James Jian Ma, Ph.D. Candidate

Senior Scientist
Core Technologies Group
Cataphora, Inc.

Address: 1200 Bridge Parkway
               Redwood City, CA 94065
Phone:    (520) 245-3383 (Mobile)
               (650) 622-9002 ext. 750 (Office)
Email:     james.ma@cataphora.com

Ph. D. Advisor: Professor Daniel Zeng

 


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TEACHING EXPERIENCES

Teaching Interests

Systems Analysis and Design

Database Management Systems

Data Structures and Algorithms

E-Commerce and Business Applications

Telecommunications and Data Communications

Project Management

Probability and Stochastic Processes

Teaching Experiences

Adjunct Instructor, August 2008 - December 2008

Department of Mass Communication, Menlo College, Menlo Park, CA

MCM 170: Web Design

Evaluation:

Enrollment: 15

Course Description: This course will develop basic skills in the design, development, and construction of Web pages and Web sites. Contents include the introduction of uses of the Web in life and in business, the technical basis of Web elements; basic experience with HTML, Web editing software, and a brief introduction of client/server concept.

Instructor, January 2007 - December 2007

Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

MIS 341: Information Systems Analysis and Design (College of Management undergraduate core course)

Evaluation: 4.5/5.0

Enrollment: More than 30

Course Description: The analysis and logical design of business processes and management information systems focusing on the systems development life cycle; techniques for gathering and analyzing information systems requirements; use of automated and non-automated techniques for logical system design; system design using Unified Modeling Language, Data Flow Diagrams, etc.

Guest Lecturer/Teaching Associate, 2004 - 2006

Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

MIS 301: Data Structures and Algorithms (College of Management undergraduate core course)

Enrollment: More than 30

Course Description: This course focuses on the design and analysis of basic data structures including stacks, queues, trees, and graphs. Java implementations of selected data structures and their applications will be covered along with a tutorial in C. In addition, this course introduces algorithms for searching, sorting, and graph traversal.

Instructor, 1999 - 2000

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

CHEM 1108: Principle of Chemistry (II) (Laboratory) (University undergraduate public course)

Enrollment: 3 sections with 24 students in each section

Course Description: A continuation of CHEM 1107, which serves as a prerequisite for all advanced laboratory courses in chemistry.

Instructor, 1998 - 1999

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

CHEM 1107: Principle of Chemistry (I) (Laboratory) (University undergraduate public course)

Enrollment: 3 sections with 24 students in each section

Course Description: Introduction to a wide variety of experimental techniques.

 

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