Betty Yee Man Cheng
			Ph. D. Student Language Technologies Institute School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Office: Gates-Hillman Complex 5511	Address: Fax: E-mail:	CMU / LTI (GHC 5407) 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-6298 ymcheng@cs.cmu.edu
Education
	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
	Ph.D. in Language Technologies, School of Computer Science					2004-present
	Relevant Courses: Intro to Immunology, Biochemistry I, Intermediate Statistics
	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
	M.S. in Language Technologies, School of Computer Science					2002-2004
	Thesis: “Prediction of Coupling Specificity of G-Protein Coupled Receptors” Relevant Courses: Machine Learning (Ph.D. Level), Bioinformatics, Language & Statistics, Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, NLP, Grammar Formalisms
	Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
	B.S. Honours in Computer Science B.S. Major in Mathematics					1998-2002
	Graduated with First Class Honours Relevant Courses: AI, Adv. Algorithms, Databases, Information System Design, Software Engineering, Computers in Biomedicine, Formal Languages & Automata, Programming Languages, Combinatorics, Discrete & Continuous Optimization, Graph Theory, Number Theory, Abstract Algebra
AWARDS
		· Best Presentation Award in LTI Student Research Symposium, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University				2003
		· Best Scientific Session Award in Bioinformatics & Data Mining session of Advancing Practice Instruction & Innovation through Informatics conference				2003
		· Best New Research Idea Award in the Biological Language conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania				2003
		· Dean’s Scholarship from Simon Fraser University, Canada				1998-2002
		· Rene Descartes Scholarship from University of Waterloo, Canada				1998
		· First place in Canada in Fermat Mathematics Competition				1997 & 1998
		· First place in British Columbia Colleges High School Math Contest, Senior Div.				1998
		· National Biology Scholar award in National Biology Competition				1998
		· Finalist in Canadian Youth Health Awareness Award essay competition				1995
Journal Publications
		· Cheng BY, Carbonell JG, Klein-Seetharaman J (2005). Protein Classification based on Text Document Classification Techniques. Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics, 58(4): 955-970. · Cai Y, Snel I, Cheng B, Bharathi BS, Klein C, Klein-Seetharaman J (2004). BioSim – A Biomedical Character-Based Problem Solving Environment. International Journal Future Generation Computer Systems - Interaction and Visualisation Techniques for Problem-Solving Environments, 21(7): 1145-1156.
Full-length Conference Papers
		· Cheng BY, Carbonell JG (2007). Combining N-grams and Alignment in G-Protein Coupling Specificity Prediction. Advances in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology: the 5^th Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, Imperial College Press, p. 363-372. · Cheng BY, Carbonell JG, Klein-Seetharaman J (2005). A Machine Text-Inspired Machine Learning Approach for Identification of Transmembrane Helix Boundaries. In LNAI 3488: 15^th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Springer-Verlag, pp. 29-37. · Cheng BY, Carbonell JG, Klein-Seetharaman J (2003). Document Classification of Protein Sequences. In proceedings of the 1^st Biological Language Conference.
