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Stanford University

Xiaoqing Zhu

Address: 425 E. Tasman Drive, San Jose, CA 95134, USA
Phone: 1-408-424-7290
Email: zhuxq@stanfordalumni.org
Homepage: http://msw3.stanford.edu/~zhuxq


Resume in PDF form

EDUCATION


2003 ~ 2009

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA


  • Current GPA ~ 4.1
  • Ranking 7th out of ~200 in the EE PhD Qualifying Exam
  • Dissertation: Distributed Rate Allocation for Video Streaming over Wireless Networks
  • 2001 ~ 2003

    M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA


  • Cumulative GPA~ 4.1
  • Core course areas: Communications, Image Systems, Signal Processing, etc.
  • 1997 ~ 2001

    B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China


  • Graduated with distinction (GPA ~ 91/100)
  • Minor Degree: B.A. in English

  • HONORS & AWARDS


    January 2010

    Cisco Achievement Program (CAP) Award, Cisco Systems Inc.

    September 2007

    Best Student Paper Award, ACM Multimedia 2007, Augsburg, Germany

    2001 ~ 2004

    Stanford Graduate Fellowship, top award for graduate students in the School of Engineering, Stanford University

    June 2001

    Undergraduate Thesis Award, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University

    Octobor 2000

    First Prize Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Tsinghua University

    August 1997

    High Distinction Award (above 99%), International Skills Test, University of New South Wales, Australia

    WORK/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE


    September 2008 ~ Present

    Software Engineer, Advanced Architecture & Research, Cisco Systems Inc.


  • Design, analysis, and implementation of Layered Internet Video Adaptation (LIVA), a network-assisted framework for bandwidth sharing and error protection of Internet video streaming.
  • Algorithm design for performance enhancement of media streaming over highly mobile vehicular networks.
  • Analysis and synthesis of video traffic staticstics for the IPSLA Video Operation feature in Cisco's Catalyst 3000 series switches.
  • 2002 ~ 2008

    Image, Video, Multimedia Systems (IVMS) Group, Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University


  • Distributed Rate Allocation for Video Streaming Over Wireless Networks, Docorate dissertation research.
  • Video streaming over ad hoc networks, NSF Grant No. CCR-0325639, joint project with the Wireless Systems Laboratory.
  • Lightfield compression with 4-D wavelet decomposition, NSF Grant No. 0225315.
  • June ~ September 2006

    Summer internship at Sharp Labs of America


  • Design and implementation of distributed resource allocation algorithms for audiovisual streaming over wireless networks.
  • June ~ September 2003

    Summer internship at IBM Almaden Research Center


  • Design and implementation of the Intelligent Document Extraction and Analysis (IDEA) algorithm.
  • 2001 ~ 2002

    Image Engineering Lab, Deptartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China


  • Undergraduate thesis research: design and implementation of online demos for graduate-level course Digital Image Processing and Analysis
  • 2000 ~ 2001

    Part-time project developer at the Baoan Shili Company, Shen Zhen, China


  • Design and implementation (DSP programming) of an embedded system of base-band modem
  • June ~ August 2000

    Summer internship at Network Security Research Group, Great Dragon Telecommunications, Beijing, China


  • Documentation of HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2068) and Virtual Private Network (VPN)
  • April ~ September 2000

    Intel Developer Forum, Beijing, China


  • Oral interpretation for several technical sessions
  • September ~ December 1999

    Tsinghua University TV Station, Beijing, China


  • English news compilation and anchoring

  • SKILLS


    Languages

    Chinese, English, French

    Programming

    Matlab, C/C++, Java, assembly language, Perl

    OS Platforms

    Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac OS

    Software

    LaTex, Office, Image processing tools, etc.

    REFERENCES


    Avaialbe upon request.