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Wei Zhao (Wei
Zhao graduated in December 2006 and is now
working in Bear Stearns in the area of risk analysis) Advisor: Dr. Barrett R. Bryant SOFTware
Composition & Modeling Laboratory |
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Areas involved
In general my interest areas are Software Engineering and Programming
Languages.
Specific areas are: Business Process Management, Model-Driven
Development, Service Oriented Architecture, Component-based Software
Engineering, Compiler and Programming Language Design and Implementation,
Domain Driven Development, and Software Development Process.
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Current research
Ph.D. thesis: Model-Driven Integration of Software and Service
Components
This work has been
supported in part by IBM 2004 internship program and U. S. Office of Naval
Research under the award number N00014-01-1-0746.
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Past research
Research assistant in the UniFrame
project, “Automated glue/wrapper code generation for assembling
heterogeneous and distributed software components”, January
2002-April 2004
Intern project, “Transforming
Business Process Models into Run-time Implementations”,
Internship, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, New
York, May-December, 2004
Independent
teaching, undergraduate/graduate Software Engineering, Spring 2005.
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for the current offering)
Representative Publications
(click here for a complete list)
Wei Zhao, Jun-Jang Jeng, Lianjun An, Fei Cao,
Barrett R. Bryant, Rainer Hauser, Tao Tao,
“Aligning Business Processes with Enterprise Service Computing
Infrastructure”, Chapter 2, pp. 25-57, Enterprise Service Computing: From Concept to Deployment, 2007.
Zhao, W.,
Hauser, R., Bhattacharya, K., Bryant, B.R. and Cao, F. (2006) ‘Compiling
business processes: untangling unstructured loops in irreducible flow
graphs’, Int. J. Web and Grid Services, Vol. 2,
No. 1, pp.68–91.
Wei Zhao, Kamal
Bhattacharya, Barrett R. Bryant, Fei Cao, Rainer Hauser, “Transforming
Business Process Models: Enabling Programming at a Higher Level”,
The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC'05), pp.
173-180, 2005. (acceptance
ratio: 17%)
Fei Cao,
Barrett R. Bryant, Shih-Hsi Liu and Wei Zhao, “A
Non-Invasive Approach to Dynamic Web Service
Provisioning”, The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Web
Services (ICWS'05), pp. 229-236, 2005.
(acceptance ratio: 19%)
W. Zhao, B. R. Bryant, R. R. Raje, M. Auguston,
C. C. Burt, A. M. Olson, “Automated Glue/Wrapper Code Generation in Integration
of Distributed and Heterogeneous Software Components”, Proc.
of the 8th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object
Computing Conference (EDOC2004), IEEE Press, pp. 275-285, Monterey, California,
USA, 2004.
W. Zhao, B. R.
Bryant, F. Cao, R. R. Raje, M. Auguston, C. C. Burt, M. Olson, “Grammatically Interpreting Feature Compositions”,
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software
Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’04), pp. 185-191, Alberta
Canada, 2004.
Wei Zhao, Barrett R.
Bryant, Jeff Gray, Carol C. Burt, Rajeev
R. Raje, Mikhail Auguston, Andrew M. Olson. “A Generative and Model Driven
Framework for Automated Software Product Generation”. Proc. of the 6th
ICSE Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering: Automated Reasoning and
Prediction, pp. 103-108.
$500
travel grant from SCC2005 to present our paper (one
of three students world wide to receive this award), July 2005.
$250
travel grant from EDOC2004 to present our paper, September 2004.
$500 travel grant
from ACM SIGPLAN for participating the ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition
in OOPSLA2003, October 2003.
$1000 travel
grant from OOPSLA2003 for attending doctoral symposium in OOPSLA2003, October
2003.
$400 travel grant
from NSF to attend Component Based Software Engineering workshop, Pioneer
Symposium and ICSE2003, May 2003.
$350 travel grant
from ACM SIGSOFT CAPS to attend Student Research Forum and FSE2002, November
2002.
$350 travel grant
from GPCE conference to attend Young Research Workshop and GPCE2002, October
2002.
$600 travel grant
from the Graduate Student Association of UAB for presenting papers at
conferences 2002/2003/2004/2005.
$200 Student
Research Grant sponsored by the Alabama
Academy of Science (PI), 2002-2003.
The proposal: A Generic and Automatic Approach on Distributed and
heterogeneous Component Assembly.
3rd place, 2005-2006 IEEE Alabama Paper
Competition, “Transforming Business Process Models: Enabling Programming
at a Higher Level.”
3rd place, Mathematics and Computer
& Information Sciences, 2005 UAB graduate student research day.
Award Nominee for the UAB International Scholar and Student Services
Academic Excellence Award, 2003/2004.
ACM SIGPLAN student research competition nominee held in OOPSLA 2003
Research Assistantship, Graduate Assistantship, and full tuition
scholarship sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and CIS UAB, January
2002— May 2006.
PC member 10th
IEEE International Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC2006).
Associated core researcher: Generative Model Transformer Project on Elipse.org, http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/
Presentation,
“UniFrame Bridge” at the UniFrame project meeting with the director
and evaluators of ONR, Washington DC, May 2003.
Poster presentation at the UniFrame project meeting with the director and evaluators of
ONR,
Journal/Conference/BookChapter
paper reviewer: ICFEM2002, HICSS2003, UML2003, HICSS2004, EDOC2004,
HICSS2005, SBLP2005, ACMSE2006, IEEE transaction on SMC, Enterprise Service
Computing: From Concept to Deployment edited by Robin G. Qiu, EDOC2006
Student Volunteer: OOPSLA2002, EDOC2004.
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Member of Working Group on Generative and Component-Based Engineering |
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Member of International Network for PhD Students in Object Oriented Systems (PhDOOS) |
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Member of ACM SIGSOFT Student member of IEEE |
Tel: 914-584-0979
Last updated: 2007.