Jia-chi is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering working with Zoran Popović. His research interest is in motor learning and physically based animations.

Jia-chi was born and raised in Taiwan. He was graduated from the National Taiwan University and worked at CyberLink for one year before he came to Seattle to study at the UW.

Publications

• Wu, J and Popović, Z. 2003. Realistic Modeling of Bird Flight Animations, ACM Transactions on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH 2003).
• Horvitz, Eric I.; Cheng, Lili; Wu, Jia-Chi. Exploded views for providing rich regularized geometric transformations and interaction models on content for viewing, previewing, and interacting with documents, projects, and tasks, United States Patent 7444598

Résumé

• Résumé in HTML format
• Résumé in Adobe PDF format

Projects

Bird flight animations

GLRally: vehicle simulation game

Rigid body simulation

3D scanning with shadows (3D shape acquisition)

Links

An irregularly updated list of interesting research-related articles and websites (see the complete list here):

More Links

• Jia-chi's blog

• Taskbaric: A samll program Jia-chi wrote to iconize Windows taskbar buttons
  

• ActivateByNum: An AutoHotkey script for Windows (XP and Vista) for quick task switching by pressing Win+[1,2,...,0].