Research Interests:
Medical Computing Science, Biomedical Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Data Mining
Internship:
03–09 2012: Chinese Academy of Sciences
--Research Assistant to Prof. Zhiwei Xu, the deputy director and chief engineer of the Institute of Computing Technology
--Involved in a Residential Energy-efficient Behaviour Elicitation project (see Publication)
06–08 2010: University of Nottingham
--Research Assistant to Prof. Sanja Petrovic, head of ASAP Group
--Involved in the Radiotherapy Planning project (see Project Experience)
06–08 2008: Jinan Qingqi Motorcycle Co.,Ltd
--Assistant to General Manager of Wenzhou branch, responsible for meeting arrangement, book keeping and communication, etc.
--Played a key role in launching the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system at the branch
--Corporate website: http://www.qingqi.com.cn
06-07 2007: Bureau of Education, Wenzhou
--Assistant to Qualification Department Manager, helping with the Academic Rank Assessment
--Jobs included technical support, exam scheduling & coordination, document collation & management as well as mark recording, etc.
--Work appreciated by the staff and was invited to return to the job by the manager in 2008
06-07 2006: Bureau of Education, Wenzhou
--Assistant to Qualification Department Manager, with jobs similar to those in 2007
--Spending all the salary (￥2000), realised a backpack journey which covered all the major cities in Eastern China, lasting for over 30 days and across over 2000 miles, to broaden my perspective
Extra Curricular Activities:
2012: Elected as a committee member of 2013 Imperial College Computing Student Workshop (ICCSW 2013) 2012: Elected as the Chief Public Relationship Officer of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Imperial College (CSSA-IC) 2007-2008: Elected as the president of the Rollerblade Society with a unanimous vote 2008: organized an influential Rollerblade Festival, which:
--Attracted over 300 candidates from six universities
--Won sponsorship valued at ￥10,000 (￥300-1000 is the norm) and other support from the largest local rollerblade club, Coca-Cola and eleven other societies, etc.
--I was honored to give opening speech with Pro-Vice-Chancellor
--Proposed the Discrete & Dynamic Leadership mechanism to improve organization efficiency 2008: Enhanced cooperation with Coca-Cola by leading the society to be a torch escort team on their behalf during the National Olympic Torch Relay event |
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Education:
2012-2015 Imperial College London
PhD Computing Science
Funding: CSC-Imperial Scholarship (full award) 2010-2011 Imperial College London
MSc Advanced Computing: Distinction
2006-2010 University of Nottingham
BSc Computer Science & Management: First Class Honours
(including foundation year program) Contact: zx10 AT imperial DOT ac DOT uk
Publication:
2012: Xie, Zhongliu & Xu, Zhiwei ‘Residential Energy-efficient Behaviour Elicitation Theory: An inter-disciplinary and multi-dimensional approach', in submission to Social Sciences in China
--The most prestigious social science journal in China
2011: Xie, Zhongliu ‘Economic Perspectives of Cloud Computing’, in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), pages: 312-319 (pdf)
--Conference website: http://www.cloudbus.org/ucc2011 2010: Xie, Zhongliu ‘Clarification of Cloud Computing’, in Proceedings of the International conference on Convergence & Hybrid Information Technology 2010 (ICHIT 2010), pages: 22-29 (pdf)
--University news: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ComputerScience/News/ICHIT2010.aspx
Research/Project Experience:
2011 MSc Project: Cloud Pricing Models – Distinction
--Proposed a systematic theory to instruct cloud computing firms in optimizing pricing strategies in both standard and spot markets under various circumstances.
--Developed a number of mathematical models to simulate market situations.
--Implemented a Spot Pricing System which has been adopted and is now running on top of Imperial College Cloud Platform (IC-Cloud) and its commercial versions: theory’s practical value proved.
--IC-Cloud Website: http://www.cloudlization.com
--Supervisor: Prof. Yike Guo
2010 Internship Project: Novel Approaches to Radiotherapy Planning and Scheduling in the NHS
--A large-scale project carried out by both University of Nottingham and Nottingham City Hospital
--Project combines Case-Based Reasoning approach and Fuzzy Set theory, where my role was to develop/improve the core case similarity measure algorithms and a learning mechanism
--Details available in work paper ‘Further Investigation in the Radiotherapy Project’
--Project Website: http://www.asap.cs.nott.ac.uk/?q=projects
--Supervisor: Prof. Sanja Petrovic
2009-2010 Undergraduate Final Project: Cloud Computing and Quasi-Cloud Computing – First Class
--Clarified the concept of cloud computing with both economic and technological perspectives
--Implemented a quasi-cloud media converter to assess five technological features of cloud
--Theory part was refined, extended and published in two international conferences (see Publication)
--Supervisor: Dr. Peter Blanchfield
2008-2009: Software Engineering Group Project: Robot Soccer AI Project – First Class
--As the trinity of system analyst, project manager and team leader
--Developed a number of AI strategy programs for SimuroSot Robot Soccer Platform
--Suggested an Asymptotic Project Scheduling Methodology to enhance project management
--Website: http://gpjmg-08.echowind.co.uk
--Supervisor: Dr. Jon Garibaldi |
