Apr 11, 2010

Curriculum Vitae

Hao Wang

Address   SGM 501, Department of Psychology

University of Southern California

3620 S. McClintock Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061

Phone     213-784-2526

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Research Interests

Child language development, computational modeling of language development, neural basis of language

Education and Training

2006 - Present        PhD student, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California

03/2005                 EEG/ERP Acquisition & Analysis, Curry Training Course, Comprehensive Scan School, NeuroScan, Hangzhou, China

1999 - 2003           B. Eng. in Electrical Engineering, Xiangtan University, Hunan, China

Scholarship and Awards

2010                      Psychology Summer Research Award

2009 - 2010           Valentine fellowship, Dept. of Psychology, USC

2009                      Psychology Summer Research Award

2008 - 2009           Research assistantship, Dept. of Psychology, USC

2007                      Paula Menyuk Travel Award, BUCLD 32

2007                      Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) travel grant, USC

2007 Fall               Teaching assistantship, Dept. of Psychology, USC

2006 - 2007           Valentine fellowship, Dept. of Psychology, USC

2002                      Scholarship, Xiangtan University

2001                      Scholarship, Xiangtan University

Publication

Wang, H., & Mintz, T. H. (2010). From linear sequences to abstract structures: Distributional information in infant-direct speech. In J. Chandlee, K. Franich, K. Iserman & L. Keil, (Eds.), Proceedings Supplement of the 34th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Wang, H., & Mintz, T. H. (2008). A Dynamic Learning Model for Categorizing Words Using Frames. In H. Chan, H. Jacob & E. Kapia, (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 525-536). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Presentation

Wang, H., & Mintz, T. H. (2009). From linear sequences to abstract structures: Distributional information in infant-direct speech. Poster presentation at the 34th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Wang, H., & Mintz, T. H. (2009). From linear sequences to abstract structures: Distributional information in infant-direct speech. 2009 Symposium on Cognitive and Language Development, Los Angeles, CA.

Höhle, B., Wang, H., & Mintz, T. H. (2008). Syntactic categorization of new words: Distributional and morphological cues to form class. XXIX International Congress of Psychology 2008.

Wang, H., & Mintz, T. H. (2008). A Dynamic Learning Model for Categorizing Words Using Frames. Sandyneck Southern California Symposium on Cognitive and Language Development, Irvine, CA.

Wang, H., & Mintz, T. H. (2007). A Dynamic Learning Model for Categorizing Words Using Frames. 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.

Teaching Experience

2007, Fall              PSYC-274 Statistics, Teaching assistant, Dept. of Psychology, USC

Work Experience

2009 Summer        Data mining neuroscience literature sub-domains using Conditional random fields, Information Science Institute/USC

2008 Summer        Programmer for Ontonotes project, Information Science Institute/USC

2003 - 2006           Research assistant/programmer, Institute of Cognitive Science, Hunan University, China

2004                      Instructor, NIIT Software Training Center, Changsha, China

2001 - 2003           Software Engineer, Feiling Intelligence System Integration Corp., Shenzhen, China

Projects

(Before USC)

2005 - 2006           Setup and Maintenance of the Event-Related Potential Laboratory

2005 - 2006           Computational Processing and Analysis for the Project "An Analysis of Distributional Information Relevant to Mandarin Syntactic Category in Speech to Young Children”

2004 - 2005           Computational Processing and Analysis for the Project "The Development of Tone in a Mandarin-Speaking Child"

2004 - 2005           Praat Script for the Project "The Pitch Contours of Infants Acquiring Tonal Target Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Study"

2004                      Web-based Information Manage System for the School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University

2003 - 2004           Adaptive English Learning System

2003 - 2006           Linux Server and Equipment Maintenance

2002 - 2003           VON (Voice Over Net) Voice Chat ActiveX Control

2000 - 2002           CTTS Chinese Text to Speech System

 

Projects in Feiling Corp. (2001 - 2003)

Multimedia Authoring tool for teachers

The software of Urban Traffic Control System

Smart card one card solution system (including access control, payment and attendance subsystem)

MIS Development Platform (a RAD MIS development tool)

 

Certification

Certificated Senior Software Engineer by the Ministry of Information Industry, China, 2002

 

Computer Skills

C/C++

C#

PHP

Java

Windows Programming

Linux

MS Office VBA

Praat Script

Delphi

JavaScript

ASM

ActiveX/COM/DCOM

Visual Studio

Visual Basic/C++

Eclipse

DirectX

HTML, DHTML, XML

UML

ASP.NET

AJAX

SQL Server

MySQL

MATLAB