Resume

Ko-Chih Wang's CV.

Education 

• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (2019)

• M.S. in Institute of Networking and Multimedia, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (2007)

• B.S. in Computer Science Information and Engineering, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan (2004)

• High School, National Tainan Second Senior High School, (國立台南第二高級中學), Tainan, Taiwan (2000)

Appointments

• Associate Professor, Department of CSIE, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan (Aug. 2023 ~ present)

• Supervisor, Division of Education Services, Information Technology Center, NTNU [台師大-資訊中心-教學服務組-組長] (Aug. 2023 ~ present)

• Secretary-general, Taipei ACM SIGGRAPH [社團法人台灣電腦圖學與互動技術學會 - 祕書長] (Aug. 2023 ~ present) 

• Associate Director, Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Development Research Center, College of Science, NTNU [台師大-理學院-智慧運算導向永續發展研究中心-副主任] (Nov. 2023 ~ Present)

• International coordinator, Department of CSIE, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan (Aug. 2019 ~ present)

• Assistant Professor, Department of CSIE, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan (Aug. 2019 ~ Jul. 2023)

• Graduate Research Associate, GRAVITY research group, CSE, OSU (Aug. 2013 ~  May 2015, May 2016 ~ Aug. 2016, Dec. 2017 ~ May. 2019)

• Research Assistant Intern, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA (May 2018 ~ Aug. 2018)

• Graduate Teaching Associate, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, OSU (Aug. 2015 ~  Dec. 2017)

• Research Assistant Intern, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA (May 2017 ~ Aug. 2017)

• Full-time Research Assistant, The Robot Perception and Learning Lab, CSIE, NTU (2008~2010)

• Administrative Cadre, The Fifth River Management Office, WRA, MOEA, ROC [經濟部水利署第五河川局-替代役(管理幹部)] (2007 ~ 2008)

Area of Interest

• Large data analysis and visualization

  • Scientific data visualization 

  • Large data representation

  • In-situ data analysis

• Parallel computing

  • Data Parallel Programming

  • GPGPU (Cuda/Thrust), Intel TBB

• Computer  graphics

  • Volume rendering, Real-time rendering

• Computer vision / Robotics

  • Object recognition and tracking

  • 3D environment reconstruction

Teaching Experience

• See the course page

Publications

• Google Scholar

• See the publication page

Academic Service

• General chair of IEEE Pacific Visualization Conference 2025

• Steering committee of Computer Graphics Workshop 2023, 2024 

• General co-chair of Computer Graphics Workshop 2022

• Reviewer of ChinaVis 2023

• Reviewer of Journal of Information Science and Engineering

• Reviewer of IEEE Transaction of Visualization and Computer Graphics

• Reviewer of Pacific Graphics 202

• Reviewer of IEEE VIS 2019 short paper

Awards

• Excellence in Teaching Award in CSIE, NTNU, AU 2022

• Computer Graphics Workshop 2022 Best Paper Award

• IEEE VIS (SciVis) 2019 Best Paper Award 

• IEEE VIS (VAST) 2019 Best Paper Honorable Mention 

• 2019 Graduate Students Poster Award, CSE, The Ohio State University - (Honorable Mention)

• 2006 Teco Technology and Creativity Competition – (2nd Place)

• 1 st Digital Art Festival Taipei 2006 - (3rd Place)

• 2006 K. T. Humanities and Art Competition - (Technique Innovation Award)

• 2003 Open Source Software Competition - (Honorable Mention)

• 2002 Tunghai University Academic Honor - (1st Place)

Skills

• Computer: 

  • Proficient in C/C++, Python, Matlab, Processing

  • Experinced in Java, Javascript, PHP

• Software/Library: 

  • Cuda, Thrust, OpenMP, MPI, VTK-m, Tensorflow, Keras, OpenGL, GLSL, OpenCV

• Language:

  • English (fluent), Mandarin Chinese (native), Taiwanese (native)