Robert Kang

Software Developer

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nkrobert.work(at)gmail(dot)com

What I love to do

I love polished code, sharp opinions and elegant solutions. Simple things like these make world beautiful.

What I can do

Server Side

  • Java/J2EE
  • Hibernate, *Spring and *Solr

Browser Side

  • HTML, Javascript and CSS
  • *GWT and Jquery API

DB/OS

  • MySQL, MS SQL Server
  • Windows, Linux(Debian), Mac OS
* - currently learning

What I plan to do

  • I am new to Sentiment Analysis, but I plan to dig deeper -> data mining and natural language processing
  • With a strong background with network security, I want to improve my knowledge with web app security

What I have done and been doing

Software Developer

2nd Act Innovations Inc.

September 2011 – Present

  • Starting to work on the 4sight enterprise content management project
  • GWT, Hibernate, Spring, Solr and Sentiment Analysis (Lots of new stuff to learn, but I will catch on)

Freelanced Programmer

May 2011 – August 2011

  • Designed and developed an academic conference website for ANT 2012
  • Initiated a side project on iOS platform (delayed due to my new work, but not planning to give up)

Research Assistant

Cooperative Intelligent Distributed System Group, Acadia University

September 2010 – Feburary 2011

  • Developed intrusion detection system for Mobile Ad-hoc network
  • Responsible for system design and implementation with C++ and Python
  • Research funded by NSERC and Acadia University Research and Graduate Office

Software Developer

Biology Department, Acadia University

May 2010 – August 2010

  • Worked on developing an interactive courseware for Physiology of Anatomy
  • Responsible for both server side and browser side development with PHP, MySQL, Javascript and CSS
  • Assisted in creating new modules and contributing creative ideas in a technical perspective

Teaching Assistant

Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University

September 2007 – April 2010

  • Computer Game Design
  • Computer Concept and Application

Application Developer

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Toronto, Canada

May 2009 – December 2009

  • Responsible for designing, developing and maintaining various internal applications with C# and Java
  • Involved in bug tracing in Java environment for internal test emulation platform
  • Assisted in the setup, configuration and maintenance for CIBC Continuous System Integration
  • Worked in multiple team environment by cooperating and communicating with various team members

Where I went to school

Master of Science, Computer Science

Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Graduated May 2011

  • Research Area: Intrusion Detection in Mobile Ad-hoc Wireless Network
  • Acadia Graduate Award 2007-2009
  • Recipient of Acadia and NSERC Research Funding 2010-2011

Bachelor of Engineering – Computer Science

Heilongjiang Institute of Science and Tech, Harbin, China

Graduated July 2006

  • Recipient of Scholarship for Academic Excellence 2004-2006

Diploma of Computer System Technology

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Edmonton, Canada

Graduated June 2006

  • Overseas joint venture program delivered in China

What I have published

Detecting Forged Acknowledgements in MANETs

N. Kang, E. Shakshuki and T. Sheltami

  • In the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA)
  • IEEE Computer Society, Biopolis, Singapore. March 22-25, 2011

Detecting Misbehaving Nodes in MANETs

N. Kang, E. Shakshuki and T. Sheltami

  • In the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications&Services
  • Paris, France, November 8-10, 2010

Tracking Anonymous Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks

E. Shakshuki, N. Kang, X.Y. Xing and T. Sheltami

  • In the IEEE 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
  • Bradford, UK, 2009

Malicious Platform Reconnaissance over Agent-based WSNs

N. Kang and E. Shakshuki

  • In the Graduate Symposium of the 21th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligent
  • Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 2008 (Funded to present research ideas in the graduate symposium)

A glance of my work

I am going to upload once I get some time

Robert Kang — nkrobert.work(at)gmail(dot)com —