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I've graduated from USC in July, 2012.

I started my Ph.D(acronym of Permanent Head Damage, :) from Northeastern University for two and half years before moving to University of Southern California on January, 2009. I work with Prof. Cyrus Shahabi in the Info-Lab, Computer Science Department, Viterbi School of Engineering, USC. Research-wise, I am interested in query processing and optimization in relational and spatial databases, data management and discovery in data warehouses, data security, privacy and integrity in outsourced data environment, location based services for mobile cilents and sensor networks.

I received my bachelor degree from Beijing Information Science & Technology University (used to be Beijing Information Technology Institute) and master degree from Beijing University of Posts&Telecommunications. I joined Teradata Division, NCR and worked as a solution consultant (professional Service) for two and half years before I studied in the Northeastern Universityin the College of Computer and Information Science. I got my Master degree from Northeastern Univ. in May 2009.

Here is my CV.

Education:

Publication:

I am currently working with Prof. Shahabi in Info-Lab.

• L. Hu,W.-S. Ku, S. Bakiras, and C. Shahabi, “Spatial Query Integrity with Voronoi Neighbors”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), to appear, 2012.
• W.-S. Ku, L. Hu, C. Shahabi, and H. Wang, “A Query Integrity Assurance Scheme for Accessing Outsourced Spatial Databases”, GeoInformatica, to appear, 2012.
• H. Pham, L. Hu, and C. Shahabi, GEOSO – A Geo-Social Model: From Real-World Co-occurrences to Social Connections, 7th International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information (DNIS), Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, December 2011.
• H. Pham, L. Hu, and C. Shahabi, Towards Integrating Real-World Spatiotemporal Data with Social Networks , ACM SIGSPATIAL, Chicago, Illinois, November 2011.
• L. Hu, W.-S Ku, S. Bakiras, and C. Shahabi, Verifying Spatial Queries using Voronoi Neighbors, ACM SIGSPATIAL, San Jose, California , November 2010. (Acceptance rate: 20.9%)
• C-J. Wang, W.-S Ku, L. Hu, and C. Shahabi, INTACT: A Spatial Query Integrity Assurance Framework for Location-based Services (Demo Paper), ACM SIGSPATIAL , San Jose, CA, November 2010.
• L. Hu, C. Shahabi, "Privacy Assurance in Mobile Sensing Networok: Go Beyond Trusted Servers",Proc. of eighth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications - Workshops, Mannheim, Germany, 2010 .(Acceptance rate: 36.8%)
• W.-S. Ku, L. Hu, C. Shahabi, and H. Wang, "Query Integrity Assurance of Location-based Services Accessing Outsourced Spatial Databases",Proc. of 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), Aalborg, Denmark, 2009 .(Acceptance rate: 32%)

I worked in Database Lab for two and half years with Prof. Zhang on query optimizating in spatial, temporal and spatiotemporal databases; data warehousing technology.

• D. Zhang, Y. Du, and L. Hu,"On Monitoring the top-k Unsafe Places", Proc. of 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Cancun, Mexico, 2008.(Acceptance rate for full paper with short presentation: 19.2%)
  
• L. Hu, Y.-C. Chang, C. A. Lang, K. A. Ross, and D. Zhang,"QueryScope: Visualizing Queries for Repeatable Database Tuning (Demo Paper)", Proc. of 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Auckland, New Zealand, 2008.(Acceptance rate: 27.5%) Download-on-AlphaWorks

Work Experience:

• I am a research assistant in Computer Science Department, USC.

• I interned with the optimizer group of Teradata database R&D department in Summer 2009.

• I was a research assistant in Database Lab of CCIS, Northeastern University for one and half years.

• I worked for Microsoft Research as a summer intern from May. 2008 to Aug. 2008

• I worked for IBM Research as a summer intern from Jun. 2007 to Aug. 2007

• I was employed by Teradata division of NCR Corp. from May 2004 to Aug. 2006 as a full-time employee and worked on several data warehouse projects for telecommunication companies and bank. Please check my CV for details.

• I was a teaching assistant for CSU370 (Object-Oriented Design) of Prof. Hafner and Prof. Clinger . Spring 2007, Fall 2006 of CCIS, Northeastern University

Courses:

CSCI561	Artificial Intelligence	Sofus A. Macskassy
CSCI585	Database Systems	Prof. Cyrus Shahabi
CSCI599	Geospatial Information Management	Prof. Cyrus Shahabi
CSCI582	Geometric Modeling	Prof. Ari Requicha
ALI255	Advanced Writing	James Polk
CSG220	Machine Learning	Virgil Pavlu
CSG714	Theory of Computation	Prof. Rajaraman
CSG712	Intensive Computer Systems	Prof. Wand
CSG250	Wireless Network	Prof. Rajaraman
CSG254	Network Security	Prof. Sundaram
CSG711	Principles of Programming languages	Prof. Wand
CSG230	Data Mining Techniques	Prof. Zhang
CSG713	Advanced Algorithms	Prof. Aslam
CSG130	Introduction to Database Systems	Prof. Zhang

Professional:

• CRA-W:Grad Cohort porgram is open to all female grad-students. We have yearly conference usually in March or Early April and the application deadline is usually in Nov. The expenses are covered by the conference. It is a great opportunity to meet other people like you.
• GraceHopper:All female students in Computing area can apply. The conference has scholarship to support the travel expenses.

Having FUN:

• Jiu-Zhai, Sichuan, China
• Auckland, New Zealand
• Hiking In Los Angeles Area
• MIT Argentine Tango Club
• Tango Society of Boston
• Harvard Tango Club
• Salsa Boston
• In Depth Shell Scripting

Links:

• Links
• InfoLab-HowTo (not public)

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