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Yaxiao Song

School of Information Library Science

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

CB#3360, 100 Manning Hall

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360

Email:  yaxiaos (at) email (dot) unc (dot) edu

Office:  919-962-8274

EDUCATION HISTORY:

Ø Graduate Student, Jan. 2006 ~ present

School of Information Library Science

Dept of Statistics

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction, Video surrogation, Digital Libraries.

Ø Master of Science in Computer Science, Jan. 2004

Department of Computer Science, School of Computing,

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Thesis Title: Watermarking of Relational Databases

Ø BA in Computer Science, Jul. 2002

Department of Computer Science and Technology,

Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China

Thesis Title: A High Capacity Data Hiding Scheme Based on DFT

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Ø Aug. 2004 ~ Feb. 2005

Title: Engineer, Software Development

Employer: E-Book Systems Pte Ltd, Singapore

Responsibilities:

1. Develops Windows and other Platform applications;
2. Handles implementation-lvel design, codeing, testing including conceptualization;
3. Brainstroms and generates new product ideas;
4. Develops prototypes;
5. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Software Developed (Individual Project):

1. PDF Tool: A tool for creating FlipBooks from .pdf pages or documents;

2. Personal Library 1.0: Help users organize (save, categorize, remove, view by category, etc.) their FlipBook collections and manage downloads and online magazine subscriptions;

Details can be found at http://www.flipviewer.com/fv/fvpl.php.

Software Developed (Group work): FlipViewer 3.6, User-interface, feature enhancement, debugging;

Ø Jul. 2002 ~ Jul. 2004

Title:  Research Associate (Research Engineer)

Employer:  School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Responsibilities:  To design a practical data model for spatial-temporal data (moving objects), propose index structure for the moving objects, and implement an Integrated Transport Query System (a system for querying moving objects in a road network).

System Built: ITQS: An Integrated Transport Query System,

Paper published: B. Huang, Z. Huang, H. Li, D. Lin, H. Lu and Y. Song. ITQS: An Integrated Transport Query System. In Proc. of ACM SIGMOD 2004;

PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS:

Ø Song, Y. and Marchionini, G. (2007) Effects of Audio and Visual Surrogates for Making Sense of Digital Video (pdf). In Proc. of CHI 2007, pp. 867-876.

Ø Boekelheide, K., Rogers Brown A., Fu, X., Marchionini, G., Oh S., Rogers G, Saelim, B., Song, Y. and Stutzman, F. (2006) Audio Surrogation for Digital Video: A Design Framework (pdf). In SILS Technical Report TR-2006-02.

Ø Christopher A. Lee, Helen R. Tibbo, Dawne Howard, Yaxiao Song, Terrell Russell, Paul Jones. (2006) Keeping the context: an investigation in preserving collections of digital video, (pdf). In Proc. of JCDL 2006, pp 363.

Ø B. Huang, Z. Huang, H. Li, D. Lin, H. Lu and Y. Song. (2004) ITQS: An Integrated Transport Query System (pdf), in Proc. of ACM SIGMOD 2004;

Ø Yaxiao Song (2004). Watermarking Relational Databases. Master thesis, in Electronic Thesis, National University of Singapore, 2004;

Ø Yaxiao Song, Minghao Cui, and Hongxun Yao. (2002) A High Capacity Data Hiding Scheme Based on DFT (pdf), in Proc. of PCM 2002), pp 82-88;

COMPUTER CAPABILITIES:

Platforms: Windows, MS DOS, Unix, Linux;

Programming Languages: C/C++, Delphi, Java, MATLAB, Assembly, Java, VHDL;

Script Languages: Perl, PHP, Bash, Javascript, Ruby on Rails;

Database Tools: MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle 8, Access, Visual FoxPro, PowerBuilder;

Tools: MS Office Tools, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft Visio, LaTex, Adobe PhotoShop, FrontPage;

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Ø Future Faculty Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Aug. 2007;

Ø SILS TA Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jan. 2008;

Ø Research Scholarship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jan 2006;

Ø Research Scholarship, National University of Singapore, July 2002;

Ø Award of Excellent Undergraduate Thesis, Harbin Institute of Technology, July 2002;

Ø People's scholarship, ranking top 5% in CS department, HIT, year of 2000~2001;

Ø Second prize in National English Contest for College Students, China, Mar. 2001;

Ø Second Prize in Physics Experimental Contest, held by HIT, Oct. 2000;

Ø Honor Prize of People's Scholarship, Ranking top 2 out of 3,000 freshmen, HIT, the year of 1998~1999;

Ø Full Scholarship, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, Sep. 1999;

Ø Honor Prize and Scholarship for Excellent Freshmen, HIT, ranking top 1% of 3,000 freshmen, Sep. 1998;