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Tia Gao

graduated Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Founder and President of Aid Networks.

Headline:	Entrepreneur
Skills:	Business, Chinese, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, English, Languages, Leadership, Management
Groups:	[INACTIVE] BASES Social E-Challenge 2010
Interested in:	Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup
Schools:	Stanford University

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer:	Aid Networks (Rockville, MD)
Position:	Founder and President
Time period:	December 2006 - Present

Employer:	Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (Laurel, MD)
Position:	Engineering Manager
Time period:	December 2003 - January 2007

Employer:	Medtronic (Minneapolis, MN)
Position:	Software Engineer
Time period:	December 2003 - November 2004

EDUCATION

University:	Stanford University
Time period:	2001 - 2004
Degree:	Electrical Engineering, MSc

PUBLICATIONS

Articles:

The Advanced Health and Disaster Aid Network: A Light-weight Wireless Medical System for Triage, Tia Gao, Tammara Massey, Leo Selavo, David Crawford, Bor-rong Chen, Konrad Lorincz, Victor Shnayder, Logan Hauenstein, Foad Dabiri, James Jeng, Arjun Chanmugam, David White, Majid Sarrafzadeh, and Matt Welsh. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, in press, 2008.
2007

The Advanced Health and Disaster Aid Network: A Light-weight Wireless Medical System for Triage, Tia Gao, Tammara Massey, Leo Selavo, David Crawford, Bor-rong Chen, Konrad Lorincz, Victor Shnayder, Logan Hauenstein, Foad Dabiri, James Jeng, Arjun Chanmugam, David White, Majid Sarrafzadeh, and Matt Welsh. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, in press, 2007.

Participatory User Centered Design Techniques for a Large Scale Ad-Hoc Health Information System, T Gao, L Selavo, T Massey, M Welsh. Proceedings of HealthNet07 (in conjunction with MobiSys 07), Puerto Rico, June 11, 2007. [Acceptance rate: 24%].

Improving Medical Response Teams with Continuous Monitoring, T Gao, L Selavo, B Winters. Rapid Response Team Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, May 5-6, 2007.

Deployment of Self-configuring Wireless Devices at a Simulated Mass Casualty Incident, T. Gao, J Jeng, L Selavo. American Burn Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA March 22-25, 2007.

Lifting the Fog of War: Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network Sensors to Improve Situational Awareness during the Next Burn Mass Casualty, T. Gao, J. Jeng. L. Selavo, D. Crawofrd, P. Lunsford, B.R. Chen, K.Lorintz, M. Welsh. American Burn Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA March 22-25, 2007.

Papers:

Towards Ubiquitous, Real-time Monitoring of Vital Signs. Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Pervasive Healthcare Applications (UbiHealth 2006) in conjunction with Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006). Irvine, CA Sept. 2006.

Improving Situational Awareness during Emergency Medical Response. Tia Gao, Tammara Massey, Dave Crawford, Nicholas Sze, Daniel Bernstein, Leo Selavo, and David White. Demo at Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006). Irvine, CA. Sept. 2006.

Next Generation Triage, Tia Gao and David White. In Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society Conference (IEEE EMBS 2006), New York, NY, September 2006.

A Cross-Functional Service Oriented Architecture to Support Real-Time Information Exchange during Mass Casualty Events, Logan Hauenstein, Tia Gao, and David White. In Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Society Conference (IEEE EMBS 2006), New York, NY, September 2006.

Service-Oriented Architecture for Disaster Response: Integration of AID-N, MICHAELS, WISER, and ESSENCE, Logan Hauenstein, Tia Gao, and David White. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.

Information Collection and Dissemination: Toward a portable, real-time information sharing platform for emergency response, David Crawford, Tia Gao, and David White. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.

Pervasive Patient Tracking for Mass Casualty Incident Response, Alex Alm, Tia Gao, and David White. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.

Paramedic Operations Specification as a Launching Point for Mass Casualty Incident-Targeted Engineering Design, Azmat Husain, Tia Gao, and David White. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.

UAV Surveillance System To Support Emergency Response to Disasters, Pedro Rodriguez. In Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.

Invited Talk: Emergency Response Information Technology, Iin Proceedings of the American Medical Informatics Association Annual Conference (AMIA 2006), Washington, DC, November 2006.

Vital Signs Monitoring and Patient Tracking Over a Wireless Network, Tia Gao, Dan Greenspan, Matt Welsh, Radford R. Juang, and Alex Alm. In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference, September 2005.