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Yu Uny Cao
P O Box 251543 yu@cs.ucla.edu
Los Angeles, CA 90025 +1 310 825 1563
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OBJECTIVE
R&D or Engineering Work in Search Engine Industry
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., China,
GPA 3.80/4.00
CAPABILITIES
Rapidly turning theory into prototype software.
Maintaining effectiveness under a variety of working situations.
Keeping a global view.
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 Telecommunications 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, CA
Co-developed business plan, sought investors.
Edited tech/product news.
Programmed information extraction tools.
08.98-11.99 Co-founder of M123, Inc., Pasadena, CA, a multimedia
and Internet entertainment contents producer
Company Overview: 10 people; CD-ROM, Web and
short-film productions; graphic design, industrial
concept design, toy design, 3D animation, video
shooting/editing, music composition and sound
engineering.
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, CA
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.
Wrote the first version of e-greetings software
for CardMaster.com which is still in operation.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
05.01-10.01 Guest Instructor, UCLA Extension, UCLA
Solaris 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, U. of Louisville
C Programming and UNIX. Pascal. MODSIM & 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.
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.
A. Simo, J. Lopez and Y. U. Cao,
"Microworlds, Sirens, and Argonauts", a Virtual Reality project,
exhibited at Emerging Technologies, SIGGRAPH Conf., 1999.
Y. U. Cao, A. S. Fukunaga and A. B. Kahng,
"Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions",
Autonomous Robots, Jan.-Feb. 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.
REFERENCES
Upon request.
