Ph.D. Student, with Cathy Wu and Vijay Shanker | Resume

Computer & Information Sciences Department

University Of Delaware

• iSimp website

• Penn Treebank reader. git
• A Beamer Theme with University of Delaware Logo (v3). download

• Sentence Simplification, Relation Extraction, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistic

• University of Delaware Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2010 - Present
• Peking University Master in Signal and Information Processing, 2007 - 2010
• Beijing University of Technology Bachelor in Computer Science and Technology, 2003 - 2007

• iSimp: A Sentence Simplification System for Biomedical Text. (slides) Yifan Peng, Catalina O. Tudor, Manabu Torii, Cathy H. Wu, K. Vijay-Shanker. IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM2012). pp. 211-216. 2012.
• The Schema and Implementation of a Model Machine Based on DFA Theorem. Xiaolin Yi, Yifan Peng, Qiang Song, Feng Yang, Xiaoyan Li. 2009 First International Symposium on Education and Computer Science (ECS2009). vol 2, pp.1038-1041. 2009.
• Research on Chinese Orientation Analysis. Meng Zhang, Yifan Peng, Yang Fan, Dan Li, Xiaojun Lin, Xihong Wu. The First Chinese Opinion Analysis Evaluation (COAE 2008). pp. 38-45. 2008.
• The Design and Implementation of a Pipeline Model Machine Based on Verilog HDL. Xiaolin Yi, Yifan Peng. Journal of Beijing University of Technology. vol 10, pp. 1096-1101. 2007.
• A Research of Storing Dynamical Data Structures Based on XML. Yifan Peng, Wenbo Chen. The 9th National Java Technology and Application Conference. 2006.

• Sentence Simplification and its Application to Information Extraction. Yifan Peng, Cathy Wu, and Vijay Shanker. CBCB Research Symposium on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. May 2011.

• Sogou Corp. Intern, 2009
• China Research Lab, IBM Corp. Intern, 2009
• Programmer Magzine and CSDN Editor and reporter, 2008

• Volunteer for Beijing Olympic Games in Peking University;
• Editor and radio announcer of Beijing University of Technology Radio Station.

• Peking University Fellowship, 2007-2009;
• Intel Fellowship for 2007 Academic year;
• Outstanding Student in 2007 Graduation of Beijing Universities and Colleges;
• Excellent Student Award, Beijing University of Technology, 2004-2006;
• 3rd Rank in Beijing University of Technology, The ACM Asia Programming Contest, Beijing Site 2004, 2004.

• Travel, Drawing, Table tennis, Badminton, Swimming.