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Hi, I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and M.Sc. student in Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech University, USA. In CS, I work with Dr. Yuanlin Zhang on logic-based artificial intelligence, like automated planning and scheduling. We work in a very board field, including CLP (Constraint Logic Programming), ASP (Answer Set Programming), and some fundamental algorithms. In EE, I am doing a research on intelligent EEG signal classification and prediction of certain neural diseases. This project is co-supervised by Dr. Donald Yu-Chun Lie and Dr. Yuanlin Zhang.

Beyond research, I like hacking electronics and computers. I like to DIY control circuits working with cool open source software on Linux. For example, I am gonna switch the slow cooker in my kitchen through Internet from my office. That's why I am a zealot of open source technologies (Linux, Python, etc.) - I want totally control to my system. I am always dreaming to start up a company as Google or Facebook and discussing how they make success with my friends. And I also like to pass my passion to tomorrow's engineers.

Though I am an engineering student, I love arts very much. Watching movies is the most way I relax. Vincent Van Gogh's "Starring night" hangs on the wall of my lab. And I like "Sunflowers" by him. Mozart and Beethoven are my favorite composers. Yanni's "New Age Music" and Heavy Metal Rock of some German bands are frequently played on my computer. Though I don't do sports often, but I like them as well, sport aerobics (Not only for girls!), cycling, basketball, swimming, etc. Recently, I just fall in love with swing dance. It brings me a lot of fun with friends.

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RESEARCH INTERESTS no order among them (why I like these fields )
Artificial Intelligence/Computational Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics, etc.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (Full version CV)

JOURNAL/CONFERENCE REVIEWER

PRIZES AND AWARDS

  • 2007 Dean's Fellowship ($25, 000 for one year), College of Engineering, Texas Tech University
  • Electrical Engineering Tuition Scholarship ($1, 000/yr, since 2008), Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University
  • Mainly proposed 2007 Research Enrichment Funding Grant "Diagnosis, Monitoring, Seizures Prediction and Intervention for Epilepsy Patients Using an Intelligent Scalp-EEG Signal Analysis System" of Texas Tech University, $35, 000 for 18 months
  • 2nd best paper award of bachelor graduate thesis in Jiangsu Province of year 2006, China (thesis defense slides)
  • Rank 133 in Shanghai Region Preliminary Contest of ACM-ICPC 2004

Microsoft Outlook Web Access sucks

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

My university uses Microsoft solution to provide email service to all students, faculties and staffs. So, they also use Microsoft Outlook Web Access as the web interface. Man, have you used Hotmail? Do you know how bad it is? How ugly is their Ajax code? How slow is their webpage? And, how frequently does it stick at a place and have no response?

GUI programming made easy in LabVIEW on Linux

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

Linux is a great platform for engineering and scientific research. But making GUI software on Linux is not as easy and fast as it's on Windows. Microsoft made the Windows and the APIs for Windows programming. And, they made an IDE, Visual Studio. On Linux, we have so many APIs to use, GNOME, KDE, and so many IDE's to use. Gee, I want to focus on my algorithm. Wanna build beautiful graphic interface for your algorithm on Linux in just few minutes? Try LabVIEW. It's just a few clicks away.

Apple technical support is crappy!

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

I got another good luck- my friends always have many cool stuffs that they don't want any more, e.g. Apple's laptop or desktop. This time, it is an iPod Touch.

But, my university, uses WPA encryption with PEAP authentication to protect the Wi-Fi. Well, this sophisticated protocol is not supported very widely. Since I couldn't find it in iPod Touch tech spec page, I called Apple technical support for help, asking just one simple question: Does iPod Touch support WPA with PEAP? or Does iPod support IEEE 802.1X protocol family?

Rockbox and OGG on iTunes

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

1. Go to http://xiph.org/quicktime/download.html to download the Quicktime component.
2. Mount it
3, Copy it to /Library/QuickTime

Dr. Randy Pausch has left us

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

My friends, do you still remember a professor giving us a "Last Lecture" last September about his childhood dreams and his research? Do you still remember he said "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand"? Do you still remember that you were shocked by his speech video on YouTube as millions of people around the globe? I just got the news on Monday morning that Dr. Randy Pausch has left us last Friday, of complications from pancreatic cancer.

Apple iBook G3 500Mhz, 128 MB memory, 12-inch LCD, running Xubuntu Linux 7.04

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

I have a neighbor called Jordan. He gave me an Apple laptop for free last week. This is an old iBook, made in 2002. The CPU is very poor, G3 500Mhz. It even doesn't have a DVD drive. So it is impossible to install Mac OS X onto it. But, don't panic. Linux, the most powerful operating system in the world, gives me an ultimate solution to rock this old brick.

Logitech QuickCam Communicate MP Plus on Ubuntu Linux 7.10/8.04

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

The QuickCam Communicate MP Plus (USB ID number: 046d:09a1) is supported by uvcvideo project. Thus, it could work with Linux without any problem. But Ubuntu 7.10/8.04 doesn't support it out of the box, maybe because they didn't come with the latest version of uvcvideo.

So, a five-minute work is needed to rock the webcam.

HP 2133 or Dell Mini Inspiron for my Linux laptop?

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

I am quite glad that finally, PC gurus are putting Linux PC onto the front desk rather than hiding them behind tiny links. In this summer, Hewlett-Packard and Dell has or is gonna to release their new laptop sported by Linux. Not just one single model, but a series of production lines.

I am very glad that Intel ( yes, that Intel), has joined in. http://moblin.org/

Linksys WUSB54GC on Mac OS 10.4

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

I just a got an eMac with only $20. It comes with Ubuntu 6.06 for PowerPC. Well, Ubuntu doesn't support PowerPC Mac anymore, only ports for PowerPC Mac and IBM PowerPC/Cell servers. No, I don't like them. It wastes me almost one day to make it work, including copying the xorg.conf of OpenSuSE to my Ubuntu on PowerPC. But, the Ubuntu still couldn't start X. SuSE is so stupid and slowly. I don't like it either.

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