E15-384b wdong@media.mit.edu 20 Ames Street Cambridge, MA, 02142
Iam interested in analyzingorganizational structure and dynamics, and facilitating organization productivitywith strict mathematical modeling.Ihave backgroundsinboth mathematics and computer science.
Skills
Mathematical Skills
Fluent in signal processing and system identification withMatlab, and statistical analysis and data mining withR/SPlus. Deepunderstandingand experienced in statistics, including time series analysis, spatial analysis, system identification, pattern recognition and data mining, classification and regression.
Computer Skills Managing projects that involve computer programming, intensive interaction with clients, and tight time constraints. Working knowledge with programming/scripting languages, relational database management systems, e-business/community web site construction, embedded devices programming (for iphones, blackberries, etc.), and computer systems internals.
Goodinter-personal skills, communication skills, and management skills.
Publications
[1] Wen Dong, Bruno Lepri, Alessandro Cappelletti, Alex Pentland, Fabio Pianesi, Massimo Zancanaro: Using the Influence Model to RecognizeFunctional Roles in Meeting. ICMI 2007
[2] Wen Dong, AlexPentland: Modeling Influencebetween Experts. Artificial Intelligence for Human Computing 2007: 170-189
[3] Wen Dong: Influence Modeling of Complex Stochastic Processes. Master’s thesis, MIT, July 2006
[4] WenDong,JonathanGipps,AlexPentland:A’needtoknow’systemfor groupclassification. ICMI 2006: 155-161
[5] Wen Dong, AlexPentland: Multi-sensor DataFusion Using the Influence Model. BSN 2006: 72-75
Work Experience
2007.06—2007.08
Worked with Mao Networks (419 Lafayette St., 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10003) on the statisticalanalysisofgigabytesofdatarelatedtohuman groupbehavior.I cannot mention the details due to the non-disclosure agreement withthis company.
2005.09—2006.05
WorkedwithaGeorgiaTech teamandanIBMteamontheDARPAASSISTproject. My task involves the statistical modeling of the movements of six accelerometers attached to different human parts, and the implementation of a human posture and activityclassifier. The classifierwasevaluatedby NISTtobe ableto classify14postures/activities with greater than 80% accuracyperposture.
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2004.09—present Research assistant in the MIT Media Laboratory. My research in general involves thestatisticalmodelingofhumanbehaviorandhuman groupbehavior.I am recently involved with the real-time traffice prediction project of San Jose, Costa Ricaby providingmathematical support.I workedintensivelywiththeSanFranciscocabspotting dataset(datasince2005,sampledat2samplesperminute,withgeographicalprecision less than 1 yards, more than 6 giga bytes of data). Another representative research project involves modeling the human group behavior in the reality mining data set that involves locations, proximity, cell phone usages of about 100 subjects for about oneyear.
2003.02—2003.12
Teaching assistant in the department of computer science, Universityof SanFrancisco, for CS601 (graduate object-orientedsoftware development)and CS411 (upper division automata theory) .
2001.09—2003.06
Researchassistant in the department of computer science, Universityof SanFrancisco. I developed LISP and java applications that simulate Colossus, a “computer” used in BletchleyParkinworld warIItobreaktheGerman Lorenzcipherradioteletype.Ialso implemented the syntax and semantics of lambda calculus (a mathematical computation model aspowerful asTuring machine).
1999.09—2000.06
Worked in Beijing Video, Audio, and Slides Publishing House. My work involves developing applications that assist reconstructing three-dimensional urban models from photos, and applications that render of the models in real-time. The product was used bythe department of traffic control of the Beijing government, and several realtors.
Education
2004.09—present Ph.D. student and Master’s student in the MIT Media Laboratory.
A selection of courses taken: 18.155 Differential Analysis, 8.333 Statistical Physics,
6.435 System Identification, 6.869 Computer Vision, 18.177 Stochastic Process, 18.465 SpecialTopics in Statistics, 18.175 Statistical Analysis, 18.177 Uniform Central Limit Theorems, 9.520 Statistical Learning Theory and Applications, 6.432 Detection, Estimation, and Stochastic Process, MAS.965 Relational Machines, MAS.962 Meaning Machines, 6.867 Introduction to Machine Learning, 9.914 Computational Cognitive Science.
Research work relatedtothemodelingofhumanbehaviorandhuman groupbehavior, and the applications of this modeling.
2000.09—2003.12
Master’s student in the department of computer science, University of SanFrancisco.
Courses taken: CS615 Computer Architecture, CS601 Object Oriented Software Development, CS625 Parallel and Distributed Computing, CS636 Operating Systems, CS652 Programming languages, CS673 Algorithms, CS675 Theory of Computation, CS620 Network Design, CS621 Network Programming, CS699 Master’s Thesis.
Research works related to mathematical logic, computation theory, and algebra.
Hobbies
Violin. Swimming.
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