class Website {

// Navigation

• void Home();
• PDF Resume();
• enum Projects {
• • Raytracer
• };
• void About();

};

Chris Ho

Education

Computer Related Skills

• C++, C#, Java, Lua, PHP
• Comfortable with development tools on Windows and Linux(Visual Studio, KDevelop, Eclipse)
• Knowledge of CUDA, OpenGL 3.2, Qt

Related Coursework

• Computer Graphics
• Visualization and Graduate Visualization
• Software Engineering
• Programming Languages

Employment History

Undergraduate Research Assistant (June 2008 - Current)

Currently I'm working as an undergraduate research assistant in the Visualization & Interface Design Innovation (VIDI) laboratory under Professor Kwan-Liu Ma. I've worked on a few projects now dealing with raycasters, large volumes, and streamlines.

• VIDI-SVR

  • Capable of Rendering Large Datasets (~120GB)
  • Dynamic loading of blocks based on position/transfer function
  • Block Quality dependant on position, uses wavelets to reconstruct higher quality blocks

• PPPL Data

  • Won a SciDAC OASCR for an outstanding visualization. Link to video below.
  • Transforms the data into a 3D-Texture in order to properly interpolate field lines
  • Transforms back and forth from cartesian to toridial coordinates in order to properly sample from the texture
  • Creates an efficient way to display toridial field line data
  (Video)

• Stream Dropper

  • Used to drop streams through a volume vector field using a sliding plane
  • Used mainly to easily pick out interesting streamlines for other projects
  

• High Quality Streamline Renderer

  • Implemented Convolution Shadow Maps
  • Colored by immersing Boy's Surface
  

Western Pioneer Sales Co. (2004)

• Did their website during my senior year of high school (2004)
• Still uses my (dated) design, at http://www.westernioneersales.com

Personal Projects

Tile-based Tactical RPG

• Started as a class project, planned a sort of clone of Final Fantasy Tactics
• Not fully functional yet, characters move, that's about it

CUDA Tetrahedral Renderer

• Renders Tetrahedra Volume Data using OpenGL/CUDA
• Opengl renders the front triangles, color integration is done through CUDA

Software Raytracer

• Originally was written for a class, but I have been extending it on my own time
• Now had threaded ray-tracing
• I intend to port this to CUDA and also implement photon mapping

XNA Raycaster

• Written as a sort of starter project for learning XNA
• Works on the XBox 360 as well as the PC

Numerous UI addons for World of Warcraft in Lua

• As a former MMORPG player, I also wrote a lot of addons to make the experience more enjoyable
• However, due to time constraints these addons are no longer maintained

• Some names of the Addons I worked on

  • Sorren's Timers
  • Cooldown Timer Bars
  • Sorren's EZ-Rotations

Languages

• English(native)
• Semi-fluent Mandarin Chinese