Profile

Yang Liu

3D Interactive Engineer, VR/AR/MR evangelist.



​E-mail: yang.w.liu (at) gmail.com

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My interests span across game development, mobile development, human-computer interaction, computer graphics and computer vision. 

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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.