Graduate Student Award 2010

Jingjing Zhang	Xiaoling Chen	Asli Ergun

Jingjing Zhang received the B.E. degree from Xi'an Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an, China, in 2003, and the M.E. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2006, both in electrical engineering. She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the Advanced Networking Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark. Her current research interests include planning, capacity analysis, resource allocation of green broad-band access networks, and quality of experience provisioning in next-generation networks. Her research in her Ph. D study has resulted in three patent applications and five patent disclosures.

I am truly grateful to the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. I am deeply honored to accept the Graduate Student Award. I would also like to acknowledge two professors at Stevens Institute of Technology, Dr. Rajarathnam Chandramouli and Dr. K.P. Subbalakshmi for their supports and helps for my PhD study. I also congratulate my fellow prize winners this year. I am honored to be on the same stage with them.              - Dr. Xiaoling Chen

Dr. Xiaoling Chen received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, respectively in 2003 and 2006. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology in 2010 with the Francis T. Boesch Award and Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Her research for her thesis on "Psycho-linguistic forensic analysis of Internet Text Data" aimed to detect the deception in the Internet from psycho-linguistic and text mining approaches and resulted in one patent disclosure filed in 2009. Her research interests include data mining, text mining, machine learning, natural language processing, and Internet forensic.

Ms. Asli Ergun attended the Chemical Engineering Department of Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2003. Asli continued her studies at the Institute of Molecular-Biology, Genetics and Biotechnology of Istanbul Technical University (ITU), and earned her Master of Science degree in 2007. Immediately upon graduation from ITU, she joined Stevens Institute of Technology, attracted to Stevens by the Technogenesis thrust of Stevens and was awarded an Innovation & Entrepreneurship Doctoral Fellowship. Asli is in the process of completing the requirements of her PhD degree in Chemical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology with a thesis in the area of tissue engineering. Her work with Prof. Kalyon has resulted in two new methods of scaffold fabrication (with a provisional patent for the first filed and a second invention disclosure on the way).