Biography

Education

• Ph.D., Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, United States, 2014 (expected)
  Ph.D., Engineering and Public Policy, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 2014 (expected)

  • Advisor: Prof. Marvin Sirbu & Pedro Ferreira
    GPA: 3.8/4
    4-Year Fellowship supported

• M.S., Information Networking, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, United States, May 2009

  • GPA: 3.8/4
    Full Tuition Scholarship supported
    Thesis Title: The Contemporary IPR Arena on Competing Technologies Towards 4G, Advisor: Prof. Gregory Yovanof

• B.E. (with honor), Software Engineering, Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China, July 2007

  • Thesis Title: Website Globalization Research for Chinese Software Outsourcing Corporations (in Chinese), Advisor: Dr. Stanley Chum

Academic Experience

• Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2010 –
  Ph.D. student

  • Determinants of Subscriber Churn in Wireless Network in Portugal

• Software Systems & Web Technologies Lab, Athens Information Technology (AIT), Athens, Greece, February 2008 – May 2009
  Researcher & Software Developer

  • EU FP6 I3CON (Industrialised, Integrated, Intelligent Construction)
    Integration work of Sensor Network data and rule-based engine (Drools) for the part of intelligent and integrated building system

  • EU IST-034909 COMANCHE (Software configuration management framework for networked services environments and architectures incorporating ambient intelligence features)
    Developed software configuration management device driver (TV, Set-Top Box and Edge Server)

  • Developed and deployed AIT's new website (http://www.ait.edu.gr)

Teaching Experience

• Athens Information Technology, Athens, Greece, February 2008 – December 2008
  Teaching Assistant

  • AIT-35C Object-Oriented Programming, Masters Level, 15 students, Fall 2008, Instructor: Prof. Sofoklis Efremidis

  • AIT-76E Software Engineering, Masters Level, 8 students, Spring 2008, Instructor: Prof. Sofoklis Efremidis

Selected Awards

• The Fundação para a Ciência ea Tecnologia (Portuguese National Science & Technology Foundation) Ph.D Fellowship, 2010 – 2014

• Travel Grant to Onassis Foundation Lecture Series in Computer Science, July 2008

• INI & AIT Full Scholarship, 2007-2009

• Outstanding Volunteer Award of Junior Achievement China, 2007

• Excellent Graduate Award of BUAA (10% graduate), 2007

• Renmin Academic Scholarship of BUAA, 2005, 2006