I am from Beijing, China. I have been doing research for four years at Case Western Reserve University in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, under my advisor, Dr. Yoh-Han Pao. I got my Master's degree in August, 2001 from EECS, CWRU. I am now a Ph.D. candidate in the same department and the Center for Computational Genomics.

   Computational Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Applications of Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, Modeling Complex Biomolecular Systems,Visualizaition of Multivariate Data.

   Before the summer of 2001, my major research was focusing on the applications of Computational Intelligence on material systems. This project was directed by Dr.Pao and co-operated with AFRL. One of the tasks was to predict whether a materials system will form compound or not,based on knowledge of many other known exemplars. The further step was to suggest certain materials systems which satisfy the needs or requirements of system properties, such as the melting temperature. In this project, we applied various clustering methods, neural networks and evolutionary searching algorithms, such as GESA (Guided Evolutionary Simulated Annealing) and got satisfactory results.

   Now, I am doing research at the Center for Computational Genomics. One of the projects in progress is the analysis and visualization of gene expression data. This project also involves the efforts from the Department of Genetics, CWRU. Another project is about the dynamic system modeling.

• Neural Networks Related

    IEEE Neural Network Council Homepage
    EEAP484: Computational Intelligence
• Bioinformatics Related

    PubMed
    National Institutes of Health
    Nature
• Programming Related

    Sun's Java Site    
• Other Links

    IEEE Xplore
 

Courses (Fall, 1999- Present)

• EEAP484: Computational Intelligence (Fall, 1999)
• EEAP452: Random Signals (Fall, 1999)
• ESCI408: Linear System (Fall, 1999)
• ECES425: Computer Networks (Spring, 2000)
• ECES430: Object-Oriented Software Development - Design Patterns (Spring, 2000)
• ECES423: Principles of Operating Systems (Spring, 2001)
• ECES651: Thesis M.S. (Spring, 2001)
• EECS475: Autonomous Robotics (Fall, 2001)
• EECS600: Wireless Communications (Fall, 2001)
• BIOL300: Dynamics of Biological Systems (Fall, 2001)
• MATH408: Cryptology (Spring, 2000)
• EBME461: Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis (Spring, 2002)
• MATH431: Numerical Linear Algebra (Fall, 2003)

Publications and presentations

• Pao, Y.-H.; Zhao, Y.L.; Shao,H.; and LeClair, S.R., "Issues underlying the implementation of the BASIC Concepts prediction of materials properties", Presented in the 3rd International Conference of Intelligent Processing and Manufacturing Materials (IPMM 2001), Vancouver, Canada, July 29-Aug. 3, 2001.
• Nadeau, J.; Burrage,L; Churchill, G.; Hill, A; Restivo,J; Shao, H.; Pao, Y.-H. and Hoit, B., "Building hearts from computational analysis of cardiovascular traits in genetically randomized populations", Presented in the 16th International Mouse Genome Conference , San Antonio, Texas, Nov.17 - 20, 2002.
• Hoit, B.; Kiatchoosakun,S.; Restivo,J.; Kirkpatrick,D.; Olszens,K.; Shao,H.; Pao, Y.-H.; and Nadeau,J., "Naturally occurring variation in cardiovascular traits among inbred mouse strains", Genomics, Vol. 79, No. 5, pp.679-685, 2002.
• Pao, Y-H.; Shao, H. and Nadeau, J: “quantifying qualitative models of biomolecular processes”, SCI 2003 , Orlando, Florida, July 28- 31, 2003
• Shao, H.; Pao, Y.-H.; Ernest, S.; Nadeau, J: “Mean shift density estimation in analysis of Gene Array Responses to perturbations”, (poster) 1st International Conferences on Pathways, Networks and Systems: Theory and Experiments , Santorini, Greece, September 28-October 2, 2003.
• Ernest , S., Carter, M., Shao, H., Hosack, A., Rosenblatt, D., Pao, Y-H, Ross, M. and Nadeau, J. : “ Parallel changes in expression profiles and metabolite levels in folate-deficient and Crooked tail mutant mice”. (In preparation)

Created on November 8th, 1999.
Last updated on February 24th, 2003.