Cover Letter Experience for living and studying abroad with strong communication and writing skill in English Solid research background: NOKIA grant and CIMO grant were awarded, participated several international conferences, lectured in an international student program Experience in organizing and managing events/ project / international activities: organize summer school and invited course; run an association in Finland; be involved in an EU-supported project Professional in MATALB, algorithm design and analysis; experience in other programming language C++, javascript; good at photoshop for designing flyers, posters and booklets; experience at building up simple webpages. Creative and strong leadership 5 years' work experience
Resume Personal Information Name: Qinpei Zhao Gender: Female Degree: PhD Date of Birth: Feb 17th, 1982 Email: zhao@cs.joensuu.fi / qinpeizhao@gmail.com Mobile: 13661467994 Homepage: http://cs.joensuu.fi/~zhao/ Education 09/2007 06/2012: University of Eastern Finland Specialty: Clustering analysis, Image and Speech Processing, Data Mining Degree: PhD University of Eastern Finland is an administratively independent and financially autonomous university. It plays a prominent role in its areas of strength and expertise in both research and teaching. 09/2004 03/2007: Shanghai Jiaotong University Specialty: Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Degree: Master Shanghai Jiaotong University is one of the most famous and oldest universities in China. A number of its disciplines have been advancing towards the world s first-class level, such as communication and electronic system, naval architecture and ocean engineering, automatic control, composite materials, and metal plasticity processing. 08/2000 07/2004: Xidian University Specialty: Automatic Control Degree: Bachelor Xidian University is among an elite class of institutes for higher education selected nationally as part of China's State educational development project labeled "211", and is famous for its telecommunication engineering and electronic information. Research Interest Research Interest: Clustering, Data Mining, Location-based applications and Pattern Recognition Related Field: Clustering, Data mining, Speech processing, infrared image segmentation, Video surveillance, Object tracking, Medical devices, Wind Energy, Mobile applications. Programming languages: C/C++, Matlab, Java Script Work Experience 07/2009 07/2012:University of Eastern Finland
Title: Junior Researcher The position is responsible for research and daily duties for the department. Besides independent research, teaching, organizing and managing events / project / international activities are also involved. Research topics: 1. Clustering algorithms (partition-based (k-means), model-based (EM algorithm), spectral clustering, Genetic algorithm, Fuzzy c-means, DBSCAN, Ncut Clustering) 2. Determining the number of clusters in cluster Validity (Bayesian Information Criterion, F-ratio, External validity indices, etc.) 3. EM algorithm variant Random Swap EM algorithm 4. Image Segmentation problem and evaluation (JSEG method) 5. Mobile and Location-based applications (GPS data and images) 01/2007 09/2007:GE Global Research Center Title: Engineer The GE China Technology Center is a multi-disciplinary research center conducting leading edge research, engineering development and sourcing for GE s diverse business across the world. With 28 research labs in total, the research and technology efforts of the Center are focused on different areas, such as Power Electronics and Controls, Imaging Technologies, Advanced Manufacturing and Chemical Technologies. 03/2006 10/2006:Medtronic, Inc Title: Engineer Medtronic is the global leader in medical technology providing lifelong solutions for people with chronic disease. Medtronic s technology used to treat conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, neurological disorders, and vascular illnesses. Projects 08/2010 12/2010:Mopsi Project ( http://cs.joensuu.fi/mopsi/ ) Description: Mopsi represents Mobile Location-based Applications and Internet. The project implements different location-based services and applications such as mobile search engines, data collection, user tracking and route recording. The project has its applications integrated both on the web and mobile phones. Development Tools: Java Script, PHP, C++, Matlab 1. Clutter reduction based on smart swap clustering algorithm and grid-based method for map (icon and image) visualization is designed. 2. Novel detection method and clustering algorithms, such as k-means and EM algorithm are employed for mining useful information from photo and route collection. Data involved is GPS location data and time stamps. 3. Recommendation system based on word similarity is designed. Word similarity measures on approximate string matching and Wordnet are studied and tested. 01/2007 03/2007:Smart Camera Description: This project aims to develop an intelligent camera for video surveillance. As there is huge amount of information in video surveillance, to develop intelligent camera, which has the capability of content analysis and video retrieval, is necessary. Development Tools: Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
4. Survey on Camera Smartness and Video Retrieval. 5. Establish a platform demo of video processing. 03/2007 09/2007:Validation Tool for Wind Turbine Description: The project is a simulation tool, which is a part of the model-in-the-loop testing work on wind turbine 1.5MW. A semi-automated validation tool is developed for model validation in Model Driven Development. Development Tools: Matlab 1. Complete the Simulink Module Validation tool. 2. Documental work on it. 03/2006 09/2006:Pacemaker Programmer 2010 Description: The project is to develop a pacemaker programmer 2010 for Medtronic s sigma series pacemaker. Software Environment: C++ Development Tools: Visual C++ 2003 1. Execute software related testing activities. 2. Some module software development. 07/2005 08/2006:Object Tracking and Recognition Description: The target of this project is to develop a platform to detect and track objects by image processing algorithms. It is cooperated with the Second Academy of Spaceflight Technology in China. Software Environment: C++ Development Tools: VC++ 6.0 1. Design the algorithm of object extracting in infrared image. 2. Finish the development on segmentation part of the platform and manage the platform updating. 07/2004 05/2005:Image Retrieval on Plant Diseases Description: This project is to develop a software platform on image retrieval of plant diseases, which is cooperated with the Academy of Agriculture and Science in Shanghai. 1. Algorithms study on image retrieval, especially the content-based retrieval. 2. Survey of image retrieval methods. Miscellaneous Info Awards: CIMO scholarship (2007) Grant from NOKIA foundation (2008) Social Activities: Chairman of the Chinese student union in Joensuu. Chairman of the Chinese Culture Association in Eastern Finland (CCA). Organizing crew of 16 th ECSE summer school in Novel Computing and several invited courses.
Champion in 2 nd Nordic Chinese badminton tournament. Champion in 3 rd Finland Chinese badminton tournament. Language Skills: English (fluent), Japanese (elementary), Finnish (elementary) Interests: Photoshop, Design of flyers and websites, badminton Publications Journal: 1. Q. Zhao, V. Hautamänki, I. Känrkkäninen and P. Fränti, "Random swap EM algorithm for Gaussian mixture models and its applications" (accepted by Pattern Recognition Letters). 2. Q. Zhao and P. Fränti, "Centroid Ratio for Pairwise Random Swap Clustering Algorithm" (under revision: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering). 3. P. Fränti and Q. Zhao, "C-index: Cluster level similarity by prototype mapping" (Manuscript). 4. Q. Zhao and P. Fränti, "WB-index: a sum-of-squares based index for cluster validity" (under review: Knowledge and Data Engineering). Conference: 5. Q. Zhao, V. Hautamänki, P. Fränti. "Knee Point Detection in BIC for Detecting the Number of Clusters". Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 08), LNCS 5259, pp.664-673, 2008. 6. Q. Zhao, M. Xu, P. Fränti. "Knee Point Detection on Bayesian Information Criterion". 20th IEEE Int. Conf. on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 08), pp.431-438, 2008. 7. Q. Zhao, M. Xu, P. Fränti. "Sum-of-Square Based Cluster Validity Index and Significance Analysis". 11th Int. Conf. on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (ICANNGA'09), LNCS 5495, pp.313-322, 2009. 8. Q. Zhao, V. Hautamänki, I. Känrkkäninen and P. Fränti, "Random swap EM algorithm for finite mixtures models in image segmentation", IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP'09), Cairo, pp.2397-2400, 2009. 9. J. Chen, Q. Zhao, and P. Fränti, Smart swap for more efficient clustering, IEEE Int. Conf. on Green Circuits and Systems (ICGCS 10), Shanghai, China, pp.446-450, 2010. 10. Q. Zhao, V. Hautamäki and P. "Fränti, "RSEM: an accelerated algorithm on repeated EM", IEEE Int. Conf. on Image and Graphics (ICIG'11), pp.135-140, 2011. 11. Q. Zhao, M. Xu and P. Fränti, "Expanding external validity measures for determining the number of clusters", 11th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 11), pp.931-936, 2011. 12. Q. Zhao, Mohammad Rezaei, hao Chen and P. Fränti, "Keyword clustering for automatic categorization", 21 st Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 12), 2012.