Chih-Sung (Andy) Wu www.theauk.net andywu@gatech.edu (+1)404.944.7163 Objective Research opportunity to develop innovative and user friendly interfaces, requiring multidisciplinary knowledge of usability, software design, and electrical engineering. Highlights - 7 years web application development; 3 years embedded system development - Academic publications in EE & HCI; 1 patent in USA, Japan & Taiwan - Experience in designing and conducting usability evaluations - Experience in designing and building interactive tabletop displays and applications Education 08/07 - present Ph.D. in Digital Media, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA 08/05 - 05/07 M.S. in Human Computer Interaction, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA 09/00 - 06/02 M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Yuan Ze Univ., Taiwan 09/93 - 06/97 B.S. in Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan Work Experience 01/10 - present Teaching Assistant, LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - Teaching assistant of Experimental Media - Interactive Play Spaces - Teaches electronics with Arduino and Wiring boards 01/09-05/09 Teaching Assistant, LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - Teaching assistant of Project Studio - Coordinated the class and exercises 01/08 - present Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Project: Physical And Digital Design For Fluid Collaboration, PI: Dr. Ali Mazalek - Develops and designs software and hardware for interactive tabletop displays - Designs interfaces to manipulate objects and avatars in a 3D virtual world 05/08 - present Synaesethic Media Lab Server Administrator - Maintains & backups web, file, SVN and NAS servers 01/08 - 05/08 Teaching Assistant, LCC, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA - Teaching assistant of Experimental Media - project Architales 08/07 - 12/07 Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Project: In-space, PI: Dr. Ali Mazalek, Dr. Keith Edwards - Developed and designed software and hardware for interactive tabletop displays 08/06 - 08/08 Synaesethic Media Lab Webmaster - Developed and designed backend for Synlab website: synlab.gatech.edu 04/06 - 07/07 Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Project: Human-Centered Computing Education Digital Library, PI: Dr. Jim Foley - Developed and designed HCCEDL; administered database & servers 04/04 - 04/05 Senior Software Engineer, QNAP Systems, Inc., Taiwan - Managed NAS-5100 gateway project; administered CVS server 08/02 - 03/04 Software Engineer, ICP Electronics Inc. (IEI), Taiwan - Developed Network Access Storage (NAS) application & web interface 09/00 - 06/02 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yuan Ze Univ., Taiwan - Teaching assistant of Electromagnetism 09/00 - 06/02 Research Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yuan Ze Univ., Taiwan Project: Investigation of optimal designs for liquid crystal correlation filters - Designed an algorithm that makes optical color pattern recognition more efficient 07/97 - 06/99 Secondary Lieutenant, Taiwan Army - Assisted in administering artillery intel.; commanded an artillery platoon Skills - HCI Usability testing, task analysis, evaluation, prototyping, experimental design, InfoVis - Programming C, Java, PHP/MySQL, Perl, Matlab, Linux Kernel/app./shell Programming - Computer Unix/Linux system administration - Multimedia Design Web Design, Illustrator, Photoshop, 3D modeling - Language English, Mandarin Publications HCI: - Wu, A., "Tangible Visualization", Proceedings of Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '10), ACM Press, pp. 317-318. - Robinson, S.J., Razza, D., Christensen, B., Wu, A., Mazalek, A., KinoPuzzle: Grasping Realities through Tangible Tabletop Documentaries, 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA '09), August 2009. - Joyner, D., Wu, C. and Do, E. Y. "Tangible optical chess: a laser strategy game on an interactive tabletop. Proceedings of the 8th international Conference on interaction Design and Children (IDC '09), ACM Press, pp. 278-279. - Mazalek, A., Winegarden, C., Al-Haddad, T., Robinson, S., Wu, C.S., "Architales: physical/digital co-design of an interactive story table", Proceedings of Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI '09), ACM Press. - Lee, H.J., Wu, C.S., Shen, Y.T., Mazalek, A., "Moons over you: the poetic space of virtual and real", ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 Posters (SIGGRAPH '08), Article No. 24, ACM, New York, NY - Wu, C.S., Robinson, S.J., Mazalek, A., "Turning a page on the digital annotation of physical books", (2008), Proceedings of Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI Õ08), ACM Press, pp.109-116 - Wu, C.S., Mazalek, A., "WikiTUI", (2007), International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Posters - Wu, C.S., Robinson, S.J., Mazalek, A., "WikiTUI: Leaving Digital Traces in Physical Books", (2007), Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE'07), ACM Press, pp.264-265 Optical Engineering: - C. Chen, C. Wu, 2003, vol. 50(9) "Polychromatic pattern recognition using the non-zero order joint transform correlator with cross-correlation peak optimisation," Journal of Modern Optics, pp.1353-1364. - C. Wu, C. Chen, 2003, vol. 42(6) "Performance comparison between multi-channel polychromatic and conventional joint transform correlators," Optical Engineering, pp. 1758-1765. - C. Wu, C. Chen, J. Fang, 2002, vol. 214 "Linearly constrained color pattern recognition with a non-zero order joint transform correlator," Optics Communications, pp. 65-75. - C. Wu, C. Chen, J. Fang, 2002, vol. 33(5) "Constrained optimization for color pattern recognition with a non-zero order joint transform correlator," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. pp. 385-388. - W. Wu, C. Chen, C. Wu, J. Fang, M. Chang, 2002/8, "Color Blindness Plate Recognition with the Non-Zero Order Joint Transform Correlator," 2002 15th IPPR Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, pp. 829-834, 2002. - C. Wu, C. Chen, J. Fang, 2002/4, "Color pattern recognition by the joint transform correlator to remove all unwanted correlation terms," Optics in Computing '02, pp. 45-47. - C. Wu, C. Chen, J. Fang, 2001/12, "Color pattern recognition with non-zero order joint transform correlators," Optics and Photonics Taiwan '01, pp. 748-750. Master'ws Thesis: "Optoelectronic Color Image Recognition By The Joint Transform Correlator With Liquid Crystal Panels" Advisor: Dr. Chulung Chen Patent: "Real-time Remote Backup System and Related Method" The software package using this method has been running in NAS products of QNAP and IEI since 2002.