Education
Ph.D. Cornell University, Computer Science Aug 2002
Dissertation: Building Compressed Database Systems
Adviser: Prof. Johannes Gehrke

M.S. Fudan University, China, Computer Science Aug 1997
B.S. Fudan University, China, Computer Science Aug 1995

Work Experience
Associate Professor, Information Systems Department,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Since Jul 10

Assistant Professor, Information Systems Department,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Since Aug 04 - Jun 10

Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research, Sep 2002 - Aug 2004
Manager: Dr. Surajit Chaudhuri
Designed and implemented a tool to automatically map XML data to relational data for storage and query. The tool makes it much more convenient for
different organizations and companies to share data in XML format.

Research Assistant, Cornell University Jan 1998 - Aug 2002
Adviser: Prof. Johannes Gehrke and Prof. Praveen Seshadri
Designed and implemented a compressed database system that uses compression techniques to improve database query performance. This is the first system that integrates compression into all aspects of database systems. Another work is a novel compression method for low-power mobile devices such as PDAs and cell phones, which achieves both better compression and faster decompression than existing methods.

Research Intern, AT\&T Laboratories Aug 1999 - Sep 2000
Designed and implemented algorithms and data structures to give quick and accurate estimation of the result size of queries on text or XML data. This can be used in web search engines to allow user to quickly refine queries based on the estimate.

Research Intern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center May 1998 - Aug 1998