Welcome to my personal website. I just completed my postdoctoral research under Prof. Agogino at Berkeley Expert System Laboratory at UC Berkeley this month and will join Yahoo! as a web application programmer soon. I also received my Ph.D. degree in Engineering at UC Berkeley. My research interest is in utilizing computational linguistic algorithms in information retrieval applications. Since coming to Berkeley in 1998, I have been involved in developing an educational digital library for engineering education called NEEDS and later the Engineering Pathway (EP) project.
My doctoral research at UC Berkeley was on generating key phrases from a domain-specific corpus automatically using a combination of computational linguistic algorithms. The results can be applied to many information retrieval applications such as recommending additional search keywords for enhancing search results. I'm also interested in design methodologies and design team research.
In my free time, I like to listen to music and travel. One of my ambitions that I'd like to be able to achieve one day is to visit every national parks in US. I also enjoy movies and I have been watching quite some Japanese animation in the past few years. I'm always surprised by the creativity and varieties shown in many Japanese animation, both on TV and in theaters.