CURRICULUM VITAE

Li Yang
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of West Georgia
Office: TLC-2210
Phone: (678) 839-6656 (O)
Email: lyang AT westga DOT edu
Home Page: http://www.westga.edu/~lyang/

• Currently teaching CS 4220 Operating Systems and CS 1020 Computers and Society (section 4) in the spring of 2007
• Taught CS 3230 Information Management and CS 1020 Computers and Society (section 2) in the fall of 2006
• Taught CS 4220 Operating Systems, and CS6222 Operating Systems II in the spring of 2006
• Taught CS6221 Operating Systems I, CS 3230 Information Management and CS 1300 Introduction to Computer Science in the fall of 2005
• Taught CS 4220 Operating Systems, and CS 1301 Computer Science (section 3 and 5) in the spring of 2005
• Taught CS 3230 Information Management and CS 1301 Computer Science (section 1 and 6) in the fall of 2004
• Taught CS 4220 Operating Systems, CS 4980 Web Development and Design (independent study) and CS 1301 Computer Science (section 4) in the spring of 2004
• Taught CS 4220 Operating Systems and CS 4980 Web Development and Design in the fall of 2003
  

• in the lab sessions of two courses "Introduction to Microcomputers" and "Introduction to Microcomputer Applications for Business"

• In a senior level undergraduate course "Database Management".

• XML Storage and Retrieval Using the Semantic Binary Object-Oriented Database (Sem-ODB)
• Semantic Wrapper
• Semantic Access
• WebRG, Web-SQL and Sem-Access

• Design and implementation of the Commercial Intranet Information System of Chengdu. (Master's thesis project).
• Design and implementation and maintenance of the Blood Management Information System for Chengdu Center of Blood, China.

• Member of the Faculty & Administrative Staff Personnel Committee of the Faculty, fall 2006-2008
• Member of the CS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, fall 2004-fall 2005, spring 2006.
• Member of the CS Graduate Curriculum Committee, fall 2004-fall 2005, spring 2006-current.
• Member of the CS1 and CS2 Curriculum Committee, fall 2004-fall 2005.
• Member of the CS0 Curriculum Committee, fall 2005.
• Member of the CS Search and Selection Committee, fall 2004-spring 2005.
• UWG Excel Center Advisor, fall 2004-spring 2005.
• Departmental representative at the Fall 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Graduation Commencement.
• Chair of the CS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, fall 2003- spring 2004.
• Member of the CS Service Course Committee, fall 2003- spring 2004, fall 2005-current.
• Departmental representative on the Visitation/Preview Day in spring 2004, fall 2005 and spring 2006.
• Departmental representative in the Festival of Majors in spring 2004.

• Li Yang, N. Rishe, "Formal Representation and Transformation of DTDs to Sem-ODM Semantic Schemas", Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science, pp. 182-188, June 2006.
• A. Remshagen, Li Yang, S. Miller, "Widening the Pipeline for all Minority Students", Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference 2005 (Tapia 2005), Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Session, October 2005.
• Li Yang, N. Rishe, "Transforming Sem-ODM Semantic Schemas to DTDs", ACMSE 2005, pp.237-242 (Vol.1), March 2005.
• Li Yang, N. Rishe, "A Flexible and Effective XML Storage and Retrieval System", Proceedings of the IEEE Six International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering (MSE), pp. 227-230, December, 2004.
• Li Yang, N. Rishe, "XQuery Translation to Sem-SQL", Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'04), pp. 185-191, June 2004.
• Li Yang, Naphtali Rishe, Maxim Chekmasov, Scott Graham Yanli Sun, and I. de Felipe, "XML Schema Modeling Using Sem-ODM", In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS), 2003.
• Dissertation: XML Storage and Retrieval Using the Semantic Binary Object-Oriented Database (Sem-ODB), Florida International University, April 2003.
• Naphtali Rishe, Li Yang, Maxim Chekmasov, Marina Chekmasova, Scott Graham, Alejandro Roque, "Mapping from XML DTD to Semantic Schema", Proceedings of SCI 2002, Vol. 7, pp. 450-455, July 2002.
• Naphtali Rishe, Tao Huang, Maxim Chekmasov, Scott Graham, Li Yang, Sheldon Himmelsbach , "Semantic Wrapping Tool for the Internet", Proceedings of SCI 2002, Vol. 7, pp. 441-445, July 2002.
• Li Yang, Naphtali Rishe, Jun Yuan, M. Chekmasov, L. Pachas, A. Mendoza. "XMLWrapper: Storing and Retrieving XML Documents Using the Semantic Binary Object-Oriented Database (Sem-ODB)", Proceedings of SCI 2001, Vol. 1, pp. 82-87, July 2001.
• Li Yang, Jun Yuan, "Semantic Wrapper and its Application in Semantic Access", Internal Technical Report, High-Performance Database Research Center, School of Computer Science, Florida International University, December, 2000. 

• UWG Faculty Research Grant in the amount of $1500, "Narrowing the Gender Gap in CS", with Dr. Anja Remshagen, July1, 2004-June 30, 2005.
• UWG 2004 Spring Laptop Giveaway, "Utilizing Web-based Technologies in Teaching CS 4220 Operating Systems".

• Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Member of ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
• Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (International Honor Society in the Computing and Information Disciplines)
• Reviewer of ACMSE 2006, ICWI 2005

• Outstanding graduate teacher of the year, voted by CS students, UWG, 2005-2006
• Graduate Fellowship, High Performance Database Research Center (HPDRC), Florida International University, from 2000.
• Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Sichuan Union University, 1998.
• Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award, Sichuan Union University, 1995.
• Scholarships each semester from 1991 to 1995, Sichuan Union University.