JINGNING ZHANG [email protected] 217-419-9896 www.jingningzhang.com 1705 Melrose Village Circle Apt. 822B, Urbana, IL, 61801 EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS at Urbana-Champaign GPA 4.0/4.0 Master of Science in Computer Science May 2015 Relevant Courses: Social Visualization(A), Human Computer Interaction(A), User Interface Design (A), Socio-Computer Interaction(A), Software Engineering(A+) TSINGHUA UNIVERISTY GPA 3.6/4.0 (86.3%) Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science July 2013 Relevant Courses: Service-Oriented Architecture, Computer Network, Operating System, Database System, Multimedia Processing, Data Structure. Java Programming, C++ Programming Thesis: Citation Model based Graphical Academic Search Interface INTERNSHIP NEUSTAR INC. May. 2014 ~ Aug. 2014 Intern Award: Best Technological Innovation Finalist at UIUC Research Park XDI Graph Editor: Web-based Interactive Graph for XDI Data • Enabled Import/Export XDI statements and high resolution PNG with options • Built elements with create & delete, copy & paste and unlimited undo & redo • Created Force-Directed Graph and Tree Layout with fold/unfold functions • Supported browsing with view operation, navigator & search-as-type with graphical highlight • Open-sourced by Neustar and widely used in XDI development and presentation Attack Map: Display Global IP attacks with real-time big data • Supported playback attacks in the last hour at a speed up to 10x faster • Color-coded shapes based on IP Intelligence features • Allowed hide/show any categories for filtering information while playing • Added detection of new features in data files for future updates RELATED EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Truth at North Korea Apr. 2014 ~ May. 2014 • Visualized a 372-page UN report with testimony and investigation of North Korea refugee • Compared with all New York Times articles in the past 60 years on North Korea • Created 5 different graphs supported by keyword extracting and subjectivity analysis Convergence Detection of MTurk Response Apr. 2014 ~ May. 2014 • Visualized clusters grouped by clustering algorithm and crowd workers • Presented the reduction of new knowledge and cluster growth over time • Supported playback of the entire response period Facebook Group Activity Feb. 2014 ~ Mar. 2014 • Visualized a Facebook Group activity over 105 days. • Supported replay of activities in both accumulative and separate graph • Expanded to 6 individual graphs for each project stage Selfie: A Road of 40,000 browsing history Apr. 2014 • Created replay of web browser history though out 6 months • Identified 10 categories with color-code • Presented history flow with stacked bar chart of different colors The Sound of Silence Mar. 2014 • Analyzed and presented the distribution of color and sound loudness in Movie • Highlighted silent periods and supported skipping to selected time frame Visualization of Romance in Facebook Messages Feb. 2014 • Designed visualization containing Stack bar chart, Area chart and Word cloud • Implemented all designs including 8 metrics with D3.js, Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3 • Planned entire data structure in JSON Scholar Mingle Mobile App: Gamification on Study Aug. ~ Dec. 2013 • Finished graphic design for 10 views & poster with Photoshop and Illustrator • Constructed functional prototype with HTML5 & CSS3 • Created 56 screens of paper prototype and 16 screens of Axure interactive prototype Social Gym Mobile App: Social Network for Sports Experts and Newbies Aug. ~ Dec. 2013 • Constructed functional prototype with HTML5 & CSS3 • Sketched 20 screens of paper prototype and conducted user study with 8 users • Designed poster with InDesign and performed Cognitive Walkthrough and Heuristic Evaluation Jenkins Test Statistics plug-in project Oct. ~ Dec. 2013 • Finished Plug-in with 2100+ lines of Java and 300 lines of Jelly, including 60 JUnit test cases. • Created 3 graphs and 5 types of statistics with JFree Chart (Java) & Jelly • Followed XP development process for 4 iterations, proposed 15 user stories, including 60 tasks • Reverse-engineered 3 popular Jenkins plug-ins TSINGHUA UNIVERISTY, CHINA Research Assistant on Human Computer Interaction Sep. 2011 ~ July. 2013 Thesis: Scholar Publication Network Visualization • Proposed citation search model • Analyzed 4,720,000 publications with MATLAB and Java (Weka) • Created visualization interface with 6000+ lines of C# (WPF) • Designed 4 major graph manipulation functions • Conducted a 16-subject qualitative user evaluation and submitted research paper to CHI 2013 AWARD INTERNSHIP Intern Award: Best Technological Innovation Finalist at Research Park Aug. 2014 ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Teaching Assistant of CS101 & CS427 Course Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Aug. 2013 ~ present Jan. 2014 ~ present SKILLS Programming Languages C#, Java, JUnit, C/C++, MATLAB, Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, Jelly, Assembly, Python Framework & Tools WPF, D3.js, JQuery, Node.js, Backbone.js, Ember.js, JFree, Jenkins Design Flash(10+ year), Axure, Photoshop, OmniGraffle, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver PUBLICATIONS • Liu, Y., Liao, C., Zhang, J. Self-Adaptive Blur (SAB): A Persuasive Method for Healthy Posture. Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, 2014, to appear. • Xia, H., Zhang, J., Zhu, Y., Yu, C., Shi, Y. Mobile Assistant: Enhancing Desktop Interaction Using Mobile Phone. Proc. of the 2012 Interactive tabletops and surfaces conference, 379-382, 2012.