General Introduction

　　I am a third year master major in automation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P. R. China.

　　With tremendous interest in Industrial Engineering, I am writing to apply for acceptance into your

　　Ph.D. graduate program.

　　Education background

　　In 1995, I entered the Nanjing University of Science & Technology (NUST) -- widely

　　considered one of the China‟s best engineering schools. During the following undergraduate study,

　　my academic records kept distinguished among the whole department. I was granted First Class

　　Prize every semester,In 1999, I got the privilege to enter the graduate program waived of the

　　admission test.

　　At the period of my graduate study, my overall GPA(3.77/4.0) ranked top 5% in the

　　department. In the second semester, I became teacher assistant that is given to talented and

　　matured students only. This year, I won the Acer Scholarship as the one and only candidate in my

　　department, which is the ultimate accolade for distinguished students endowed by my university.

　　Presently, I am preparing my graduation thesis and trying for the honor of Excellent Graduation

　　Thesis.

　　Research experience and academic activity

　　When a sophomore, I joined the Association of AI Enthusiast and began to narrow down my

　　interest for my future research. With the tool of OpenGL and Matlab, I designed a simulation

　　program for transportation scheduling system. It is now widely used by different research groups

　　in NUST. I assumed and fulfilled a sewage analysis & dispose project for Nanjing sewage

　　treatment plant. This was my first practice to convert a laboratory idea to a commercial product.

　　In retrospect, I find myself standing on a solid basis in both theory and experience, which has

　　prepared me for the Ph.D. program. My future research interests include: Network Scheduling

　　Problem, Heuristic Algorithm research (especially in GA and Neural network), Supply chain

　　network research, Hybrid system performance analysis with Petri nets and Data Mining.