Haibo Zhao

LSDIS Lab, Department of Computer Science

The University of Georgia

415 Boyd, GSRC, Athens, GA 30602

zhao {at} cs {dot} uga {dot} edu

Summary

  • Google Summer of Code, Google
  • Contributor to open source project Apache Tuscany
  • Research Intern, Siemens
  • PhD Dissertation Completion Award
  • 2-year University-Wide Graduate School Fellowship
  • 7 papers published related to Web serivces and AI
  • 9 talks in major academic conferences on Web services and Artificial Intelligence
  • GPA: 3.8/4.0

    • Education

    Aug. 2004 - Present University of Georgia, Athens, GA

    Ph.D. Computer Science (GPA 3.8/4.0)

  • Research Interests: Semantic Web Services, Semantic Web, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Knowledge Representation, Decision-Theoretic Planning, AI
  • Awards: University-wide Graduate Student Fellowship(2004, 2005), University Dissertation Completion Award(2008)

    • Sep. 1999 - May 2003 Xiangtan University, China

    B.S. Computer Science

  • Awards: Graduated with Honors, “Excellent Graduation Thesis” Award

    • Research & Projects

    [GSoC, Google] Integrate Google services in SCA compositions

    May 2008 - Sep. 2008 Designer and Programmer

  • A Google Summer of Code project associated with Apache Tuscany
  • Adding GData binding into Tuscany to allow the integration of Google services into Tuscany, an Apache SOA framework. It enables an easy and intuitive integration of Google services and other Web accessible services including Feed, WS/AXIS2, RMI and so on
  • Project Website: http://gdatabindingtuscany.blogspot.com

    • [Research Intern, Siemens] Medical Domain Knowledge Editors

    May 2008 - Aug. 2008 Research Intern (Internship project in Siemens Medical Solution)

  • Proposed and prototyped a general modeling based solution to design Medial Knowledge Editors in a Knowledge Management frmework, which aims to create, extract and apply Medical Knowledge of particular interest to unstructured clinical data. The proposed solution has been adopted in the Siemens product.

    • HALEY: An Automated Hierarchical Web Service Composition Framework

    Aug. 2005 - Present Researcher (Dissertation Research)

  • Responsible for major research, architecture design and system implementation.
  • Extend Semantically Annotated WSDL to support SWRL based first-order descriptions.
  • Extend classical Semi-Markov Decision Processing(SMDP) model into First-order SMDP model and design a stochastic AI planner to automatically compose Web services into BPEL processes. Our stochastic planner is so far the only planner with the capacity to capture the uncertainty, functionality, QoS property and optimality of Web services and processes. HALEY employs a hierarchical framework to handle the hierarchies found in processes and addresses the scalability issue which many planning based approaches suffer from.
  • HALEY is an automated, scalable, efficient and end-to-end semantic Web service composition framework. It naturally models uncertainty nature of Web services, takes into consideration both functional and QoS descriptions and provide a cost-based optimization of the generated business processes. Our experiment results show that it has stronger expressive power and produces significantly better BPEL processes than other contemporary approaches.
  • HALEY is implemented as a Eclipse plugin and stand-alone Eclipse RCP. Some of the technologies used are Draw2D, EMF, GEF, GMF, Prolog and BPEL APIs.
  • URL: http://www.haibozhao.com/haley

    • [On-Campus Job] NFSMS: United States National Feral Swine Mapping System

    May. 2007 - May. 2008 Project Leader, Major Designer (A project sponsored by USDA)

  • Responsible for project management, architecture design, system implementation.
  • NFSMS is a Google Maps API based interactive digital mapping system to monitor the distribution of feral swine in US. Via NFSMS, state agencies intuitively draw regions on the map to report swine observations and population changes; System administrator evaluates agency submissions, updates the distribution map, monitors distribution changes and produces distribution map over time. This system can be easily modified to other animals or diseases.
  • URL: http://www.feralswinemap.org

    • LFY: A Google Search API Based People Search Engine

    Jan. 2006 - May 2006 Project Leader and Major Programmer

  • Responsible for architecture design, engine implementation, system integration and testing.
  • Based on Google search API, enhance Google searching on people classification and text categorization. Web content mining, Text corpus building and Frequency analyzing, Bayesian learning based people related Web page classification.
  • URL: http://www.haibozhao.com:8080/mlProject/

    • [Group Research Project] CUADRO: A Semantic Photo Sharing Community

    Aug. 2005 - Dec. 2005 Major Programmer

  • Responsible for Ontology design, Ontology populating and Database schema design.
  • The novelty of CUADRO is that it semantically annotates photos, people, locations and their relationships, we extract instances, relations from descriptions of photos to populate the Ontology and then retrieve and inference information from the populated Ontology.

    • Ontology Visualization

    Jan. 2005 - May 2005 Major Programmer

  • Responsible for RDF/RDFS/OWL parsing. Designed an ontology visualizer.

