Since I was a little boy, I have always been probing, trying to satisfy my unsatisfiable curiosity and appetite for knowledge. The beauty of science and technology I found from my academic study and research work in Computer Science significantly influenced and motivated me to be a scientific researcher and pursue the deep joy that science itself can take me in all my life.

    Communication Engineering, the specialty I majored in as an un-dergraduate student from 2001 to 2005 at Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications (BUPT), is a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary subject enhanced electricity and electronics science with intensive compulsory courses training in Mathematics, com-puter technology, industrial electronics, and instrumentation. Besides my well-performed academic record with a GPA 87.5 out of 100 in computer science related courses, what made the study so exciting to me is this subject expanding astonishingly at a great rate and improved my capability to identify topics both inside and outside of the Computer Science realm.

    Intending to understand the powerful and essential tool deeply, I poured great energy into the study of Computer Science. Other than studying relevant courses, such as Data Structure and Algorithms, Computer Architecture, and Operation System in school or by my-self, I worked in China Mobil, the largest Asian telecom operator, selected as an intern to practice skills of computer network man-agement. This practical application in real business world was complicated and challenging, and it helped me to develop my special interest in computer science and wish to become a suc-cessful researcher in the field.

    With full awareness of the difficulty for undergraduate students to participate in actual research, I tried my best to seize every opportunity to participate in real project. I dedicated myself in my graduation design for half a year working on our project of dis-tributed computing and developing a smart home network. Assisted by two other team members, I examined the three most popular network technologies, UPnP, OSGi and Jini, and finally chose Jini concerning the superiority of Java’s cross-platform capability. I challenged myself to lift the Jini’s limitations in designing and coding by adding a new service to the network and rewriting user end code to improve its less advanced resource management mechanism. The result has shown that my solution expresses the idea of a lighter and quicker framework, which is crucial in home networks due to limited capability of computing. Our project, sponsored by Sino-German Joint Software Institute, was highly appreciated by both our advisor and the German visit technicians. These practical experiences raised my careful and serious attitude toward research work, improved my diligence, persistence, creativity and strong sense of teamwork, and most importantly, motivated me to continue my pace in computer sci-ence relevant academic area.

    September 2005, I entered Zhejiang University for my post-graduate study. At the same time, I have been selected as a research assistant in Telecommunication and Information Research Center working on the project of the navigation and control of moon rover based on computer vision. This research project is one of the key projects sponsored by National Natural Science Foun-dation. I was responsible for surveying various algorithms such as particle filter, linear and quadratic iterative least squares, and evaluating their benefits and disadvantages under the environment of moon. Due to the complexity of these algorithms, I spent days and nights in the lab examining all the codes, testing every mo-dule, even improving the algorithms to make them run correctly. I have proposed a new framework of moon rover localization and changed particle filter’s algorithm to meet the need of it. The paper presenting my idea and outcome has been submitted to and evaluated by an EI-indexed journal, and now I am waiting for its publishing.

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