XIN    LIU  

Objective

A position in an industrial setting with emphasis on computer science,  preferably in information technologies including networking, data mining and text/multimedia information processing.

Education

• May 1999 (expected), M.S. of Language and Information Technologies in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.


• Sep. 97 to now, PhD student in The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

Courses: 

Computer Algorithms Core	Artificial Intelligence Core
Information Retrieval	Vivsecting Internet
Algorithms for NLP	Grammars and Lexicons
Machine Learning	Speech Recognition
Laboratory for Algorithms for NLP	Laboratory for Information Retrieval

• June 1997, M.S. of Computer Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing China.
  
• July 1995,  B.E. of Computer Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing China.

Research and Working Experiences

• August 1997 to current time, Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, working in the information retrieval group focusing on Mono/Cross-lingual Information Retrieval,  Text Categorization and Topic Detection and Tracking. Implemented Latent Semantic Indexing(LSI), Generalized Vector Space Model(GVSM) and Linear Least Square Fitting(LLSF) retrieval methods. (libg++ w/STL) 
• October 1997 to December 1997, "An e-Auction Scheme on Multicasting Networks", course project for "Vivsecting Internet" at Carnegie Mellon University.
• March 1994 to July 1997, Research Assistant in the National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems in  China.  Project: EBMT(NSF project, MS VC++4.0), the DEC Machine Translation System (Borland C++ 3.1), Chinese Text Segmentation/Tagging(GNU CC). 
• September 1995 to October 1996, part-time system programmer of Wenjie Software Corporation in Beijing, taking a key role in implementing  the WinChar Chinese Proofreading System. (Borland C++ 3.1)
• December 1994 to June 1995, part-time programmer of Tsinghua Able Software Company in Beijing, responsible for the Able High School CAI Software System (Borland C++ 3.1).
• February 1993 to July 1993, design and implementation of the circuit of an 8-bit prototype computer, working on a set of simple Arithmetic, Logical and I/O instructions. (Hardware)

Computer Skills

• Operation Systems:  UNIX/LINUX/X Window, MS Windows 95/Windows NT.
• Networking and Communication:  TCP/IP,  ATM,   IP Multicast.
• Programming Languages:  C/C++, Java, Perl, Lisp, 80x86 Assembly.
• Development Packages:  MS Visual C++, libg++ w/STL, Borland C++, JDK.
• Internet and WWW:  HTML, CGI, Javascript.

Awards and Honours

• 1997 to current time, Research Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University.
• 1995 to 1996, Motorola Scholarship from Tsinghua University.
• 1993 to 1994, Guanghua Scholarship from Tsinghua University.
• 1992 to 1993, Legend Scholarship from Tsinghua University.
• 1991 to 1992, Excellent Student Scholarship from Tsinghua University.
• 1990 to 1991, Excellent Student Scholarship from Tsinghua University.

Publications

• X. Liu, M. Zhou, S. Zhu, C. Huang, "A New Algorithm for Chinese-English Text Alignment", China Journal of Computers, 1997
• X. Liu, M. Zhou, C. Huang, "Chinese-English Sentence Alignment Using Length-Based Algorithm ", JSCL-95, Shanghai, China