Series Mass Spectrometry.

Operating System: Linux, Solaris, MS Windows, MacOS, and OS X.

Database System: Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

Authored Book:

"Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach," G. Chang, M.J. Healey, J. McHugh and J.T.L.

Wang. Kluwer Academic Publishers, June 2001, ISBN: 0-7923-7349-9. http://www.wkap.nl/book.htm/0-7923-7349-9

Japanese Translation: Kyoritsu Publisher, January 2004, ISBN: 4-320-12087-6.

http://www.kyoritsu-pub.co.jp/shinkan/shin0401_05.html

Paper Publications:

"The Future of Augmented Reality in Education," G. Chang, P. Morreale, and S. Medicherla,. Proceedings of the 21st

International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, March 29-April 2, 2010,

San Diego, CA, accepted.

"Visualization for Increased Understanding and Learning Using Augmented Reality," S. Medicherla, G. Chang, and

P. Morreale. Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval,

demo paper, March 29-31, 2010, Philadelphia, PA, accepted.

"Connecting Undergraduate Programs to High School Students: Teacher Workshops on Computational Thinking and

Computer Science," P Morreale, D. Joiner, and G. Chang, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 2010,

accepted.

"Methodology for Successful Undergraduate Recruiting in Computer Science at Comprehensive Public Universities,"

P. Morreale, S. Kurkovsky, and G. Chang. Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science

education, March 4-7, 2009, Chattanooga, TN, pp. 91-95.

"Real-time Contextual Representation of Sensor Network Data for Environmental Trend Identification, " P. Morreale,

F. Qi, P. Croft, G. Chang, J. Czarnik, N. Doell, J. Espin, and R. Suleski, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International

Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 09), Bradford, UK, May 2009, pp. 407-

412.

"A Framework of Generating Arc-annotated Sequences for Evaluating RNA Analysis Algorithms" S. Zhang and G.

Chang. Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering & Computer Science (WCECS 08), San Francisco,

October 22-24, 2008.

"Encouraging Successful Transition in Computer Science from Community College to University", P. Morreale, G.

Chang & L. Wittenberg. Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

(SIGCSE 08), Portland, Oregon, pp. 565, poster session,, March 12-15, 2008.

"Transitioning from a Community College to a Four-Year University", P. Morreale, G. Chang & L. Wittenberg, IEEE

Computer, Vol. 41(3), pp. 89-91, March 2008.

"Enhanced SEA Algorithm and Fingerprint Classification", L. M. Liu, C. Y. Huang, T. S. Dai & G. Chang.

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology (IJCAT), Vol. 30(4), pp. 295-302, 2007.

"Effects of Time and Information on Perception of Art, " L.F.Smith, S.G. Bousquet, G. Chang & J. K. Smith. Journal

of Empirical Studies of the Arts, Vol. 24(2), pp. 229-242, 2006.

"Components for Building Desktop-Application-like Interface in Web Applications," G. Chang, J-W Hsieh, and P.

Calixto. The Seventh Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb05), pp. 960-971, March 29-April 1, 2005.

"Finding Approximate Patterns in Undirected Acyclic Graphs: Algorithms and Applications," J.T.L. Wang, K.

Zhang, G. Chang, and D. Shasha. Pattern Recognition, Vol. 35(2), pp 473-483, 2002.

"Precise Environmental Searches: Integrating Hierarchical Information Search with EnviroDaemon," G. Chang, G.

Samtani, M. Healey, F. J. Kurfess and J.T.L. Wang. Journal of System Integration, Vol. 10, pp. 253-267, 2001.

"Precise Environmental Searches: EnviroDaemon with Hierarchical Information Search," M. Healey, J. Wang, G.

Chang, A. Revankar, and G. Samtani. Environmental Quality Management Journal, Vol. 9(1), pp. 51-62, 1999.

"Change Detection of Websites: A Case Study in the Environmental Domain," G.J.S. Chang, J.T.L. Wang and M.J.

Healey. Proceedings of the First Joint Conference on Information Science, pp. 415-418, Research Triangle Park,

North Carolina, October 23-28, 1998.

"A Graphical Environment for Change Detection in Structured Documents," G.J.S. Chang, G. Patel, L. Relihan, and

J.T.L. Wang. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual International Computer Software & Applications Conference,

pp. 536-541, Washington D.C., August 11-15, 1997.

"Structural Matching and Discovery in Document Databases," J.T.L. Wang, D. Shasha, G.J.S. Chang, L. Relihan, K.

Zhang and G. Patel, Proceedings ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, pp 536-541,

Tucson, Arizona, May 13-15, 1997.

"A Visualization Tool for Pattern Matching and Discovery in Scientific Databases," J.T.L. Wang, G.J.S. Chang,

G.W. Chirn, C.Y. Chang, W. Wu, and F. Aljallad. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Software

Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, pp 563-570, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June 10-12, 1996.

"Surface Lipids of Social Wasp Polistes metricus Say and its Nest and Nest Pedicel and their Relation to Nestmate

Recognition," with K. Espelie and J. Wenzel. Journal of Chemical Ecology, Vol. 16, No. 7, 1990.

Research Interests:

Virtual and Augmented Reality, Data/Web Mining, BioInformatics Systems, and High-Performance

Computing.

References:

Available upon request.

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