Kiyoko F. Aoki, Ph.D.

Professional experience

 

2000 - 2002                                                                           
BioDiscovery, Inc., Marina del Rey, CA     

Bioinformatics Project Manager/Senior Software Engineer

*   Research bioinformatics databases for incorporating annotation information in relation to genomic data resulting from microarray analysis.

*   Leading role in a team of five software engineers developing commercial Java-based software for the preparation and analysis of expression data resulting from microarray experiments.

*   Leading role in a team of three software engineers developing commercial Java-based software for the tracking of clone data used in the spotting of microarray slides.

*   Develop Java-based software for the LIMS system for storage and retrieval of microarray experiment data.

*   Serve as liaison for Japanese distributor, giving training seminars to both customers and staff.

*   Attend conferences for the development of microarray gene expression data standards (MGED).

1998 - 2000                                                                           
Academia Sinica, Inst. of Inf. Sci.,
Taipei, Taiwan

Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Assistant

*   Managed GeoJAVA System project, a distributed visualization system.

*   Implemented DISPE, a distributed compilation system using agents.

*   Assisted in the development of a web-based collaboratory project.

*   Supervised graduate students.

1995 - 1996                                                                           
Nippon Motorola, Ltd.,
Tokyo, Japan

Intern, Software Developer

*   Developed an Oracle Database Disk Analyzer using Tcl/Tk.

*   Wrote the first experimental page for Nippon Motorola's WWW Home Page.

*   Wrote SQL, PL/SQL code for the interfaces for Oracle Financials Accounts Receivables Software.


Education

 

1991 - 1999                                                                           
Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL

Ph.D., Computer Engineering, December, 1999

BS/MS, Computer Science, June 1996

*   Dissertation topic: distributed systems, applied to mobile agents that compile C/C++ programs using libraries distributed across heterogeneous computers on a network.

*   Recipient of Piros Fellowship (1996-1997, full doctoral funding).

*   Teaching assistant for Design and Analysis of Geometric Algorithms.

*   Research assistant for Prof. D. T. Lee.

*   Managed research projects in distributed geometric algorithm visualization system (GEOMAMOS System), involving C/C++ programs for networking in UNIX, Java programs for Java version of the system (GeoJAVA System).

*   Completed all graduation requirements for B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science by Dec. 1995.

*   Completed Co-operative Engineering program in Aug. 1995.

Computer Skills and technologies

 

*   Most experienced in software development in Java, using UML modeling in Together (by TogetherSoft) and interfacing with XML.

*   Very experienced in networking (UNIX, TCP/IP, UDP, SOAP) and databases (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase), programming in UNIX and C/C++.

*   Familiar with CORBA and Java Native Interface.

Professional memberships

 

IEEE and ACM.

Languages

 

Fluent in conversational Japanese.