Honors and Awards

  • 2017 Winner of PacificVis 2017 Visual Storytelling Contest (Link)
  • 2016 Honorable Mention Paper Award, Siggraph Asia 2016 Symposium on Visualization
  • 2015 Post-doctoral Research Abroad Grant, Ministry of Science & Technology, Taiwan
  • 2015 Winner of Originality in IEEE VGTC VPG International Data-Visualization Contest (Link)
  • 2012 Ph.D. Student Study Abroad Scholarship, Ministry of Science & Technology, Taiwan

Employment and Experience

Jan 2015 - Present Post-Doctoral Researcher at University of California, Davis
Supervised more than 10 graduate-level researchers, including 5 Ph.D. students and 4 Master’s students, in various research projects. Conduct research in topics mainly spanning the fields of information visualization and visual analytics:
  • Introduced novel visualization techniques for performing event sequence analysis.
  • Created visual interfaces to handle privacy concerns in multiple types of data, such as event sequence, social network, and tabular data. Development environment: Node.js, D3.js, Python.
  • Incorporated data mining and statistical algorithms to interactive systems for enabling domain experts, such as neuroscientists and clinicians, analyze their data at scale. Development environment: Python, R, TensorFlow.
  • Designed user studies and performed statistical analysis on the results using R.
Oct 2013 - Nov 2014 Assistant IT Coordinator (Alternative Military Service) at Department of Information Technology, Taipei City Government
Planned a $1-billion NTD budget for IT&C equipment and software systems for 2017 Taipei Universiade, coordinated with FISU’s IT&C consultant on behalf of IT&C Division, Taipei Organization Committee
Feb 2012 - Oct 2012 Visiting Student at University of California, Davis
Studied the performance of audio-augmented visualization.
Summer 2010 Summer Intern at Trend Micro, Inc.
Integrated multiple visualization toolkits for network user behavior analysis.
Sep 2007 - Jul 2013 Graduate Student Research Assistant at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Research on algorithm design and system development for multimedia applications. Topics including:
  • Interactive systems for simulating facial features and hairstyle swapping in images.
  • Privacy aware image, video, and volumetric data storage and processing.
  • Visual analysis of time-varying network data.

Professional Services

Program Committee Member

  • IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (2017, 2018)
  • International Symposium on Visual Computing (2018)

Paper Reviewer

  • IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (2016, 2017, 2018)
  • IEEE Information Visualization Conference (2016, 2017)
  • Eurographics/IEEE Conference on Visualization (2017)
  • IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (2017, 2018)
  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data (2013,2017)
  • International Symposium on Graph Drawing & Network Visualization (2016)
  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computing Services and Applications (2016)
  • ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (2016)
  • Workshop on Visualization in Practice (2016, 2017)

Education

Jul. 2013 Ph.D., Information Management
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Dissertation: Privacy Preserving Multimedia Data Processing
Advisor: Prof. Chuan-Kai Yang
Jun. 2009 M.S., Information Management
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Thesis: Virtual Haircut and Hairstyle Cloning
Advisor: Prof. Chuan-Kai Yang