Xi (Anna) Mei, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Beijing City, China

Washington DC

• Retrieved and integrated data on farms, mainly census and survey data, from various sources
• Automated the IT processes for the USDA Economic Research Service’s development of production expense models using SAS and SQLServer
• Verified model documentations with subject matter experts within the department
• Developed and input results to a web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) that generated visual representations

Fairfax, VA

• Approximated the length of Vehicle Routing Problem solutions using complementary spatial information
• Designed experiments to compare routing distance continuous approximation models based on varying spatial point processes with R and Python and used HTCondor to perform parallel computing
• Conducted database logical designs and implemented the physical design in MySQL to support the storage and manipulation of simulated spatial point pattern data
• Built an improved model of VRP approximation with spatial distance methods

Reston, VA

• Stored spatial data in PostGIS and published WMS and WFS via Geoserver
• Built a web-GIS to visualize and manipulate spatial data in 3D with OpenLayers, Cesium, and ExtJS

• Supported faculties in spatial statistics and multivariate statistics related subjects
• Designed, explained, demonstrated, graded assignments
• Assisted courses: Quantitative Methods, Spatial Data Structure, Transportation Geography

Fairfax VA

• Designed and implemented user interface for the Government Regional Economic and Transportation Location Planning and Decision support system

Fairfax VA

• Participated in GIS research project to track demographic and geographic data of graduate students in the Global Health Program

Fairfax VA

• Aided professor of Medical Geography to demonstrate uses of GIS for Health applications

Wuhan, China

• Participated in graduate level GIS transportation project within a GIS Software and Application Engineering Research Center
• Optimized network data structure and implemented revised route planning algorithm
• Received second prize in the 18th Science & Technology Thesis and Report Conference

Wuhan, China

• Helped Visual C++ Programming Design graduate students on course design projects

Wuhan, China

• Zondy Group, University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
• Participated in undergraduate level GIS MapGIS-IMS WebService 2.0 project within a GIS Software and Application Engineering Research Center
• Researched on Open GIS Consortium (OGC) standards, including Web Map Service (WMS), Web Feature Service (WFS) and Geography Markup Language (GML)
• Translated MapGISdata (GIS software in China) format into OGC standard format, and participated in the development and maintenance of MapGIS-IMS WebService.
• Received Excellent rating on undergraduate thesis based on the internship project

Wuhan, China

• Participated in department research titled: Application of Data Mining in Water-supply Pipeline Network
• Implemented a conceptualized K-means algorithm and applied research results to water-supply pipeline network
• Received Excellence Award in Undergraduate Extracurricular Scientific Research Project from the University Department of Information Engineering

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Earth Systems And Geoinformation Sciences

• Recipient, Presidential Scholars Award • Member of Association of American Geographers

Master Of Science, Geographic And Cartographic Sciences

Bachelor Of Science, Geographic Information Systems

• Recipient, Outstanding Student Leader award, 2006 • Recipient, Excellence Award in Social Activities, 2005 • Recipient, Excellence Award.

Education record