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Mountain View, CA, US

Mountain View, CA, US

• Display Ads Quality Team Investigate, Identify and Analyze the flaw and bottleneck in the display ads serving flow and bidding algorithms to improve the quality of ads served, with a focus on ads pacing, budgeting and.
• Improve DBM advertisers' spend on mobile apps significantly and helped clients to have a better advertising experiences and leverage the increasing inventories on mobile apps.
• Improve the leadgen ads quality, which counts a large portion of revenue to the display ads.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Worked on distributed graph database, which is the foundation of the Economic Graph.
• Graph Query Optimization with a creatively designed data structure, worst case optimal join algorithm (patent filed)
• Nested Controller Based Migration System (see patent below)
• Automatic cluster manager for cache copy and code deployment
• Optimize the load balancing strategy for the caching service with 30% latency improvementKeywords: distributed graph database, load balancing algorithms, traffic migration, cluster management, performance tuning and.

Troy, NY, US

• Research on numerical solvers of the Complementarity Problem arising in the frictional contact constraints in robot locomotion and manipulation.
• Comparison of multiple solvers to solve the contact and joint constraints for robotics simulation.
• GPU CUDA solver to accelerate the robotics simulation.
• Data Collection for benchmarking problem sets and built BPMD database.
• MPI-based simulation of multibody dynamics.

Troy, NY, US

• Promoted to lead TA for the Introduction to Algorithms course
• Took charge of weekly lab, grading code and help with debug
• Graded handwritten homework on algorithm theories

Troy, NY, US

• Teaching assistant for Thermal and Fluids
• Teaching assistant for Computer Aided Design (CAD)

Mountain View, California, US

• Working on Gazebo, a dynamic multi-robot simulator. My project is on integration of dynamics solvers and build a benchmark interface for smart choice of solvers for different simulation scenarios. Based on my research.
• Built a standard interface for different solvers to be used on the same Gazebo platform.
• Contributed parallel solver results to milestone reports.
• Participated in the DRC Final Haptix demo.
• Contributed pull requests to Gazebo project default branch.
• Learned unit/integration/regression test with Google C++ testing framework.

New York, NY, US

• Mainly worked with ticker plant team under Software Infrastructure:
• Built a database for ticker plant synchronization status storage worldwide.
• Created a request/response service for user to either write or access sync status in the database.
• Implemented a user interface for the sync monitor with search, filter and sort features.
• Modified the back-end data model to support real-time dynamic update on the UI monitor.

Chico, California, US

• Numerical Simulations of 3-D flows in different arrays of spheres.
• Revision of Ergun correlation according to my simulation results.
• Getting familiar with the programming environment in Fortran and C

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

Bachelor, Theoretical And Applied Mechanics