Yip, Yue Kwen Justin

Box1910, Department of Computer Science, Brown University, USA
401-573-7516
justin@cs.brown.edu
Profile
Decisive, competitive, enthusiastic and energetic individual. Excellent in algorithms and mathematics. Appreciate the elegance of symmetries. Enjoy being challenged. Proven ability to meet deadlines and willingness to make decisions.
Academic Record
Brown University
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Thesis Title: The Length-Lex Representation for Constraint Programming over Sets
I designed and implemented the state-of-the-art Constraint Programming solver for set variables. It outperforms the IBM-ILOG solver by few orders of magnitude on standard benchmarks.
2007-present
(Expected Completion Date: May 2011)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Science, Second Upper Class Honor
Major: Computer Science
Minor: Government and Public Administration
2002-2006
Wah Yan College, Kowloon
Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination(2002)
Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination(2000)

1995-2002
Publications
Conference Publications
  1. Justin Yip, Pascal Van Hentenryck: Exponential Propagation for Set Variables. CP 2010.
  2. Justin Yip, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Carmen Gervet: Boosting Set Constraint Propagation for Network Design. CPAIOR 2010.
  3. Justin Yip, Pascal Van Hentenryck: Evaluation of Length-Lex Set Variables. CP 2009: 817-832
  4. Justin Yip, Pascal Van Hentenryck: Length-Lex Bound Consistency for Knapsack Constraints. SAC 2009: 1397-1401
  5. Daniel S. Heller, Aurojit Panda, Meinolf Sellmann, Justin Yip: Model Restarts for Structural Symmetry Breaking. CP 2008: 539-544
  6. Pascal Van Hentenryck, Justin Yip, Carmen Gervet, Gregoire Dooms: Bound Consistency for Binary Length-Lex Set Constraints. AAAI 2008: 375-380
  7. Yat Chiu Law, Jimmy Ho-Man Lee, Toby Walsh, J. Y. K. Yip: Breaking Symmetry of Interchangeable Variables and Values. CP 2007: 423-437
Books Authored
  1. 耿春亞,黃雅麗,葉宇堃,歐妙玲,鄧曉楓,鄭樂恒,鄭樂捷: 早晨八九點鐘的太陽. 經濟日報出版社（香港）2009
    This book is an archive of the column I contribute in HKET.
Services
Reviewer, Annals of Operations Research 2009
Reviewer, Constraints 2008
Working Experience
Hong Kong Economic Times
Columnist, express the thought of my generation
1/2008 - present
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Assistant, investigate different methods to solve symmetrical combinatorial optimization problems
7/2006 - 8/2007
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Asia Limited
Part-time Analyst, develop visualization tools to depict the topology and processes of the database replication network
6/2005 - 6/2006
Scholarship, Award and Honors
Bronze Award, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest2004
Hong Kong Outstanding Tertiary Student Service Award2004
Presidential Citation, Rotary International District 34502004
Faculty of Social Science Dean's List, CUHK2004
Department Scholarship, Shaw College, CUHK2004
Extra-Curricular Activities
Assistant Team Coach, ACM Programming Team, CUHK2006-2007
Vice-chairman, Programming Club, CUHK2006
Representative of CUHK, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest2004-2006
Editor, 'the Wahyanites' Publication Committee, Wah Yan College, Kowloon2004-2005
President, Rotaract Club of Shaw College, R.I. District 34502003-2004
Representative of Hong Kong, International Olympiad for Informatics 20012001
Language Skills
Native in Chinese, Pascal
Fluent in C++, Python, Perl, C, Java, English