CHEN Xing 陈醒
Software Engineer
I'm a software engineer from Changchun, Jilin, China (Where is it?). I currently work for Google in the United States.
Fun
Get around with a bike and find something fun! The following photos are mirrored from my Picasa album for access from mainland China.
Shoreline
Golden Gate Bridge
Animals @ SF bay
Mountain View, CA
My hometown!
Half Moon Bay, CA
Phoenix, AZ
Polar Bears!!
The Hudson Bay?
US Indepence Day
Vancouver 2012
ICPC World Final
Vancouver 2010
Bicycle Wheelprints
Mobile Applications
Sun Position2015
Locates the sun and computes insolation to your room.
Shi-Ji (史籍)2014
Reforms how ancient Chinese books are read. Sentence-by-sentence translation and an interactive footnote viewer. 4.8+ star!
GPS Watch2013
A Sony SmartWatch extension!
Fun Projects
ASM Library2010
A C++/OpenCV 2 implementation of Active Shape Models, useful for locating landmark points on a face image.
W-App2012
W-App turns web applications into native Linux applications, providing system tray icon, notification, ... Although at its early stage, it's usable and you can try it NOW.EduVIP Client2007-2010
As a client for "教育网直通车" (a once popular VPN), the PPTP/L2TP VPN Client with CLI and GUI (Python and PyGtk) was widely used among Chinese university Linux users.
Mp3tagiconv2011
Convert the encoding of Chinese MP3 tags to make them recognizable in Linux, Windows and common mobile devices.
Translation2008-
I translated and maintain the Simplified Chinese translation for Geogebra. Version 4.2+ is recommended for a better translation.
More-
Some other mini-tools can be accessed from my Google Code page. AUR packages maintained by me can be foundhere.
Websites and Web Applications
Linux-Wiki.CN2007-2010
A collaboration platform to help building high quality Linux documents in Chinese. The readability, validity and citations are top concerns of the website.
A School Alumni Site2005 - 2006
(Discontinued)
A full functional alumni website written in ASP from scratch during my high school years.
QTHome.Org2002 - 2004
(Discontinued)
My first attempt to build a website. "QT" is the initial of the Pinyin of "interesting problems" (趣题) in Chinese.
Education
M.Sc, University of British Columbia2010 - 2012
A thesis based master program in the CS department of UBC, co-supervised by Prof. Bob Woodham and Prof. Wolfgang Heidrich.Master Thesis: High Speed Motion Capture with Consumer-Grade Cameras. (UBC Library)
B.Sc, Peking University2006 - 2010
Majoring in Machine Intelligence (智能科学), I received my bachelor degree of science from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, PKU (Peking University, 北京大学).
Bachelor Thesis: Interactive Face Image Deformation (demo).
Work
Software Engineer, Google2012-
My current job.
Research Assistant, University of British Columbia2011 - 2012
In the Lab of Computational Intelligence (LCI) and Imager .
Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia2010 - 2011
TA for course CPSC 110 Computation, Programs and Programming.
Software Engineering Intern, Facebook2011
Mainly about raw string indexing/searching on huge amounts of data, Unicode text processing, web UI design and system maintence.
Programming Contest
ACM-ICPC World Final2012
Our team, UBC!, tied 18th among around 112 teams.
ACM-ICPC Pacific NW Region20102011
In the regional contest, our team was placed 2nd in 2011 and 4th in 2010.
National Olympiad in Informatics (China)20052004
Attended NOI twice as a representative of Jilin Province, but only got Third Prizes for both.