Qihong(Tiffany) Shao 邵琦洪



Ph.D.

Department of Computer Science
Arizona State University

Email: qihong [dot] shao [at] asu [dot] edu
Phone: (480) 965-9038
Office: BYAC 460 AB

I am fresh graduated, and searching for industry or research lab positions


About Me

I obtained my Ph.D. in Jan.2011 in Computer Science Department , at Arizona State University under Prof.Wei-Tek Tsai. I received my Bacholer's and Master's degree in Computer Science Department from Renmin University of China in 2003 and 2006.

Specially, I have worked as Co-op in IBM T.J.Watson Research Center in Hawthorn, NY. Before that, I have interned at IBM China (Application Management Services), Bank of China (Credit Card Center), NCR China and AIESEC Japan respectively.

Selected Honors & Special Talent

IBM Invention Achievement Award, 2009
University Graduate Fellowship, Arizona State University, 2009
Waived Entrance Examination to Graduate School (top 3%), Renmin University of China, 2003
Waived Entrance Examination to Renmin University of China, 1999
Gold prize in National Mathematics Olympic Game, China, 1998
Top Level (Level 10) China Non-Professional Piano Competition,1997

Research Interest

My research interests are in data mining, data management, and cloud computing. My current focus is particularly on applied data mining, touching upon diverse applications: mortgage origination process management, IT helpdesk problem solving, workflow data management, prioritization and forecasting models in cloud computing.

Publication 

- SaaS(Software-as-a-Service) and Cloud Computing -

Role-Based Access-Control Using Reference Ontology in Clouds
Wei-Tek Tsai, and Qihong Shao
Int. Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems(ISADS'11), Tokyo&Hiroshima, Japan, March. 2011(To Appear).
OIC:Ontology-based Intelligent Customization Framework for SaaS
Wei-Tek Tsai, Qihong Shao, and Wu Li
Int. Conf. on Service Oriented Computing and Applications(SOCA'10), Perth, Australia, Dec. 2010.
Towards a Scalable and Robust Multi-tenancy SaaS
Wei-Tek Tsai, Qihong Shao, Yu Huang and Xiaoying Bai
The Second Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware(Internetware'10), Suzhou, China, Nov. 2010.
Data Partitioning and Redudancy Management for Robust Multi-tenancy SaaS
Wei-Tek Tsai, Yu Huang , Qihong Shaoand Xiaoying Bai
Int. Journal of Software and Informatics (IJSI'10), No.4, 2010, 30 pages (To Appear).
Two-Tier Fine-Granularity Multi-Tenancy Scaling and Load Balancing
Wei-Tek Tsai, Xin Sun, Qihong Shao and Guanqiu Qi
Int. Workshop on Cloud Services - Platform Accelerating e-Business (IWCS'10), in Conjunction with ICEBE, Shanghai, China, Nov. 2010.
Real-Time Service-Oriented Cloud Computing
Wei-Tek Tsai, Qihong Shao, Xin Sun, and Jay Elson
Int. Workshop On Real-Time Service-Oriented Architecture and Applications (RTSOA'10), in Conjunction with IEEE ICWS 2010, Orlando, Florida, Jul, 2010.
Fine-Grained, Flexible Matching Data Comparison Tool with the Cloud Applications
Wei-Tek Tsai, Xin Sun, and Qihong Shao
Int. Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering(SOSE'10), Nanjing, China, Jun, 2010.

- Mortgage Origination Process Management -

Ranking Mortgage Origination Applications using Customer, Product, Environment and Workflow Attributes
Qihong Shao, Anshul Sheopuri, Milind Naphade, Chitra Dorai, Daniel Johnson, and Jane Hoffman
Int. Conf. on Cloud Computing(CLOUD'09),Bangalore, India, Sep, 2009.

- Workflow Management -

Searching Workflows with Hierarchical Views
Ziyang Liu, Qihong Shao, and Yi Chen
36th Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases Endowment(VLDB'10), Singapore, Sep, 2010
WISE: a Workflow Information Search Engine
Qihong Shao, Peng Sun, and Yi Chen
Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE'09), Shanghai, China, Mar, 2009.
Online demo: wise.asu.edu
Efficiently discovering critical workflows in scientific explorations
Qihong Shao, Peng Sun, and Yi Chen
Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 2008.
Storing and Discovering Critical Workflows from Log in Scientific Exploration
Qihong Shao, Michel Kinsy, and Yi Chen
Int. Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF'07), Salt Lake City, Jul, 2007

- IT Helpdesk Problem Solving -

Assessing Expertise Awareness in Resolution Networks
Yi Chen, Shu Tao, Xifeng Yan, Nikos Anerousis and Qihong Shao
Int. Conf. on Social Networks Analysis and Mining(ASONAM'10), Odense, Denmark, Aug, 2010.
EasyTicket: A Ticket Routing Recommendation Engine for Enterprise Problem Resolution
Qihong Shao, Yi Chen, Shu Tao, Xifeng Yan, and Nikos Anerousis
34th Int. Conf. on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'08), Auckland, New Zealand, Jul, 2008
Efficient Ticket Routing by Resolution Sequence Mining
Qihong Shao, Yi Chen, Shu Tao, Xifeng Yan, and Nikos Anerousis
14th ACM Int. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (SIGKDD'08), Las Vegas, Jul, 2008

- XML database -

PEPX: A Query-Friendly Probabilistic XML Database
Te Li, Qihong Shao, and Yi Chen
15th ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'06), Arlington, VA, Nov, 2006

Teaching Experience 

CSE 110 Programming Language in Java(Fall 2010)
CSE 100 Programming Language in C++ (Spring 2010 & Fall 2009)
CSE 598/412 Database Systems (Spring 2008)
CSE 340 Principle of Programming Language (Fall 2007 & Spring 2007)
CSE 320 Computer Architecture and Organization (Fall 2006)

Last updated in Jan. 2011.