1. DAHANG ZHANG
96 Westwind Rd, Dorchester, MA 02125 | (617) 961-2232 | zhang.dah@husky.neu.edu
EDUCATION
Northeastern University, Boston, MA Aug. 2014 – Dec. 2016 (expected)
Master of Science in Computer Engineering, GPA: 3.7
 Coursework: Database System Management | Operating System | Information Retrieval | Software Development
Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China Sep. 2010 – May. 2014
Bachelor of Science in Information Engineering, GPA: 3.5
 Coursework: Data Structures and Algorithms | Fundamentals of Programming
TECHNICAL SKILLS
 Java, C#, SQL, C, Python, JSP, JavaScript, HTML, JSON, Spring, MVC, Maven
 Eclipse, Visual Studio, MySQL, AWS, Jenkins, Tomcat, Lucene, Confluence, Jira, Crucible, GitHub, TortoiseHg
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Corindus Vascular Robotics, Software R&D Intern, Waltham, MA Fall 2015
 Worked on developing CorPath 300 medical robotics system to meet new user requirements.
 Improved the functionality of the software for the Control Console via Statemachine using C#.
 Refined the workflow of the Control Console system to improve the efficacy and safety during working.
 Enhanced the GUI of the Control Console system to provide better user experience.
 Developed testing software for the medical robotic device to complete the quality tests.
 Assisted software team obtain approval of all software ECOs.
ACADEMIC PROJECT
“Happy Being Us” Web Training Application Spring 2016
 Designed a web application to help young daughters build good body images about themselves.
 Created the Controllers, Services and Dao using J2EE to implement the logical business part.
 Designed the SQL Database by MySQL to store data of user and training materials.
 Provided the interface for the admin to post new training materials and manage the existed materials.
 Built up the training pages using JavaScript to provide users a friendly interface to go through the training materials.
 Utilized Junit to test each component of the application and confirm the code quality.
 Released the first version on Amazon Web Service to make our application available for the public.
Optimization for Lucene and BM25 Search Engines Spring 2016
 Performed query expansions by Java on Lucene using pseudo-relevance feedback and thesaurus techniques to
ameliorate the relevance between search results and queries.
 Applied stopping words to Lucene and BM25 search engines by Java and reduced the number of incorrect results.
 Compared optimized search engines with the baselines of Lucene search engine and BM25 search engine, gained a
22% and 8% improvement in terms of Mean Average Precision respectively.
“MyStereo” Music Management Web Application Spring 2015
 Designed a web application using Java and JSP to search and manage information of songs, albums and artists.
 Set up the corresponding MySQL database system for the web application to realize the data interactions between
web and the underlying database.
 Retrieved the JSON data from a public music web API, stored and maintained the data in MySQL.
Enhancement for XV6 OS Spring 2015
 Implemented the multi-level feedback queuing policy by C to improve the efficiency of the xv6 scheduler.
 Designed a small library to fix the insufficiency of xv6 and make it support the basic thread creation, thread join and
locks.