My Major Academic Contributions:

•    14 peer-reviewed papers, 26 conference papers, and 4 technical reports.
•    Contributed to five books:
     o    Yanbo Xue and Simon Haykin, Cognitive Radar: A Way of the Future, in preparation.
     o    Simon Haykin, Neural Networks and Learning Machines, Prentice Hall, 2008 (contributed to almost all experiments)
     o    Yanbo Xue and Simon Haykin, Neural Networks and Learning Machines: User’s Manual, Prentice Hall, 2009
     o    Simon Haykin, Cognitive Dynamic Systems, Cambridge University Press (contributed to Chapters 1, 2 and 6).
     o    Jinkuan Wang and Deying Gu, Spatial Adaptive Signal Processing (in Chinese), Northeastern University Press, 2003, (contributed to Chapters 2, 4 and 6)
•    Two patents filed:
     o    Cognitive tracking radar, Canada and US Patent, US application serial No. 12/588,346. Canada application No. 2,682,428, 2009.
     o    New generation of radar systems enabled with cognition, US Patent, US application serial No. 61/331,977, 2010.

Career Objectives:

I am currently available for a career that fits my research interest, listed as follows:

• Fundamental research on artificial intelligence with application to the control of next generation of intelligent system, exemplified by radar. Pioneering research in a new discipline namely the cognitive dynamic systems.

Four pillars of a cognitive dynamic system include:

o Perception-action cycle that integrates a closed-loop feedback system, o Memory implemented by artificial neural networks for storage of stochastic information, o Attention for resource allocation with the goal of transformative information-processing power optimization, and o Intelligence for provision of decision-making strategies in face of environment uncertainties.

It spans over multiple disciplines like signal processing, control theory, information theory, dynamic systems, neural computation, and cognitive science.

• Complicated pattern classification for application in computer-aided image recognition systems.

• Signal processing algorithm development of next-generation communication systems.

Technical Activities and Skills

·        Served as a reviewer for IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. on Antenna and Propagation, IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and for several conference papers.
·        Fluent verbal and written skills in both English and Mandarin Chinese, translations of more than ten-thousand-word technical manuals from English to Chinese.
·        Served as a network administrator of Cognitive Systems Laboratory, McMaster University.
·        Served as a network manager of Chinese Student and Scholars Association voluntarily.
·        Proficiency in MATLAB, C/C++/C#, LaTeX, Hardware structure and computer basics.
·        Expert in HTML, ASP, PHP, JavaScript and MySQL database.