Gary Shu Ling
                              ling@cs.yale.edu


Education
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Yale University                                            New Haven, CT
  M.S. and M.Phil. in Computer Science              Sept. '95 - Aug. '98
  Awarded full merit-based Yale Fellowship. Served as teaching assistant 
  and research assistant. Passed all Ph.D. qualifications but 
  dissertation.

Nanjing University                                        Nanjing, China
  B.S. in Computer Science                          Sept. '91 - June '95
  Awarded Nanjing University Undergraduate Scholarship. Graduated with 
  honors. Finished first place in a pool of 98 students. Named "Student 
  of Creativity and Promise" '92.

Experience
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Yale Medical School                                        New Haven, CT
  Computer Consultant                                May '98 - Sept. '98
  Built fully scalable spreadsheet application for scheduling 
  assignments using Microsoft Visual Basic for Application under 
  Microsoft Excel '97. Deployed working software for the whole 
  Department of Diagnostic Radiology comprising approximately 50 persons 
  under the Macintosh platform. Provided advice on building groupware 
  application. Designed web-based interactive request system.

Microsoft Corporation                                        Redmond, WA
  Software Engineer (SQL Server/Jet Engine Group)   June '96 - Sept. '96
  Wrote object-oriented code in Visual C++ for importing foreign 
  databases into native formats for Microsoft database query engine. 
  Developed stream-based file storage for databases such as Microsoft 
  Access.

  Research Scientist (Research Laboratory)           Aug. '97 - Nov. '97
  Helped develop the domain-specific language "Fran" for programming 
  interactive animations under the Microsoft Windows platform. Wrote 
  code in Visual C++ and the Haskell programming language for "Fran"
  run-time system. Received good review by supervisor.

Yale Computer Science Department                           New Haven, CT
  Research Assistant                                Sept. '96 - Aug. '98
  Conducted research on reactive systems whose behavior depends on 
  exterior stimuli. Developed software for programming interactive 
  animations on personal computers in collaboration with Microsoft 
  Research Laboratory. Built the domain-specific language "Frob" for 
  controlling real-time mobile robots with the Robotics Group at the 
  Yale Computer Science Department. Published papers on reactive 
  systems.

  Teaching Assistant                                 Sept. '96 - May '98
  Served as TA for "CS112: Introduction to Computer Science"
  (Programming in Java) in spring 1998. Served as TA for "CS521: 
  Compilers and Interpreters in fall 1996. Graded assignments, 
  maintained course web-site, answered questions, lectured when 
  instructor was absent, and gave students advice on building non-
  trivial term projects.

Institute of Computer Software at Nanjing University      Nanjing, China
  Research Assistant                                 Mar. '93 - Aug. '95
  Built CASE tools for doing object-oriented requirements analysis and 
  automatic code generation. Participated in NDRASS and NDHOOM -- two 
  national break-through software-engineering projects (both for doing 
  object-oriented requirements analysis) funded by the Chinese 
  government. Results reported in national newspapers.

Economic Statistics Bureau, Jiangsu Province              Nanjing, China
  Database Developer                                 Jan. '95 - Apr. '95
  Developed Management Information System for organizing personnel 
  profiles, tracking work progress and coordinating workload. 
  Used FoxBASE+ database software on personal computers.

Skills
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  Familiar with the PC, Unix and Mac platforms. Sound knowledge of the 
  software family and the operating systems from Microsoft including 
  Windows NT/95/98, Visual Studio (Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual 
  Basic), Microsoft Office '97 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, FrontPage and 
  Access). Extensive experience with applications such as animations, 
  robotics, databases and web-site administration. Substantial 
  programming experience with C/C++, Java, Visual Basic, HTML, Haskell, 
  ML (SML/NJ), Pascal, Perl and Unix shell scripts. Sufficient knowledge 
  of Unix including Linux, SunOS and X-Window. Some experience with the 
  assembly languages on Intel X86 and Sun Sparc chips. Bilingual: 
  English, Chinese. GRE: Q800, A790, V590.

Interests
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  Bicycling, hiking, weight training, table tennis, travel, Chinese 
  cooking, R&B music, web design.

Contact
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  Complete info upon request
  ling@cs.yale.edu
  http://www.cs.yale.edu/~ling/