Center of Intelligent Maintenance System,

Industrial Engineering Department,

University of Cincinnati

Tel: 513-556-3412(o)

Email: liaol@email.uc.edu

EDUCATION:          

PhD Candidate, Industrial Engineering, September 2005 ¨C Now, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

M.S., Mechanical Science & Engineering, June 2004, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China

    Major: Mechanical & Electronic Engineering (Mechatronics Engineering)

    GPA: 86.49/100

B.S., Mechanical Science & Engineering, July 2001, HUST, Wuhan, China

    Major: Mechanical Manufacture and Automation

Minor: Computer Science

Overall GPA: 85.16/100, Senior GPA: 86.35/100

EXPERIENCE:

Research Associate, Smart Machine Predictive Maintenance Testbed, UC, September 2005 ¨C present.

• Key researcher in the project, ¡°Smart Machine Pdm Testbed¡± which is a joint project between IMS Center and its member companies.
• Developed Watchdog Agent® hardware and software platform

o          PC104 hardware platform;

o          TCP/IP based inter-platform remote monitoring system;

o          Realization of the watchdog agent tools such as wavelet package, logistic regression and neural-network back propagation algorithm on PC104 for machine confidence value calculation and prognostics;

o          Windows CE and Windows XP embedded operation system image building;

Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering, HUST, December 2002 ¨C April 2004.

• Key researcher in the project, ¡°Embedded Internet-based Remote Intelligent Maintenance System,¡± which is part of the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (the National High Tech. 863 Program).
• Developed and commercialized the package of embedded intelligent nodes

o          TCP/IP based inter-platform communication between Windows 2000 and DOS;

o          Realization of the neural-network back propagation algorithm on PC104 for fault diagnosis and simple prognosis;

o          Development of HTTP servers, FTP servers, and SMTP intelligent alarm software under DOS;

o          Multi-thread coding in Visual C++;

o          Coding of ActiveX control components.

Intern, Shenzhen LANDIMS Co. Ltd., China, July 2002 ¨C November 2002.

• Developed Dynamic Reconfigurative Virtual Instrument software for automatic control and engineering signal testing using Visual C.
• Designed and developed experimental platforms using AutoCAD.

Intern, Shenzhen LANDCOM Sci. & Tech. Ltd., China, March 2001 ¨C August 2001.

• Developed e-Business platform using ASP and Oracle.
• Created Internet purchasing platform, customer information management system, and inventory management system.

Intern, Dongfeng Automobile Company, China, August 2000.

Course project, HUST, China, September 2000.

• Designed a web-based searching system for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS).
• Developed a demo for the system using JSP, Java, HTML, and database.

Course project, HUST, China, September 1999 ¨C June 2000.

• 3D simulation design and realization of cold cream packaging assembly line using 3D Max software.

¤          Created models of various components, including gears, slider cranks mechanism, belt conveyer and so on.

¤          Assembled each component into a prototype system.

¤          Realized the demo of the manufacturing process using 3D motion picture.

• Design of conic reducer.

¤          Determined types and dimensions of the components using design codes.

¤          Manually finished drawings of each component and the whole assembly.

HONORS & AWARDS:

• Tri-A Student Scholarship, Dept of Mechanical Science & Engineering, HUST (1999 and 2000)
• Excellent Student Leader, Dept of Mechanical Science & Engineering, HUST (1998)
• Excellent Undergraduate Fellowship, Dept of Mechanical Science & Engineering, HUST (1997)

PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES:

• Liao, L., Ding, H., and Xiong, Y., ¡°The Design and Implementation of Embedded Intelligent Nodes for Device Performance Monitoring,¡± Monitoring Technology, V 23(4), 2004.

SERVICES

Captain, Young Volunteers, HUST, 1999.

• Organized volunteers to clean up environment and promote environment protection activities.

President, Class 2001, Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering, HUST, 1998.

• Organized academic and extra-curricular activities for the class.
• Lead the class team to the Championship at a University Soccer Contest.

Treasurer, Class 2001, Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering, HUST, 1997.

• Responsible for the class budget and other class logistics.

HOBBIES

• Computer programming
• Computer network
• Basketball and table tennis
• Philately
• Harmonica