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Yu Uny Cao

 

Box 251543                                                                                                                                              yu@cs.ucla.edu

Los Angeles, CA 90025                                            www.yucao.com                                                     +1 310 825 1563

 

OBJECTIVE 

 

R&D for A New Generation of Search Engines and Information Retrieval Systems.

 

EDUCATION

 

09.93-04.02       Ph.D. in Computer Networks, Computer Science, UCLA

Dissertation Title: Doubly Ranked Information Retrieval and Linked Page Information Retrieval.

 

08.91-05.93  M.S. in Computer Science, Univ. of Louisville, Kentucky, GPA 3.975/4.00

Thesis Title: Modeling and Analysis of Computer-Based Interpersonal Communications.

 

09.87-05.91  B.Engr. in Electrical Engr., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China, GPA 3.80/4.00

 

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

 

10.95-06.99  Research Assistant, Computer Science, UCLA

The Transparent Virtual Mobile Information Systems Project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ).

Co-developed a grant proposal to the Digital Library Initiative II of the National Science Foundation in 1998.

 

10.94-09.95  Research Assistant, Computer Science, UCLA

The Commotion Lab for studies in Mobile Robotics funded by the National Science Foundation.

Programmed the web interface to remote control of mobile robots via the Internet, successfully demo'ed the system at the Internet '95 Conference.

 

02.92-08.93   Research Assistant, Computer Science, U. of Louisville and Bell South Telecomm. Research Center.

Programmed and wrote papers in simulation, AI. Participated in the Transcontinental ISDN Project (TRIP) 1992.

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

02.00-       Consultant, ChinaWTO.com, Santa Monica, California

Co-developed business plan, sought investors. Edited tech/product news.

 

08.98-11.99  Co-founder of M123, Inc., Pasadena, California,

A multimedia and Internet entertainment contents production company. Company Overview: 10 people; CD-ROM, Web and short-film productions.

Co-developed the "Internet-Disc" business model, assisted in developing the "Mutual Credits" model, did Strategy, Technical direction, Project management, Day-to-day management and Sales.

 

10.95-       Consultant, Foreign Investor Services, Newport Beach, California

Consulted on China-related businesses. Translated legal and business documents between Chinese and English.

 

10.95-11.96       Key programmer, Asian American Network ( AAN.NET )

Took care of the software side of one of the first Internet Service Providers in the Chinese community.

Developed the first version of e-greetings software for CardMaster.com, which is still in operation.

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

05.01-06.01  Guest Instructor, UCLA Extension, UCLA 

Solaris System Administration. Intro. to Unix

 

01.00-06.01  Teaching Associate, Computer Science, UCLA

Principles of Computer Systems. Computer Architecture. Computer Networks. Algorithms.

 

01.92-08.93  Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, Univ. of Louisville

C Programming and UNIX, Pascal, MODSIM language & SIMGRAPHICS, instructed independently.

 

 

AWARDS

 

03.92       The AT&T Network Systems ISDN Award for 1992-1993, AT&T Network Systems, Inc.

04.93       Master of Science Scholastic Achievement Award, Computer Science, Univ. of Louisville.

87-91       Scholastic Achievement Awards, Zhejiang Univ.

 

SKILLS

 

Languages: Perl, C, C++, Java, ASP, VB, Web CGI programming, TCP/IP programming.

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS AND SOFTWARE

 

Y. U. Cao and L. Kleinrock,

   "Doubly Ranked Information Retrieval",

   Manuscript.

 

Y. U. Cao and L. Kleinrock,

   "Linked Page Information Retrieval",

   Manuscript.

 

Y. U. Cao, A. S. Fukunaga and A. B. Kahng,

   "Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions", Autonomous Robots, 1997, vol.4, no.1, pp. 7-27.

 

Y. U. Cao, T.-W. Chen, M. D. Harris, A. B. Kahng, M. A. Lewis and A. D. Stechert,

   "A Remote Robotics Laboratory on the Internet", INTERNET-95, 1995.

 

Y. U. Cao,

    E-greetings software, CardMaster.com, Feb. 1996.

 

W. Hayden and Y. Cao,

   "Oriental Rug Database System", application software, Techstyle Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, second quarter, 1994. Continued as Rug Manager Pro, see www.RugManager.com.

 

Y. Cao, J. H. Graham and A. S. Elmaghraby,

   "Communications Approaches for Simulation-AI Interactions", Simulation Digest, Winter 1993, vol. 36, pp.3-16.

 

A. S. Elmaghraby and Y. Cao,

   "Modeling and Analysis of Computer-Based Interpersonal Communications",1993-1994 Annual Review of Communications, National Engineering Consortium, vol. 47, pp. 699-706.

 

A. S. Elmaghraby and Y. Cao,

   "Human Performance Modeling in Manned Weapon Systems", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1992.

 

A. A. Farag, Y. Cao, D. M. Rose and E. J. Delp,

   "On Empirical Estimation of the Parameters of Edge Enhancement Filters", IEEE Intl. Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1992.

 

A. A. Farag, Y. Cao and Y.-P. Yeap,

   "Integrating A Priori Information in Edge Linking Algorithms", SPIE Conf. on Automatic Object Recognition, 1992.

 

 

ACTIVITIES

 

Executive Vice President, Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) at UCLA, 1995-97.

Founding President, The Overseas Alumni Association of The Mixed Class Program of Zhejiang Univ., 1997-present.

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Univ. of Louisville.

 

 

REFERENCES

 

Upon request.