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• Charles' X-file
  • Bynames
    • Shiao-guai
    • A-Ming
  • Location: Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • Studied in Taipei City
    • Lived in Taipei County
    • Served in Kaohsiung City
    • Struggling in the U. S.
  • Signs of Zodiac
    • Solar: Cancer
  • Education
    • Fall 2004
      PhD Student, Department of Computer Science (DCS), Duke University, North Carolina, USA
    • Summer 2002
      MS Degree, Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering (CSIE), National Taiwan University (NTU)
      • Advisor: Dr. Chih-Jen Lin
    • Summer 2000
      Double Major BS Degrees, Departments of CSIE and Mathematics, NTU
    • Summer 1996
      Diploma, scientific-talented special class, Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School
      • Advisor: Mr. Hsu, Cheng-Mei
    • Summer 1993
      Graduated from class 314, Hai-Shan Junior High School, Taipei County
      • Advisor: Ms. Lin, Shueh-Yu
    • Summer 1990
      Graduated from class 6:5, Zhi-Chiang Elementary School, Chung-ho City, Taipei County
    • Summer 1984
      Graduated from Senior class, Chung-Jen Kindergarten
    • Summer 1983
      Graduated from Junior class, Po-Ai Kindergarten

• Charles' Career: till Summer 2004
  • Research Assistant in Web Knowledge Discovery Lab (WKD), Institute of Information Sciences (IIS), Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
    • Supervisor: Dr. Lee-Feng Chien
    • GUI for LiveClassifier system
  • Recent Journal paper "A Study on Reduced Support Vector Machines", co-authored with Dr. Chih-Jen Lin
  • Master's Thesis (in NTU-CSIE) "Reduction Techniques for Training Support Vector Machines", advisor: Dr. Chih-Jen Lin
    • Presentational slides, PDF file
    • Recorded in Dissertation and Thesis Abstract System, National Central Library
  • PHD-applying Statement Of Purpose (SOP), the preliminary version, PDF file
  • PHD-applying Curriculum Vitae (CV), MS WORD .doc file, changing
  • PHD-applying Resume "My Bilingual Experiences: In English vs. In Chinese", PDF file, changing
  • PHD-applying Outline of Courses, graduate (MS EXCEL .xls file) & undergraduate (MS EXCEL .xls file), some columns remain to fill in

• Charles' Interests
  • Travelling, especially abroad
    • Japan: visited in Summer 1993
    • USA: visited in Summer 1994, Summer 1999
    • India, Singapore: visited in Summer 1996
    • Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, Nederland: visited in Summer 1998
    • Palau: visited in Winter 2004
    • Mainland China, Italy, Germany, France, England,...: planning
  • Few sports
    • Bicycling
    • Gym
    • Soccer
    • Table tennis
    • Badminton
    • Volleyball

Charles' Music Hobby, to add

• Classical Music
  •  Minuet/Minuette
  • Handel
  • Vivaldi
  •  Violin Concerto
  • Bach
  •  Piano Concerto
  • Mozart
  • Haydn
  •  Piano Trio
  • Beethoven
  • Schubert
  • Mendelssohn
  • Brahms
  • Tchaikovsky
  • Johnna Strauss
  • Richard Strauss
  • Debussy
  • Ravel
  • Stravinsky
  • Rachmaninoff
• Chorus
  • Chanticleer
  • King's Singers
  • Cambridge Singers
  • King's College Choir
  • Tallis Scholars
  • Real Group
  • Amanda
  • NTU Chorus
  • T42
• Piano play
  •  Counterpoint pieces
  •  Rondo
  • Liszt
  • Chopin
  • Paderevsky
  • Rachmaninoff
  • Richter
  • Argerich
  • Gilels
  • Gould
  • Chibin-Kaiya
• Choral music
  • Josquin Du Pre
  • Palestrina
  • William Byrd
  •  Madrigal
  •  Mass
  •  Motet
  •  Magnificat
  •  Requiem
  •  Ave Maria
  •  Opera
  • Hanry Purcell
  • Schubert
  • Schumann
  •  Spiritual/Gospel
  • Rachmaninoff
  • John Rutter
  • Panderecki
• Classical rock
  • Bob Dylon
  • Beatles
  • Eagles
  • Guns'n'Roses
  • Mr. Big
  •  Rent, the musical
  • A-Mei
• Pop vocal
  • Bee Gees
  • Mariah Carey
  • Celion Dion
  • Whitney Housten
  • Faye Wang

Charles' Casual Readings, to add

• Classical Novel
  • Dickens
  • Hamingway
• Sci-fi/Fantasy Literature
  • Calvino
  • Suskind
  • Turkin: The Lord of the Rings
  • Rollin: Harry Potter
• Chinese classics
  •  The Five Canonical Works (The Book of Songs, The Book of Documents, The Book of Changes, The Records of Rites, The Spring and Autumn Annals)
  •  The Poetry of the South
  •  Poems in Tang Dynasty
  •  Melodious poems in Song Dynasty
• Travelers' guide
  •  MOOK
• Maps
• Music publication
  •  Catholic Music
• Scientific humanity
• Hometown culture

Charles' Collections

• CD collections, MS EXCEL .xls file, to add

Charles' Favorite Links, to add

• Google Taiwan
• Philharmonic Radio Taipei
• Yahoo! Chinese/English On-line Dictionary
• Chinese/English On-line Dictionary (BIG5/GB), by Rex Chen
• ResearchIndex, known as CiteSeer
• Homepage Building Guide, known as DOB
• Personal links
  • NTU-CSIE Alumni Association
  • NTU-CSIE OpenWebmail system
  • Squrriel mail System (in NTU-CSIE)
  • NTU Chorus
  • Taipei Philharmonic Foundation
  • Yahoo! Chinese Mailbox Entrance
  • iMath, senior high math online learning platform
  • iPhysics, senior high physics online learning platform
  • jMath, junior high mathematics online learning platform
  • Imlearning Tech., spreading valuable knowledge online with low payment

• Charles' good news:
  1. 2/15 My first trial on CSS, together with the javascript package overLIB. Don't know whether this change on "Back to top" results in acceptable views for older browsers...
  2. 1/7 Hobbies of Music and Readings elaborated. Some info is incorrect, so please don't hesitate to e-mail me if anything wrong!