Dongning Luo *** Warren Road Apt * *A, Ithaca, NY 14850

704-***-**** abpkrf@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

Cornell University, Master of Engineering in Financial Engineering Ithaca, NY, (expected) December 2011

GPA: in progress, GRE Quantitative: 790

Relevant Coursework: Fixed Income Securities & Interest Rate Options Derivatives Securities Equity Derivatives Products Monte

Carlo Simulation Stochastic Calculus for Financial Engineering The Search for Alpha

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Ph.D. in Computer Science Charlotte, NC, (expected) May 2011

Cumulative GPA 3.82, Concentration GPA 4.0,

Dissertation (in progress): Visual Analytics of Text Collections With Temporal Focus

Publications: 3 in journals (IEEE TVCG, IEEE CG&A, and ACM TIST) and 3 in conferences (IEEE InfoVis and IEEE VAST)

Media: Standing at the Forefront of Visual Analytics Research, VAC Views (Visual Analytics Periodical), page 16, November 2008

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering Shanghai, China, July 2006

Cumulative GPA 3.09, Math GPA 3.41 (7 courses)

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Honors: The Exceptional Student (top 10 1 prize in 18 (2002) National Physics Olympiad Contest Shanghai Division

EXPERIENCE

Research Associate Konstanz, Germany, January June 2009

Universit t Konstanz Supervisor: Daniel Keim

Led an international research team of 4 German graduate students and published the research products in IEEE Visweek 2009.

Provided a dependable bridge between collaborative research teams in Germany and US for data communication.

Assisted the supervisor to launch the first German U.S. Workshop on Visual Analytics in Civil Security.

Research Intern Richland, WA, January March 2008

Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Mentor: Bill Pike & Shawn Bohn

Interviewed two government information specialists to discover the practical demands for research in temporal text mining.

Implemented a mixture model (in C to describe the evolutionary themes of text collection over time.

Modeled the life cycle of the evolutionary news themes from large scale news corpora using Hidden Markov Models (HMM).

Research Assistant Charlotte, NC, Fall 2006 Summer 2010

Charlotte Visualization Center (Southeast Regional Visualization and Analytics Center), UNC Charlotte Director: Bill Ribarsky

Researched large scale data analytics and visualization of text data, multivariate data, and financial data with temporal focus.

Proposed and published Temporal Locality Clustering Algorithm to statistically model the time series of text documents.

Designed the core infrastructures (C++ based) of two projects to win two grants funded by DHS ($231,743) and NSF ($746,567).

Co designed the clustering algorithm to detect frauds in wire transfer for the project sponsored by Bank of America.

Spoke and demoed the state of the research to a wide variety of sponsors from industry, governments, and academia.

SKILLS

Programming Languages & Libraries C++(5 year working exp Excel VBA, AMPL Boost, GNU Scientific Library (GSL), OpenGL, Qt

Database Language & Software SQL Oracle (Express Edition), MySQL

Other Software Bloomberg Terminal, Matlab, @Risk, Excel, PowerPoint, Word

Language English, Mandarin

OTHERS

Professional Activities Invited Peer Reviewer of academic journals and conferences Supervisor of Student Volunteer of IEEE

VisWeek One Invited Speech at PNNL, Richland, WA Mar 27 2008 Two Invited Demos

Hobbies Contract Bridge Chinese Seal Cutting Tennis Basketball

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