Ph.D. Student
Computer Science and Engineering
University of California at San Diego
wychang at cs dot ucsd dot edu

I'm a 5th year Ph.D. Candidate focusing in Computer Graphics and Vision. I am from Seoul, Korea, but I was born in beautiful Monterey Bay, California. I spent four wonderful years as a mathematics and music student at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. I recieved my MS in Computer Science in Fall 2006, after completing my research exam, which was about reconstructing a 3D surface from point samples. Right now, I'm finished with classes, and I'm doing research full-time on deformable shape matching and alignment. At the same time, I'm actively involved in many ministries at San Diego Calvary Korean Church. In my spare time, I enjoy playing the piano, singing in my church choir, reading the bible, and meeting friends.

Publications

• Hair Photobooth: Geometric and Photometric Acquisition of Real Hairstyles
  Sylvain Paris, Will Chang, Wojciech Jarosz, Oleg Kozhushnyan, Wojciech Matusik, Matthias Zwicker and Frédo Durand
  To appear in ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 conference)
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• Automatic Registration for Articulated Shapes
  Will Chang and Matthias Zwicker
  To appear in Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of SGP 2008), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2 - 4, 2008
  www pdf
• Surface Reconstruction from Points
  Will Chang
  Technical Report for the Research Exam
  UCSD CSE Technical Report CS2008-0922, February 2007.
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• On the Complexity of Multicasting in WDM Networks with Tap-and-Continue and Multicast Capable Switches
  E. Miller, R. Libeskind-Hadas, D. Barnard, W. Chang, K. Dresner, W. M. Turner, and J. R. Hartline
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC-OCN) 22(9):1601--1612, November 2004
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• Image processing with wreath products
  Will Chang
  Undergraduate Thesis. Harvey Mudd College, May 2004
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Classes

• Fall 2004
  • CSE 120   Principles of Operating Systems
  • CSE 131a Compiler Construction I
  • CSE 202   Algorithms and Analysis
  • CSE 292   Faculty Research Seminar
  • CSE 599   Teaching Methods in Computer Science
• Winter 2005
  • CSE 200   Computability and Complexity
  • CSE 221   Operating Systems
  • CSE 252a Computer Vision I
• Spring 2005
  • CSE 130   Programming Languages
  • CSE 141   Introduction to Computer Architecture
  • CSE 168   Rendering Algorithms
• Fall 2005
  • CSE 204a Combinatorial Optimization
  • CSE 240a Principles in Computer Architecture
  • MATH 281a Mathematical Statistics
  • MATH 250a Differential Geometry
  • MATH 257a Topics in Differential Geometry: Metric Geometry
• Winter 2006
  • CSE 250b Introduction to Machine Learning
• Spring 2006
  • CSE 203b Advanced Algorithms
• Fall 2006
  • CSE 291 Topics in Computer Graphics: Mesh Animation
• Spring 2007
  • CSE 252b Computer Vision II

Teaching

• Winter 2005 - CSE 131a Compiler Construction I
• Spring 2005 - CSE 152 Introduction to Computer Vision
• Spring 2006
  • CSE 101 Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • CSE 202 Algorithm Design and Analysis
• Summer 2006 - CSE 141 Introduction to Computer Architecture
• Spring 2007 - CSE 152 Introduction to Computer Vision
• Spring 2008 - CSE 105 Introduction to the Theory of Computation

Employment

• Summer 2005
  • Research Assistant for Prof. Jensen
• Fall 2005 & Winter 2006
  • Research Staff for the Cognitive Science Department (Prof. Belew and Prof. Kirsh)
• Fall 2006 -- Present
  • Research Assistant for Prof. Zwicker

Links

• UCSD Computer Graphics Laboratory
• UCSD Department of Computer Science and Engineering
• UCSD Department of Mathematics

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6)