Yi Shang

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, 1997.
• M.S. in Computer Engineering, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 1991.
• B.S. in Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, 1988.

Experience

• 9/08-present: Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. 
• 9/04-8/08: Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. 
• 9/97-8/04: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (On leave 1/01 – 1/03). 
• 1/01-01/03: Senior Research Staff, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC), Palo Alto, CA.
• 9/91-7/97: Research Assistant, Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
• 9/89-7/91: National Research Center for Intelligent Computing System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Selected Projects

• “New Scoring, Assembly and Evaluation Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction,” NIH, 2006-20011.
• “Wireless Sensor Networks: Middleware and Applications,” NSF, 2004-2008.

· “Agent-Based Multi-Level System Control of UAVs,” Raytheon, 2004-2005.

· “Adaptive Optimization for Cooperative UAV Path Planning,” Raytheon, 2004.

· “Distributed Adaptive Constrained Optimization,” DARPA, 2001-2005.

· “Integrating Agent Technology into CISE Curriculum Using Lecturelets,” NSF, 2000-2004.

· “Incorporating Agent-Based Computing into Computer Science and Engineering Curriculum,” NSF, 2000-2002.

· “ILI: Distributed Systems Laboratory,” NSF, 1998-2000.

· “Nonlinear Optimization for Engineering Applications,” University of Missouri System, 1998-2000.

Courses Taught

· Object Oriented Programming in Java

· Internet, WWW, and Digital Media

· Object-Oriented Design

· Theory of Computation

· Artificial Intelligence

· Artificial Intelligence II

· Parallel and Distributed Computing

· Wireless Sensor Networks

Professional Activities

• IEEE and ACM member
• IEEE CCNC, 2005-2008
• IEEE ICC, 2005, 2008
• IEEE ICDCS, 2008
• IEEE Globecom, 2007
• IEEE ICME, 2007
• Annual Conference of American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), 2005.
• IEEE 10^th Int’l Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2004, 2005.
• IEEE Int’l Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), 2005 (Publication Chair).
• IEEE 10^th Int’l Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2004 (Finance Chair).
• IEEE Int’l Conf. on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE), 2003.
• 12^th Int’l World Wide Web Conf. (WWW2003), 2003.
• IEEE Int’l Workshop on Natural Language processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLPKE 2001) in conjunction with the IEEE SMC' 2001, Tucson, Arizona, 2001
• 1st Int’l Conf. on Information, Fukuoka, Japan, 2000
• IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering Technology, 1999 & 2000
• SPIE Conf. Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing, 1999 & 2000
• IEEE Int’l Conf. on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1999 & 2000
• IEEE Int’l Conf. on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 1998
• IEEE Workshop of Knowledge and Data Exchange Workshop, 1998