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Jinghai Rao

Member of Research Staff
Beijing

 
 

I joined Nokia Research Center in Beijing in May 2009 as a Member of Research Staff. My research interests include Ontology, Semantic Web, Web services, Context awareness and Location-base services. 
 
Before joining Nokia, I worked in AOL Lab in Beijing as a research scientist. Before that I was a project scientist in Mobile Commerce Lab at Carnegie Mellon University. 
 
I received my PhD from Department of Computer and Information Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I hold a MS degree in Computer Science and a BS degree in Management Information System, both from Information School of Renmin University of China.   

Professional Activities

  • Guest Editor
    • International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
  • Program Co-Chair
    • First  International  Workshop  on  Aspects  in Evaluating  Holistic  Quality  of  Ontology-based  Information Retrieval 
    • First  International  Workshop  on  Semantic Technology Adoption in Business (STAB’07)
  •  Program Committee Member
    • 6th  European  Semantic Web Conference (ESWC’09) 
    • 5th  European  Semantic Web Conference (ESWC’08) 
    • 7th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’08) 
    • 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Multiagent Systems and Electronic Markets Track (ICEC'06)  
    • 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'06)  
  • Paper Reviewer
    • IEEE Transactions on Service Computing 
    • Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) Journal 
    • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 
    • Journal of Web Semantics 
    • Information System Journal 
    • International Journal of Web Services Research
    • 5th  International  Semantic  Web  Conference (ISWC'06) 
    • 4th  International  Semantic  Web  Conference (ISWC'05)  
    • 19th  International  Joint Conference  on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'05)   

Personal Information

I like travel and taking photos. An incomplete list of the places I have traveled to can be found from here. (I haven't updated it for years. I am sorry, but I have to find a new web server for it)

Other Information

  • May 2009 - Present, Member of Research Staff, Nokia Research Center, Beijing
  • January 2008 – April 2009, Research Scientist, AOL Lab China  
  • January  2005 – December  2007,  Project Scientist, Mobile Commerce Lab, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.  
  • August 2005 – December 2007, Consultant, Sadeh Consulting.  
  • August, 2000 – December, 2004, PhD, Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
  • September, 1997 – July, 2000, Master of Computer Science, Information School, Renmin University of China.
  • September, 1993 – July, 1997, Bachelor of Information Management, Information School, Renmin University of China.  

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles
 
  1. N. Sadeh, J. Hong, L. Cranor, I. Fette, P. Kelley, M. Prababer and J. Rao, "Understanding and Capturing People's Privacy Policies in a Mobile Social Networking Application", Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
  2. J. Rao, A. Sardinha and N. Sadeh, "A Meta-control architecture for orchestrating policy enforcement across heterogeneous information sources", Journal of Web Semantics. Vol. 7, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 40-56.
  3. J. Rao, P. Kungas and M. Matskin, "Composition ofSemantic Web Services using Linear Logic TheoremProving". Information Systems Journal -Special Issue on the Semantic Web and Web Services", Volume 31, Issues 4-5, page 229-296, June-July 2006.
 
Refereed Conference Papers
 
  1. J. Rao, D. Dimitrov, P. Hofmann and N. Sadeh "A Mixed Initiative Approach to Semantic Web Service Discovery and Composition: SAP's Guided Procedures Framework". Accepted in the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2006), Chicago, USA, September 18 - 22, 2006.
  2. J. Rao and N. Sadeh "A Semantic Web Framework for Interleaving Policy Reasoning and External Service Discovery". In Proceedings of International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, RuleML 2005, LNCS 3791, Galway, Ireland, 10-12 November 2005. 
  3. P. Kungas and J. Rao. "Symbolic AgentNegotiation for Semantic Web ServiceExploitation". In Proceedings of theFifth International Conference on Web-Age InformationManagement, WAIM 2004, Dalian, China, July 15-17,2004. LNCS 3129, Springer-Verlag.
  4. J. Rao, P. Kungas and M. Matskin. "Logic-basedWeb Service Composition: from Service Description toProcess Model". In Proceedings of the2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services, ICWS2004, San Diego, California, USA, July 6-9, 2004,IEEE Computer Society Press. This paper received a best paperrunners up award at the conference.
  5. X. Su, M. Matskin and J. Rao. "Implementing Explanation Ontology for Agent System".In Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC Internation Conference on WebIntelligence, Halifax, Canada, October, 2003, IEEE Computer Society Press.
  6. S. A. Petersen, J. Rao and M. Matskin. "Virtual EnterpriseFormation with Agents - an Approach toImplementation". In Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/WIC InternationalConference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Halifax,Canada, October, 2003, IEEE Computer Society Press.
  7. J. Rao , P. Kungas and M. Matskin. "Application of Linear Logic toWeb Service Composition". In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Services, Las Vegas, USA, June, 2003.
  8. J. Rao and S. A. Petersen. "Implementing Virtual Enterprises Using AGORA Multi-agent System". In Proceedings of CAiSE 2003 Forum, Velden, Austria, June 2003.
  9. Y. Chen, X. Su, J. Rao and H. Xiong. "Agent-based Microsimulation of Economy from A Complexity Perspective". In Proceeding of IFIP World Computer Congress,Beijing, China, 2000
  10. M. Fang, X. Su , T. Li and J. Rao. "A collaborative educational IS based on WWW". In Proceeding of IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Information Systems in the WWW Environment, Beijing, China, 1998
  11. M. Fang, J. Rao, X. Su and T. Li. "A Web-based collaborative learning system" In Proceedings of ICCE (International Conference on Computer in Education), Vol. 1, pp 263 - 272. Beijing, China, 1998.(foil)          
  
Thesis
 
J. Rao. "Semantic Web Service Composition via Logic-based Program Synthesis". PhD Thesis. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, December 10, 2004.

Workshop Papers 
  
  1. A. Sardinha, J. Rao and N. Sadeh "Enforcing Context-Sensitive Policies in Collaborative Business Environments". in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Security Technologies for Next Generation Collaborative Business Applications (SECOBAP'07), Istanbul, Turkey, April 20, 2007.
  2. J. Cornwell et. al. User-Controllable Security and Privacy for Pervasive Computing. in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (Hotmobile 2007), February 26-27, 2007, Westin La Paloma, Tucson, Arizona.
  3. J. Rao and X. Su. "A Survey of Automated WebService Composition Methods". InProceedings of the First International Workshop onSemantic Web Services and Web Process Composition, SWSWPC2004, San Diego, California, USA, July 6th, 2004.
  4. J. Rao and X. Su. "Toward the Composition ofSemantic Web Services. In Proceedings of the Second InternationalWorkshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing, Shanghai,China, December, 2003, LNCS 3033, Springer-Verlag.
  5. S. A. Petersen, J. Rao, and A. Tveit. "Challenges in Agent-based Support for Virtual Enterprises". In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Challenges in Open Agent Systems (corresponding with AAMAS 2002), Bologna, Italy, July 2002.
  6. M. Matskin, J. Rao. "Value-Added Web Services Composition using Automatic Program Synthesis". In Proceedings of "Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web" workshop, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 28May, 2002, LNCS 2512, Springer-Verlag.