Invited Talks
		· Cheng BY (2004). Language Technologist’s Approach to Understanding G-Protein-GPCR Interaction. In LTI Student Research Symposium, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (keynote speaker)
Peer-Reviewed Abstracts for Oral & Poster Presentations
		· Cheng BY, Carbonell JG, Klein-Seetharaman J (2005). Combining Alignment and N-grams in G-protein Coupling Specificity Prediction. In 13^th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Detroit, Michigan, USA. (poster) · Cheng BY, Carbonell JG, Klein-Seetharaman J (2004). Prediction of G-Protein Coupling Specificity of GPCR. In 12^th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology / European Conference on Computational Biology, Glasgow, Scotland. (poster) · Cheng BY, Klein-Seetharaman J, Carbonell JG (2003). Identifying Important Words in the Language of Proteins. In 35^th Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (oral + poster) · Cheng BY, Klein-Seetharaman J, Carbonell JG (2003). A Linguistic Approach to Identification of Motifs and Pharmaceutical Classification of GPCRs. In Advancing Practice, Instruction and Innovation Through Informatics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (oral + poster) (Best Scientific Session Award for oral presentation) · Cheng BY, Klein-Seetharaman J, Carbonell JG (2003). Identifying Important Words in the Language of Proteins. In Science 2003: Improving the Human Condition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (poster) · Cheng BY, Klein-Seetharaman J, Carbonell JG (2003). Identifying Important Words in the Language of Proteins. In LTI Student Research Symposium, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. (oral) (Best Presentation Award) · Cai Y, Snel I, Bharathi BS, Klein C, Klein-Seetharaman J (2003). Towards Biomedical Problem Solving in a Game Environment. In International Conference on Computational Science, Melbourne, Australia. (oral) (Best Paper award in the conference)
Other Publications
		· Cheng BY (2004). Prediction of Coupling Specificity of G-Protein Coupled Receptors. Master’s thesis, Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
Projects
		Immunology Research, Biological Language Modeling Toolkit Using machine learning to investigate common reactions in the immune system. Prediction of resistance to a multi-drug treatment for HIV patients with the goal of personalizing treatments to the unique virus population in each patient. Supervised by Jaime Carbonell.				2005 – present
		GPCR Research, Biological Language Modeling Toolkit Performed bioinformatics research on G-protein coupled receptor sequences to make predictions with respect to their classification, secondary structure and coupling specificity. Supervised by Jaime Carbonell & Judith Klein-Seetharaman.				2002 – 2004
		Mindkin A social networking website developed with 3 students that incorporates elements of gaming using ASP .NET 2.0, AJAX and JavaScript. Patent pending and incorporated. Featured in CMU Tartans newspaper and the Chronicle of Higher Education.				2006 – present
		BookSmart An online fan fiction recommendation system based on Naïve Bayes and bag-of-words approach. Tested by over 60 users in North America and Europe.				2000
Industry Experience
		InTime Solutions Inc., Burnaby, BC, Canada
		Software Engineer Designed and implemented a major upgrade to scheduling software, Officer Scheduling, specialized for security guards and healthcare professionals.				May 2001 – Jan 2002
		Safeway IT, Vancouver, BC, Canada
		Database Programmer & Tester Modified stored procedures and performed regression testing for the Safeway Promotion Planning & Optimization Tools software.				May 2000 – Aug 2000
Teaching Experience
		Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
		TA & Co-instructor – “Competition Programming & Problem Solving”				2006-2007
		Worked with Greg Kesden and Dr. Eugene Fink in selecting and preparing the CMU teams for ACM Programming Competition by creating practice problem sets and co-running practice sessions. CMU team placed 2^nd in East Central N. America region and competed in World Finals in Tokyo, March 2007.
		Vancouver, BC, Canada
		Private Piano Teacher				2001-2002
		Taught children age 5 through 10 in beginner’s to grade 4 piano.
		Formosa Academy, Vancouver, BC, Canada
		Teaching Assistant – to Dr. Cary Chien				1996-1999
		Prepared materials for class, graded homework and provided extra help to students on high school mathematics and calculus.
Extracurricular Activities & Community Service
		Carnegie Mellon University Women@SCS (outreach activities & advisor to undergrad web team) Language Technologies Institute Ph.D. Student Rep Language Technologies Institute Student Research Symposium Judge/Reviewer Language Technologies Institute Activities Committee Campus Judicial committee board member				2002 – present 2005 – 2007 2005 & 2006 2003 – 2005 2007 – 2008
		Piano First Class Honours in Royal Conservatory of Music Grade 10 Piano Practical exam First Class Honours in Royal Conservatory of Music Written Pedagogy exam				1991 – 2002
		Karate 3rd Kyu (brown belt) in North American Shotokan Karate Association, Japan Karate Association				1999 – 2002