Phokgoan Chioh Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Currently have collected 38/59 US NPs, 8 NPs of Japan, Germany, Netherlands and Poland, and many other parks.
• Visited 11 NPs, 7NMs, and 6 other NPS parks within a month, traveled over 8,000 miles among 11 western states on my own.
• Visited 5 NPs, 8 states, and many NPS parks in DC within 10 days, traveled over 2,500 miles on my own.
• Met awesome people and amazing wildlife.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Developed video player that works with the company's IOTC (network) and AV (multimedia) protocols for various platforms including Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Android & iOS.
• Worked on refactoring the company's AVAPI multimedia transmission module.
• Ported the company's AV modules to various embedded systems.
• Developed audio/video transcoding libraries and extensions for the company's multimedia module.
• Developed streaming libraries/extensions for the company's platform.
• Designed and developed KalayImage, which serves as the company’s multi-platform core image processing and computer graphics library, and built interfaces for Android and iOS.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Video surveillance team leader
• Designed and studied for the proposal of the Cloud Surveillance System. Integrated the computer vision and other related algorithms for the project.
• Developed search-by-image algorithm and the corresponding app.
• Built web bots crawling over e-commerce websites.
• Hosted and managed network services for colleagues.
• Supported colleagues with technical aids on development.

Marina Del Rey, California, USA

• Developed image-processing programs for geographic information extraction and document understanding. -- Skills applied: C#, OpenCV, EmguCV, Xamarin, Image Processing
• Developed websites of CGSMD and PAGE projects on the top of Pegasus, our division's scientific workflow management system. -- Skills applied: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, MySQL, Linux Shell
• Developed software and website to extract and visualize statistical data from clinical records. -- Skills applied: Python, Natural Language Processing, NLTK, HTML, XML, CSS, Google App Engine
• Did researches on UMLS medical terminology database and its API, and used those terminologies to help improve our medical and clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. -- Skills applied: Python, Java, Natural.
• Helped generating the preliminary results to get a research grant from NIH. Worked on that project, GWASTools, which aims on generating GWAS Catalogs automatically with NLP, machine learning, and data visualization.
• Helped on a collaborative project of computer vision with Caltech that aims at detecting mitochondrial fusion, fission, and other movement activities. -- Skills applied: Java, Matlab, Eclipse, Image Processing

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Worked on a national project, which included compiling a corpus of Taiwanese-language documents, including traditional writings, dictionaries, and school textbooks for creating parse tree.
• Organized research materials and submitted quarterly reports of research findings to the Ministry of Education.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Assisted in news dissemination.
• Handled duties of public relations.
• Organized press conferences.
• Managed servers and filed public health videos produced by the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
• Maintained IT technical support for the department.

Master Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical And Electronics Engineering