Kenny Pic Kenny Qili ZHU

1312 Hunters Glen Dr.
Plainsboro, NJ 08536
(425) 442-5480 (Mobile) (609) 258-5388(Office)
Email: kzhu@cs[dot]princeton[dot]edu
URL: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~kzhu/
Date of Birth: January 2, 1976
Place of Birth: Nanjing, China



CURRENT APPOINTMENT Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08540



EDUCATION
1999-2005 National University of Singapore,
Department of Computer Science
,
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
Thesis title: Open Constraint Programming
Advisors: Professor Joxan Jaffar and Associate Professor Roland H. C. Yap
1999-2000 National University of Singapore,
Department of Computer Science

Master of Computer Science (transfered to Ph.D. program).
1995-1999 National University of Singapore,
Department of Electrical engineering

Bachelor Degree of Engineering (Hons) majoring in Computer engineering.
1994-1994 Shanghai Jiaotong University
Entrance exam waived, special placement class.



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Publications

K. C. Tan, L. H. Lee, K. Q. Zhu and K. Ou. Heuristic methods for vehicle routing problem with time windows. Artificial Intelligent in Engineering (2001) pp. 281-295.

Refereed Conference Publications

Kathleen Fisher, David Walker and Kenny Q. Zhu. LearnPADS: Automatic Tool Generation From Ad Hoc Data. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD 2008, pp 1299--1302.

Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Kenny Q. Zhu and Peter White. From Dirt to Shovels: Fully Automatic Tool Generation From Ad Hoc Data. In Proceedings of ACM POPL 2008, pp 421--434

Joxan Jaffar, Roland H.C. Yap and Kenny Q. Zhu. Generalized Committed Choice. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2007.

Joxan Jaffar, Roland H.C. Yap and Kenny Q. Zhu. Indexing of Dynamic Abstract Regions. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2006.

Joxan Jaffar, Roland H.C. Yap and Kenny Q. Zhu. Coordination of Many Agents. In Proceedings of the 2lst International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2005.

Joxan Jaffar, Andrew E. Santosa, Roland H.C. Yap and Kenny Q. Zhu. Scalable Distributed Depth-First Search with Greedy Work Stealing. 16th Intl Conf on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Boca Raton, (ICTAI 2004). pp. 98--103..

Kenny Q. Zhu and Ziwei Liu. Population Diversity in Permutation-Based Genetic Algorithm. In the Proceedings of European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2004), pp. 537--547.

Kenny Q. Zhu and Ziwei Liu. Empirical Study of Population Diversity in Permutation-Based Genetic Algorithm. Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2004 (2), pp. 420-421.

Kenny Q. Zhu. A Diversity-controlling Adaptive Genetic Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows. Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI 2003, pp. 176-183.

Kenny Q. Zhu and Andrew E. Santosa. A Web Meeting Scheduling System Based on Open Constraint Programming. International Conference of Advance Informations System Engineering, CAiSE'02, pp. 792-795.

Kenny Q. Zhu, Wee-Yeh Tan, Andrew Santosa and Roland Yap. Reactive Web Agents with OCP. Proceedings of International Symposium of Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2001, Dallas, Texas, pp. 251-254.

Kenny Q. Zhu, Kar-Loon Ong. A Reactive Method for Real Time Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problems. Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI 2000, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 176-180.

K.C. Tan, L.H. Lee and Kenny Q. Zhu. Heuristics for VRPTW. 6th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, AMAI 2000.

Other Articles

David Burke, Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Peter White and Kenny Q. Zhu. Towards 1-click tool generation with PADS. ICML workshop on Challenges and Applications of Grammar Induction, 2007.

Kathleen Fisher, Yitzhak Mandelbaum, David Walker and Kenny Q. Zhu. Automatic Tool Generation for Monitoring Distributed Systems. Working paper, to be submitted to POPL 2009.

Kenny Q. Zhu. Open Constraint Programming. Ph.D Dissertation.

Kenny Q. Zhu. Heuristics Methods for Vehicle Routing Problem with time Windows. B. Eng Thesis.




TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Princeton COS441 Programming Languages (TA, Lecturer)
NUS CS5223 Distributed Systems (TA)
NUS CS3211 Parallel and Concurrent Programming (Tutor)
NUS CS3212 Programming Languages (Tutor)
NUS CS2271 Embedded Systems (TA)
NUS CS1305 Problem Solving for Computing (Tutor)
NUS IT1001 Introduction to Computing (Tutor)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY


01/2007-
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Computer Science Department, Princeton University
Programming language for ad hoc data processing

10/2005-01/2007
Software Design Engineer
Microsoft Corp, Identity Services
Work on the design and development of the MSN Passport (also known as the Windows Live ID), a secure user credential and profile management system for all MSN and Windows Live users

07/2005-12/2005
Research Fellow
Dept. Computer Science, National University of Singapore
On leave from 10/01/2005
Independent research primarily on speculative reaction

2001-2005
Teaching Assistant
Dept. Computer Science, National University of Singapore
Taught in tutorials, labs, relief lectures and consultations

1999-2001
Research Assistant
Dept. Computer Science, National University of Singapore

1998
Intern
Hewlett Packard Singapore
, Department of Physical Distribution and Supply Chain.
Worked on Vehicle Routing Problem for HP distribution




PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
External reviewer for:

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Artificial Intelligence in Engineering
International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraints Programming, CP, 2003, 2006, 2007
International Conference on Logic Programming, ICLP 2006



AWARDS AND HONORS
2004-2005 School of Computing Dean's Graduate Award.
2nd prize in SPH AsiaOne Inter-school Homepage Design Contest.
Represented Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore to the 1st Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Conference in Singapore, 1996.
Dr. Goh Keng Swee Scholarship. One of the four GKS scholars of that year.
Singapore MOE scholarship (tuition plus S$6000 annual allowance)
Shanghai Jiaotong University Full Fellowship plus 2,000 RMB annual allowance
Admission to Shanghai Jiaotong University exempted from entrance examination
Second prize in National Physics Olympiad Competition
Third prize in National Math Olympiad Competition in China
National Special Award for the wood-carving "The Harvest"




MEMBERSHIP
2008- Member of the ACM SIGMOD
2007- Member of the ACM SIGPLAN
2004- Member of the ACM SIGEVO
2002- Member of the ACM
2000- Member of IEEE Computer Society
2000- Member of IEEE
1995-2002Member of Institute of Engineers in Singapore
1995-1999Member of Engineering Club, National University Singapore




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