Harry Chen

Current

• Senior Application Engineer at Siri, Inc.

Past

• Computer Scientist/Senior Software Engineer at Image Matters LLC
• Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County
• Graduate Research Assistant at University of Maryland, Baltimore County

• Research Intern at Hewlett-Packard Labs
• Research Intern at Hewlett-Packard Labs
• Research Intern at Hewlett-Packard Labs
• Undergraduate Research Assistant at University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Education

• University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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• My Website

Harry Chen’s Summary

To be a leader in intelligent web innovation.

Harry Chen is a Senior Application Engineer at Siri Inc. He has over eight years of research and development experience. He is a software engineering expert in Web 2.0, artificial intelligence and mobile computing technology.

His research interests include web information systems, social media and social networks, geospatial and location-based services, knowledge representation, ontology and folksonomy, semantic web, mobile computing, information retrieval and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Chen is the author of 30 referred publications. He was on the Organizing Committee and Program Committee of 10 conferences and workshops. He served as the reviewer for several major journals.

Harry is a blogging enthusiast. He currently maintains "Geospatial Semantic Web Blog" [1] and "Harry Chen Thinks Aloud" [2]. He is also a part-time webmaster of and blogger at the UMBC eBiquity Blog [3].

[1] http://geospatialsemanticweb.com
[2] http://harry.hchen1.com
[3] http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger

Harry Chen’s Specialties:

RESEARCH: web information systems, social media and social networks, geospatial and location-based services, knowledge representation, ontology and folksonomy, mobile computing, information retrieval and artificial intelligence. DEVELOPMENT: java, j2ee, hibernate, junit/dbunit, webwork, struts, spring, freemarker, lucene, javascript, ajax, xml, rdf, owl, sql, jess, prolog, lingpipe, geotools, geonames, opensearch, google maps, rss/atom

Harry Chen’s Experience

• Senior Application Engineer

  Siri, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

• Computer Scientist/Senior Software Engineer

  Image Matters LLC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 9 months)

  Fulfill multiple roles including software engineer responsible for writing software; engineering manager in charge of development and supervising programmers; external spokesperson in marketing technologies and educating collaborators; technology adviser helping the management team to define project direction, develop schedules and create proposals.
  
  Designed and developed gnizr (http://gnizr.googlecode.com), an del.icio.us-like enterprise social bookmarking and mashup application.

• Adjunct Assistant Professor

  University of Maryland Baltimore County

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)

  Spring 2008 Teaching: Computer Science course Social Web Technologies (http://socialwebtechnologies.blogspot.com). Developed a new combined graduate and undergraduate course. A crash course on Web 2.0 technologies, social networks and the Semantic Web. Taught students how to think about Web technology trends (ethics and business), open source development (using Google Code) and how to hack code.

• Graduate Research Assistant

  University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  August 1998 — December 2004 (6 years 5 months)

  Research: designed and prototyped smart space systems and architectures that exploit context-awareness, semantic web ontologies, multi-agent systems, speech recognition, rule-baed reasoning, security and privacy policies and wireless technologies; helped to develop an inference engine for the Web Ontology Language OWL using Flora2/XSB; leaded the development of a semantic web portal for managing talk annoucements and event recommendations; helped to develop an XML-based protocol and language for supporting indoor wireless mobile device discovery and communications; developed prototypes of enterprise supply chain management systems for the CIIMPLEX and EECOMS projects
  
  Service: maintaining the eBiquity.ORG web site -- a slashdot like web portal for pervasive computing news and development; helping to organize internal talk events for the eBiquity research group and the Semantic Web Interest Group; administering the research group's computer servers and workstations.

• Research Intern

  Hewlett-Packard Labs

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Research industry)

  May 2002 — August 2002 (4 months)

  Designed and prototyped a team-based travel recommendation system using Jess (Java Expert System Shell).

• Research Intern

  Hewlett-Packard Labs

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Research industry)

  May 2001 — August 2001 (4 months)

  Design and prototyped a context-aware agent systems for tracking user locations using RFID, HP Cooltown, DAML+OIL, & Prolog.

• Research Intern

  Hewlett-Packard Labs

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Research industry)

  May 2000 — August 2000 (4 months)

  Designed and prototyped a M-Commerce system for buying/selling market items in a simulated Stanford Mall environment using the BT Zeus agent system, Apache JSP/Servlet, RMI, HP Cooltown, and HP Jornada.

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  January 1998 — August 1998 (8 months)

  Implemented a decision tree Java API for machine learning based on the ID3 algorithm; helped to prototype multi-agents supply chain management systems.

Harry Chen’s Education

• University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  Ph.D. , Computer Science , January 2000 — December 2004

  Dissertation title: An Intelligent Broker Architecture for Pervasive Context-Aware Systems
  Advisor: Dr. Timothy W. Finin

• University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  M.S. , Computer Science , September 1998 — January 2000

  Thesis title: Developing a Distributed Dynamic Intelligent Agent Framework Based on the Jini Architecture
  Advisor: Dr. Timothy W. Finin

• University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  B.S. , Computer Science , September 1994 — May 1998

Additional Information

Harry Chen’s Websites:

• My Website

Harry Chen’s Interests:

technology, start-up, social web, blogging, camping, hiking, whitewater rafting, traveling and wii,

Harry Chen’s Groups:

IEEE, ACM, AAAI, Upsilon Pi Epsilon and Golden Key National Honor Society

•    Friends of CSEE@UMBC
•    UMBC Alumni Network
•    Semantic Web
•    J Architect
•    Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
•    SocialDevCamp East
•    Computing Research Association
•    Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)

Harry Chen’s Honors:

(1) Awarded a PhD. research fellowship from the HP Labs in 2001 and 2002; (2) Best Student Entry award at the 2003 Agentcities Agent Technology Competition, Barcelona, Spain

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