Kai Qian

Kai Qian is a computer science professor at Southern Polytechnic State University. He got his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Nebraska in 1990. He is currently a Collaborative Research Principle Investigator of NSF CCLI funded project #0837275 (2009-2011) working on the APOGEE system (Automatic PrOject Grading and instant fEEdback system for Web programming) to facilitate student programming assignment submission and grading. His research areas include advanced instructional technology, distributed computing, pattern recognition, and image processing. He has published many papers in IEEE and ACM conferences and professional journals. He has also authored textbooks with Wiley, Springer, and Jones and Bartlett publishing.