Xin Xu

PO Box 94994 Durham, NC 27708 (919) 627-1148 xin.xu@duke.edu xinxu36@gmail.com

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Education Duke University, Durham, NC BSE in Electrical and Computer Engineering BS in Physics Cumulative GPA to date: 3.76/4.00

Expected Graduation May 2012

Skills Experienced with Matlab, Java, J2ME, C, Android and Blackberry Programming Experienced with Quartus II, VHDL, Pipelined Computer Architecture, MIPS architecture, SPICE, Latex, ROOT Familiar with PHP, Python, Maple, Linux systems, and Microsoft systems including Office Very experienced with collaboration and working in a team environment Strong oral and writing skills Research Experience Stiff-Roberts Research Group Researcher Jan '10- present Built a Dynamical Monte Carlo simulation in Java Built a random morphology generator in C using Kawasaki spin-exchange dynamics and Ising Hamiltonian Cleanroom certified and trained with transmission electron microscopy (TEM) Awarded two different fellowships as part of research: National Academy of Engineers (NAE) Grand Challenge Scholar and Duke University Pratt Research Fellow Attended the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference 2011 and attended a short course on Organic Photovoltaics Duke Smart Home RFID Project Member Tested RFID signal strength for location triangulation algorithm Developed website interface in PHP for location monitoring Work Experience Duke Peer Tutoring Program Tutor Met with students one on one for a weekly tutoring session Worked with six different students per week Jan '11 Present Aug '08 - Jan '09

Pratt School of Engineering (ECE Dept) Teaching Assistant Aug '10 Jun 11 Ran lab sections for two different classes: Microelectronic Circuits and Devices and Electromagnetic Fields Graded Laboratory Assignments, debugged circuits, worked with SPICE Agamatrix, Inc Junior Software Engineer May 10 Aug 10 Developed Blackberry Application for managing glucose records for diabetics Developed Android Application for managing glucose records for diabetics Wrote software for converting records in Matlab to SQLite using Python