Jiaoheng is working on her Ph.D. in Computer Science.

Before coming to the United States I received my undergraduate degree in Computer Science at the Inner Mongolia University in China and my Bachelor's degree of Law at the China University of Political Science and Law. After completing my degrees, I was assistant Prosecutor and Technology Officer at Beijing City Prosecutor's Office in China, providing tech support and programming assistance for the Prosecutor's Information Share System. In September of 2001, I came to the University at Albany to work on my Masters degree.

In the final years of completing my Masters degree I learned from one of my classmates that CTG was a great place to be. The classmate, who worked at CTG, was doing the same stuff I was interested in. Because of this recommendation, I applied for a job and became a member of CTG.

When I first arrived at CTG, I began working on a project entitled e-Gov FirstStop. This was a project that helped different organizations throughout government use technology to share information. After the completion of this project I worked mostly on applying the research that CTG was doing. I helped to create programs that would help with research. In June 2003, I began work on what I would qualify as my most important project. At this time CTG was remaking its entire Website using the newest and most advanced technology available. The new Website is completely different and is able to be changed much easier than the old one.

After completing my Ph.D. I would like to teach as well as do research. I might even considering pursuing a career in software engineering. Mostly though I would just like to continue working within the field of technology.

Working at CTG has given me the opportunity to get "hands-on" experience with software engineering. Through CTG I have been able to see the full life cycle of a piece of software. In seeing this cycle, I feel that I am more prepared to figure out where improvements can be made on a particular piece of software. I also now have a better understanding about software design and development. Being at CTG has given me the opportunity to learn many programming languages.

I love Chinese drawing but since being in the United States, I really do not have the time to do it anymore.