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Qiang Qiang (Katherine) 

Case Western Reserve University 
10900 Euclid Ave, Olin 505 
    Cleveland OH44106, USA 
(O)+1-216-368-4361    (H)+1-216-791-8075 
qxq2@po.cwru.edu   http://kittyqiang.tripod.com

Objective | Education | Graduate Courses | Research | Experience | Technical Skills | Languages | Honors | Activities

Objective

To find an internship or part-time job in electrical or computer engineering utilizing my strong technical skills and educational background.


Education

Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH

PhD student, Computer Engineering 
Major: Design Automation, VLSI and CAD, Circuit Testing 
Advisor: Prof. Daniel G. Saab 
GPA: 4.0/4.0

Tsinghua University Beijing, P.R.China

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Engineering, July 2000 
Major: Communication Techniques and Information System 
Thesis: Implementation of Different Resolution Images in Ground Classification 
GPA: 3.7/4.0


Graduate Courses

Fall'00

ECES420  Computer System Architecture
ECES485  VLSI Systems
ESCI401   Digital Signal Processing

Spring'01

ECES454  Design and Analysis of Algorithms
ECES425  Computer Communication Networks
ECES488  Embedded Systems Design


Research

Internet Video Chat System, CWRU, supervised by Prof. Papachristou, 01/01-05/01
Designed and implemented the embedded system of IVCS on processor level.  Main work included user interface and environment definition, system and executable function specification, system partitioning, components selecting, controller/media processing part design and simulation, and marketing analysis.  SpecCharts language, FSM representation, VHDL and FPGA tools were used.

QFTP ver1.0, CWRU, supervised by Prof. Ergun, 01/01-03/01
Designed an FTP software on base of RFC959 under Microsoft Windows environment using Visual C++ 6.0.   The main function of version 1.0  are USER, PASS, LIST, PORT, PETR, STOR, AND QUIT.

DLX  Microprocessor,  CWRU, supervised by Prof. Saab, 10/00-12/00
Designed and simulated the pipelined DLX Microprocessor created and described by J. L. Hennessy and D. A. Patterson in their book Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach.  Main work included 32-bit integer ALU operation, 32-bit pipelined architecture, basic program control branch, exception handling and data/control hazard handling. Mentor Graphics schematic and simulation tools and VHDL were used.

Image Classification (Bachelor Thesis), THU, supervised by Prof. Sun, Weidong , 09/99-06/00
To innovate a new image classification algorithm to classify NOAA AVHRR (low-resolution) images from classified TM (high-resolution, also use the new algorithm) images taken on the same spot as the former. Then compare the new algorithm with classical ones such as ISODATA, K-Means, to assess the quality of their application in different resolution remote sensing images.


Experience

Co-op Full-time, Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View ,CA, 06/01-12/01

Teaching Assistant, CWRU, 08/00-05/01
Fall'00: Leading recitations and grading labs of EEAP246 Signals and Systems. 
Spring'01: Making solutions and grading homework of ECES321 Digital System Design.
 

Part-time Engineer, Tsinghua Applied Physics Department and Tsinghua Pengyuan Corporation , 10/99-04/00 
Designed control circuits of liquid crystal displays (LCD) and wrote drive modules in assembly language.

Internship, China Science & Technology Networks (CSTNet), China Academy of Science (CAS),  07/99-08/99 
Developed a software for Unix environmental network flow management based on Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Main tools were C++ language and WinSockets.


Technical Skills

Tool Softwares: Xilinx, Mentor Graphics, Synopsis, Pspice, Matlab, Visual C++/Basic, HP-ADS, Photoshop

Operation Systems: Unix(SGI IRIX/SUN Solaris), Linux(Red Hat), Windows95/98/2000, Windows NT

Programming Languages: Perl, VHDL, C/C++, Java, HTML, Assembly


Languages

Chinese: native language 
English: fluent in reading, writing, listening and speaking 
German: fair in reading, speaking 
French & Japanese: basic knowledge 


Honors

· Case Prime Fellowship, Case Western Reserve University, 00 
· Tsinghua Student Scholarship for Excellency, 99 
· Tsinghua Germanic Language Scholarship, 98 
· Tsinghua Student Scholarship for Excellency, 98 
· Tsinghua Student Scholarship for Excellency in Social Activities, 98 
· Tsinghua Silver Award for Excellency in Social Activities, 97 
· Tsinghua Chang Tong Scholarship in honor of Prof. Chang Tong, 96 
· Overall Outstanding Student Honor in Jiangsu Province PRC, 95 
(200 candidates selected from around 170,000 high school graduates) 


Activities

· Representative to Student Council at EE Dept, Tsinghua University, 97-99 
· Class President at EE Dept, Tsinghua University, 95-97 
· Active member of Tsinghua Student Chorus and Philsymphony Association, Tsinghua University, 95-99 
· Traveled to Southeast Asia: Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Macao, summer, 98