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Pingtung County, Taiwan, Taiwan

After my gap year, I fell in love with the ocean and island life. Therefore, I started my own diving club in Xiao Liuqiu, a small island in Pingtung county. We were a group of 6 instructors, teaching scuba diving or freediving, and hosted diving events and trips all through the year.This was my main occupation for 4 years, it has opened my eyes to a whole new world, and allowed me to meet people that I would have never been able to meet if I haven't gone on this journey.However, I learned that it can be so hard to just have a normal life and a normal family when living the island life, which is why I decided to settle down and move back into the city.

Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan

In 2016, I joined a fin-tech start up company, WFC, which was targeted for high-frequency trading. The company started small, with only 6 employees in the beginning. Since it was a start up, most of the work in the beginning involved building up the whole work environment, sort of like a DevOps engineer. After that, we started building a platform for traders that were interested in algorithmic trading but were not that strong in programming. Work mostly involved coding/decoding packet data, generalizing APIs provided by different exchanges and integrating them to our platform, all done with a goal of low latency in mind.

Hsinchu County/City, Taiwan

During my time at Synopsys, I was an R&D engineer working on the debug platform, Verdi. Hardware engineers would use Verdi to debug their Verilog/VHDL designs. The most frequently used features were nTrace (used to trace through the source code), nWave (used to show the simulated waveforms of the design) and nSchema (shows the schematic view of the design). Our group was developing an advanced feature called Temporal Flow View, or TFV. TFV expands the schematic view over time. For example, your circuit might have a D flip-flop. In the schematic view, you would see one single flip-flop. In the temporal flow view, you would have a something like a snapshot of the instant right after each triggering clock edge. The flip-flop exists in every one of these snapshots, holding the simulated value at that specific time. Inputs of every snapshot may either come from the same snapshot, or can be fed by values of previous snapshots. So when the user sees an unexpected outcome within a snapshot, he/she can trace back either to an input of the circuit, or trace back in time, if that value was actually propagated from the past. And finally, when the user pinpoints the error cause from TFV, he/she can link to either the source code, the waveform or schematic view of that signal.Most of my work involves programming in C/C++, writing scripts in Python or Pearl, and since our tools is used for debugging hardware languages (Verilog, VHDL), so we would have to be familiar with them and would need to build small cases for testing purposes.

Taipei City, Taiwan

I attended a Summer Intern program at Synopsys during the second summer of graduate school. I worked for the Placement & Routing Team led by Cindy Shen. Our given project was to implement a routing algorithm for flip-chip designs proposed in a published paper. The original algorithm was suitable for generating rubber-band sketches with 90 degree angles only. At that time, manufacturing techniques have been improved and 135 degree angles were available. Therefore, the team was curious how well the algorithm would work if extended to sketches that allowed 135 degree angles. However, acute angles were not allowed, so we would have to prevent 45 degree angles while generating the sketch.

Taoyuan County, Taiwan

Back in 2009, the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience of NCU was building a platform to measure certain abilities (memory, tracking, reaction time) of elderly patients. Testing their patients regularly allowed them to know whether the current treatment was effective, and could make adjustments accordingly.I accepted the job as a freelancing project. My job was to implement a webpage game to measure the patient's tracking ability. The game was basically the shell game. Each round started by showing multiple targets. After a few seconds, the targets would be covered up by multiple obstacle and shuffled. The player was required to select the obstacles that covered the targets. Each round would get harder by either adding targets/obstacles or shuffling faster. Finally, the score would be recorded in a database. You could look it up or compare the patient's score over time.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electronic Design Automation

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering