Good morning!my name is xx. it is really a great honor to have this opportunity for a interview i would like to answer whatever you may raise and i hope i can make a good performance today .

　　I am a third year master major in automation at Shanghai Jiao Tong University P. R. China. With tremendous interest in Industrial Engineering I am writing to apply for acceptance into your Ph.D. graduate program.

　　Education background

　　In 1995 I entered the Nanjing University of Science &Technology (NUST) -- widely considered one of the China’s best engineering schools. During the following undergraduate study my academic records kept distinguished among the whole department. I was granted First Class Prize every semester and my overall GPA(89.5/100) ranked No.1 among 113 students. In 1999 I got the privilege to enter the graduate program waived of the admission test. I selected the Shanghai Jiao Tong University to continue my study for its best reputation on Combinatorial Optimization and Network Scheduling where my research interest lies.

　　At the period of my graduate study my overall GPA(3.77/4.0) ranked top 5% in the department. In the second semester I became teacher assistant that is given to talented and matured students only. This year I won the Acer Scholarship as the one and only candidate in my department which is the ultimate accolade for distinguished students endowed by my university. Presently I am preparing my graduation thesis and trying for the honor of Excellent Graduation Thesis.

　　Research experience and academic activity

　　When a sophomore I joined the Association of AI Enthusiast and began to narrow down my interest for my future research. In 1997 I participated in simulation tool development for the scheduling system in Prof. Wang’s lab. With the tool of OpenGL and Matlab I designed a simulation program for transportation scheduling system. It is now widely used by different research groups in NUST. In 1998 I assumed and fulfilled a sewage analysis &dispose project for Nanjing sewage treatment plant. This was my first practice to convert a laboratory idea to a commercial product.

　　In 1999 I joined the distinguished Professor Yu-Geng Xis research group aiming at Network flow problem solving and Heuristic algorithm research. Soon I was engaged in the FuDan Gene Database Design. My duty was to pick up the useful information among different kinds of gene matching format. Through the comparison and analysis for many heuristic algorithms I introduced an improved evolutionary algorithm -- Multi-population Genetic Algorithm. By dividing a whole population into several sub-populations this improved algorithm can effectively prevent GA from local convergence and promote various evolutionary orientations. It proved more efficiently than SGA in experiments too. In the second semester I joined the workshop-scheduling research in Shanghai Heavy Duty Tyre plant. The scheduling was designed for the rubber-making process that covered not only discrete but also continuous circumstances. To make a balance point between optimization quality and time cost I proposed a Dynamic layered Scheduling method based on hybrid Petri Nets. The practical application showed that the average makespan was shortened by a large scale. I also publicized two papers in core journals with this idea. Recently I am doing research in the Composite Predict of the Electrical Power system assisted with the technology of Data Mining for Bao Steel. I try to combine the Decision Tree with Receding Optimization to provide a new solution for the Composite Predictive Problem. This project is now under construction.

　　Besides In July 2000 I got the opportunity to give a lecture in English in Asia Control Conference (ASCC) which is one of the top-level conferences among the world in the area of control and automation. In my senior year I met Prof. Xiao-Song Lin a visiting professor of mathematics from University of California-Riverside I learned graph theory from him for my network research. These experiences all rapidly expanded my knowledge of English and the understanding of western culture.

　　I hope to study in depth

　　In retrospect I find myself standing on a solid basis in both theory and experience which has prepared me for the Ph.D. program. My future research interests include: Network Scheduling Problem Heuristic Algorithm research (especially in GA and Neural network) Supply chain network research Hybrid system performance analysis with Petri nets and Data Mining.

　　【相關(guān)知識】

　　英語專業(yè)學生主要學習英語語言、文學、歷史、政治、經(jīng)濟、外交、社會文化等方面基本理論和基本知識，受到英語聽、說、讀、寫、譯等方面的良好的技巧訓練，掌握一定的科研方法，具有從事翻譯、研究、教學、管理工作的業(yè)務(wù)水平及較好的素質(zhì)和較強能力。

　　培養(yǎng)目標

　　英語專業(yè)培養(yǎng)具有扎實的英語語言基礎(chǔ)和比較廣泛的科學文化知識，能在外事、經(jīng)貿(mào)、文化、新聞出版、教育、科研、旅游等部門從事翻譯、研究、教學、管理工作的英語高級專門人才。

　　培養(yǎng)要求

　　英語專業(yè)學生主要學習英語語言、文學，英美等英語國家歷史、政治、經(jīng)濟、外交、社會文化等方面基本理論和基本知識，受到英語聽、說、讀、寫、譯等方面的良好的技巧訓練，掌握一定的科研方法，具有從事翻譯、研究、教學、管理工作的業(yè)務(wù)水平及較好的素質(zhì)與能力。

　　知識技能

　　1.了解我國有關(guān)的方針、政策、法規(guī);

　　2.掌握語言學、文學及相關(guān)人文和科技方面的基礎(chǔ)知識;

　　3.具有扎實的英語語言基礎(chǔ)和較熟練的聽、說、讀、寫、譯的能力;

　　4.了解我國國情和英語國家的社會和文化;

　　5.具有第二外國語的一定的實際應(yīng)用能力;

　　6.掌握文獻檢索、資料查詢的基本方法，具有初步科學研究和實際工作能力。