Education
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
PhD student, Computer Science, 05/2001- present (expected unknown >_<)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
M.S., Computer Science, 12/2002(expected)
Auburn
University, Auburn, Alabama
Master
of Science student,
Computer Science, 08/2000 - 05/2001
Peking
University, Beijing, P.R.China
B.S.,
Computer Science, 09/1996 - 07/2000
Research Experience
Interest
Collaborative Engineering, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Information management and System, Web service
Projects
NSF-KDI (Knowledge Distributed Intelligence) Project
Funded by NSF, Taken by Drexel University, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Southern California
05/2001-present
Position: research assistant, in areas of knowledge sharing, process modeling, and perspective-based collaboration
Theoretical Foundations of the Facilities Engineering Framework: Socio-Technical Theory to Support Collaborative Engineering Processes
05/2001-present
Funded by U.S. Army, Taken by Impact Lab, University of Southern California
Position: research assistant, in areas of socio-technical framework, collaboration process modeling, conflict management, and collaborative information system developing
Publications
1- Lu, S. C-Y., Udwadia, Cai, J., Jing N., “A Socio-Technical System to Support Collaborative Engineering Design”, Progress Report, August, 2001
2- Udwadia, F., Lu, S. C-Y., Cai, J., Jing N., “Socio-Technical Theory to Support Collaborative Engineering Process", Final Report, November, 2001
3- Cai, J., Lu, Stephen C-Y., Udwadia, F., Jing N., “Modeling and Integrating Collaborative Processes over the Internet”, Submitted to Journal of Business Process Management, special issue on Internet-enabled workflow management, April, 2002
4- Cai, J., Lu, Stephen C.-Y., Udwadia, F., Jing N., “A Socio-technical approach to support collaborative decision-making", Working Paper, 2002
5- Cai, J., Lu, Stephen C.-Y., Udwadia, F., Jing N., "STARS 2.0: A socio-technical web-collaboration support infrastructure”, Working Paper, 2002
Internships
SUN Microsystems
Java Soft
J2EE SQE group
05/2002-08/2002
Responsibility: Analyzing and developing J2EE web service test suites to match J2EE 1.4 new features.
Employment Experience
SUN Microsystems, Java Soft, J2EE SQE Group
Graduate Student Intern, 05/2002-08/2002
Responsibility: Analyzing and developing J2EE web service test suits, developing web layer of group-integrated application
IMPACT
Lab, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Research
Assistant, 05/2001
- Present
Responsibility: research work in investigating socio-technical framework to support collaboration engineering; Design and develop Socio-Technical Analysis Research System (STARS) using Java technology
Auburn University,
Auburn, Alabama
Teaching Assistant, 08/2000 – 05/2001
Direct lab programming with C and Java in the course "Introduction to Computing".