Jinlai Xu

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PhD Student, School of Information Sciences
Graduate Student Assistant, The Laboratory for Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS)
University of Pittsburgh (PITT)
Email: xujinlai [at] gmail.com
Full Curriculum Vitae

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics.

EDUCATION

September 2015 - present: PhD (expected), Information Science University of Pittsburgh Advisor: Balaji Palanisamy
September 2012 - July 2015: Master of Software Engineering China University of Geosciences (211) Advisor: Zhongwen Luo
GPA – 89.9/100, Major GPA – 91.9/100
September 2008 - July 2012: Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering ,China University of Geosciences (211) Advisor: Zhongwen Luo
GPA – 88.6/100, Major GPA – 92.9/100, ranked 1st/96.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

September 2012 - Present: Graduate Student Assistant,The Laboratory for Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS), University of Pittsburgh

September 2012 - June 2015: Research Assistant,Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, China University of Geosciences

July 2009 - July 2012: Undergraduate Research Assistant,Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, China University of Geosciences

PUBLICATION

• Jinlai Xu, Balaji Palanisamy (2017). [Optimized Contract-based Model for Resource Allocation in Federated Geo-distributed Clouds], IEEE Transactions on Services Computing(under review).
• Jinlai Xu, Balaji Palanisamy, Heiko Ludwig, Qingyang Wang (2017). Zenith: Utility-aware Resource Allocation for Edge Computing, IEEE Edge 2017.
• Jinlai Xu, Balaji Palanisamy (2017). Cost-aware Resource Management for Federated Clouds Using Resource Sharing Contracts, IEEE Cloud 2017.
• Hong Yao, Jinlai Xu, Zhongwen Luo, Deze Zeng (2015). MEMoMR: Accelerate MapReduce via reuse of intermediate results. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

• Journal Review
  • One paper to Information Systems Frontiers (ISFI) : IRI - Special Issue on Foundations of Reuse
• Conference Review
  • Three papers to International Workshop on Internet-scale Clouds and Big Data (ISCBD 2016)
  • Two papers to IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015)
• Journal External Review
  • One paper to Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
• Conference External Review
  • ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016)
• Conference Volunteer
  • The $37^th$ International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), Atlanta, GA, USA. June 5 - 8, 2017
  • IEEE $17^{th}$ International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2016), Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Jul 28 - 30, 2016
  • IEEE $2^{ed}$ International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC 2016), Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Nov 1 - 3, 2016
• Conference Webmaster
  • International Workshop on Internet-scale Clouds and Big Data (ISCBD 2017)
  • IEEE $18^{th}$ International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI 2017)
  • International Workshop on Internet-scale Clouds and Big Data (ISCBD 2016)

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Graduate Student Assistant , September 2015 - Present
• University of Pittsburgh
  • Cloud Computing (2017 Spring)
  • Instructor: Prof. Balaji Palanisamy
• Teaching Assistant , September 2013 - January 2014
• China University of Geosciences
  • Advanced Programming Language (JAVA)
  • Instructor: Prof. Shengwen Li

HONORS & AWARDS

• Outstanding Student Award, China University of Geosciences, China 2013–2014
• Graduate Student First-class Scholarship(per year), China University of Geosciences, China 2012–2014
• CUG First-class Scholarship (per semester), China University of Geosciences, China 2008–2011
• Fellows Scholarship, China University of Geosciences, China 2010–2011
• National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China 2009-2010
• The Second Place of AndroSot(Full-autonomous 3vs3 Humanoid Robot Soccer), The Robot Soccer Tournament of China and The Tryouts for FIRA in Changchun 2009
• The First Prize of AndroSot(Semi-autonomous 3vs3 Humanoid Robot Soccer), The Robot Soccer Tournament of China and The Tryouts for FIRA in Changchun 2009

SKILLS

• Languages:
  • Chinese - Native proficiency
  • English - Professional working proficiency
• Computer:
  • Basic: JAVA, C++
  • Intermediate: Python, LaTeX, Linux ,Emacs, GitHub, Hadoop
  • Advanced: Cloud Computing Infrastructure, Virtualization, Computer Vision