Chun-fa Chang (張鈞法)
2 Casabelle Court Durham, North Carolina 27713 United States Phone: (919) 544-4497 (home) (919) 962-1737 (work) Web: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~chang	2F, No.4, Aly.2, Ln.131, Sec.2, Chung-Yang N Road, Peitou 臺北市北投區11266 中央北路2段131巷2弄4號2樓 Taipei, Taiwan 11266 Phone: (02) 2891-8544
Education
1995–2001 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill U.S.A. n Ph.D., Computer Science (expected May 2001). 1990-1992 The University of Texas at Austin U.S.A. n M.S., Computer Science. 1984-1988 National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan n B.S., Computer Science
WORK Experience
Summer Intern, Western Research Lab, Digital Equipment Corp. Palo Alto, California May-August 1996 and May-August 1997. n Implementation of a 3D renderer and various full-scene antialiasing algorithms which are used in Digital’s Neon graphics processor. Research Assistant, The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina January 1995 to May 2000. n Development of novel image-based rendering algorithms for a large number of depth images. n Exploration of the advanced texture mapping capabilities of the UNC PixelFlow image generator. n Parallelization of a NURBS Renderer on SGI Onyx and UNC PixelPlane 5. Software Engineer, Intel Corporation Chandler, Arizona June 1992 to January 1995. n Member of a five-person team which designed the graphical design rule checkers for advanced VLSI packaging processes. Object-oriented methodology and C++ were used to interface with the CAD environment and achieve portability of the software across two CAD platforms.
PUBLICATION
n Method and Apparatus for Compositing Colors of Images Using Pixel Fragments with Z Gradient Parameters. Norm P. Jouppi and Chun-Fa Chang United States Patent application filed April 1999. n Method and Apparatus for Compositing Colors of Images with Memory Constraints for Storing Pixel Data. Norm P. Jouppi, Joel J. McCormack, and Chun-Fa Chang United States Patent 6,204,859. Filed October 15, 1997. Issued March 20, 2001. n LDI Tree: A Hierarchical Representation for Image-based Rendering. Chun-Fa Chang, Gary Bishop and Anselmo Lastra. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 99. n Z^3: An Economical Hardware Technique for High-Quality Antialiasing and Transparency. Norm P. Jouppi and Chun-Fa Chang. In Proceedings of Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware '99. (Winner of Best Paper Award) n Scalable Algorithms For Interactive Visualization Of Curved Surfaces. Subodh Kumar, Chun-Fa Chang and Dinesh Manocha. In Proceedings of SuperComputing 1996. (Winner of Best Paper Award)
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
n Hardware System Design 1997 Implementation of a computer tablet, which includes the signal amplification circuit, the analog to digital conversion circuit, the microcontroller firmware, and the host PC interface. n Light Field Rendering in Polygonally-Modeled Environment 1996 Modification of the light field rendering viewer (from Stanford) to solve the occlusion problems between light field objects and polygonal models. n Collision Detection in IRIS Performer 1995 Integration of UNC's I_Collide Collision Detection package with the Silicon Graphics IRIS Performer library. n Simplification of Polygonal Models 1995 Implementation of various algorithms which reduce the number of vertices and polygons in polygonal mesh models. n Fractal Image Compression 1995 Implementation of the image compressorand decompressor with fractal algorithms. The decompressor is substantially faster than JPEG while the compressor can achieve the similar quality and compression rate of JPEG. n CMOS VLSI Circuit Design 1992 Design and simulation of a high speed multiplier in 3-micron CMOS technology. n VLSI Router for Floating Pin Position Problem 1992 Enhancement of the channel router YACR2 to deal with the problem which the channel pin assignment is flexible but subjected to position constraints, order constraints and separation constraints.
AWARDS
n Best Paper Award, Eurographics Workshop on Graphics Hardware '99. n Best Paper Award, SuperComputing '96. n MPG Division Recognition Award, Intel Corporation, 1993.
Extracurricular aCTIVITIES
n Cofounder and Vice President of the Badminton Club, UNC Chapel Hill, 1998. n Officer of the Taiwan Student Association, UNC Chapel Hill, 1995. n Vice President of NTU Photo Club, National Taiwan University, 1986.