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Personal Data 

University address:

The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Work phone number: (412) 268-5900
Home phone number: (412) 351-9699
E-mail address: hcao@cs.cmu.edu
URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hcao

Citizenship: CHINA
Visa status: F-1
Languages spoken: Chinese (Mandarin), English and Japanese 

Education 

Ph.D. in Robotics, Summer 2003 (expected)
Concentration: Manufacturing logistics management
Faculty advisor: Dr. Stephen F. Smith 
GPA: 4.0/4.0

Previous Degrees
Degree:    M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
Date:        March 1998
Department: Automation, Tsinghua University, China
Concentration: Management Information Systems
GPA: 88/100           
Rank: Top 3%     ( by departmental graduate office in Sep. 1997) 

Degree:    B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
Date:        June 1995
Department: Automation, Tsinghua University, China
Concentration: Computer applications in manufacturing
GPA: 90/100 

 Computer Skills   

Academic Experience

• Research projects: please refer to my Research Vitae for details
• Teaching Assistant,Tsinghua University, Feb. 1996 - June 1996: grading and labs. for 2 undergraduate classes in the course Digital Electronics
• Teaching Assistant, Tsinghua University, Sep. 1995 - Jan. 1996: grading for 2 undergraduate classes in the course Computer Principles

Publications

• Modeling and Simulation of Supply Chain Management Based on DEVS and CORBA Framework (ais.pdf), submitted to AI, Simulation, and Planning 2000 Conference (AIS 2000), Arizona, March. 2000; second author
• GA with hierarchical evaluation: a framework for solving complex machine scheduling problems in manufacturing ( galesia.ps.gz), Proc. of IEE & IEEE GALESIA'97, United Kingdom, Sep. 1997: 326-331; first author, in English
• A Practical Framework for Job-shop Problems using Genetic Algorithm (icips.ps.gz),  Proc. of IEEE ICIPS'97, Beijing, Oct. 1997:543-547; first author, in English 
• A Solution to Complex Machine Scheduling in Manufacturing Job-shop(iccie.ps.gz), Proc. of 22nd Int'l Conf. on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 1997:168-171; first author, in English 
• 8259 Cascading and 8098 Single-chip Interface Design, Electronic Instruments Users, Beijing, 1996 vol.6: 38-41; first author, in Chinese
• Time-coordinate Network Resource Stream Evaluation and Review Technique, Proc. of 6th Int'l Conf. on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Germany, July 1995: 1495-1500; second author, in English

Honors

• Robotics Doctoral Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998 - Present
• Chinese Promise Scholarship, First Prize                           Oct. 1997
• Friend of Tsinghua (Japanese Language) Scholarship        March 1997
• Chang Tong Fellowship                                                      Oct. 1996
• Friend of Tsinghua (Japanese Language) Scholarship        April 1996
• Tsinghua Excellent Student Scholarship, First Prize            Oct. 1994
• Excellent Athlete of Tsinghua Athletic Team (the highest honor a Tsinghua athlete can have)      Dec. 1994
• No.4 in Chang Quan Boxing, National College Martial Arts Contest      Oct. 1994

Foreign Languages

• Level-3 Certificate of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, National Education Department of Japan     Dec. 1996

References

Dr. Stephen F. Smith

Senior Research Scientist,

Director of Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory

sfs@cs.cmu.edu 

 

Prof. Yang, Suxing

Professor, (my M.Sc degree academic advisor)

Dept. of Automation, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing 100084, PR China

ysx-dau@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn