I always ask myself: what kind of people I want to be.
The answer is just---Myself
 

Feng Zou
PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Science,University of Texas in Dallas
Contact: phenix dot zou AT student dot utdallas dot edu

I am a PhD Candidate in the Department of Computer Science, University of Texas in Dallas, supervised by Professor Dingzhu Du. Before that I was a Master Student in CS Department in City University of HongKong.

My Research Interests:       

  • Wireless Networks

  • Optimization Theory

  • Natural Language Processing

  • Information Retrieval

  • Data Mining

Selected Publications:

      1. Conference:

  • Feng Zou, Xianyue Li, Donghyun Kim, and Weili Wu, "Two Constant Approximation Algorithms for Node-Weighted Steiner Tree in Unit Disk Graphs", COCOA2008, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, August 21-24.

  • Xianyue Li, Yaochun Huang, Feng Zou, Donghyun Kim, and Weilli Wu, "(1+\rho)-Approximation for Selected-Internal Steiner Minimum Tree", COCOON2008, Dalian, China, June 27-29.

  • Ning Zhang, Incheol Shin, Feng Zou, Weili Wu , My Thai, "A Trade-off Scheme for Fault Tolerant Connected Dominating Sets on Size and Diameter", The First ACM International Workshop on Foundations of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking and Computing, Hong Kong, May 2008. Best Paper Award.

  • Yingshu Li, Donghyun Kim, Feng Zou, and Ding-Zhu Du, "Constructing Connected Dominating Sets with Bounded Diameters in Wireless Networks", WASA 2007, Chicago, IL, USA, August 1 ~ 3. Best Paper Award.

  • Feng Zou, Fu Lee Wang, Xiaotie Deng, Song Han "Evaluation of Stop Word List in Chinese Language", Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2006.

  • Fu Lee Wang, Xiaotie Deng, Feng Zou, "Towards Unified Chinese Segmentation Algorithm", Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2006.
  • WaiChun Lam, Feng Zou, Taku Komura "Motion Editing with Data Glove", ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology ACE 2004.

     2. Journal:

  • Xianyue Li, Feng Zou,Yaochun Huang,Donghyun Kim, and Weilli Wu,"A Better Constant-Factor Approximation for Selected-Internal Steiner Minimum Tree", Algorithmica 2008, accepted to minor revision.

  • N. Zhang, I. Shin, Feng Zou W. Wu, and M.T.Thai, "Construction of Virtual Backbone with Multiple Factors Constraints in Wireless Ad-hoc Network", Ad hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, 2008, to appear (invited paper).

  • Donghyun Kim, Yiwei Wu, Yingshu Li, Feng Zou, and Ding-Zhu Du, "Constructing Energy Efficient Connected Dominating Sets with Bounded Diameters in Wireless Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).

  • Feng Zou, Xianyue Li, Donghyun Kim, and Weili Wu, Two Constant Approximation Algorithms for Node-Weighted Steiner Tree in Unit Disk Graphs£¬submitted to JOC.

  • Feng Zou, Fu Lee Wang, Xiaotie Deng, Song Han, "Automatic Identification of Chinese Stop Words", a special issue on Advances in Natural Language Processing of the journal Research on Computing Science, ISSN 1665-9899, 2006.

  • Feng Zou, Fu Lee Wang, Xiaotie Deng, Song Han, Lusheng Wang, "Stop Word List Construction and Application in Chinese Language Processing", WSEAS Transanction on Information Science and Applications.

   3. Chapter:

  • Feng Zou, Donghyun Kim, Xiaofeng Gao, and Ding-Zhu Du, Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Network, Handbook on Sensor Networks, to be published by World Scientific Publishing Co., 2009.