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Ph.D. candidate
Department of Computer and Information Science
Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York
Email: hyan (at) cis.poly.edu

General Information

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer and Information Science Department of Polytechnic University at Brooklyn, New York. My advisor is Prof. Torsten Suel in the Web Exploration and Search Technology Lab. I received my bachelor degree from Xi an Jiaotong University in 2000 and my master degree from Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003.

Research Interests

My current research interests include: web search technology, text and index compression, distributed computing systems, information retrieval, and database.

My previous research interests include image and video processing.

Working and research experience

2006/06 ~ 2006/08 Summer Internship at Morgan Stanley, New York (Information Technology Analyst in Fixed Income Group)

2005/06~present Research Assistant at Web Exploration and Search Technology Lab under the supervision of Prof. Torsten Suel

2003/08 ~ 2005/06 Research Assistant working on the project Search and Rescue Using Remotely Guided Rats under the supervision of Prof. Joshua Gluckman and prof. Yao Wang

2000/06~2003/06 Research Assistant at Insitute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Database (CS308) at Polytechnic University during Fall 2004, Spring 2005 and Fall 2005

Selected Publications

Hao Yan, Utku Irmak, Torsten Suel, Algorithms for Low-Latency Remote File Synchronization, IEEE INFOCOM Conference, April 2008, To appear.

Hao Yan, Yi Zhang, Zengguang Hou, Min Tan Automatic Text Detection In Video Frames Based On Bootstrap Artificial Neural Network And CED, WSCG, 2003

Hao Yan, Lei Li, Min Tan, Digital Recognition System Based on Mobile Robot, IEEE ICCA, 2002

Hao Yan, Hou Zengguang, Tan Min, Multiscale Image Data Fusion Based on Wavelet Transform, Journal of Computer Engineering and Application, 2003

My labmates

From left to right in the picture: my friends Jiangong Zhang, Qingqing Gan, and me