Profile

Yang Liu
XR evangelist
Game developer
Interaction designer
E-mail: yang.w.liu (at) gmail.com
[Resume] [LinkedIn]
My interests span across game development, mobile development, human-computer interaction, computer graphics and computer vision.
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XR evangelist
Game developer
Interaction designer
E-mail: yang.w.liu (at) gmail.com
[Resume] [LinkedIn]
My interests span across game development, mobile development, human-computer interaction, computer graphics and computer vision.
Site under construction...
Projects
- Tongshare a social network system providing on-campus activities sharing service.
- City Adventure II: Tsingdroid 100 A design for situated simulation game connecting virtual scenes with the physical world.
- Tsinghua Tour Guide for Android Latest campus map of Tsinghua University with detailed introduction of buildings and attractions.
- City Adventure Game demo to explore augmented reality games for mobile devices.
- LiveS Cube for Android Contact-based SNS providing status sharing, information pushing and merchant searching.
- More...
Research
- Currently working at Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory of UC San Diego.
- Security Module for LiveS Cube Devised a new method to protect low-entropy personally identifiable information.
- Virtual Lights for Realistic Rendering Developed a new method of realistic 3D rendering.
Education
- 2011 - 2013 UC San Diego, Master in Computer Science
- 2007 - 2011 Tsinghua University, Bachelor in Computer Science
- 2008 - 2011 Tsinghua University, Second Bachelor in Art Design (Digital Entertainment Design Direction)
Skills
- Programming Language: C/C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python, ActionScript.
- Android: User interface, NDK, native OpenGL ES, network and sensors; 3 projects done.
- Web: HTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails and MySQL; 9-year web development experience.
- Gaming: Kinect, Unity 3D, Cocos2d-x, XNA and Maya plug-in development.
- .Net: WPF, Silverlight and ADO.Net; more than 2 projects done.
Hobbies
- Playing violin & piano, music, photography, travelling.