Kuang He's CV

Kuang HE

Department of Physics
University of Connecticut
2152 Hillside Road U-3046
Storrs, CT 06269-3046, USA

Tel: +1 860.486.4919
Fax: +1 860.486.3346
Email: icrazy@gmail.com
Web: http://www.phys.uconn.edu/~he/

EDUCATION

May 2010 (expected)	Ph.D. in Physics, University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs, CT, USA
Jul 2005	B.S. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, Anhui, China

WORKING EXPERIENCE & PROJECTS

Aug 2008 - present	Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Volunteer Developer Contributor to SAC, a widely used seismic data analysis tool (143,000+ lines of C code).
May 2007 - Aug 2007	Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) Americas, Inc. Intern Geophysicist Performed efficiency upgrades to a 3D ray tracing module (27,000+ lines of C code) of PGS' proprietary seismic processing system Cube Manager.
Sep 2005 - present	Physics Department, University of Connecticut Assistant System Administrator Helping the department's system administrator with the maintenance of linux workstations and the deployment of content management system Plone as our new website system. Maintaining a 17-node dual-core cluster with tasks of hardware installations, diagnosis, testing, repair, software installations, system monitoring, and benchmarking. Performing operating system installations, upgrades, hardening, and regular back-ups on a number of Linux workstations.
May 2006 - present	Solid Earth Geophysics Research Group, University of Connecticut Website Designer, Developer, and Maintainer Designed, developed, and maintained the website of various UConn geophysics groups.
Mar 2005 - Apr 2005	USTC Qubitstar Systems Co., Inc. Intern Developer Designed and implemented web front-end of a embedded bookkeeping system using PHP, MySQL, and C (3,500+ lines of PHP code, 500+ lines of C code, shell scripts, and manual documents).
Apr 2004 - Jun 2005	University of Science and Technology of China Developer and Maintainer Contributor and maintainer of the USTC BBS daemon (100,000+ lines of C code), which served as the university's official Internet bulletin board system.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Papers:
1. Liu, L., and K. He, Wave interferometry applied to borehole radar: virtual multi-offset reflection profiling, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 45 (8), pp. 2554-2559, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.900686. (2007)
2. Liu, L., K. He, X. Xie, and J. Du, Image enhancement with wave-equation redatuming: application to GPR data collected at public transportation sites, J. Geophys. Eng., 4 (2), pp. 139-147, doi: 10.1088/1742-2132/4/2/003. (2007)
3. Fan, J., L. Pi, K. He, W. Wang, and Y. Zhang, Charge ordering melting and evidence for a metastable antiferromagnetic phase in Nd_0.5(1-x)Ca_0.5(1+x)Mn_1-xTi_xO₃, Europhys. Lett., 74 (3), pp. 506-511, doi: 10.1209/epl/i2005-10561-8. (2006)
4. Qu, Z., S. Tan, K. He, J. Xu, , and Y. Zhang, Effects of Mn doping on the properties of FeCr_2-xMn_xS₄, Appl. Phys. Lett., 87, 162504, doi: 10.1063/1.2106020. (2005)
Full Length Conference Papers:
1. He, K., L. Liu, W. Wang, Y. Tan, and Q. Chen, Study of the strong ground motion scenario in the Beijing area caused by the 1679 M8 Sanhe-Pinggu earthquake, Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE), Beijing, China, October 12-17, Paper No. 14-0135. (2008)
2. Chen, Q., L. Liu, W. Wang, and K. He, Seismic hazard assessment with microtremor array observation and computational simulation in the metropolitan Beijing area, Proceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE), Beijing, China, October 12-17, Paper No. 03-03-0021. (2008)
3. Liu, L., X. Xie, Y. Zhao, and K. He, Integrity assessment of the shielding machine sealing with GPR in the Crossing-Yantze Highway Tunnel, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR '2008), Birmingham, UK, June 16-19. (2008)
4. Liu, L., K. He, and L.V. Wang , Transcranial ultrasonic wave propagation simulation: skull insertion loss and recovery, Proceedings of SPIE, 6437, 64370X. (2007)
5. Liu, L., K. He, X. Xie, and J. Du, Image enhancement with wave-equation redatuming: application to GPR data collected in a highway tunnel, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR '2006), Columbus, OH, June 19-22. (2006)
Abstracts:
1. Liu, L., Q. Chen, K. He, W. Wang, E. Rohrbach, and C. Qi, Vulnerability analysis of ground and structures based on microtremor measurement and scenario earthquake simulation: Applications to the Greater Beijing area, IASPEI General Assembly, January 10-16, Cape Town, South Africa. (2009)
2. He, K., J. Attanayake, V.F. Cormier, and A. Stroujkova, Texture study of the uppermost inner core from seismic coda waves, AGU Fall Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Septermber 15-19. (2008)
3. Attanayake, J., V.F. Cormier, K. He, Modeling the inner core boundary with antipodal seismic waves, AGU Fall Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Septermber 15-19. (2008)
4. Liu, L., K. He, R. Mehl, W. Wang, and Q. Chen, Site effect assessment of earthquake ground motion based on advanced data processing of microtremor array measurements, AGU Fall Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Septermber 15-19. (2008)
5. Li, J., B. Chen, V.F. Cormier, L. Gao, D. Gubbins, K. He, and H. Yang, "Snowing" core in Earth?, AGU Fall Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Septermber 15-19. (2008)
6. He, K., A. Stroujkova, and V.F. Cormier, Texture of the uppermost inner core from the coda of PKiKP, IRIS Annual Workshop, Stevenson, WA, June 4-6. (2008)
7. Liu, L., Q. Chen, K. He, and P. Hu, Earthquake strong ground motion scenarios at the 2008 Olympic Games site Beijing based on historic records, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics General Assembly (IUGG '2007), Perugia, Italy, July 2-13. (2007)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Aug 2007 - present	Solid Earth Geophysics Research Group, University of Connecticut Research Assistant Carrying out research on inner core heterogeneity and deep earth scattering.
Sep 2005 - Dec 2006	Solid Earth Geophysics Research Group, University of Connecticut Research Assistant Researched heterogeneous structure near the Earth's inner core and outer core boundaries. Researched pseudospectral and spectral element SPECFEM forward modeling programs. Performed analysis of some real earthquake data downloaded from IRIS website.
Jun 2004 - Jul 2005	Structure Research Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China Undergraduate Researcher Synthesized polycrystalline manganite samples FeCr_2-xMn_xS₄ (0≤x≤0.1) using double doping method and evaluated the effects of Mn doping on the magnetic properties, resistivity, and magnetoresistance. Synthesized polycrystalline manganite samples Nd_0.5(1-x)Ca_0.5(1+x)Mn_1-xTi_xO₃ (0.01≤x≤0.10) and investigated their magnetic properties, stability, and charge ordering phases.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Jan 2007 - May 2007

