my name is xie dong. i was born on august 25, 1965, in hengyang, hunan province. in 1977 i graduated from harbin technical institute where i majored in electronic engineering, and then i was assigned to work in an electronic apparatus factory as a technician for nine years. during this period i gained some practical experience in designing and manufacturing several varieties of electronic apparatus. in the fall of 1983, i was admitted to the department of mathematics, zhejiang university as a graduate student. six months before i took the examinations, i started to study higher algebra and analysis by myself in my leisure time. since the enrollment i have completed all the courses required by the graduate program, making straight a both in my undergraduate and graduate courses. my performance in the graduate seminars of differential calculus and mathematical and physical formulas shows that i have got a good grasp of the fundamentals of mathematics.
i have been studying english intensively for six months. i have attended an english class taught by an american professor. ms. kathy swift, from the city university of new york. according to her, within a few weeks of my arrival abroad, i should have no difficulty either in functioning on a daily basis or in participating fully in graduate studies.
presently i am interested in applied mathematics and later i would like to do research in control theory. if i am accepted as a graduate student. i plan to stay for 2-5 years pursuing a ph.d. degree. i am sure i would make progress in my future career.