Education

• Master student, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
  2009-present | Advised by Prof. Chia-Lin Yang (楊佳玲教授)
  Topics | Memory architectures with phase-change memories
  Topics | Memristor-based arithmetic circuits
  Topics | Processor and (volatile and non-volatile) memory architectures with three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D IC)
  Topics | General-purpose computing on graphic processing units (GPGPU) with NVIDIA CUDA technology
  Topics | Miscellaneous research-relavent or irrelevant chores
  
• Exhange student, at San Diego State University
  2010-2011
• B.S., Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
  2009 | Average grade: 90.74% / GPA: 3.89 / Rank: 5 of 100
  2009 | Awards: NTU Presidential Award (twice: 2005 fall and 2006 spring)

Experiences

• Part-time student technician, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
  2007-2010 | Department affairs computerization; database, system and website maintenance
  2007-2010 | Supervised by Prof. Pangfeng Liu (劉邦鋒教授), Prof. Chuen-Liang Chen (陳俊良教授) and Prof. Yuh-Dauh Lyuu (呂育道教授)
• Master student network/system administrator, Embedded Computing Laboratory, NTU CSIE
  2009-2010
• 網管/網頁組長, 台大資訊系學會
  2007-2008 | Website maintenance
• Project Assistant, 計程車駕駛學習網, 交通部/中華民國運輸學會
  2007 | System modeling and other various small tasks
  2007 | Supervised by Prof. Wen-Sheng Chou (周文生教授)
• Chinese Traditional translation group leader, beta tester, forum super moderator for Messenger Plus!
  2003-2011
• Administrator of my server and websites, mnjul.net || # Middle Sea and purincess.tw, and creator of small pieces of software
  2004-present

Capabilities / Skills

• English: Fluent in all listening, speaking, reading, and writing; scored 107 in TOEFL iBT in 2009 before going to the U.S.
• Japanese: Intermediate; passed Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Level 2 (日本語能力試験 二級)
• Highly self-motivated, learning things quick and efficiently as a teamworker or an individual studier
• Website design with PHP with MySQL, HTML (including HTML 5 and CSS 3) & Javascript (including jQuery) and/or Flash with ActionScript 3
• General application programming using C/C++ (for Win32 and UNIX-based), C#
• Parallel programming with OpenMP, IBM Cell architecture and NVidia CUDA architecture
• Java, python and x86-family assembly
• Preliminary experience with Android application programming and Hadoop distributed computing

Portfolio

Please refer to my website.

Professional Interests

• Website design with HTML, jQuery, Flash and PHP
• General application programming with C/C++ or C# for Win32 and UNIX-based
• Parallel programming with chip multi-processors and/or GPGPU
• Computer organization and architecture & system software (esp. operating systems)
• Three-dimensional processor and heterogeneous memory integration (micro-)architecture design
• Microarchitecture and system design with Phase-Change Memories

Selected Curricular Projects

• Parallelization of H.264 Deblocking Filter on IBM Cell Broadband Engine
  2010/01 | PDF | Parallelizing H.264 deblocking filters on IBM Cell platform
• Interpersonal Relationship Mining on Bulletin Board Systems
  2009/06 | PDF |Data mining on PTT2 BBS with Hadoop and HBase based on Google MapReduce and BigTable framework
• Comparison of An Application Implemented with IBM SSC, IBM Cell ALF Using DES as Example
  2009/01 | PDF |Parallelizing DES with IBM-provided libraries and comparing the performance
• Designing Multiple-Use Primer Set for Multiplex PCR by Using CUDA-Parallelized Compact GAs
  2009/01 | Draft PDF |Parallelizing a Modified compact Geneatic Algorithm with NVidia CUDA technology on GPU
• Tilt-Shift Synthesis using Refocusing and Modeling
  2008/06 | PDF |Using some digital image processing techniques to synthesize the effects of tilt-shift lenses
• Emergency Room Health Information System
  2008/01 | PDF |Depicting some aspects of an emergency room health information system using various design patterns
• MineSwee++ 2 - C[o]re   (individual work)
  2007/01 | PDF |Implementing the computer player for a game using Intel IA-32 assembly
• Course Registration System Modeling
  2006/06 | PDF |Modeling a system using UML

Selected Non-CS Curricular Essays

• Review on The Prince of Tides
  2007/12 | PDF |An essay about psychotherapy, as issues indicated in the film
• Review on The Silence of The Lambs
  2007/12 | PDF |An essay about "badness" vs. "madness", as issues arising in the film
• 離散與流放人物的探討──〈遊園驚夢〉與〈芝加哥之死〉
  2006/05 | PDF |An essay about diaspora for my Freshmen Chinese course

Miscellaneous Hobbies

• Photography (see my picked-photo albums)
• Playing the piano and music composition

For more of me, take a look at my personal website.