Work

Amazon.com

Completed and pushed 3 significant projects to production in 3 months:

Company-wide tools registry, environment diff tool, and diagnostics monitoring UI for critical services

Worked with Java EE, server-side caching, Lucene indexing, Tomcat filters, Ruby/Watir testing framework, MySQL, database schema design, RSS/Atom feeds, cronjobs, and Amazon in-house technologies

NCBO

Pathway knowledgebase verification, RDF and SPARQL queries in Java

NIST

HIV Structural Database, substructure classification, Protease/RT gallery

National Institutes of Health

Kino T, Liou SH, et al. (2005) Glucocorticoid Receptor Mutants Demonstrate Increased Motility Inside the Nucleus of Living Cells. Molecular Medicine. 10 (7-12): 80-88

CARB / UMBI

Quantitative structure-activity relationships, application of statistics to drug design

Projects

CourseRank

Academic planner and course review system for Stanford University. Currently used by over 95% of undergraduates at Stanford

Began as an independent software project at Stanford, now expanding across the country

Company site: www.courserank.com

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Civic engagement project for the city of Palo Alto. Webapp focused on the posting of short feedback snippets about the city, designed to drive traffic to the site and encourage discussion of city issues

Product design was guided by numerous user need-finding interviews with both city hall officials and Palo Alto residents

Liou Family Tree

Digitized all 95 generations of my family's genealogy into an online interface. Quickly search by name/generation or browse a heirarchical tree of ancestors

TuneSync

iPhone webapp built on top of Logitech's SqueezeCenter API. Wirelessly control music playback on multiple clients from a centralized media server. Music follows the user via RFID readers, cross-fading between speakers as the user moves to different rooms

Sketch'd

Web-based collaborative visual brainstorming application prototype

Awarded "Best Design and Aesthetics Award" by industry judges from Google, Yahoo, and other companies

Bio

Education

Stanford University

M.S. Computer Science '09
HCI Concentration

B.S. Computer Science '09
Systems Concentration

Frontend

Web 2.0 Development, Dynamic Content, AJAX Callback, Web Security, UI Design, Rapid Prototyping, Browser Compatibility

Backend

Web Services, Performance Optimization, Database Schemas, Systems Architecture, API Design, Automated/Unit Testing

Languages

Java/Java EE, JSP, Struts 2, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, RegEx, JSON, PHP, SQL, XML, XPATH, DTD, Ruby, Rails, C++, C

Bilingual in English and Chinese (Mandarin)

Applications

Eclipse, Photoshop, Flash, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, SVN, CVS, Visual Studio

Developed on Windows and Linux machines

Diversions

Basketball, Kayaking, Canoeing, Camping, Reading, Guitar, High-tech Toys