New Faculty for 2008

LIRAN MA
Liran Ma joins the faculty of the School of Technology as an assistant professor. He comes to Michigan Tech from George Washington University.

Ma holds a PhD in Computer Science from George Washington University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Hunan University, China.

He was a teaching assistant and part of the technical staff at GWU, a research scientist at Philips Research in Shanghai and a visiting student at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing.

He has published many articles in journals and numerous peer reviewed conference papers.

He was a student member of the ACM and Society of IEEE Computer. He was part of the Technical Program Committee of ICCCAS and WASA and a reviewer of IEEE Infocom, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC and IEEE ICC for many years.

XINLI WANG
Xinli Wang joins the faculty of the School of Technology as an assistant professor. He comes to Michigan Tech from Colorado State University.

Wang holds PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science from Michigan Tech, a PhD in Forest Ecology from Nanjing Forestry University and MS and BS degrees in Agricultural Meteorology from the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology.

His research interests include distributed systems, parallel computing, networks, numerical modeling and the environment.

As a graduate research assistant, he researched education software; created a simulator that evaluated vector time; modified a TrueTime GPS card; developed algorithms for detecting deadlocks for a distribution system, vectors and detection of global conjunctive predicates in dynamic systems.

He received the Science and Technology Progress Award four times, from Jiangsu Province, the China Meteorological Administration, the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences and Henan Province. He also received the Best Research Paper Award multiple times from the Henan Association for Science and Technology.

He was a research scientist at Colorado State University, where he wrote Java packages that were the connection between the database and scientists. He also implemented a Fortran 90 interface to simulate cotton growth and yield and created crop models and solar radiation transfer models. He was a graduate teaching assistant at Michigan Tech, where he taught Software Development Using C++ to second year students.