Wei-Ming Chao
- Birthday : March 14
- Birth Place : Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Working Experience
- Software Engineer of Genie Capital (March 2011 - present)
- Game Developer of IGS ( February 2010 - February 2011)
- RD Intern of Sofa Studio for developing a Maya plugin of Hair Generator ( July - August 2007)
Technique skill
- Programming and Software:
- ActionScript 3 (Flash Builder + Flash CS4)
- Flash Developer in IGS
- Two Flash Game Productions
- PK Soccer (video beta ver.)
- PK Pinball (video)
- built on Robotbody, Box2DFlah, as3-signals, and ktween
- A Flash Game Framework - Robotbody (github)
- Photo Fetcher (Retrieve photos through Google image api and flickr api)
- Mturk Photo Filter (The client program asking question to turks and collecting their answers)
- Pay for Hesitation (The blog about my Actionscript3 notes)
- Java (Eclipse)
- School Projects in Animation/Geometry/AI
- IMCrowd (github)
- Motion Planer
- Cooperative Pathfinding on a Probabilistic Roadmap
- Number Link Using A*
- Other School Projects
- Python (Eclipse - pyDev/ vim)
- Software Developer in Genie
- Website (Django-nonrel + Django-Mongodb-Engine + Mongodb)
- gulu.com
- Mturk Hit Generation and Management System (boto)
- 1337.org
- OMG.TT
- API (django-piston)
- Scripts
- Face Detector (Opencv/Face.com API, pymongo)
- Photo Fetcher (PIL, urllib2, pymongo)
- Javascript (Eclipse - Aptana)
- Software Developer in Genie
- Familiar with jQuery and Javascript OOP
- Objective-C (Xcode)
- Published app
- Dare Missions
- Metoo
- OMG.TT
- C/C++ (VS 2003)
- Intern project in Sofa Studio
- School Project
- VRML
- School Project
- Maya Animation
- School Project
- Crowd Animation (Maya Mel Script)
- My Computer
- Kick
- PHP (vim)
- School Project
- Forum
- Course Selection System
- VBA (Excel)
- School Project
- Property Management System
- Erlang (Vim)
- API
- Software Developer in Genie
- AWS MTurk API
- Face.com API
- Facebook Open Graph API
- Facebook OAuth
- Facebook Canvas App
- Flickr API
- Google Image Search API
- Google Map API
- Instagram API
- Twitter API
- Twitter Streaming API
- Foursquare API
- MSN Live API
- OS:
- Ubuntu
- OSX
- Window 7
Certificate
- 2009 TOEIC : 910 (L: 475 R: 435)
- 1998 Taekwondo : 2nd Dan Black Belt
Publication
- W.M. Chao and T.Y. Li. 2011. "Simulating Riot for Virtual Crowds with a Social Communication Model", Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2011), Part I, LNCS 6922, pp. 419–427, Poland.
[paper]
- W.M. Chao and T.Y. Li,. 2011. "Simulating Collective Behaviors of Virtual Crowds – Using Riot as an Example", Proceedings of 2011 Computer Graphics Workshop. (in Chinese). Taiwan.
[paper] - W.M. Chao and T.Y. Li. 2010. "Simulation of Social Behaviors in Virtual Crowd", Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2010). France.
[paper] [video] (youtube) - W.M. Chao and T.Y. Li. 2008. "Simulating Crowd Behaviors with a Communication Model", Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2008). Korea.
[paper] [video] (8.5 MB) - W.M. Chao and T.Y. Li. 2008. "Simulating Collective Behaviors for Virtual Crowds with Social Communication Model", Proceedings of 2008 Computer Graphics Workshop. (in Chinese) Taiwan.
[paper] - W.M. Chao and T.Y. Li. 2007. "A Crowd Simulation Framework with Communication Mechanism and Customized Events", Proceedings of 2007 Computer Graphics Workshop. (in Chinese) Taiwan.
[paper] [video] (68 MB) (youtube version)
Education
- M.S. Computer Science, National ChengChi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan ( 2007.9 ~ 2010.1)
- Master Thesis : Simulating Social Behaviors of Virtual Crowd with a Communication Model
- GPA : 4.0 / 4.0
- Lab : IMLAB
- Advisor : Tsai-Yen Li
- B.S. Computer Science, National ChengChi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan (2003.9 ~ 2007.6)
- GPA : 3.48 / 4.0
- Associate of Accounting , National PingTung Institute of Commerce (NPIC) ( 1996.9 ~ 2000.6)
Honor
- 2010 IICM Master Thesis Award
- 2010 TAAI Master Thesis Award
- 2009 Member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society of the Republic of China
- 2008 Third Place - Human and Natural Popular-Science Writing Award - "混沌邊緣的藝術-人工生命" (Held by Scientific American Magazine in Chinese and Taiwan National Museum of Natural Science)
- 2008 Research Outstanding Award, College of Science , NCCU, Taiwan.
- 2008 Academic Outstanding Award, College of Science , NCCU, Taiwan.
- 2007 Research Outstanding Award, College of Science , NCCU, Taiwan.
- 2007 Third Place, Campus Programming Contest, NCCU, Taiwan.
- 2003 First Place, Entrance Examination for The Technological and Vocational Education (全國二技聯招 管四類組榜首)
Research Interest
- Crowd Simulation / Social Simulation
- Crowd Psychology
- Complex Theory
- Artificial Intelligent / Artificial Life / Artificial Society
- Computer Animation
- Social Network
- Information Visualization
Experience in Extracurricular Activity
- Member of Zen Club, NCCU (September 2007 - January 2008)
- PR of Street Dance Club, NCCU (July 2005 - July 2006)
- President of Taekwondo Club, NPIC (July 1997 - July 1998)
Faith