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Qingfeng He, Ph.D.
Software Architect / Consulting R&D Engineer

ABB Inc. US Corporate Research
940 Main Campus Dr, Suite 300
Raleigh, NC 27606
Tel: +1.919.807.5709
Fax: +1.919.856.2411
Email: firstname at # % agileteams dot $ @ com

Education | Experiences | Research | Publications | Professional Activities

Brief Biography:

Qingfeng He is a Software Architect / Consulting R&D Engineer in the Industrial Software Systems department at ABB Inc. US Corporate Research Center in Raleigh, NC. He has been with ABB since 2005 after he graduated from NC State University with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Qingfeng’s primary research interests are focused on developing, evaluating and applying methods, tools, and best practices to enhance the overall qualities of software intensive systems, with a special focus on performance and maintainability. To that end, he has been mainly working in the areas of requirements engineering, software architectures, and performance engineering in the past several years.

Qingfeng has a lot of practical experiences in software engineering and domain experiences in SCADA and Distributed Control Systems (DCS). He has worked on analyzing, architecting, designing, and improving several complex industrial software systems, including Network Manager - EMS/DMS/BMS/GMS and System 800xA. Qingfeng is a Software Engineering Institute (SEI) certified Software Architecture Professional and Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) Evaluator.

Qingfeng has published many technical papers about his research and experiences. He is a member of the ACM, the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society. He is a collaborator of the Agile Teams and a senior collaborator of The Privacy Place.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 2005
• M.E. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems, Tsinghua University, China, 2001
• B.E. in Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tsinghua University, China, 1998

Experiences:

Qingfeng has worked on analyzing, architecting, designing, and improving several complex industrial software systems. He has a lot of knowledge and experiences on SCADA and Distributed Control Systems (DCS) for electrical, manufacturing, chemical, pharmaceutical, water, oil & gas industries. He has worked on several ABB products, which contribute over 2 billion US dollars to ABB’s revenue annually.

• Network Manager - EMS/DMS/BMS/GMS
• System 800xA
• SCADA Vantage
• Freelance 800F
• Power Generation Portal

Research:

Qingfeng’s current research interests focus on:

• Software engineering in general, with special focus on requirements engineering and software architecture
• Software performance engineering
• Parallel programming for multi-core systems
• SCADA and Distributed Control Systems (DCS)

In the past, Qingfeng has also worked in the following areas:

• Rule-based intelligent systems
• Information security and privacy

Publications:

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• Q. He and A. I. Antón. Requirements-based Access Control Analysis and Policy Specification (ReCAPS), Accepted, to appear in: Information and Software Technology, 2009.
• E. Kielczewski, Q. He, and K. Smiley. Leveraging ADD for Objective Technology Evaluation and Decision Analysis, Accepted, to appear in: the 5th SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network Workshop (SATURN 2009).
• Q. He, K. Smiley, and E. Kielczewski. Attribute Hierarchy-based Evaluation of Architectural Designs (AHEAD), Accepted, to appear in: the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering, 2009.
• K. Smiley, Q. He, and E. Kielczewski. Getting AHEAD With DAR: How to Make Better Software Technology Selection Decisions. Accepted, to appear in: The 2009 Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) North America Conference.
• K. Smiley, Q. He, E. Kielczewski, and A. Dagnino. Architectural Requirements Prioritization and Analysis Applied To Software Technology Evaluation. Accepted as poster, to appear in: The 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) Requirements Engineering (RE) Track, 2009.
• K. Smiley, E. Kielczewski, and Q. He. Getting AHEAD: Applying AHP for Software Technology Evaluations. Proc. of the 20th Symposium on Quality Function Deployment (QFD Symposium 2008), QFD Institute, 2008.
• A. Dagnino, Q. He, D. Cox, and S. Mahate. Defining Composite Critical Scenarios for the Development of a Large Scale System Architecture Using an SEI ADD-based Framework, Proc. of the 4th SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network Workshop (SATURN 2008), 2008.
• Q. He, P. Otto, A.I. Antón, and L. Jones. Ensuring Compliance Between Policies, Requirements and Software Design: A Case Study. Proc. of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Information Assurance (IWIA 2006), 2006.
• Q. He. Requirements-based Access Control Analysis and Policy Specification, Ph.D. Dissertation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 2005.
• S. Su, J. Fortes, T. R. Kasad, M. Patil, A. Matsunaga, M. Tsugawa, V. Cavalli-Sforza, J. Carbonell, P. Jansen, W. Ward, R. Cole, D. Towsley, W. Chen, A. I. Antón, Q. He, C. McSweeney, L. de Brens, J. Ventura, P. Taveras, R. Connolly, C. Ortega, B. Pineres, O. Brooks, G. A. Murillo, and M. Herrera. Transnational Information Sharing, Event Notification, Rule Enforcement and Process Coordination, International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR), Vol. 1 (2), pp. 1-26, 2005.
• A. I. Antón, Q. He, and D. Baumer. Inside JetBlue’s Privacy Policy Violations, IEEE Security & Privacy, Vol. 2 (6), pp. 12-18, 2004.
• A. I. Antón, J. B. Earp, D. Bolchini, Q. He, Carlos Jensen and William Stufflebeam. Financial Privacy Policies and the Need for Standardization, IEEE Security & Privacy, Vol. 2 (2), pp. 36-45, 2004.
• D. Bolchini, Q. He, A. I. Antón, and W. Stufflebeam. “I need it now”: Improving Website Usability By Contextualizing Privacy Policies, Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2004), LNCS 3140, pp. 31-44, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
• S. Su, J. Fortes, T.R. Kasad, M. Patil, A. Matsunaga, M. Tsugawa, V. Cavalli-Sforza, J. Carbonell, P. Jansen, W. Ward, R. Cole, D. Towsley, W. Chen, A.I. Antón, Q. He, C. McSweeney, L. deBrens, J. Ventura, P. Taveras, R. Connolly, C. Ortega, B. Pineres, O. Brooks, M. Herrera. A Prototype System for Transnational Information Sharing and Process Coordination, Proc. of the 2004 National Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2004), May 24-26, 2004, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• W. Stufflebeam, A. I. Antón, Q. He, and N. Jain. Specifying Privacy Policies with P3P and EPAL: Lessons Learned, Proc. of Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES’04), pp. 35-36, 2004.
• Q. He. A Goal-driven Role Engineering Process for Privacy-Aware RBAC Systems, Proc. of the 11th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’03) Doctoral Symposium, pp. 31-35, Monterey Bay, CA, September 8-12, 2003.
• Q. He and A. I. Antón. A Framework for Modeling Privacy Requirements in Role Engineering, Proc. of the 9th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ’03), pp. 137-146, Klagenfurt/Velden, Austria, June 16-17, 2003.
• SUN Ying, XU Junhua, ZHANG Yi, HE Qingfeng. A Web Application of the MVC Pattern and its Implementation with Java. Computer Engineering and Application, Vol.37(17), pp. 160-163, Sep. 2001. (In Chinese)
• HE Qingfeng, ZHANG Yi, SONG Jingyan. Using Wireless Application Protocol in Electronic Commerce. Electronic Technology, pp.10-14, Aug. 2000. (In Chinese)
• HE Qingfeng, ZHANG Yi, XU Junhua. A Design for a Web-based Enterprise Real-Time Multimedia Information System using VOD Technique. Manufacturing Automation, pp.40-43, May 2000. (In Chinese)

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Professional Activities:

Program Committee member:

• ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES) (2006)

Journal Reviewer:

• Journal of Computer Science and Technology (2007)
• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) (2006)
• ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) (2003)

Proposal Reviewer:

• NSF Cyber Trust program (2005)

Conference Reviewer:

• New Investigator Technical Papers Track in Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (2006)
• International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-2005)
• The 12th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT 2004/FSE-12)
• The 26th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’2004)
• The 11th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’03)
• The 25th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’2003)
• The 4th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM’2003)

Student Volunteer:

• The 11th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’03), Monterey Bay, CA, USA, September 8-12, 2003.
• The 25th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’2003), Portland, OR, USA, May 3-10, 2003.
• The 2002 Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS’02) / The 2002 NIST System Security Requirements Seminar, Raleigh, NC, USA, October 16-17, 2002.

Conference Attended:

• The 12th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ACM SIGSOFT 2004/FSE-12), Newport Beach, CA, USA, Oct 31-Nov 5, 2004.
• Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES’04), Washington DC, USA, Oct. 28, 2004.
• The 11th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’03), Monterey Bay, CA, USA, September 8-12, 2003.
• The 9th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ’03), Klagenfurt/Velden, Austria, June 16-17, 2003.
• The 25th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’2003), Portland, OR, USA, May 3-10, 2003.
• The 3rd International Symposium on Electronic Commerce (ISEC’02), Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, October 18-19, 2002.
• The 2002 Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS’02) / The 2002 NIST System Security Requirements Seminar, Raleigh, NC, USA, October 16-17, 2002.
• The 2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society: Social Implications of Information and Communication Technology (ISTAS’02), Raleigh, NC, USA, June 6-8, 2002.

Presentation:

• Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES’04), Washington DC, USA, Oct. 28, 2004.
• The 11th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’03) Doctoral Symposium, Monterey Bay, CA, USA, September 8-12, 2003.
• The 9th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ’03), Klagenfurt/Velden, Austria, June 16-17, 2003.

Professional training received:

• Software Product Lines, Software Engineering Institute, 2008
• Documenting Software Architectures, Software Engineering Institute, 2008
• Software Architecture Design and Analysis, Software Engineering Institute, 2008
• Software Performance Engineering, by Dr. Connie U. Smith, 2008
• Software Architecture Principles and Practices, Software Engineering Institute, 2007
• Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method Evaluator, Software Engineering Institute, 2007
• The Leadership Challenge, ABB Internal Training, April 2006

Patents:

• X. Feng, Q. He, K. Moslehi, and P. Peng. Method for constructing causality network graph and building visual inference presentation on business rule applications, patent application submitted to USPTO in May 2008, pending.

Others:

• Member of the ACM, the IEEE, and the IEEE Computer Society
• Collaborator of Agile Teams and Senior Collaborator of The Privacy Place
• States I have been to in the U.S.A. (21): California, DC, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia



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