Bio

My name is Yu-Chung Chen. People who know me call me Julian. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago. Before current program, I worked at the National Center for High-performance Computing in Taiwan for four years. I received my M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan in 1998 and 2000. Here is my curriculum vitae and short publication list. I sometimes take pictures.

I started working at the Pixar Animation Studios in August 2011.

Research and Development

I am interested in human-computer interaction, scientific visualization and high-performance computing. My dissertation title is: "Immersive Empathic Design for Interdisciplinary Collaborations".

I code in C/C++, Objective-C, Python, Java, OpenGL, GLSL, JavaScript, Cappuccino, HTML 5, Perl, Shell, PHP, Tcl scripts.

I took the following courses: Virtual Reality, GPU Programming, Computer Animation, Parallel Processing, Multimedia Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering and Advanced Computer Architecture.

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• Projects
  • HANDS visualization: a visual analytics system for Hands-on Automated Nursing Data System.
  • CoreWall: a scalable high-resolution visualization system for initial geological core description.
  • Github projects: I started using Git in 2009 and I put some snippets and little programs there.

Recent

• 2011
  • August 2011: Joined Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, CA
  • June 6-10, 2011: Apple WWDC 2011, San Francisco, CA
  • May 11, 2011: Dissertation Defense, Chicago, IL
  • May 7-12, 2011: CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC Canada
  • January 2011: Workshop on Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Koloa, HI
• 2010
  • June - August: Moving Pictures Group Intern, Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, CA
  • June 2010: Apple WWDC 2010, San Francisco, CA
  • April 2010: CHI 2010, Atlanta, GA
• 2009
  • November: IODP Leg 313 onshore science party, Bremen, Germany
  • July: IODP JOIDES Resolution port call, Victoria, BC, Canada
  • April: CHI 2009, Boston, MA
• 2008
  • December: American Geophysics Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA
  • June: Geoinformatics 2008, GFZ Potsdam, Germany

Activities

• Press
  • "Drilling for Insight in Antarctica": Apple Science Profile 2007.
  • "Getting to core of the problem": Chicago Sun Times 2007.
• Awards
  • Apple World Wide Developers Conference Student Scholarships for 2006, 2007 and 2009.
  • US Invention Patent No. US 7,253,841 B2, “Remote Control Method of Tiled Display”, 2007/08/07 – 2025/08/07
  • High Performance Award, National Center of High-performance Computing, Taiwan 2003
  • "A Parallel Distributed Problem Solving Environment": Honorable mentioned in undergrad student software project competition, National Chiao-Tung University 1998.

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Contact

• 842, W. Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607
  Office: +1-312-996-3002 Fax: +1-312-413-7585
  Email: julian at evl.uic.edu