Wallace, Wai-Ho Mak aka "null"

Instructional Assistant
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Email: wallacem@cse.ust.hk
Office: Room 4221A, Academic Building (Lift 19)

Biography
I am currently an Instructional Assistant in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I received my Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in Computer Science and Engineering under the supervision of Professor Huamin Qu in 2009, and my Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree in Computer Science (Minor in Mathematics) with first-class honors in 2007, both from HKUST.

While I was enrolled in the Honors Track Study Program for Elite Students, I also participated actively in research during my undergraduate study in which I completed two Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) projects and my final year thesis on visualization research topics.

Teaching
COMP1022Q: Introduction to Computing with Excel VBA (Fall 2011)
COMP201: Java Programming (Summer 2011)
COMP152: Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures (Spring 2011)
COMP170: Discrete Mathematical Tools for Computer Science (Spring 2011)
USTM16: Linux Systems Administration (Winter 2010)
COMP102: Computer and Programming Fundamental I (Fall 2010)
COMP252: Operating System (Fall 2010)
USTM16: Linux Systems Administration (Summer 2010)
USTM17: Linux Network Administration (Summer 2010)
COMP152: Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures (Spring 2010)
COMP170: Discrete Mathematical Tools for Computer Science (Spring 2010)
COMP104H: Programming Fundamentals and Methodologies (Honors Study Track) (Fall 2008)
COMP171H: Data Structures and Algorithms (Honors Study Track) (Fall 2008)
CS Department Summer Math Course (Summer 2008)
COMP341: Computer Graphics (Spring 2008)
COMP101: Exploring Multimedia and Internet Computing (Fall 2007)

Research Interests
Scientific visualization, information visualization, and computer graphics in general.

Publications
Wai-Ho Mak, Yingcai Wu, Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu. "Visibility-Aware Direct Volume Rendering". Journal of Computer Science and Technology, vol. 26, no. 2, Mar. 2011.

Wing-Yi Chan, Huamin Qu, Wai-Ho Mak. "Visualizing the Semantic Structure in Classical Music Works". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 16, no. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2010.

Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, Wai-Ho Mak, Wei Chen, Huamin Qu. "Perception-Based Transparency Optimization for Direct Volume Rendering". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings Visualization / Information Visualization 2009), vol. 15, no. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2009.

Wai-Ho Mak, Yingcai Wu, Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu. "Visibility-Aware Direct Volume Rendering with Animations". Workshop on Visualization Applications (VisWorkshop'09), Beijing, China, 2009.

Wai-Ho Mak, Ming-Yuen Chan, Yingcai Wu, Ka-Kei Chung, Huamin Qu. "VoxelBars: An Informative Interface for Volume Visualization". International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'08), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Dec 1-3, 2008.

Ming-Yuen Chan, Wai-Ho Mak, Huamin Qu. "An Efficient Quality-Based Camera Path Planning Method for Volume Exploration". International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'08), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Dec 1-3, 2008.

Ming-Yuen Chan, Huamin Qu, Ka-Kei Chung, Wai-Ho Mak, and Yingcai Wu. "Relation-Aware Volume Exploration Pipeline". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proceedings of Visualization / Information Visualization 2008), vol. 14, no. 6, Nov.-Dec. 2008.

Yingcai Wu, Huamin Qu, Ka-Kei Chung, Wai-Ho Mak, and Anbang Xu. "Quantitative Effectiveness Metrics for Direct Volume Rendering". Poster session of IEEE Visualization 2007. (Best poster candidate)

Links
Resource for Computer Graphics (latest computer graphics paper collection)

Other Stuff
Meaningful pieces
Hey, do you know you are really rich?