Ø  Solid background in Programming, Simulation, Statistics and Optimization.

Ø  Research expertise in complex system simulation, including system design, module development and system validation.

Ø  Strong programming skills: worked as full-time leading programmer for two-years developing large-scale software system.

Ø  Self-motivated with strong analytical and problem-solving skills; Strong interest and capability to learn new methodologies and to apply in the work.

Ø  Excellent communicating and collaborating skills.

Industrial Engineering (Expected May 2011)                                               University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Industrial Engineering (Aug 2007)                                                       University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Mechanical Engineering (Jul 2003)                                                       Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Mechanical Engineering (Jul 2000)                                                       Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Research Assistant,           Center for National Preparedness, Univ. of Pittsburgh

06/2008 ~ present

Pittsburgh, PA

Ø Dynamic Discrete Disaster Response Simulation project

·    Establishing a decision support system for massive casualties involved disaster response using Simulation and Statistical Analysis techniques;

·    Created a complex simulation model, which includes disaster site, transportation network for evacuation, and hospitals sub-systems. Developed a system using Repast (open-sourced toolkit for agent-based simulation), adopted real GIS data in constructing transportation network and displayed the evacuation process in a GIS view dynamically along with simulation going;

·    Created different agents to represent different stakeholders (casualties, on-site EMTs, ambulances, hospitals and commanders) which can interact each other to simulate the complex system dynamics;

·    Employed different response policies to guide agents’ behaviors. Applied statistical methods (such as Ranking & Selection) in evaluating and identifying the best policy, as well as in optimizing the control of simulation.

Research Assistant,           Dept of Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Pittsburgh

09/2006 ~ 04/2009

Pittsburgh, PA

Ø NSF-funded “Tools and Artifacts in Innovative Design” project

·    Collected activity data of student design groups from video clips, presentation PPTs and design logs;

·    Established measuring matrix for design evaluation;

·    Developed Web-based tools for collecting design data and performing evaluation.

Summer Intern,                 ANSYS Inc.

05/2006 ~ 08/2006

Pittsburgh, PA

Ø Developed user-interfaces & tested and benchmarked new sub-routines

·    Developed pre-processing user interface for simulation tool using Visual C++/QT, XML

·    Tested and benchmarked the multi-physics coupling modules of new version ANSYS® (v11.0),

Tools used: ANSYS® (v10.0 & v11.0) + CFX (v11.0), VS.NET 2005(C#)

Teaching Assistant,           Dept of Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Pittsburgh

09/2005 ~ 04/2006

Pittsburgh, PA

Ø   Conducted lab sessions (taught SolidWorks® modeling) and graded homework for undergraduate course of Computer Aided Design (IE-1051) with 30+ students.

Programmer,                     China National Cereals, Oils & Foodstuffs Corp. (COFCO)

07/2003 ~ 06/2005

Beijing, China

Ø Lead programmer for developing Java-based Short-Message information service providing system

·    Critical role in Agricultural Information SMS project (cooperative between COFCO and CCTV-7 & China National Radiocast), whose goal was to provide agricultural information for 4-million Chinese farmers through mobile phone short-message.

·    Responsible for system architecting & database design, participated in module development

·    JSP/Servlet/Struts/XML based, Web Server: Resin; Database: SQL Server, Hibernate

·    The system was deployed in Aug 2004, and running stably till July 2006.

Ø Principal programmer for developing Web-based agricultural products transaction system

·    Developed several Servlet/JSP modules, such as User-privilege Control, Competitive Bidding, etc.

Research Assistant,           Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University

03/2001 ~ 06/2003

Beijing, China

Ø Worked on Electron-Beam Welding Simulation Platform project (collaboration with General Electric Inc.)

·    Established new mathematical model to describe the welding heat-source efficiently, which can lead to more efficient simulation while maintaining result precision unaffected;

·   Developed Welding Simulation Toolkit, which greatly enhanced ABAQUS® capacity on welding simulation by inducing dedicated sub-routines and preprocessor.

1.         Yu Wang et al., "A Fully Sequential Procedure for Best-Subset Selection in Simulation." Under Composition.

2.         Yu Wang, K. Louis Luangkesorn and Larry Shuman. "Modeling Emergency Medical Response to a Mass Casualty Incident using Agent Based Simulation." Submitted to Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2011

3.         Yu Wang, Louis Luangkesorn and Larry J. Shuman. "An Agent-based Simulation for Emergency Response Policy Evaluation & Selection." INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, November, 2010

4.         Benjamin Zimmerman, David Nawn, Yu Wang, Brad Kuhlman, etc. "Dynamic Model Generation for Agent-based Emergency Response Simulation." ESRI International User Conference, 2010

5.         Yu Wang, Michael Lovell, Christian Schunn, etc. "Tools and Artifacts in Innovative Design." NSF I/UCRC IAB Meeting, Nov 2007, Jun 2008 & Dec 2008.

6.         Yu Wang, Christian Schunn, Bopaya Bidanda, etc. "Intelligent Strategy Decision Support System for Engineering Design." INFORMS General Meeting, Washington D.C., October 2008

7.         Schunn, C. D., Lovell, M. R., Wang, Y., and Yang, A. "Measuring Innovative Apples & Oranges: Towards More Robust and Efficient Measures of Product Innovation." Studying Design Creativity conference. Aix-en-Provence, France, Mar 2008.

8.         Yu Wang, Haiyan Zhao, Su Wu, et al. “Establishment of segmented moving double ellipsoid heat source model in electron beam welding numerical simulation”. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Vol.40, No.2, p165-169, 2004

9.         Su Wu, Haiyan Zhao, Yu Wang, et al. “New heat source model in numerical simulation of high energy beam welding”. Transactions of the China Welding Institution, Vol.25, No.1, p 91-94, 2004

10.     Yu Wang, Su Wu, Haiyan Zhao, et al. “An investigation on the shape parameters of double ellipsoid heat source model in numerical simulation of high energy beam welding”. Transactions of the China Welding Institution, Vol.24, No.2, p67-70, 2003

11.     Yu Wang, Su Wu, Haiyan Zhao, et al. “Investigation of contact resistance in spot welding of aluminum alloy sheets”. Proceedings of CAW (Computer Aided Welding Commission of China Welding Society) Symposium in Chongqing, p132-137, Oct 2002.

Operating Systems

LINUX, UNIX, WINDOWS

Programming Languages

Java, C/C++, VS.NET(C#), Delphi, VBA

Numerical/Statistical Programming

R, Matlab, Minitab

Database

MS SQLServer, MySQL

Commercial Simulation Packages

Arena, ANSYS, ABAQUS, MSC Marc

Engineering Modeling Software

Autocad, Solidworks

Application Software

LaTeX, ORIGIN, Photoshop