Physics Department, University of Connecticut
Teaching Assistant
Instructed General Physics laboratory course.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Programming:
- Languages: C, Python, Perl, Fortran, PHP, Bash shell scripts, Basic, Pascal
- GNU toolchain: gcc, gdb, make, autoconf, automake
- MPI parallel programming
- Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programming
Computing Systems: Matlab, Mathematica
Databases: MySQL, Sqlite
Documentation & Web Publishing: HTML/XHTML, CSS, PHP, LaTeX, Content management systems (MediaWiki, Plone+Zope), SGML, doxygen
Version Control Systems: RCS, CVS, Subversion, Git
System Administration:
- Operating Systems: Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, Fedora, SUSE, ...), Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003, MS-DOS
- File Systems: EXT2/EXT3, ReiserFS, XFS, FAT16/FAT32, NTFS
- Services:
  - Web Server: HTTP/HTTPS (Apache 1.3.x/2.x, lighttpd, and Microsoft IIS)
  - FTP Server: FTP/FTPS (vsftpd/ProFTPD for Linux, ioFTPD/Xlight/Gene6/Serv-U/IIS for Windows), FTP Mirroring
  - Mail Server: SMTP/SMTPS, POP3/POP3S, IMAP/IMAPS, Webmail (squirrelmail), Spam & Antivirus filtering
  - Other: DHCP, TFTP, Telnet/Telnets, NTP, NFS, Samba, Proxy (SOCKS and HTTP), Rsync, LPD/CUPS, Remote desktop, VNC, NX, Cygwin, Autofs, BitTorrent, Audio streaming and broadcasting
- Security: SSH, SSL/TLS, PAM, firewalls, IDS, VPN (PPTP and OpenVPN), vulnerability scanning, PGP/GnuPG
- Networking: IPv4, packet sniffing, packet filtering, NAT, tunneling (port forwarding), web caching, transparent proxying, software load balancing, network (PXE) booting, bridging, traffic shaping (bandwidth throttling, rate limiting, quality of service)
- Linux Expertise: X Window System (XFree86, X.Org, Cygwin/X), GNOME, Xfce, software RAID, LVM, ATA over Ethernet, hard disk encryption (Loop-AES and TrueCrypt), disk quota, virtual machine managers (VMware, VirtualBox, User-Mode Linux, Xen, QEMU, Colinux, ...)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Oct 2005 - present	American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Feb 2007 - present	The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
Jun 2008 - present	Seismological Society of America (SSA)

LANGUAGES

English (moderate)

Mandarin Chinese (fluent)