Jia-chi Wu

.j1c2w3u4@5cs.washington.edu
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jcwu/
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington, Box 352350
Seattle, Washington 98195-2350

Objective

A research or product group position involving application of computer science techniques.

Education

Ph.D. Candidate. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

M.S., Mar 2003. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

B.S., May 1997. Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering, National Taiwan University

Experience

Intern - Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research - Summer 2003

• Developed a photo sharing and annotating applet for the next-generation OS using P2P technology and (using) a presentation engine that was still under heavy development and rapid change.
• Competed in a company-wide applet contest with many other full-time developers, demonstrated functionality of the applet, and won the 1st prize. 

Intern - Social Computing Group, Microsoft Research - Summer 2002

• Constructed reusable UI components for document preview with adaptive and dynamically changing layouts. (Patent pending: Horvitz, Eric I.; Cheng, Lili; Wu, Jia-Chi. Exploded views for providing rich regularized geometric transformations and interaction models on content for viewing, previewing, and interacting with documents, projects, and tasks).
• Built prototype applications for browsing and previewing of Word/PowerPoint file contents and e-mails.

Research Assistant - University of Washington - 6/2001-1/2002, 9/2002-present

• Actively exploring new methods for solving motor-learning problems for use in physics-based character motion synthesis and simulation.
• Surveying literature on physically based animations, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and neuroscience.
• Wrote cross-platform (Linux/Windows) 3D graphical programs in C++ and OpenGL, implementing algorithms such as dynamic programming, reinforcement learning, and non-linear principal components analysis.

Teaching Assistant - University of Washington - 10/2000-6/2001, 1/2002-6/2002

Software Engineer - CyberLink Corp. - 1999-2000

• Participated in production of commercial multimedia software applications.
• Constructed a 3D facial animation engine for web-based streaming animations.
• Implemented a graphics rasterization engine with 3D transition and text animation capability for the software Medi@Show and contributed to the software's winning of the "Best of Comdex" in the Best Utility Category at Comdex Fall '99.

Paratroops Platoon Leader - Army (Taiwan) - 1997-1999

Publication

Wu, J and Popovic', Z. 2003. Realistic Modeling of Bird Flight Animations, ACM Transactions on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH 2003).

Course Work & Projects

3D Object Scanning - 2001

• Collaborated in implementing a 3D scanning and object reconstruction algorithm.
• Evaluated strengths and weaknesses of the algorithm under different scanning setups and lighting conditions.

Rigid Body Simulation - 3/2001

• Implemented algorithms used in ray tracing programs for automatic object hierarchy creation to accelerate collision detection.
• Video clip available at <http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jcwu/cse557/rigidbody.html >.

Vehicle Dynamics Simulation - 1997-2000

• Constructed a simulator with realistic vehicle dynamics model.
• Implemented the V-Clip collision detection algorithm.
• Video clip and demo available at <http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jcwu/glrally.shtml >

Other Projects

Skills

Programming:

Applications: