University of Michigan, School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Master of Science in Information, expected graduation : April 2011
Specialization in Human Computer Interaction

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
B.S in Bio-industrial Mechatronics Engineering: June 2009

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
Art : Aug 2006 - Aug 2007
Selective Courses: Multimedia, Composition
Study Abroad

Thomson Reuters | May 2010 - September 2010
Interaction/ Visual Design Intern, New York City, USA

• Brainstormed and wireframed desktop financial software interface design
• Defined visual design standard for the new Investment & Advisory core product
• Communicated with development team and documented design standard and elements

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | March 2010
Alternative Spring Break, Washington DC, USA

• Designed interactive narrative for the health insurance claims report
• Wireframmed interface and designed graphics in Illustrator
• Implemented interactive narrative in Flash

Travel Pets | Sep 2010
OZCHI 24 Design Challenge

• Brainstormed, sketched and developed ideas in 24 hours
• Generated concept graphics for our design
• Conducted in person interviews

Meetin'Bytes | Sep 2009 - Dec 2009
Client: TechSmith, MI, USA, Course Project: Interface and Interaction Design

• Designed Meeting software for group of 5 - 12 people
• Conducted contextual inquiry and survey to gather user data and define product concept
• Leaded the team build up lo-fi prototype
• Built hi-fi prototype with Axure RP

Archive System Evaluation | Sep 2009 - Dec 2009
Client: U-M Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and U-M Survey Research Operations (SRO), Course Project: Contextual Inquiry and Project Management

• Gathered information and understanding problems by using contextual inquiry
• Built communication, artifact, and many other models to analyzing SRO'S information flow and work culture
• Generated recommendations and strategies to improve archiving practices

FuturTech Conference 2009 | Oct 2009 - Dec 2009
Web Designer

• Designed conference logo, advertising graphics, and official website and updated website information with new content

Application of Gesture Recognition | Sep 2008 - Jun 2009
Undergrad Thesis, Sponsored by National Science Council

• Built system and analyzed incoming graphic information from webcam with OpenCV library on Processing
• Evaluated system and ran user experience testing
• Designed user interface for the system

Nightmarket.web | Aug 2008
Nightmarket Workshop 2008, Hosted by National Cheng Kung University, Center for Technology of Ubiquitous Computing and Humanity, MIT Media Lab

• Designed interface and interaction of Emotion Map, and Back Track Map to present Taiwan nightmarket experience to those who never had one before