    • MDGA: Motif Discovery Using Genetic Algorithms

    Aug. 2004 - Jan 2005 Major Programmer

  • Responsible for programming and testing.
  • A new way of genetic motif discovering with genetic algorithms using tailored crossover and mutation method.

    • Publications

  • Haibo Zhao, Prashant Doshi, Towards Automated RESTful Web Service Composition, IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS, 2009(acceptance: 15.6%)
  • Haibo Zhao, Prashant Doshi, Haley: Hierarchical and Logical Composition of Web Services, Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications, 2008, 2rd round revision
  • Haibo Zhao, Prashant Doshi, Haley: An End-to-End, Scalable Web Service Composition Tool, Developers Track, W3C 17th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW, Beijing, 2008
  • Haibo Zhao, Prashant Doshi, HALEY: A Hierarchical Framework for Logical Composition of Web Services, Research Track, IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS, Salt Lake City, 2007 (acceptance: 18%)
  • Haibo Zhao, Prashant Doshi, A Hierarchical Framework for Composing Nested Web Processes, Research Track, IEEE International Conference of Service Oriented Computing, ICSOC, Chicago, 2006 (acceptance: 17%)
  • Haibo Zhao, Prashant Doshi, Composing Nested Web Processes using HSMDP, Workshop on AI-Driven Technologies for SOC, The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI, Boston, 2006
  • Joseph Corn, Haibo Zhao, Thomas R. Jordan, Marguerite Madden, Matthew A. Blankenship,Mapping the Distribution of Feral Swine in the United States, 1982-2008, National Feral Swine Symposium, 2008

    • Talks and Presentations in Academic Conferences

  • "Toward automated RESTful Web service composition", Research Track, ICWS, Los Angeles, July 2009
  • "An End-to-End, Scalable Tool Suite of Web Service Composition", Developers Track, 17th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW, Beijing, April 2008
  • "Speeding up Web Service Composition with Volatile External Information", CSSSIA Workshop, 17th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW, Beijing, April 2008
  • "Making BPEL flexible: adapting in the context of coordination constraints using WS-BPEL", Poster Session, 17th International World Wide Web, Beijing, April 2008
  • "Speeding up web service composition with volatile information", Poster Session, 17th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW, Beijing, April 2008
  • "HALEY: A Hierarchical Framework for Logical Composition of Web Services", IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 2007
  • "Regret-Based Decentralized Adaptation of Web Processes with Coordination Constraints, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, SCC, Utah, July 2007
  • "Composing Nested Web Processes using HSMDP", Workshop on AI-Driven Technologies for SOC, The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI, MA, July 2006
  • "Adaptive Web Processes Using Value of Change Computations", Workshop on AI-Driven Technologies for SOC, The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI, Boston, MA, July 2006

    • Awards

  • University of Georgia, 2008-2009 PhD Dissertation Completion Award
  • University of Georgia, 08/2004-05/2006 University-Wide Graduate School Fellowship
  • Xiangtan University, 06/2003 Excellent Graduation Thesis
  • Xiangtan University, 06/2003 Graduated with Honor
  • Xiangtan University, 05/2000, 05/2002 The First Prize Undergraduate Scholarship

    • Recent Professional Service

  • Session Chair: CSSSIA Workshop-W3C World Wide Web Conferene 2008, ICWS2009
  • PC Member: WSCA08-IEEE SCC(WSCA-SCC08), WSCA09-IEEE ICWS(WSCA-ICWS09)
  • External Reviewer: AI-SOC Workshop-AAAI06, SCC07, WSCA07 Workshop, SCC08 , AAMAS 2009
  • Member: AAAI, IEEE

    • Skills & Knowledge Acquired Through Education and Experience

  • Web Services: WSDL/SOAP/UDDI programming, BPEL processing, SAWSDL, OWL-S, WSLA/WS-agreement
  • Semantic Web: Knowledge representation in RDF/OWL, Ontology design and populating via Natural Language processing; XML, XML Schema Design, SWRL and their processing APIs
  • Artificial Intelligence: Machine learning based applications, Knowledge base design and applications, Prolog programming, AI planning
  • Text Processing and Information Retrieval: Regular expression design, Knowledge Base populating via NLP, Knowledge Base querying and inferencing
  • Programming Languages and OS: Java/JSP/Servlet, Python/Django, JavaScript/AJAX, Prolog, C/C++, LATEX, Linux, Unix, Windows
  • Eclipse Platform: Eclipse Plugin/RCP development, Draw2D, EMF, GMF, SWT/JFace, Junit
  • Database: MySQL, JDBC, ORM, Hibernate, Connection Pool, C3P0
  • Miscellaneous: Strong problem solving ability, Strong programming ability, Software configuration management, Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills, Good team skills, Good communication skills