Policy Ecosystem

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Xinyu Zhou, PhD

EDUCATION
PhD in Software Modeling, Testing, and Web Services. Also has experience in Statistics, Bioinformatics and Finance.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University, Feb 2008

INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
Research Intern, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen),
Phoenix, AZ, Jun-Aug 2007
 

Designed and implemented a federated database system with Ajax, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Eclipse, and MySQL to support the genomic analysis.
Analyzed the microarray data and CGH data using Bayesian method and group testing.


Software Engineer in Test Intern, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA May 2006-Aug 2006
 

Led work on design and development of Eclipse Plug-in and Visual Studio add-in for an automation testing tool. NET, Eclipse, Java, Eclipse plug-in, Visual Studio add-in, C++.
Designed and developed a Web-based IDE for automation testing, including recorder and replay. This IDE automatically generates test case code. Firefox extension, Javascript, Eclipse, c++, Selenium.
Delivered four design documents and four tutorials about how to use the tools.

Research Assistant, Joint Project between Microsoft Research and ASU, Oct 2005-Feb 2006
NET Intermediate Language level and executable level code instrumentation and optimization; Phoenix compiler backend tool, .NET, C#, C++, Intermediate Language; http://asusrl.eas.asu.edu/Phoenix/

Software Engineer Intern, Lucent Technologies, Global Design Center, Apr 2004-Aug 2004
5ESS Network Switch Testing; C++, Solaris

Software Engineer Intern, Research Institute of Foreign Economic & Trade, China, Jun 2002-Oct 2003
 
Designed and Developed a Data Warehouse-based Decision Support System for import & export cargo; UML/Rational suite, MS Analysis Manager (OLAP), MSSQL Server, C#, XML; The new system saved about 80% data processing time than the old system.
Electronic documents research and design for Chinese E-Government project; XML, XML Schema, UML

Software Engineer Intern, Xinhua CO, LTD (Chinese largest publisher), Aug 2001-Feb 2002
Designed and developed a Supply Chain Management System; Oracle, PowerBuilder, Delphi

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant,
Arizona State University, Aug 2006-May 2007
Teaching Assistant of the graduate level course "Distributed Software Development". Tutored students how to design and develop distributed software and web services. Eclipse, Visual Studio 2005, Oracle SOA suite, Web Services.

Teaching Assistant, Arizona State University, Aug 2005-Dec 2005
Teaching Assistant of the graduate level course - Software Verification, Validation & Testing. Tutor students in basic and advanced software testing knowledge; Instruct students in Web Service developing and testing.  

Research Assistant, Arizona State University, Jul 2004-present
 

Policy-Based Dynamic Verification. VC++, Verification, Monitoring, Simulation, Code generation, WS-Policy
Developed a monitor and a verification engine to verify the dynamic behaviors of software, especially web services.
Web Service Testing and Ranking; Web Service, .NET, UDDI, Java, JWSDP, ebXML, Verification, Testing, Statistics, Bayesian Method. Implemented a testing tool to test and rank web services, and rank test cases.

CERTIFICATIONS
IBM Mainframe S/390 Specialist certification, IBM Certified Lotus Specialist for Notes

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming: C#, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, Java Servlet, JSP, PHP, HTML, XML, XMI, ASP, UML, MSIL
Operating Systems: Solaris, Unix, Linux, Windows
Databases:MS SQL Server, My SQL, Sybase, Oracle, DB2, ODBC
Applications: VS.NET, J2EE, VB, Delphi, Eclipse, Tomcat, Lotus, Rational Rose, Bugzilla, JUnit, VSS, Oracle SOA suite

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE SERVICE
Reviewer: DSN'05
Web Chair: ISADS’07, ICEBE’06, WCCIA’06, WORDS’05, SOSE’06
Operations Committee: ISADS’07, SOSE’05, WORDS’05