Work
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. Acquired by Chegg Inc. in July 2010
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 server-side caching, Lucene indexing, Tomcat filters, Ruby/Watir testing framework, database schema design, RSS/Atom feeds, and cronjobs
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
Photo Storm
Social game where players post interesting images, aiming to beat ideas presented by their peers. The game results in a stream of images, each besting the one before it. Built in two nights
I <blank> Palo Alto
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, PHP, HTML5, CSS 3, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, RegEx, SQL, XML, XPATH, DTD, Python, Batch
Bilingual in English and Chinese (Mandarin)
Applications
Eclipse, Photoshop, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Firebug, Zend, Pencil, SVN
Developed on Windows and Linux machines
Diversions
Basketball, Kayaking, Canoeing, Camping, Reading, Guitar, High-tech Toys